Yūnosuke Itō Movies

Bittersweet shomin-geki drama by Keigo Kimura

Yano, a progressive individual who seeks to overcome strength with gentleness and confronts physical power with moral principles, faces off against a...

A good young man accidentally joins a group of leg breakers

Three young women make a suicide pact, but they grow to have a better understanding of themselves.

1961 gangster film.

Film directed by Saeki Kozo with Wakao Ayako.

Drama which shows the struggle of Fumiko, a female teacher, at work and at home.

Jidai-geki by Nobuo Nakagawa. Most likely a star vehicle for Kanjuro Arashi

Comedy about a 50-something movie director, his new bride, a classical dancer, and his adult son and daughter and their loves.

The picture belongs to the jidai gekki (historic) genre. It is a powerful story of violence and eroticism, picturing a world at once sordid and...

A newly hired daily newspaper writer covering the society beat receives an assignment to cover Tokyo at night by walking and observing it. He gets...

Based on a 1956 television feature on Japan’s national network, NHK, this is one of Uchida’s rarest films. A socially conscious drama...

When the plague threatens a small town in Manchuria, a young doctor finds himself struggling to save the lives of his townspeople.

Jidai-geki starring Kanjuro Arashi

A screwball tale of a suspected “lady thief” and the detective who is on her trail, following her from Osaka to her home village, where...