Shoichi Ozawa Movies

Tajima Yumi, in grade school, is overjoyed when her father says they are moving to an apartment in a big city. But the beautiful home she had...

Auto-racing crews prepare for the Indy car race near Fuji in this Japanese documentary. Award-winning director Hiroshi Teshigahara compares the...

Okatsu is a widow raising five children - adults but still mama-dependent - in mid-eighteenth century Edo, Japan. Her frugality attracts unflattering...

A life insurance agent has a drinking problem causing him to lose his company a fortune. He heads to another town to sell insurance, but to his...

A sequel to Ohana han.

Wada Kōji is a chivalrous young man who leads a group of youths that take on a yakuza boss.

Japanese comedy film.

Drama about a high school girl (Naito).

A travelling theater troupe, led by Umagoro Ichikawa, comes to play in a mining town, and manages to sell every seat. Before the play begins,...

The day has come for recruits to enlist in the Japanese Marine Corps. The recruits, who have left the free world to enter this strict military life,...

A noir action whodunit with Kobayashi his usual jaunty self as the smart aleck private eye whose missing person search soon becomes a murder case....

Nineteen-year-old Fukiko Kuwano lives with her father, who is nearing retirement, her mother, and her younger brother. After colliding with a...

Hama-chan goes to Okayama to look for Su-san when he goes missing a few days after freezing up during his inaugural speech as the company chairman.

A touching love story about a heroine who loses her parents in the war and tries to keep her pure love alive despite the many difficulties she faces.

1962 Japanese movie

The four-member con group, including the intellectual boss Nobukichi Ishiguro (Masayuki Mori), who is called an "aristocrat con man" for his elegant...

An outlaw pushes the residents of Edo's red light district to rebel against a growing number of stifling, moralistic laws.

"Shacho" comedy about the president of a salt manufacturing company.