Shunji Kasuga Movies

A beautiful tale of teacher-student love between a pure-hearted female teacher and a group of wild boys unfolds on the banks of a river in a mountain...

A story depicting the true nature of a vulnerable woman who abandons love, severs the bond between father and daughter, and challenges the very...

Journalist Kuroki is investigating clandestine arms sales to Southeast Asia. He discovers that the point man in an arms trade was also involved in...

Edo Crime Book: Black Claws

After a successful robbery the culprits, from very different backgrounds, at once turn on each other.

Twenty years after the father’s death and the mother and child’s separation, when they are reunited, a pistol aimed at the mother glints...

Intelligence director Suritai asks agent Kitami to steal money from anti-government guerrillas.

When a group of young geologists declares a mountainside marked for residential development unstable, they are met with scorn on two fronts. On one...

As Japan is preparing to host the Olympics, a gang member wanting to go to America is sought after by the police after helping his friend conduct a...

1962 Japanese movie

Based on the novel by proletarian writer Sunao Tokunaga. The story is about a long strike by workers at a large printing house and the strikers'...

As descendent of famed fishmonger Isshin Tasuke, young feisty Ishii Tasuke uses his talent to flourish his employer’s food business.

Sawaki is released from prison after serving eight years for murdering a rival gang leader in order to obtain the land rights to a landfill for the...

A prostitute? A poisonous woman? A virgin widow writhing in agony night after night, tormented by her first misstep.

A bittersweet love story between yakuza Hiroshi and a married woman Reiko.

Based on the mystery novel of the same name by Seichō Matsumoto.

1962 Japanese movie