Kōji Mitsui Movies

1958 Japanese movie

A 1948 Japanese film.

An investigation into a drug smuggler who is assassinated in front of an insurance building sets two detectives, Sumikawa and Akine, into a sprawling...

Based on the play ”Mabuta no haha” by famed author Shin Hasegawa, this is the first major starring role for Tomisaburo Wakayama. This...

Set in a rubber company in Tokyo, this comedy depicts the sorrows of salarymen in a humorous way, centering on the commotion caused by the passionate...

Four taxi drivers are found dead in four days. Suddenly, a taxi, trying to avoid hitting a patrol car, veers off and hits a tree. Three men run out...

A father curries favor with his bosses to further his career, but his wife has lost faith in him. She returns to her family home while they rent out...

This Japanese action-adventure is set in the 17th century when all forms of swordplay were banned. One fighter, an excellent swordsman believes the...

A teenage goldsmith with a dark past tragically falls in love with a young nude model.

Inoue was something of a rarity in the sense, that he was a Shochiku house director who seems to have worked mostly in period films, often with big...

A road trip comedy set against the backdrop of the famous historical sites of Tohoku and Hokkaido.

The story of a group of young people who organise their own travelling symphony orchestra to provide music for people living in remote villages...

In 1919, a group of Japanese immigrants arrives in Hawaii. Among them Yoshio Inoue and his wife Kishimo and Sumi, a young woman ready to get married...

A private detective chases a female pickpocket into a film studio and dashes through the sets. With special appearances by a star-studded cast.

During the tumultuous end of the Tokugawa shogunate, the Tengu Party rose in rebellion in Mito. Friends from their hometown, Tanaka Genzo and Fujita...

1962 Japanese movie

1962 Japanese movie

Mikio Naruse’s final silent film is a gloriously rich portrait of a waitress, Sugiko, whose life, despite a host of male admirers and even some...

Directed by Katsumi Iwauchi