Chōchō Miyako Movies

The Yamadas are a typical middle class Japanese family in urban Tokyo and this film shows us a variety of episodes of their lives. With tales that...

A thief, a murderer, and a charming lady-killer, Iwao Enokizu is on the run from the police.

Subu makes pornographic films. He sees nothing wrong with it. They are an aid to a repressed society, and he uses the money to support his landlady,...

Yuko is sent to the coastal regions to be raised away from the rest of her sophisticated family where she finds out from her ill grandmother that she...

A greedy, materialistic family attempts to cover-up the embezzlement committed by the son while keeping their other schemes active. They discover...

Kuruma Torajiro is discovered looking around Kyoto for someone special to him.

A young thug wanna-be yakuza falls in love with a country girl.

Zatoichi is forced to kill a young man who owes a debt to a yakuza boss. Moments later, his sister Osode arrives with the money she earned...

After a quarrel with his mother, Torajiro sets off to find a bride.

A story of a shopkeeper and his ex-wife, lives full of tragedy.

A young girl knows that she is going to die and in this she is supported by the devotion of the boy who loves her. They originally met at the...

A comedy about Hikoichi, a mediocre train conductor who falls in love with a beautiful widow Sayuri.

Comedy around a motorman and a conductor of a streetcar.

1971 Japanese movie

Maeda Yoichi's film adaptation of the long-running TV comedy series of the same name (1961-1967; TBS) written by Kagawa Toshio and produced by Sawada...

A good set-in-per-WW2 ninkyô type film with outstanding performances.

Princess Kinuta runs away from the palace because she doesn't want a marriage of convenience. Princess Kinuta, who has never left the palace, didn't...

The feud between two rival delivery companies, Kibamasa and Okiyama, heats up as the head of Kibamasa falls ill.

A five year old boy leaves his mother and grandparents to see his father who has gone to work in Osaka.