Masao Shimizu Movies

Two sisters, one a dancer and the other a script supervisor at a big movie studio, become embroiled in union activities when a strike is called in sym...

Stalwart soldiers of the Japanese Empire – Japanese and Korean alike – stand in defense of a military outpost threatened by "bandits."

The last film in the series brings the tale to the doorstep of Pacific War, with the planning of the bombing of Pearl Harbor dominant in Nakano Spy Sc...

Sasaki Kojiro tells the story of the genius who staked his love, glory, and life on a duel with the supreme master of the sword, Miyamoto Musashi (Tat...

A group of pirates sail the treacherous Pacific ocean in search for wealth.

Life and love in corrupt postwar Tokyo, as a young couple struggles against both the law and the mob.

Japanese suspense film.

Omnibus picture, consisting of three stories.

A treasury official passed over for promotion and obsessed with careerism interferes in the lives of his three sons, who seek escape from his relentle...

Hanjiro is a struggling painter that shares a tiny apartment in the back streets of Ginza with his jazz pianist friend who works at a bar. When he and...

In the nine part Wataridori series (1959-1962),Kobayashi played a wanderer on Japan’s back roads with most of the accoutrements of a Western hero, fr...

Three girls come to Tokyo to stay with their elder sister. Actually they are running away from home because their father has married again to a very y...

A prehistoric monster called Gigantis emerges alongside another creature named Angurus.

A master sculptor and his apprentice are trapped in a bad snow storm after finding a special tree for carving a statue for the local temple. Finding r...

Atsuko is an office secretary who is also her family's primary source of income and caretaker in postwar Japan.

A small community in wartime Japan learn how to make do with less.