Masao Shimizu Movies

A woman falls in love with her sister's fiancé.

Rambler Shinji arrives in town armed with nothing but a guitar. With assistance from an old gun-for-hire friend, he sets about to stop the mob from...

Asada Keiko and Kurokawa Saburo are two young college students. When Keiko visits Saburo's house, she meets his father Kokichi and his mother Motoko....

1954 Theater of Life adaptation.

A village romantic drama. (Now lost.)

Lord for a Night is a 1946 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa.

A woman's struggle for equality in Japan in the 1880s. Eiko Hirayama leaves Okayama for Tokyo, where she helps the fledgling Liberal Party and falls...

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

Kazuo Miyagawa’s prizewinning black-and-white cinematography draws out the moral shadings of Nobel laureate Yasunari Kawabata’s 1952...

A film about the Ghost of Okiku that's based on the kabuki play Bancho Sarayashiki.

A romance with political overtones about the relationship of a sheltered bourgeois woman and a doctor who devotes himself to caring for the poor....

An Ishiro Honda film.

Omnibus picture, consisting of three stories.

In May 1945, Japan's defeat was imminent after the attacks on Saipan, Iwo Jima, and the Philippines, and Tokyo was reduced to a sea of...