Yoshio Shirasaka Movies

1959 youth comedy.

Yumi worked at a small snack bar called Bacchus, tucked away in a corner of the city. Before long, she had gathered her own entourage—three men...

One day a company executive learns that his younger brother, whom he recommended, embezzled company funds. To save the situation he withdraws his...

Motozo Imamura, a.k.a. Gen, grew up in an upper-class family, but he never went to school and spent his days playing around. One day, he walked into...

The story revolves around a young man appointed to rescue a troubled hospital who must choose between two women, a dedicated nurse or a spoiled rich...

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

A gunslinger is hired to kill a news photographer. The young ward of the shot photographer discovers the set-up behind the killing - that a...

Obscure Masumura film shot in 1961.

A truck driver is reunited with friends from his youth in a seedy bar and gets drawn into a web of crime.

Assistant Police Inspector Saburo Tatsuno, a former jazz pianist, is assigned to uncover a narcotics ring. But he falls victim to the seductive wiles...

Tokyo Olympiad director Kon Ichikawa documents the 50th anniversary of the Koshien games.

1958 Japanese movie

1964 Japanese movie