Bontarō Miake Movies

In the heart of the Japanese Alps, in Kamikochi, Nagano Prefecture, botany professor Kazuhiko Onuma spends time with Tsuruko, his lover. One night,...

A sad love film where the action takes place in Kyoto, in a trading house. Considered a lost film.

During the reign of Hidetada, the second shogun of the Tokugawa dynasty, the advisor Okubo Hikozaemon (Ganjiro Nakamura) entrusts the young Takechiyo...

A musical about the escapades of some tanuki passing themselves off as humans in human society.

The final film in Shimizu’s thirty-plus year career, Image of a Mother remains true to Shimizu’s central themes as a young boy must learn...

A 1937 Japanese language film directed by Tomu Uchida, starring Ryo Akaboshi, Mitsuru Date and Hisao Furutani.

The case of the counterfeit bills that spread all over Japan.

1948 adaptation of Golden Devil, part 2

Kanji is a poor peasant widower who struggles to earn a living for his daughter and himself and to pay off his father-in-law's debts.

A war breaks out on the streets between rivaling Yakuza clans.

Mysterious incidents occur one after another on the express train as it plows through the dark night on the railroad tracks! The first woman is...

A journalist decides to do his own investigation after a series of strange murders are committed during a local election campaign.

A young woman seduced by a rich man, takes revenge on him with the help of a young idealistic worker. Considered a lost film.

Industrial espionage in the pharmaceutical industry. Also know in English as “Black Parking Lot”.

The film depicts a group of boys and girls who graduate from a local junior high school and head to Tokyo to find employment, and the teachers who...