Hisaya Morishige Movies

Set in Osaka just after the end of the war, the story depicts an unconventional merchant who returns from evacuation. The film is based on the novel...

The fifth "Ekimae" film set in Yokohama's Chinatown.

A wandering Jirocho stumbles upon his wife's possible murder and has other adventures while on the run.

Known as the ”Last Samurai” Saigo Takamori was a stout giant of a man with a huge head and a neck like a bear. As the leader of...

The third instalment in the Shacho Series.

Nine maids serve the household of a writer and his wife. The couple treat their maids like daughters and marry them off to eligible men. So, they are...

Chiyomatsu under the hill, also known as Choromatsu. He is a young man whose occupation is an approach shop, that is, a phony business of sex...

The movie depicts the strength and resilience of a woman who spent her entire life as a merchant in Semba, Osaka.

Jirocho the gambler hits the road.

Could I But Live

Scammer Horikawa Shinbei hopes to make a quick buck using Namie, a stripper under his control.

Based on the play ”Mabuta no haha” by famed author Shin Hasegawa, this is the first major starring role for Tomisaburo Wakayama. This...

Movie version of NHK renzoku drama "Tokyo Romance"

Kotaro Shimoyama, once a government official, loses his job and separates from his wife, Sachie. He now resides with his daughter, Haruko. By chance,...

"My mother is Japanese, a drifting diva of Tokyo" After the death of her father Reika goes to Japan to visit her mother, but can't find her, so she...

Comedy centered on a stripper agency

Comedy historical film about a wandering warrior, based on the novel by Shin Hasegawa.

A man who seemed to have found happiness with a wife and child loses his wife and his daughter gets married... A man's life, full of joy and sorrow,...

1961 Japanese movie