Gen Shimizu Movies

A young country boy leaves his village for Tokyo, where he begins to work as a stock trader. First part (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku...

1960 version of Lion Festival of Echigo

A widowed high-school teacher tries to raise his four children alone.

Thriller directed by Seiji Maruyama

Iwao, , Kumagai, and Konishi broke into the safe containing the wages of the employees of Ato Industries and obtained a fortune large enough to live...

A Japanese adaptation of Guy de Maupassant's short story Boule de Suif, directed by Kimura Keigo

The film won 1959 Blue Ribbon Awards for best actor Raizo Ichikawa and for best cinematography Kazuo Miyagawa. The film also won 1959 Kinema Junpo...

A film about young wandering Yakuza. Yukio Hashi's first film role.

1962 Japanese movie. Remake of Mori's 1942 original movie

Gangsters Ken and Maki are rivals in the ticket-scalping game. They make an uneasy truce, but Ken wrecks the truce by agreeing to fix a boxing match...

A young yakuza who respects obligation and humanity must face cruel and heartless turf wars leading to a fight to the death with his own brother.

Makino Masahiro film starring Okada Mariko

1962 Japanese movie

Tetsuya, a worker at a US Air Base who moonlights as a bartender with his bar hostess roommate, dreams to move to the United States one day....