Akihiko Katayama Movies

A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.

1962 Japanese movie

Mataemon Araki, a renowned swordsman, helps a young man find vengeance.

Toshiko is the madam of a bar in Osaka who tries to keep her private life private and claims not to have a lover. However, she is in fact having a...

A young man hands in his notice at work and breaks up with his girlfriend in order to pursue his true nature and dream of shaping the world according...

A dancer girl in a touring company met a high school boy in a port town. The story is about their first love that is very touching and sorrowful. An...

The story of Ryoma Sakamoto, considered to be the architect behind the downfall of the Tokugawa shogunate. He was considered an outlaw by his own...

1961 Japanese movie

A steel-clad fiend terrorizes Tokyo, raiding clock shops. Detective Kogoro Akechi uncovers a map hidden in a prized clock, leading to a uranium...

Depicts four cheerful, young former college students with promising futures who die tragic deaths as pilots in the Kamikaze Special Attack Corps.

The sequel to Daibosatsu tôge (1960) and the second of the trilogy follows the adventures of Ryunosuke Tsukue after he is blinded.

The common-law wife and daughter of a wealthy old man plot to murder him and steal his fortune, with the help of their male acquaintances.

Directorial debut by Umetsugu Inoue, the famous director of Musicals

1961 Japanese movie

1962 Japanese movie

1945 Japanese movie

Sachiko's beloved sister Nobuko was supposed to go to Tohoku when she suddenly dies in a car accident in Hamamatsu. Sachiko begins to trace her...

The film is about the Yamato's suicide mission to Okinawa in March 1945 to defend the homeland threatened by U.S. bombers. Adapted from Mitsuru...

Yoshimura's 48th film is the contemporary story of a well-to-do family showing the frailties and failings of the class, the egotism, and the complete...