Shinichi Himori Movies

Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takashi Shimura

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Cast: Kingorō Yanagiya

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroko Kawasaki

33-year-old poor writer Ogata was able to endure his miserable life cheerfully thanks to Yoshie, a 19-year-old innocent young wife. After graduating...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Minoru Chiaki

The cabaret «Romance», run by Masami Daisaku's father, is experiencing financial difficulties, and Masami is betting on changes and asks...

Genre: Music

Cast: Izumi Yukimura

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Cast: Jusaburo Bando

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Cast: Michiko Kuwano

On the outskirts of Tokyo, a family of Mitsu Nakahara lives in one of the small huts surrounded by barracks and tin pens. Mitsu's husband died in the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yukiko Todoroki

1957 Japanese movie

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Cast: Kōkichi Takada

During college military training exercises, the bond between two friends and athletic rivals is tested when one of them becomes involved with a woman...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shūji Sano

A melodrama by noted auteur and father of director Yoshitaro Nomura, Hotei Nomura. This is apparently the first adaptation of Izumi Kyoka's The...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

A businessman runs afoul of the law and commits suicide, leaving behind a wife and five children. The eldest son takes the family to Tokyo and labors...

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Cast: Tomio Aoki

Based on the original work by Fumiko Hayashi, this is a story about a woman and two men. The lust is restrained and indifferent. The story even has...

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Cast: Kaoru Futaba

This was 1942, so it was a national policy film, no matter what you call it. But when the war was still on the winning side, there wasn't even a...

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Cast: Kyōko Asagiri

In the mid-Tokugawa period, a conflict arose over the "Seiryū Himon," a secret document left by the former shogun Iesai, bequeathing the eighth...

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Cast: Katsuo Nakamura

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Cast: Hizuru Takachiho

Kintaro goes on a journey to his hometown to meet his mother and sister. His love for singing leads him to a perceptive and cheerful girl named...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Kōkichi Takada

Lost for 70 years until 2022, Shimizu’s second postwar film recalls Mr. Thank You as he frames the narrative in a familiar setting, tracking an...

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Cast: Michitarō Mizushima

A period piece about the love of a wealthy blind woman, a teacher of koto and shamisen, and her devoted manservant. Based on a novella by Tanizaki...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

Follows six male friends from elementary school whose career paths diverge—newspaper reporter, engineer, boxer, sushi restaurant...

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Cast: Teiji Takahashi

Osen, a dance teacher who hates men, refuses to become the concubine of a rich merchant, but falls in love with the thief Sojiro, unaware that he is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroshi Nawa

Pretty Oshige is deceived by her first love. After this, she lives a hard lifestyle, working at a number of jobs. Her only pleasure is her nephew,...

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Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

The seventh film in the popular series starring the Yotamono trio (Mitsui, Abe and Isono). Summer came and the three of them decided to open a store...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Akio Isono

Directed by Mikio Naruse. It is presumed to be lost.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mitsugu Fujii

Directed by Mikio Naruse. It is presumed to be lost.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yukichi Iwata

Uta’s mother died when she was six years old; her father she never met. She was forced to adopt a traveller’s life when her grandmother...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yaeko Mizutani

In this comic sequel to Yoshimura Kozaburo's original, Minami no Kaze, ex-baron (Saburi Shin) is in Singapore where he meets an old friend who...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shin Saburi

Machiko and Haruki’s drama continues. Two meet again in Hokkaido only to be separated again.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiji Sada

Third sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Junzaburō Ban

A human drama about the bond between parents and a child and family love. The daughter leaves her foster parents and ends up with her mother in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hibari Misora

Live-action adaptation of Yoshiro Kato’s manga.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Keiji Sada

University friends Ben and Shūichi unknowingly vie for the attention of the beautiful Chieko while on a skiing trip.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ichiro Yuki

The brothers of Children In The Wind deal with declining family fortunes: they must work when the father becomes sick, and eventually live with their...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Teruo Furuya

Tane, the lady proprietor of an inn for amorous couples, lives there with her three children. When her eldest daughter loses her fiancé due to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiji Sada

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shin Saburi

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Cast: Shūji Sano

Adaptation of Kishida Kunio's novel. Set against the backdrop of a power struggle within a hospital, depicts the love lives of the director's...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shin Saburi

The film is set during the days of the scarcity of food after World War II, during which five men ate an elephant that died in a zoo. The elephant's...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chishū Ryū

A spirited young teacher challenges the conservative school employing her with liberal thinking and teaching methods.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mieko Takamine

Pre-war Asakusa was a riotous district of cabarets, dance-halls and brothels - a striking backdrop for Shimazu's story of innocence and experience....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Uehara

After Japan's defeat in the war, the Anjo family lose their peerage and wealth. Since their mansion is due to pass into the hands of a creditor, the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Setsuko Hara

The few residents left on the streets in Tokyo share their individual stories and come to understand the melancholy of saying goodbye.

Genre: War

Cast: Ken Uehara

Saheita, the final heir of a once rich and respectable family, can't refuse the many villagers that come to him for favours and money, even though he...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Denjirō Ōkōchi

The story deals with Fuji, nicknamed Waka-danna (Young Master), the star athlete on his university's rugby team. The son of a wealthy soy sauce...

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Cast: Mitsugu Fujii

A playwright moves to a rural neighborhood to avoid the distractions of the city, but he discovers there are plenty of ways to get sidetracked in his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Atsushi Watanabe

Tetsuo Nomoto, a young college graduate tries to find a decent job by himself. Later on, he will marry his girlfriend, Machiko, whom he hides the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Minoru Takada

Shuhei Horikawa, a poor schoolteacher, struggles to raise his son Ryohei by himself, despite neither money nor prospects.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chishū Ryū

Mikio Naruse’s final silent film is a gloriously rich portrait of a waitress, Sugiko, whose life, despite a host of male admirers and even some...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Setsuko Shinobu

A pair of blind masseurs, an enigmatic city woman, a lonely man and his ill-behaved nephew—The Masseurs and a Woman is made up of crisscrossing...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mieko Takamine

A celebrity photograph sparks a court case as a tabloid magazine spins a scandalous yarn over a painter and a famous singer.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Strip dancer Carmen falls in love with Hajime, who is engaged to the daughter of a right-wing politician.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hideko Takamine

At the close of the war in Japan, a widowed mother makes every possible sacrifice to bring up her ungrateful son and daughter who are unimpressed...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yūko Mochizuki

A coming-of-age story portrayed as the loss of all youthful illusions. Sixteen-year-old Yoichi dreams of becoming a sailor. His parents are...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shinji Tanaka

A rural widow sends her only son to Tokyo to receive a better education. Years later, she visits him and finds he has become a night school teacher...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chōko Iida

A Japanese mountain inn patron's foot is cut by an ornamental hairpin accidentally left behind by a former patron, leading to much curiosity among...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

An aging geisha, whose angry teenage son is ashamed of her profession, works alongside a young geisha, resentful of her family for forcing her into a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mitsuko Yoshikawa

A Tokyo family running a liquor store overcome impotence and dysfunction as they induce an understanding through each other of how to deal with their...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiji Sada

A melodrama about a businessman's relations with the three women in his life.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shin Saburi

This 1932 adaptation is the earliest sound version of the ever-popular and much-filmed Chushingura story of the loyal 47 retainers who avenged their...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jusaburo Bando

A hen-pecked man works as his artist wife's model and a house-husband. When her patron flirts with her and humiliates him, he decides to get revenge...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tatsuo Saitō

Film by Hiroshi Shimizu, featuring an early role for frequent Ozu and Naruse collaborator Hideko Takamine.

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Cast: Hideo Fujino

A picture-story-show operator, accompanies her son, Akira, who lives apart from her, to a hot-spring medical treatment and spend a moment of brief...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ranko Hanai

A 1937 Japanese film.

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Cast: Takeshi Sakamoto

Michiko gets pregnant after a rape. She marries a boring business partner of her father to avoid the shame. Later she meets the rapist again who is...

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Cast: Emiko Yagumo

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Cast: Michiko Namiki

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hibari Misora

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Cast: Shinichi Himori

A former naval officer returns to Japan after the Second World War ends, encounters the former mistress who ratted him out, and reconnects with his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shin Saburi

Waiting woman

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kyōko Asagiri

Weed with Flowers

Genre: Drama

Cast: Teruo Furuya

Hiromasa Nomura World War II era film

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Cast: Jusaburo Bando

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Cast: Shizuko Kasagi

A young girl gives up high school to help out family expenses and starts to work as a bus conductor.

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Cast: Michiyo Kogure

Based on Japanese author Toshitaro Takeda's novel of the same name, the film centers around Takako, who unveils a past relationship between her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroko Kawasaki

Shinjiro Tanabe, a teacher at a junior high school in the downtown area of ​​Tokyo, has two daughters, Mitsuko and Hitomi. Hitomi is the...

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Cast: Hibari Misora

Edogawa Rampo's famous detective, part 1

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Cast: Eiji Wakasugi

Japanese film from 1925.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ichizō Nakagawa

Short Japanese silent comedy from 1926. Directed by "Kamata Nonkinosuke," a probable pseudonym for a junior director (literally "Carefree Man from...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jun Arai

Japanese silent film from 1926. (Obo-chan meaning "Young Master.") Written by Ayame Mizushima, the first female screenwriter in Japan.

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Cast: Yukichi Iwata

Japanese silent film from 1928.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

Shirō Kuroki, the adopted son of the Yamada family, shares a deep and mutual love with his foster sister, Kinuko Yamada. His commitment to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hikaru Yamanouchi

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Cast: Yoshiko Yamaguchi

A modern girl suddenly intrudes into a widower's family home.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideo Fujino

Japanese silent film from 1931.

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Cast: Minoru Takada

Japanese silent film from 1931.

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Cast: Sumiko Kurishima

Japanese silent film from 1931.

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Cast: Sumiko Kurishima

Kan’ichi Hazama and Omiya Shigisawa are engaged to be married, but Omiya breaks the engagement to marry a wealthy banker’s son....

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Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

The Japanese debut film of silent-era star Sessue Hayakawa, in which he not only starred but directed.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sessue Hayakawa

Tsukamoto and Omitsu are close friends, but one day, Tsukamoto becomes fascinated by Ayako, whom he meets at the home of Miyajima.

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Cast: Joji Oka

Japanese drama from 1934. A major production of Shochiku Studio, directed by Hiroshi Shimizu.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yukichi Iwata

The story centers on three students from Jiyu University who set up a part-time limited partnership, with Jotaro Yamaji (Koji Tsuruta) becoming its...

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Cast: Koji Tsuruta

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Cast: Kōkichi Takada

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Cast: Ushio Akashi

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Cast: Minoru Ōki

Bank robbers hide their loot in an underwater cave in a small fishing village, but the Ama (female divers) of the village suspect something and dive...

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Cast: Kyōko Izumi

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Cast: Shinichi Himori

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Cast: Tatsuo Saitō

Akiko divorces her husband Fujikawa due to his infidelity, and when she returns to her parents' home, she finds that her family's toy factory is in...

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Cast: Keiko Kishi

Produced by Shochiku’s all-star cast as a commemorative film to mark the completion of the “Shochiku Kaikan” in Tsukiji, Tokyo,...

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Cast: Kōkichi Takada

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Cast: Chikage Awashima