Shizuo Chūjō Movies

1962 Japanese movie

Two car manufacturers spy on each other to try to find out details and prices of a new sports car each is about to launch.

Tatematsu Minoru, a yakuza belonging to the Ishikawa group that runs the Shinjuku area, has a beautiful sister named Akane. He dreams of sending her...

Shimada is a student of U College. When the college's baseball team wins the day, he and his friend Ito drug two girls they met at the game.

High-end cabaret hostess Masuko discovers her long-term lover is actually married. Determined to secure her future, she aggressively manipulates him...

A young man who followed his father's wishes and became a travel actor causes a big commotion with his fellow members of the Gurentai group during...

A former geisha marries a widowed farmer, but ends up running away to Tokyo after being unable to cope with the hardships of life in the countryside.

A story loosely based on the affair between Empress Kōken-Shōtoku and the monk Dōkyō, set during the Nara period (710–794...

Police investigate a series of mysterious murders where the only clue is a strange buzzing noise at the scene of the crime.

When Shinsuke returns to Kyushu from the Russo-Japanese War he finds his Judo school hall neglected and in decay. His Judo teacher has died and his...

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

A man operates a small real estate business near Osaka. A man from Tokyo asks for help in buying a large tract of land in order, he says, to build an...

The three Matsunami sisters navigate adulthood and the complex social pressures of finding a husband while living under their traditional...

After a businessman is murdered, an investigation identifies a suspect who is then put on trial for that crime.

One of Kinugasa's last films--based on the story by Tanizaki Jun'ichirō.

Hideki Yamaga runs a used bookstore in Ginza. He is a man known for his great physical strength, helping the weak and standing up to the strong, and...

A comedy directed by Yasuzo Masumura starring Yunosuke Ito.

A youth drama set in a Japanese university which is home to a group of active, leftist students.

Psychological noir drama involving the tangled web of a disgraced yakuza, an innocent school girl, a blackmailed singer, and a corrupt lawyer.

Chairman of the Shin Nihon Kaihatsu company Fukazawa, using clever ways to circumvent the law, rose to the top of the economic backstage. Three...