Kyū Sazanka Movies

The 17th "Ekimae" feature.

A child who was taken in and raised by a woman from a once-impoverished traveling theater troupe grows up to be a beautiful young woman and performs...

Okawa Hashizo as 'Young Lord', the unlikely sleuth sets out to untangle the riddle of what went on at the Inner Palace, where a young woman who had...

Police beat a murder confession out of four innocent men who are then sentenced to death. Based on a true story.

The four principals in a love affair collide when jealousy, blackmail and suicide enter the picture.

The 18th "Ekimae" feature.

A talent scout moves sharply, dead-set on signing a promising baseball player to The Toyko Flowers.

Tamio Moroi, a young university graduate, works at a large brewery where he is taught to do nothing but look busy. When his father goes insane, he is...

Satoko is a mistress by trade or fate: when her master, the silkscreen artist of the Kohoan Temple in Kyoto, dies, she is given to the temple's...

After a young boy captures a rare butterfly in Nagasaki, a caterpillar begins a relay-trip toward the northern tip of Hokkaido, serving as a silent...

Ichiro’s family used to be a large landowner, but now he is living in poverty with his mother. His mother works hard to get her son through...

The 16th "Ekimae" feature.

This film by Toyoda depicts the hard life of an unmarried mother in Tokyo. Umeko (Machiko Kyo), at 36, is working in a bar, struggling valiantly to...

The story is about the social problems faced by Japan's indigenous Ainu, mostly centered on the reactions of the characters to their oppressed state.

Seven employees rise up in rebellion against an irresponsible company.

After finding a winning lottery ticket, the daughter and wife convince their father who’s been acting like a millionaire that it’s all...