Kappei Matsumoto Movies

One of the earliest Japanese cop films following a mysterious killing on the last train to Mitaka, Tokyo.

Sanae Nakahara, playing the role of a proactive female college student, persuades a stubborn old man and mediates the forbidden love of a young...

1956 Japanese movie

A taxi robbery and murder occurred in Fukagawa late at night. Detectives Nagata and Miyagawa of the Metropolitan Police Department's First...

Junpei Kihara, a young president of the University's wrestling club, is nicknamed "Mr. Chop". One day, on the way back from visiting the hospital...

Representing a destitute mother in an infanticide trial, a female lawyer attempts to convince a conservative prosecutor of the benefits of Japan's...

Suspense film based on Ryuji Hori's non-fiction book about the kidnapping and murder of 4-year-old Yoshinobu Murakoshi in 1963.

On a quiet spring day in the suburbs, a stray dog found the corpse of a baby. Three days after his death, the blood group of the victim was...

Focuses on the mutual antipathy of two groups of children in an Izu village.

1956 Japanese movie

1962 Japanese movie

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...

First film of "Mysterious Thirteen Nights" series.

1961 Japanese movie

Depicts the boyhood days of Dr. Noguchi, world famous bacteriologist, who was born in a poor village as a farmer's son.