Mantarō Ushio Movies

Yoshio Kawai is a lowly singer at the Bonbon-za, a third-rate theater in Asakusa. Together with fellow low-ranking actors Tokuri, Kameda, and...

Nishi is an advertising executive for a caramel company that is planning to launch a new product, in fierce competition with two other companies.

A comedy about newlyweds.

A dispute over the estate of a wealthy family’s patriarch erupts between the son’s widow and her child on one side, and the...

On his release from prison a young yakuza, along with his brother, decides to turn his back on criminal life instead of taking over the position of...

The tale of Katakana Yonetaro aka "The Shark," a rough-and-tumble horse trader in Japan's northernmost island of Hokkaido, despite being a father and...

A tragic love story set in a hot-spring town.

While a music festival was in an uproar over the theft of a prized instrument, a massive music event organized by a gang of orphaned punks was held...

Ichikawa's 1956 adaptation of Nihonbashi was the first to take the work of Kyoka Izumi— until then regarded as a writer of common tragic...

A prostitute? A poisonous woman? A virgin widow writhing in agony night after night, tormented by her first misstep.

During the 20s in Japan, a romantic student at Tokyo's Waseda University is filled with noble sentiments absorbed from literature but his naive...