Yūnosuke Itō Movies

Comedy drama film

A newly hired daily newspaper writer covering the society beat receives an assignment to cover Tokyo at night by walking and observing it. He gets...

A film by Kiyoshi Saeki

Period film about a feudal era judge living in Edo

Brothers Koji and Seitaro Hatana, belong to the "outcast" caste. Despite their personal qualities—intelligence and fairness—they...

Charged with insubordination for punching a superior, Sergeant Kosugi is shipped to China in the last desperate days of the Second World War. His...

An ethical, young tax collector new to his area encounters increasingly absurd individuals and groups coping with their post-war woes.

A Chinese medical student named Gan Shosho finds himself cut off from his homeland as he is studying in Japan during the outbreak of the war. Despite...

A man is brutally murdered and his famed shamisen (a three-stringed musical instrument) called the "Yamabiko" stolen. Prince Kogenta swears to avenge...

Two devious retainers are competing to take control of a fief when the current Lord dies, but involving Kyoshiro in the conflict against his will is...

On a Sunday morning, young dentist Toshio Ezaki wakes up with a hangover, on a bench in his office. He finds a poisoned woman in a green-striped...

A romantic melodrama about the shifting relationship between Ryosuke and Miki as their precarious employment and social circumstances shift around...

A family comprised of a man, woman and their only son is torn apart when the father, who is a doctor with his own clinic, is to go off to war. Soon...

An upstanding young man who is popular with the ladies takes on a corrupt group of men in his company.

Comedy about a 50-something movie director, his new bride, a classical dancer, and his adult son and daughter and their loves.

Jidai-geki by Nobuo Nakagawa. Most likely a star vehicle for Kanjuro Arashi

An exciting historical drama that dynamically depicts the life of Minamoto no Yoshitsune from the period of his stay on Mount Kurama to his...

1958 Shochiku adaptation of Natsume's novel.