Yōtarō Katsumi Movies

A young man who is unable to tell his childhood friend how he feels makes a pledge with her to reveal all of their secrets during the upcoming...

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

Okoma, a witty young woman working as a conductor in an old, rickety bus in Kōfu, Yamanashi (rural Japan), has a creative idea that could avert...

The few residents left on the streets in Tokyo share their individual stories and come to understand the melancholy of saying goodbye.

An early film by Kon Ichikawa

A moving episode in which a war criminal in the Philippines, having faced death, pleads earnestly while trembling with fear.

An episodic film about life in and around a rural police station and the people it serves.

Film can be viewed on the National Film Archive of Japan YouTube channel under the title...

A novice city-based teacher's first assignment is to a fishing village's grade school. The young teacher's first week with her new students is...

A film that begins with wit and comedy when a husband tries to hide and mask his drinking, which his Jesus freak and very Christian wife dislikes, by...

1941 Toho adaptation of Natsume's novel.

A female doctor's story of her life in an isolated leper colony.