Kōji Mitsui Movies

The story of the trials and tribulations of a lighthouse keeper and his wife.

This Japanese action-adventure is set in the 17th century when all forms of swordplay were banned. One fighter, an excellent swordsman believes the...

Kiku and her brother Isamu are social outcasts, children of a prostitute mother and black GI father, in postwar Japan.

A father curries favor with his bosses to further his career, but his wife has lost faith in him. She returns to her family home while they rent out...

1962 Japanese movie

Set in the 1860s, the final years of the Tokugawa Shogunate, The Fireflies focuses on Tose (Awashima Chikage), the mistress of the Teradaya, a small...

A lost film by Masahiro Makino

Manao Horiuchi movie

1962 Japanese movie

Historical drama about a sleep-eyed ronin

A talent scout moves sharply, dead-set on signing a promising athlete to the baseball team the Toyko Flowers.

A vengeful contractor hires a series of young killers to target a woman muckraker. Trouble brews when an amateur marksman shows up his eclectic...

The story tells of Tsuchiya, a university professor and a widower who is in love with a widow who runs a small restaurant, and his son is in love...

Based on the play ”Mabuta no haha” by famed author Shin Hasegawa, this is the first major starring role for Tomisaburo Wakayama. This...

This period film is inspired by one of the most notorious scandals to have taken place in Edo-period Japan. The heroine, Ejima, was a lady of the...

After an argument with his father a son leaves his home and comes back only, as an adult, many years later just to cause them problem after problem.

The seventh film in the popular series starring the Yotamono trio (Mitsui, Abe and Isono). Summer came and the three of them decided to open a store...

One day an innocent-looking girl in white clothes appears on board of a ramshackle boat The owner of the boat, Okin, decides to let Mari stay with...