Once an average and seemingly ordinary Tokyo girl, she suddenly finds herself as a TV star owing to her discovery by a casting company, which noticed...

Melodrama by Kon Ichikawa

1961 Japanese movie

1961 Japanese movie

1950s Japanese comedy.

During the mayoral election, two ex-prisoners decide to replace the lucky pen of an annoying candidate with a mini-bomb.

A woman and her daughter are in love with the same man, a chef at the restaurant that the mother manages. He is slightly crippled from frostbite in...

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

Kikuji is the scion of an Osaka merchant family whose traditional power is matrilineal. Instructed by his overbearing mother and grandmother to give...

A math teacher loses his job while falling in love with a local girl.

Adaptation of the novel by Bunroku Shishi.

Two youths - the serious son of a Buddhist abbot and his rakish pal - quarrel over a restaurant keeper's daughter. When one of the youths die the...

A screwball tale of a suspected “lady thief” and the detective who is on her trail, following her from Osaka to her home village, where...

A wandering Jirocho stumbles upon his wife's possible murder and has other adventures while on the run.

A legendary gangster raises himself out of a small town and gathers followers on his rise to power.

An Ishiro Honda film.

Gangsters Ken and Maki are rivals in the ticket-scalping game. They make an uneasy truce, but Ken wrecks the truce by agreeing to fix a boxing match...

A new third-class president wins an appointment thanks to his marriage with the former president's daughter.

The president learns that the company's biggest stockholder is also a friend of his singing teacher and spies on his movements.

7th film in the President series and the first entry in color.