Shochiku Movies

A valet at a fancy nightclub hatches a plot to punish those responsible for his father's death.

Su-san resigns after getting fed up with corporate life, but he finds himself back in familiar surroundings on his first assignment at a new job.

Owner and workers of a tiny medicine factory fall in love with a lovable girl.

When cabaret singer Lily writes Toraya about her illness, Tora-san rushes to Okinawa to be by her side.

41-year-old Shizuo Daikoku (Shinichi Tsutsumi) suddenly quits his job at a company to become a mangaka. His family and friends become involved in his...

A widow who has single-handedly raised her autistic son loses her job and begins attending a technical college to gain new qualifications. She meets o...

In Harari-cho, a small and quiet bayside town by the sea, the firemen have not seen a fire for nearly twenty years. Each day passes eventlessly... unt...

What was once a superlative varsity baseball coach is now a jaded middle-aged man. He and a former student meet and the older man discovers that his n...

Things are hectic in heaven. Dozens of scribes sit before a long scroll incessantly scribbling away. They are composing the biographies of earth-dwell...

An award-winning Japanese film about a child's experiences during the Second World War.

A group of military personnel transporting a hydrogen bomb are left to figure out how and why swarms of killer bugs took down their plane; the answer...

As Japan is preparing to host the Olympics, a gang member wanting to go to America is sought after by the police after helping his friend conduct a ro...

In a time of continuous civil wars ravaging the fields of feudal Japan, the eldest son of a very poor peasant family, living alongside the bridge over...

Epic saga of an idealistic land-owning family dealing with militarism, war, social change and economic reform.

Drawing influence from the street musicians of Miyagi, four high school students form a band and spend their free time practicing for their school's u...

When his travels bring him to Osaka, Tora-san falls in love with a local geisha. He helps her to track down her estranged brother, and informs his fam...

Pro boxer Aoshima Toru is diagnosed with a terminal brain tumor and given three months to live. He uses his prize money to pay the medical expenses fo...

Japanese crime film.

Chushingura has been made into a movie several times before, but this time it will be presented in a widescreen version with all natural colors and a...

Kenta, a young pianist who has just lost his job, is drowning his woes at a bar, when he meets a man in a Hawaiian shirt named Yamaki. He invites Kent...