Shochiku Movies

An onnagata (female impersonator) of a Kabuki troupe avenges his parents' deaths. Remade in 1963 as Yukinojô Henge.

During the early days of the war a young student, Makito (Kazuo Funaki),falls in love with Yuko (Mayumi Ozora),the widow of a naval officer. She, ho...

1962 Japanese movie

A woman brings her injured daughter to the hospital, only to realize that the doctor is the estranged father of her child.

The clerk of a trading company happens to have a large sum of money from his company in his possession. His girlfriend pressures him into fleeing with...

A bunch of happy students enjoying themselves at a Christmas party until a sadistic Santa Claus comes and interrupts the festivities. Spruce Green bec...

An actress preparing to play in a historical epic is terrorized by someone faxing her pages from her stolen diary; has colorful flashbacks of her affa...

The story of the role played by Japanese-American soldiers from Hawaii in the Korean War of the 1950s.

When two sisters fall in love with the same man, one must decide to look elsewhere.

Tora-san helps out a runaway bride.

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 Ooku...

1962 Japanese movie. Remake of the 1939 movie

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...

When an artist dies, the official cause of death is judged to be a stroke, but his daughter suspects foul play. She recruits the services of an assass...

From birth Hideyoshi was a restless, defiant spirit--a child of the poorest of the poor. Cast out of his peasant cottage, he would live by his wits, d...

1958 Shochiku adaptation of Natsume's novel.

Comedy about five good-for-nothings who run a phony exercise-hall.

Sayoko is desperate to bear a child of her own, but her live-in boyfriend Shinsaku strenuously objects to the idea. One day, someone leaves behind a s...

A comedy farce depicting the noise that occurs when two unemployed circus participants discover a debt bond in a basket with parrots, which they recei...