Satoko Date Movies

When a young man inherits his father's lucrative business, he cheats the system to set up three of his college friends with jobs.

Kenji is a small-time thief who likes drinking and fighting. When he falls in love with sweet and simple Yazue, and she finds out what kind of guy he...

A Japanese version of the musical comedy "Yes, Mr. Brown"

Tanuma Kandayuu is a high class samurai of the house of Nabeshima. He finds a lavish board of Go (a Chinese Board game) at Kinbei's store. He...

A playwright moves to a rural neighborhood to avoid the distractions of the city, but he discovers there are plenty of ways to get sidetracked in his...

Story of a bandit king.

A bar girl tries to pass her three children, each from a different father, to rural relatives.

An early film by Kon Ichikawa

Graduate Okajima finds his old-fashioned beard makes life difficult in a comedy exploring the tension between tradition and modernity.

A newly hired daily newspaper writer covering the society beat receives an assignment to cover Tokyo at night by walking and observing it. He gets...

War-time jidaigeki by Eisuke Takizawa.

Japanese comedy film.

As suggested by the title, this film takes up the theme of the city, beginning with a series of traveling shots from Chiyo's point of view on a bus...

Machiko falls in love with a mysterious man, but her family wants something different for her.

Toshie, a young, conservative secretary-typist has fallen in love with Shozo Narita, a young man she has met through her work.

A young couple jump into the sea as part of a suicide pact. The man is rescued and subsequently discovers that his lover is also alive and working in...

Directed by Daisuke Itō.