Akihiko Katayama Movies

Tomotaka Tasaka's A Pebble by the Wayside (Robo no Ishi), made in 1938 and taken from a Yuzo Yamamoto novel, takes place around 1902, was about a...

Japanese film.

Sanada Bunkichi, an alcoholic musician who had lost all motivation to live, was a man who seemed to be supported by the kind consideration of his...

The story of love and friendship between a seamstress girl and a member of a student ensemble, who, against all odds, turned a song written by the...

1961 Japanese movie

The tragic fate of Minoru Ikeda, a talented blind boy whose only joy was playing the violin.

Akiko divorces her husband Fujikawa due to his infidelity, and when she returns to her parents' home, she finds that her family's toy factory is in...

Saburō Takada transfers from a city to a very small school. The village children suspect that Saburō is actually Matasaburō, the wind...

In early summer in Edo, Sanshirō, known for his beautiful singing, is a devoted son living in a tenement with his blind mother Okura. He works...

"Around the time he made such remarkably ambivalent war films as Mud and Soldiers and Five Scouts, Tasaka directed this 'home front' comedy-drama...

The eldest daughter of the Takamatsu family, Atsuko, a widow, returns home due to not getting along with her late husband's family. On the other...

1945 Japanese movie

Reimagining of the Ten'ichibō Incident.