Yo Shiomi Movies

Japanese adaptation of LES MISERABLES. The last film of director Itami took inspiration from Les Miserables. Transpiring during the Southwestern War...

Soemon, the master of Gidayū-style madcap performances, has gathered the entire tenement block again tonight and is tormenting everyone with his...

Based on a radio drama.

A 1943 film.

A fresh graduate from a university in Tokyo takes a job as an English teacher at a prestigious high school in Kobe. However, shortly after arriving,...

Set in Qingdao, China, a Japanese company locates an office there and begins work and cooperation with a local Chinese company for business. Many...

Atsuko is an office secretary who is also her family's primary source of income and caretaker in postwar Japan.

Japanese drama film.

A sentimental tale of the filial love between shogun Iemitsu (matinee idol Hasegawa) and his loyal old retainer Hikoza (comedian Roppa, playing...

A woman falls in love with her sister's fiancé.

Jidai-geki by Ryo Hagiwara

A kindhearted wandering gambler named Hajiro gets involved in a crisis of a village as he passes through and decides to lend a sword in hopes to...

A moving episode in which a war criminal in the Philippines, having faced death, pleads earnestly while trembling with fear.

Japanese film.

First "Maboroshi tantei" film, based on the manga by Jiro Kuwata.