Chishū Ryū Movies

1961 Japanese movie

An unemployed Japanese man and his two sons wander the industrial flatlands of Depression-era Tokyo, until he chances upon an old friend and...

Machiko Ujiie and Haruki Atomiya first meet and fall in love on Ginza’s Sukiyabashi Bridge during the Great Tokyo Air Raid in March 1945....

Mitsuo goes to Nagoya to visit Izumi, whose father left Izumi’s sad, bar hostess mother for another woman, so together they decide to confront...

A young girl knows that she is going to die and in this she is supported by the devotion of the boy who loves her. They originally met at the...

On the way back to his childhood home, a septuagenarian man recalls his childhood and adolescence, in particular his love for a young woman.

A story about the lives of four sisters and their manipulative mother who must come to terms with each of their decisions in life.

A 1959 Yoshiaki Bansho adaptation of an Osaragi Jiro story.

Kita Ippei (Atsumi Kiyoshi) became a security officer in the Metropolitan Police Department's Security Division after catching a thug who attacked a...

A widowed high-school teacher tries to raise his four children alone.

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

When a family has to relocate due to the war, they are ostracized by their new community.

After a friend and business colleague dies, Tora-san visits the man's daughter, then takes her to Tokyo so she can study for a night school exam.

A poignant and deeply moving story of the officers and men of the Saipan “Total Annihilation” Unit, who, longing for their loved ones...

A masterpiece of life sketches overflowing with heartwarming affection and laughter that portrays the modern common people with humor and pathos,...

A documentary which follows director Wim Wenders and Sean Naughton, the high-definition-video designer on UNTIL THE END OF THE WORLD, in Tokyo, and...