Masao Shimizu Movies

A man is wrongfully accused of murder.

This story depicts how a once-famous married couple of manga artists refused to be defeated by their current poverty.

A group of five rookie insurance salespersons, driven to desperation by the impossibility of their work in Japan's failing postwar economy, form a...

Follows the struggles of a yakuza wife after his husband gets hurt in a knife fight.

In 1919, a group of Japanese immigrants arrives in Hawaii. Among them Yoshio Inoue and his wife Kishimo and Sumi, a young woman ready to get married...

A youth lyrical story of pure love of a girl who grew up in the Kyoto Gion quarter, with a geisha mother and sisters Maiko and a college student.

A forbidden love between a young teacher and her student. As a fragile boy’s heart and body are swept into a storm of passion, the film...

A group of pirates sail the treacherous Pacific ocean in search for wealth.

In 1941, overpopulated Japan faces an economic boycott and its armed forces push further to the south. And despite negotiations between Japan and the...

A servant girl is seduced and abandoned by her lover, a man from a higher social class, forcing her to navigate a harsh world as an itinerant...

A story of the conflicting friendship and love between two young men over a young girl from a working-class neighborhood.

Hanjiro is a struggling painter that shares a tiny apartment in the back streets of Ginza with his jazz pianist friend who works at a bar. When he...

Not too long ago, Soichiro was considered one of the most powerful men in business. But his business had failed, his granddaughter had committed...

Yoji Kitami, a fisherman's son, is a student in Tokyo. His father had died at sea and Taichiro, his brother, is sending him to the university. But...

An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chief and the local gangster bosses.

Seven years ago, Ishimatsu Toshio, a talented radio producer at Zen Nihon Hōsō, witnessed a crazed drug addict murder his wife and then...

Comedy-drama about university tennis players.

The story is based on the life of a poet who lived in Japan in the Taisho era. When her fiancé is arrested she believes he has suddenly...