Satoko Date Movies

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

After some fruitless career hunting in downtown Tokyo, Chiyo accepts a job as a bar hostess in Shiba ward. Well away from glamorous Asakusa and...

An early film by Kon Ichikawa

The film is a lengthy work interweaving characters from different backgrounds and social strata in a narrative centered around the experiences of its...

Melodrama by Kiyoshi Saeki

Story of a bandit king.

A legendary pre-war comedy operetta starring Enomoto Kenichi, Hideko Takamine and Li Xianglan. The Sanzo Ikkou continues its westward journey, on a...

This is a rokyoku film of Tenjuken Ungetsu II (Hideko Itami), a popular rokyoku performer who was famous for her seven different voices for men and...

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

On a Sunday morning, young dentist Toshio Ezaki wakes up with a hangover, on a bench in his office. He finds a poisoned woman in a green-striped...

Enoken plays a frog-oil-hawking conman whose claims to martial prowess land him in hot water with the local samurai gentry - but not before he falls...

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...

The story is based on the serial novel by Tsunoda Kikuo.

Hideko, a young Baseball fan, determined to cheer for her favourite baseball team by creating a new song for them.

A picture-story-show operator, accompanies her son, Akira, who lives apart from her, to a hot-spring medical treatment and spend a moment of brief...

Part two of Shimizu's major silent Seven Seas, a family drama of the intertwining fates of the rich, decadent Yagibashis and the far less prosperous...

Film adaptation of the hit song

Japanese drama film.