Movies: Junji Masuda

Samonji, a reporter, receives a message on his answering machine from his friend Takada that says "stop it... zero plan! February." Learning that Takada is dead, Samonji begins an investigation. He and his younger sister Fumiko investigate major even...

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

Three daughters have graduated from the music school and have gone their separate ways. On the day of the outbreak of war, the three girls meet again for the first time since their graduation ceremony. This film was made at the end of the war to prom...

Senta lives with his mother and little brother and supports them by working at day at a factory and attending eighth grade in the evening. One day he finds a letter on his desk, left by Ryohei, a day school student who has lost his pencil case and as...

A poignant story about a young couple, Setsu and Chozo, who are torn apart to save Setsu's father's restaurant....

Fourth Moonlight Mask theatrical film....

The Ueki family may not be wealthy, but smiles are never in short supply. The father is awarded prize money for 25 years of service to his workplace, but has it stolen on the way home from the ceremony......

Tsunokichi and Ken face off against a rival yakuza in Kyushu....

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

Based on the mystery novel of the same name by Seichō Matsumoto....

Yasuichiro Isa, who works in the labor section of Sone Mining Tokyo Headquarters, paid a monthly fee for his younger brother, Reiji, who was in trouble because he had a bonus of 10,000 yen more....

Television production of I Want to Be a Shellfish. On a post-war peaceful day in Japan, Toyomatsu Shimizu, a barber as well as a good father and husband, is suddenly arrested by the Prefectural Police as a war criminal and sued for murder. According ...

A 1956 alien invasion tokusatsu film directed by Shinichi Sekizawa, the screenwriter noted for his immense contributions to Toho's Godzilla series by providing the screenplays/stories for the majority of the original Showa films....

A comical love story between two college students — Hitomi, a strong-willed girl, and Shogo, a handsome, earnest and poverty stricken man....

A film dealing with the trials and tribulations of a primary school before and after the Pacific War, set in Fukashima Prefecture....

Young boys learn survival skills on a remote island and rescue a girl abducted by a gang of foreigners....

A 1948 Japanese film....

A touching story about a young boy, Genta, who bravely takes on life's challenges in hopes of finding a better life for himself and his sickly mother....

The Chase after Opium Dealers...

A jewelry store president begins to fall for the doctor treating her husband's illness....