Movies: Yūnosuke Itō

A good young man accidentally joins a group of leg breakers...

1962 Japanese movie...

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At a tavern in Shimoda, Ronin Tadakazu Yamakawa saved a samurai girl named Mino from the clutches of the Benten family. When Mino's father, Kyohei Tsuchihashi, is murdered by unknown assailants, Tadakazu is summoned to Akane-ya, the landlord of this ...

A movie directed by Nobuo Nakagawa...

A boy, who is separated from his mother in an air raid, endures suffering and grief alongside his kind uncle....

A study of uneasy relationships among the inhabitants of a tiny rural community....

Jidai-geki by Kiyoshi Saeki...

1962 Japanese movie...

Housewives from four neighboring households casually gather at an old well at Kaneko's house in a residential area on the outskirts of Tokyo. If two people come together, they will talk about selling kimonos, if three people come together, they will ...

Based on a 1956 television feature on Japan’s national network, NHK, this is one of Uchida’s rarest films. A socially conscious drama with a contemporary backdrop, Dotanba focuses on the attempts to rescue a group of trapped miners. The title is a fi...

Somewhat unique as it appears to be one of the very rare appearances of master thespian Itô in a yakuza role....

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Period film about the legendary detective Umon...

The common-law wife and daughter of a wealthy old man plot to murder him and steal his fortune, with the help of their male acquaintances....

A young woman begins murdering all those responsible for her ailing father's condition. Because the girl is so outwardly sweet and innocent, the detective looking into the deaths does not suspect her....

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The picture belongs to the jidai gekki (historic) genre. It is a powerful story of violence and eroticism, picturing a world at once sordid and poetic, with two central themes which intermingle to compound an admirable panel of a critical period in J...

Hiroko, who has a weekly magazine reporter as her lover is assigned as a public health nurse in a remote village. However, there is widespread poverty and ignorance beyond her imagination....

Second part to "River Without a Bridge" (1969)...