Kyū Sakamoto
Gulliver's Travels Beyond the Moon (1965)
The story concerns a homeless boy named Ricky, or Ted in the Japanese version. After seeing a movie about Gulliver he meets Professor Gulliver himself in a forest. Gulliver is now an elderly, space-traveling scientist. With Dr. Gulliver's assistant Sylvester the ... (more)
The story concerns a homeless boy named Ricky, or Ted in the Japanese version. After seeing a movie about Gulliver he meets Professor Gulliver himself in a forest. Gulliver is now an elderly, space-traveling scientist. With Dr. Gulliver's assistant Sylvester the ... (more)
Keep Your Chin Up (1962)
Kawanishi Kyu and Tomoda Ryoji, two waifs, are inmates of a Reform School. One night, the boys succeed in a mass escape and split up. Kyu and Ryoji hear the sirens shrieking behind them and panic. Kyu pretends he has been hit by a small truck and Ryoji demands that ... (more)
Kawanishi Kyu and Tomoda Ryoji, two waifs, are inmates of a Reform School. One night, the boys succeed in a mass escape and split up. Kyu and Ryoji hear the sirens shrieking behind them and panic. Kyu pretends he has been hit by a small truck and Ryoji demands that ... (more)
Awamori-kun nishi-e iku (1961)
Based on the comic by Kaoru Akiyoshi (more)
Based on the comic by Kaoru Akiyoshi (more)
Everything Goes Wrong
(1960)
Everything goes wrong when Jiro tries to break up his mother's relationship with a business man. (more)
Everything goes wrong when Jiro tries to break up his mother's relationship with a business man. (more)
Awamori-kun uridasu (1961)
First of three Awamori-kun movies. Based on the comic by Kaoru Akiyoshi. (more)
First of three Awamori-kun movies. Based on the comic by Kaoru Akiyoshi. (more)
Second of the three Awamori-kun movies. (more)
Kyu-chan, Draw Your Sword (1963)
A laid-back man tries to become a member of the yakuza. (more)
A laid-back man tries to become a member of the yakuza. (more)
Japanese comedy directed by Noriaki Yuasa. (more)
King of the Highway (1965)
Mr. Greenhorn (1966)
1966 Shochiku adaptation of Natsume's novel. (more)
1966 Shochiku adaptation of Natsume's novel. (more)
Let's Have A Dream (1967)
A Japanese stage actor in Yokohama is terminally ill, and is determined to end his life, but doesn’t know to have inherited a large sum of money from Switzerland. (more)
A Japanese stage actor in Yokohama is terminally ill, and is determined to end his life, but doesn’t know to have inherited a large sum of money from Switzerland. (more)
My Sweetheart (1967)
It had been a year and four months since Mitsuo was last on a movie set. Welcomed back by director Ishizaki and his film crew, Mitsuo is excited to star as the lead in "My Sweetheart". One day, half way through production, he meets his friends from a popular rock ... (more)
It had been a year and four months since Mitsuo was last on a movie set. Welcomed back by director Ishizaki and his film crew, Mitsuo is excited to star as the lead in "My Sweetheart". One day, half way through production, he meets his friends from a popular rock ... (more)
Battle Cry (1975)
During the military phase of the Meiji Restoration of 1868, Sentaro joins a local militia loyal to the Tokugawa Shogunate in order to fight Imperial troops. But Sentaro's friendship with a pickpocket, who switches sides whenever it suits his needs, leads to ... (more)
During the military phase of the Meiji Restoration of 1868, Sentaro joins a local militia loyal to the Tokugawa Shogunate in order to fight Imperial troops. But Sentaro's friendship with a pickpocket, who switches sides whenever it suits his needs, leads to ... (more)
Story of young love in the hills. (more)
An Urban Affair (1961)
Follow-up to "Ekimae Ryokan." Set around the Yurigaoka and Nishi-Ikuta stations on the Odakyu-Odawara line, the film takes up the problem of real estate around the expanding Yurigaoka apartments. (more)
Follow-up to "Ekimae Ryokan." Set around the Yurigaoka and Nishi-Ikuta stations on the Odakyu-Odawara line, the film takes up the problem of real estate around the expanding Yurigaoka apartments. (more)