Akihiko Katayama Movies

Directorial debut by Umetsugu Inoue, the famous director of Musicals

1961 Japanese movie

In this four part mystery-adventure, detective Kogoro Akechi and the members of the Boy Detectives Club must capture the Bronze Monster, a giant...

A melodramatic love story, a would-be apprenticeship between the titular bad girl and the optimistic scholar returning from the big city. It is...

A village struggles to survive when the nearby lake becomes barren of fish.

This drama centers on an elderly politician and depicts how humans can return to their true selves when they are freed from selfish desires and...

Saburō Takada transfers from a city to a very small school. The village children suspect that Saburō is actually Matasaburō, the wind...

The tragic fate of Minoru Ikeda, a talented blind boy whose only joy was playing the violin.

Japanese drama film.

In early summer in Edo, Sanshirō, known for his beautiful singing, is a devoted son living in a tenement with his blind mother Okura. He works...

The story of love and friendship between a seamstress girl and a member of a student ensemble, who, against all odds, turned a song written by the...

Japanese musical.

1956 Japanese movie