Masao Mishima Movies

Just before the end of the war, Japanese soldier Kitani is released from prison, having served his term for theft. Told in flashback, viewers learn...

In a high school, two men are fighting over a beautiful female teacher who has been assigned as an English teacher.

Also known as "History of a Man’s Face" and "By a Man's Face Shall You Know Him" . Immigrant gangs terrorize a Japanese town with their...

This 1956 adaptation of the novel with the same title puts more focus on the characters and their interactions than the previous version.

With plenty of action, and a strong story about the growth and development of an expert swordsman, who just happens to be from an extremely...

In the mist of the warring age (Sengoku Era), the Kyushu based Hayato Clan is faced with a monumental battle to determine their survival.

A 1960 crime film

Drama which shows the struggle of Fumiko, a female teacher, at work and at home.

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

As suggested by the title, this film takes up the theme of the city, beginning with a series of traveling shots from Chiyo's point of view on a bus...

1962 Japanese movie

A young man with a strong sense of justice is torn between two girls: the flighty Taneko and the serious Suzuko. With wisdom, courage and honor in a...

From an original story by Shibata Renzaburo, the novelist who created such classics as: the "Nemuri Kyoshiro" series (Son of the Black Mass),...

Young girl Kichiza searches for her missing brother and the person responsible for the death of her parents.

Zensaku, middle-aged and deaf in one ear, learns that his son's fallen for the daughter of a war officer responsible for the maiming.

Kiku and her brother Isamu are social outcasts, children of a prostitute mother and black GI father, in postwar Japan.

Five swordsmen are murdered and hung from a tree and the chase is on to find the killers. Two magistrates pursue the leads to solve the crime and it...

Lending money, job hunting for civilians and babysitting. All these things are usually not listed on a policeman's job description. But for the...