Yoshi Katō Movies

A young factory worker struggles to figure out what she wants to do with her life.

Young coal miner Takeda leaves Kyushu in search of a better job in Tokyo, only to fall into the lucrative yet dangerous life of a yakuza.

Kondo Isami, the “Devil” commander of the Shinsengumi was one of Japan’s greatest national heroes and a peerless swordsman who...

Life and love in corrupt postwar Tokyo, as a young couple struggles against both the law and the mob.

Young geisha Kohana scrambles to realize her dream of bringing back her grandmother’s restaurant business.

Kakumaru (Kiyoshi Atsumi) is an unpopular manzai performer who is too good-natured but has a very bad manners. Moulin, Kakumaru's former partner,...

1967 Daiei movie.

1964 Nikkatsu Theater of Life adaptation.

Police beat a murder confession out of four innocent men who are then sentenced to death. Based on a true story.

A conscript from a poor background writes the Emperor asking if he can stay in the army when his service is up.

An investigation into a drug smuggler who is assassinated in front of an insurance building sets two detectives, Sumikawa and Akine, into a sprawling...

After eloping with a prostitute named Otoyo, Hishakaku takes refuge in the Kogane family’s turf. Indebted to Boss Kogane for his kindness,...

A run-in with the police once again puts three former reformatory inmates on the wrong side of the law. Their situation becomes increasingly...

Japanese drama.

Suzuko, a woman in her twenties who has a brother with political problems (due to communist reprisals), lives for over five years in a love affair...

Ryuji Oshima, a gambler, kills Saiga in self-defense, and considering himself unfit to lead men, secludes himself in a temple to atone for his...