Fumiko Okamura Movies

Following the Second World War, the lives of various people in a poverty-stricken area of Tokyo are entertwined. Pachinko parlor girls, shoeshine...

Airline captain saves passengers from a brutal murderer on a plane during four hours of terror.

Inoue was something of a rarity in the sense, that he was a Shochiku house director who seems to have worked mostly in period films, often with big...

Drama directed by Yasushi Sasaki.

A young man falls for one of the geisha working in the house where he lives. However, the romance doesn't find favour with his father or current...

A businessman’s daughter falls in love with one of her father’s employees.

A musical film made for the inauguration of Shochiku's Ofuna Studio, with an all-star cast of the era.

Group of women escape Chinese controlled area for Japanese occupied lands during Pacific War.

1950s Japanese comedy.

Adaptation of Kishida Kunio's novel. Set against the backdrop of a power struggle within a hospital, depicts the love lives of the director's...

The eldest daughter of a noble family is in love with an aviator while being courted by a fellow aristocrat she thinks is a dullard. This part is...

A Japanese screwball comedy about the battle between the sexes: two timid men, egged on by their wives, end up in a bitter duel over an expensive...

A reformatory in the remote countryside houses 200 delinquents and problem children. The teachers and caretakers face much trouble. The school is...

A spirited young teacher challenges the conservative school employing her with liberal thinking and teaching methods.

A touching story about a young boy, Genta, who bravely takes on life's challenges in hopes of finding a better life for himself and his sickly mother.

Yuki is a young, single mother supporting herself and her son, Haru, with a job as a bar hostess.

Five women classmates from a college in Tokyo are on the first stretch of a walking tour when one of them, Masako, falls ill at a railway station....

1962 Japanese movie