Masao Shimizu Movies

Private eye Bannai Tarao (Chiezo Kataoka) and his assistant Masako (Chizuru Kitagawa) investigate the mysterious murder of a baseball player who was...

Japanese suspense film.

1962 Japanese movie

Story of a Beloved Wife is an autobiographical work based on Shindo's first marriage. Jūkichi Uno stars as a struggling screenwriter, and Nobuko...

Director Iwauchi Katsumi adapted this melodrama from Sasazawa Saho's award winning novel about two young lovers from different sides of the tracks...

An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chief and the local gangster bosses.

Film from 1967.

In the nine part Wataridori series (1959-1962), Kobayashi played a wanderer on Japan’s back roads with most of the accoutrements of a Western...

A kidnapping occurred over a seven-million-dollar diamond that was sewn into his stomach. Takuya Nikaido, the hero of Kamideki, challenges the...

A Japanese adaptation of Guy de Maupassant's short story Boule de Suif, directed by Kimura Keigo

1962 Japanese movie

A story of a servant girl whose life is upturned by her doomed love for a spineless young man.

Hanjiro is a struggling painter that shares a tiny apartment in the back streets of Ginza with his jazz pianist friend who works at a bar. When he...

1962 Japanese movie