Masao Shimizu Movies

Omnibus picture, consisting of three stories.

A drama about the sex industry.

Jiro, a young yakuza, and Mami, a diplomat’s daughter, are two young lovers from different worlds. Having met by accident, they soon discover a...

A romance with political overtones about the relationship of a sheltered bourgeois woman and a doctor who devotes himself to caring for the poor....

Four henchmen kill Ryu, the head of a group of dollar buyers, on a dark construction site. They divide 1.2 million yen from Ryu's bag into 4 parts...

Japanese mystery film directed by Michiyoshi Doi.

Dr. Kinoshita, whose rocket experiments had been a series of failures, discovers a strange flying saucer zooming through the night sky at super...

Follows the struggles of a yakuza wife after his husband gets hurt in a knife fight.

A youth drama about a sincere and pretty young maiko who comes to Tokyo for the first time in her life and fills her little heart with the joys and...

After learning that he has accidentally killed a man in a fight, Unokichi must look after the man's pregnant widow.

Atsuko is an office secretary who is also her family's primary source of income and caretaker in postwar Japan.

A small community in wartime Japan learn how to make do with less.

The film depicts the life of a high school student today, touching on issues of purity, sports, higher education, and employment, through the pursuit...

It is based on the story "The Lawyer" by attorney Hiroshi Masaki and his account of Japan's "Headless Murder Case" in which a police officer beat a...

A group of five rookie insurance salespersons, driven to desperation by the impossibility of their work in Japan's failing postwar economy, form a...

An Ishiro Honda film.

A village romantic drama. (Now lost.)

Kawanishi Kyu and Tomoda Ryoji, two waifs, are inmates of a Reform School. One night, the boys succeed in a mass escape and split up. Kyu and Ryoji...