Mitsuko Kusabue Movies

1958 Theater of Life adaptation.

Musical-comedy about nine soldiers deserted on an island in South Pacific.

Starring Akira Takarada as a lightweight boxing champion.

An Ishiro Honda film.

A longtime hotel employee (Morishige) struggles to bring his old-fashioned ryokan in line with postwar Japanese business practices.

Romantic melodrama set in contemporary Hong Kong, Japan and Laos. Hiroshi Tanaka (Takarada) is a Japanese journalist on assignment in Hong Kong who...

A woman remembers her own marriage when dealing with the love life of her son.

Drama about the lives of the five daughters and daughter-in-law of a store owner.

The third and final chapter of MP & GI's Toho Trilogy expands the geographical reach of the franchise, taking stars Lucilla You Min and Takarada...

A comedy directed by Kajiro Yamamoto, based on an original idea by Koji Toita, co-written by Yasuo Tanami, who worked on "Hibari Chiemi Izumi Sannin...

1962 Japanese movie

Shûe Matsubayashi movie

Natsumi is proposed to by Yamato, a man who aims to become a fisherman to succeed his father. Her grandmother Kiyo, who raised her since a young age,...

An Ishiro Honda film.

Kikuji is the scion of an Osaka merchant family whose traditional power is matrilineal. Instructed by his overbearing mother and grandmother to give...

The story of a group of young people who organise their own travelling symphony orchestra to provide music for people living in remote villages...

Shuzenji Monogatari (The Mask and Destiny) is based on a 12th-century Japanese legend. An abortive royal romance leads to an escalating series of...