Kamatari Fujiwara Movies

A study of uneasy relationships among the inhabitants of a tiny rural community.

A suspense comedy about thieves starring Kazuo Funaki.

The film generally regarded as Japan’s first true musical was also the first film made entirely in-house by the pioneering studio P.C.L., a...

Pinku from 1971.

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

Masuo and Sazae are enjoying their newlywed life in their new house, even though they are in company housing. Masuo's colleague is invited to thank...

Frustrated with the bad behavior of his lord, Inaba Yajuro (Otomo) declares that he is leaving the clan and sets off on a journey that leads him...

Director Hiroshi Inagaki's early version of the life and death of famed swordsman Sasaki Kojiro. Otani Tomoemon gives a brilliant performance as...

Postwar Tokyo. Pin and Toku live in the squatter area of Kappanuma. Pin and Toku are avid gamblers. They take in Tsuru, a slightly demented woman who...

1936 P.C.L. adaptation of Natsume's novel.

Tai Kato’s early 20th century set yakuza epic about an ordinary merchant girl (Hiroko Maki) who crosses paths with an assassin (Tetsuya...

Adaptation of a novel by Yojiro Ishizaka, originally released in two parts.

1963 Japanese movie

First live action "Barefoot Gen" sequel.

A teacher in a poor island community tries to improve his students' spirits by entering them in a volleyball tournament as long-shot underdogs.

An adaptation of the popular Sazae-San comic strip.

Gonza was a handsome young laborer, a footman and spear-carrier, working hard for his meager wage. All Gonza wanted was to marry his young...

A math teacher loses his job while falling in love with a local girl.

Two semi-slackers with an ultra-intimate friendship work, slack and drink in a freezing Hokkaido town.