Movies: Masao Shimizu

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1962 Japanese movie...

Life and love in corrupt postwar Tokyo, as a young couple struggles against both the law and the mob....

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1962 Japanese movie...

Comedy-drama about university tennis players....

Omnibus picture, consisting of three stories....

1958 Newspaper Association Sweepstakes Winning Broadcast Drama Movie. A heartwarming and moving story that bloomed behind the competition between two newspaper reporters, one young and the other old, who followed the whereabouts of the distressed ai...

It was the first time in six years that I was able to step on the land of my homeland, the land of my nostalgia. It was Tokyo that had turned to burnt earth. A Tokyo with no one to rely on....

Harada Kai, the Date clan's Chamberlain attempts to take power from the lord himself....

On his way back to Yokohama, a young boy named Kenji Hase encounters a girl named Yoshiko who is being harassed by the Kaminaryu gang. He rescues her and they head towards Yokohama in Yoshiko's car. In Yokohama, there is an uproar because Kenji's fat...

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 and disperse. However, one by one, the henchmen die. The last survivor, Sima Kyuhei, gets a call and is...

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Shadowed and alone. Today, a melancholy guitar sobs in a wandering seaside town.... To make amends, he hides his identity and saves his girlfriend's sister from certain death. Filmed on location on the scenic Manazuru Peninsula, the action is set ami...

At the beginning of the Meiji era, three brothers of a samurai family each stand up to the times....

A village romantic drama. (Now lost.)...

A youth lyrical story of pure love of a girl who grew up in the Kyoto Gion quarter, with a geisha mother and sisters Maiko and a college student....

Japanese crime film....

A period film about a peasant revolt in the region near Mount Fuji, occasioned by high officials' depriving the farmers of their water rights....