Movies: Fumitake Ōmura

Teruo Ishii portrays the bitter conflict over the right to develop land in a gripping and humorous way. Nakagami, the head of the Kanto Joseikai, is ordered to acquire the rights to work to level the reclaimed land and prevent the Doshikai from expan...

Fierce war breaks out when Shujiro’s rival clan attempts to sabotage his lucrative construction business....

Osaka in the early 1600s, aftermath of the historical Battle of Sekigahara; a group of orphan children are wandering through the battlefield scavenging for armour when they encounter a young boy named Sasuke with magical powers he says came from a me...

1961 Toei adaptation of Yokomizo's novel....

Film about the 2-26 Incident....

When the plague threatens a small town in Manchuria, a young doctor finds himself struggling to save the lives of his townspeople....

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Second Moonlight Mask theatrical film....

An early ninkyo film from before the genre had truly established its form. Koji Tsuruta plays an honourable outlaw who saves an older man from an ambush. It turns out the man is the head of a hard working clan appointed to a railway construction proj...

The Chase after Opium Dealers...

1962 Japanese movie...

Director Jun'ya Satô's debut film focuses on the inhuman training of recruits, the brutal drill system that reigned in the Japanese army during World War II, where in the first two years of training, ordinary people were turned into inhuman killers. ...

First Moonlight Mask theatrical film....

A young woman tries to keep her family together after her father disowns her sister....

Japanese comedy film....

A suspense work based on the "Miyagi Incident," an attempted coup d'etat led by some officers working for the Ministry of the Defense and the General Staff of the Konoe Division on the eve of the end of the Pacific War....

Hibari Misora plays Yoshiko, the popular daughter of a fish market owner. After discovering that she was adopted, she sets out to help her biological father who has fallen victim to an evil plot orchestrated by those who would take over his successfu...

Japan-Hong Kong co-production....

1961 Japanese movie...

Because of trickery, the Jinya Group has only seven days to complete a mountain road project or it will forfeit a major dam construction job to the scheming Ojika Group....