Chishū Ryū Movies

Inochi uruwashi

Gen is a lonely orphan boy. His sole sense of companionship comes from an imaginary friend, the god Prince Fudo-Myo. Prince Fudo-Myo comes to the...

An old man has to move to his son's new house. His wife is hospitalized and cannot move together. A few days after moving, he decides to go back to...

This bittersweet comedy tells the tale of a group of college roommates attempting to cheat their way through their exams. As the title goes, things...

The movie depicts the youth of kamikaze pilots who scattered young lives in the sky.

An old man cashes in all his possessions and sets off on a journey to the Tohoku region in late autumn. Along the way, he visits a friend on his...

A hen-pecked man works as his artist wife's model and a house-husband. When her patron flirts with her and humiliates him, he decides to get revenge...

The Ueki family may not be wealthy, but smiles are never in short supply. The father is awarded prize money for 25 years of service to his workplace,...

A 1959 Yoshiaki Bansho adaptation of an Osaragi Jiro story.

On vacation's eve, a boy is sent to the countryside to live with his uncle after his father is imprisoned and accused of embezzlement.

Episode in the life of a composer of a popular Japanese song.

A movie-loving nanny lives and works in the home of a university professor and eventually becomes the family's support system, leading a bright and...

A Japanese screwball comedy about the battle between the sexes: two timid men, egged on by their wives, end up in a bitter duel over an expensive...

Lost silent film

Three men fall in love with the same young girl who works in a tonkatsu restaurant in the Shitamachi district of Tokyo.

Shochiku melodrama about the loves of the humble people living in the poor tenament called the Ryuheiso.