Seiji Miyaguchi Movies

A poignant story about a young couple, Setsu and Chozo, who are torn apart to save Setsu's father's restaurant.

Inochi uruwashi

Reputedly based on Frank Capra’s 1939 film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, A Descendant of Tarô Urashima is about a repatriated soldier who...

Based on the short story of the same name by Seichō Matsumoto.

A modern love story involving different affairs.

Remake of 1949 film

A truck driver from Toyama discovers he has contracted leukemia, a condition linked to his past exposure to nuclear fallout while working as a...

This suspense drama set in the mid 1700's depicts the plan of the Tokugawa rulers to send a number of homeless men to a remote island Sado to perform...

A "hustler's hustler" (Takarada), works his way up the corporate ladder at a camera company. His biggest scheme involves winning the business of a...

Yakuza boss Furuya leans more and more on his protege Takao Shoji, though Shoji has become romantically involved with Furuya's mistress, Natsue....

A promising dancer asks her professor to write a libretto for a Nō play. He then introduces her to a student of classical literature, but also a...

Third film in the "Inu" series.

"Youth After School" takes Tokyo and Kyoto as the stage, and tells the story of a family that develops around the daughter's marriage. The play was...

An aging company president pushes a youth-focused corporate fitness campaign but struggles to keep up himself.

In this Japanese drama, a village girl goes to Tokyo and becomes a sex worker to support her ailing mother. While there she meets a teacher and falls...

The actions and downfall of a man who lives a life of cold calculation, adapted from a Hideo Shirasaki novel.

The story tells of Tsuchiya, a university professor and a widower who is in love with a widow who runs a small restaurant, and his son is in love...

Directed by Katsumi Iwauchi

1959 Japanese movie