Aiko Mimasu Trailers
There Was a War When I Was a Child TrailerThe Machine Gun Dragon TrailerSanbaba Trailer
There Was a War When I Was a Child TrailerThe Machine Gun Dragon TrailerSanbaba Trailer
Total trailers found: 82
15 January 1957
A studio introduction version for Daiei Stars.
19 August 1958
At a coastal hot spring inn, a group of women navigate work, personal struggles, and unexpected scandals.
27 August 1968
Yakuza Kojima appeared in Yokkaichi in search of her mother who died when she was young. There he met Torajiro, a master of kendo, who had just left prison after slashing his adoptive father who stole his son's wife.
16 May 1961
A home drama about a mother and her three daughters, based on the novel by Fumiko Hayashi.
03 January 1968
Story of loyal sailors giving their lives for their country as human torpedoes towards the end of the War.
23 September 1964
Set in the pleasure district of Kyoto, Tamiko (Yoshiko Mita, in her first lead role) is a young girl attending high school by day and training as a geisha at night She sees her future as an entertainer, not a prostitute, & she expects a happy marriage with a medical student, Yasuke (Katsuo Nakamura), a sweet fellow she deeply loves.
21 May 1960
Sanae is left a widow after her prestigious husband dies, but holds the proceeds of a million yen insurance policy.
17 February 1973
Part 5 in a long running (8+1 films) action/comedy/melodrama series about a pair of short tempered, amoral, but not evil chinpira (Bunta Sugawara and Tamio Kawachi) thinking too big of themselves.
26 April 1960
Lt. Koji Kitami is a navigator-bombardier in Japan's Naval Air Force. He participates in the Japanese raid on the U.
28 October 1958
A film about the life of Kiyoshi Yamashita, a Japanese painter with disabilities.
23 April 1955
A Girl isn't Allowed to Love is a 1955 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa.
03 January 1954
Chōsokabe Kyutaro, notorious as a master swindler, abandons Tokyo and flees to Watakano Island near the Shima Peninsula.
03 June 1967
A story of young students trained to become Kamikaze pilots in World War II.
12 October 1968
Coal miner Isamu Oba is forced to quit his village and leave his mother and siblings behind. Mining buddy Ichiro accompanies him to Tokyo, and the pair enjoy several "fish-out-of-water" sequences before finding employment at a boxing gym with trainer Sawada and his spunky sister Tomoko.
15 January 1964
War widow Reiko rebuilds and runs the grocery shop in the house of her husband's family. Many years later, their business is threatened by a newly built supermarket and Reiko's in-laws plan to convert their small shop into a supermarket, to her detriment.
29 October 1970
With World War II is coming to its end and Japan nearing defeat, Japanese military leaders step up suicide attacks on Allied ships.
18 March 1956
Follows five sex workers employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation debates the passage of an anti-prostitution law.
01 April 1967
Sasaki Kojiro tells the story of the genius who staked his love, glory, and life on a duel with the supreme master of the sword, Miyamoto Musashi (Tatsuya Nakadai).
25 December 1960
An adaptation of the popular Sazae-san comic strip
01 April 1958
Japan, 1701. A group of samurai become rônin after their lord is forced to commit seppuku for assaulting a court official, who will become the target of a merciless revenge.
15 October 1969
This anthology film consists of nine incidents in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when assassins changed the course of Japanese history.
28 February 1976
Ryu, a low life thug, along with his mother, steals a shipment of drugs. Now with his machine gun and a gang of hoodlums, he must face the yakuza and the mafia.
31 July 1971
A traveling yakuza is sent to collect a debt owed by a man who was killed in the parlor where she dealt a game, setting in motion a chain of betrayals in a region rife with corruption.
18 September 1960
A kind of modern dress "Donzoko" "The Lower Depths", about slum life in Osaka, where a greedy widow (Mimasu) takes advantage of her poor roomers, including her own son, who makes a meagre living stripping taxicabs.
12 July 1960
A woman and her daughter are in love with the same man, a chef at the restaurant that the mother manages.
09 March 1948
The first in a series of 31 "mother films" produced by Daiei in the post-war period.
14 January 1962
Drama about the lives of the five daughters and daughter-in-law of a store owner.
06 March 1957
A poor peasant, after years of scraping, becomes a rich and powerful Osaka merchant. Mizoguchi Kenji's final project; he died before completing it and directing duties turned over to Yoshimura Kozaburo.
08 August 1956
While working in an education center for lonely children, a mother seeks her missing son.
23 July 1957
Kinichi and Akiko meet when they visit their fathers in prison. After successfully gambling on a bicycle race, they spend an enjoyable day together at the beach.
24 January 1949
The sincere, selfless love of a foolish mother for her daughter set against the backdrop of the circus.
27 October 1973
In the roaring 1970s, a man who has left the world of the yakuza to become the owner of a sushi restaurant decides to rise up again when he sees his former family being overrun by a modern yakuza group from the Kansai region.
08 April 1953
Walking home late one night, a down-on-his-luck sewage worker runs into a drunk businessman with a briefcase full of cash.
16 October 1956
During the bloody era of the Tokugawa Shogunate collapse, a man appeared capable of overthrowing a corrupt government and ending the feud between the Choshu and Satsuma clans.
17 March 1954
Soemon, the master of Gidayū-style madcap performances, has gathered the entire tenement block again tonight and is tormenting everyone with his terrible Gidayū singing.
10 January 1950
Kamezo, a manzai comedian, had been taking a break from performing while his partner Tsuruko was giving birth, but Tsuruko announced that she was retiring from the stage.
14 February 1981
An award-winning Japanese film about a child's experiences during the Second World War.
03 January 1961
The story of three sportsman brothers living in the Ginza. One day, the three meet a raving beauty on separate occasions and are unaware they have met the same girl.