Akihiko Katayama Trailers
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Total trailers found: 57
22 March 1949
A melodramatic love story, a would-be apprenticeship between the titular bad girl and the optimistic scholar returning from the big city.
15 June 1954
A young man hands in his notice at work and breaks up with his girlfriend in order to pursue his true nature and dream of shaping the world according to his own desires.
17 August 1951
The troubled relationship between a writer and his ballet teacher wife, who has for years loved another man, finally leads to the breakup of the family.
15 February 1939
"Around the time he made such remarkably ambivalent war films as Mud and Soldiers and Five Scouts, Tasaka directed this 'home front' comedy-drama which is too bizarre to be serious propaganda.
06 May 1950
A village struggles to survive when the nearby lake becomes barren of fish.
14 March 1952
Obscure Japanese movie by director Kyotaro Namiki
03 January 1952
Mataemon Araki, a renowned swordsman, helps a young man find vengeance.
31 March 1954
A dancer girl in a touring company met a high school boy in a port town. The story is about their first love that is very touching and sorrowful.
23 May 1941
This film begins with a teacher describing to his students how brave the crew was which died as result of Japan's first submarine accident.
02 November 1963
The biopic of Shigenobu Ōkuma, one of the main Japanese leaders at the turn of the 20th century, a supporter of rapprochement with the United Kingdom, and who brought his country into the Triple Entente against the German Empire.
14 February 1970
The story of Ryoma Sakamoto, considered to be the architect behind the downfall of the Tokugawa shogunate.
28 August 1963
Toshiko is the madam of a bar in Osaka who tries to keep her private life private and claims not to have a lover.
14 September 1951
In post-war Japan, Michiko, a disillusioned young woman trapped in a loveless marriage, confides in her younger cousin, Tsutomo, and the two become close, but decide not to consummate their affair.
10 February 1960
Depicts four cheerful, young former college students with promising futures who die tragic deaths as pilots in the Kamikaze Special Attack Corps.
12 June 1952
A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.
10 October 1940
Saburō Takada transfers from a city to a very small school. The village children suspect that Saburō is actually Matasaburō, the wind sprite.
01 November 1948
The eldest daughter of the Takamatsu family, Atsuko, a widow, returns home due to not getting along with her late husband's family.
09 August 1960
Princess Kiyo accidentally injures a local priest, Anchin, while on a hunt. She apologizes, but feels irritated by Anchin’s indifference to her in spite of her beauty.
21 February 1962
Adaptation of a famous Kyouka Izumi novel. Set in the early 1900's, it tells the story of the impossible love between a young scholar a beautiful geisha.
29 December 1954
A steel-clad fiend terrorizes Tokyo, raiding clock shops. Detective Kogoro Akechi uncovers a map hidden in a prized clock, leading to a uranium deposit.
27 December 1960
The sequel to Daibosatsu tôge (1960) and the second of the trilogy follows the adventures of Ryunosuke Tsukue after he is blinded.
21 September 1938
Tomotaka Tasaka's A Pebble by the Wayside (Robo no Ishi), made in 1938 and taken from a Yuzo Yamamoto novel, takes place around 1902, was about a young boy brought up entirely by his mother since his drunken father is never home.
15 June 1953
The film is about the Yamato's suicide mission to Okinawa in March 1945 to defend the homeland threatened by U.
29 December 1954
In this four part mystery-adventure, detective Kogoro Akechi and the members of the Boy Detectives Club must capture the Bronze Monster, a giant metal monster that steals valuable clocks.
30 November 1958
The common-law wife and daughter of a wealthy old man plot to murder him and steal his fortune, with the help of their male acquaintances.
19 June 1952
Directorial debut by Umetsugu Inoue, the famous director of Musicals
15 June 1968
Kuramoto, who works for a large trading company, is a skilled employee who is well-liked by the company president.
27 May 1959
The tragic fate of Minoru Ikeda, a talented blind boy whose only joy was playing the violin.
11 August 1944
Set in the late thirteenth century, this film depicts the defense of southern Japan led by the Kono clan against the Mongol invasion in 1281.
03 November 1937
One of Uchida’s early sound films, Unending Advance is based on a curious story by Yasujiro Ozu, in which an examination of the quotidian problems of a middle-aged salaryman and his family segues into an idyllic dream of an implausible future.
25 February 1967
The story of love and friendship between a seamstress girl and a member of a student ensemble, who, against all odds, turned a song written by the composer about adversity into a real hit.
14 January 1961
The three Matsunami sisters navigate adulthood and the complex social pressures of finding a husband while living under their traditional father’s roof.
09 January 1959
This drama centers on an elderly politician and depicts how humans can return to their true selves when they are freed from selfish desires and self-interest.
19 September 1956
Produced by Shochiku’s all-star cast as a commemorative film to mark the completion of the “Shochiku Kaikan” in Tsukiji, Tokyo, this movie introduces both the Shochiku Ofuna and Kyoto studios.
07 September 1955
The Nakata family, father, mother, son Hideo, and daughters Taeko and Akiko live in the poorer section of modern Tokyo.
23 October 1955
Akiko divorces her husband Fujikawa due to his infidelity, and when she returns to her parents' home, she finds that her family's toy factory is in decline, and she has to work hard to rebuild it.
14 December 1960
Sachiko's beloved sister Nobuko was supposed to go to Tohoku when she suddenly dies in a car accident in Hamamatsu.