Chishū Ryū Movies

Coming of age/high school sports drama.

The eldest daughter of a noble family is in love with an aviator while being courted by a fellow aristocrat she thinks is a dullard. This part is...

Pre-war Asakusa was a riotous district of cabarets, dance-halls and brothels - a striking backdrop for Shimazu's story of innocence and experience....

Eiko is an innocent young lady born into a wealthy family with nothing to offer. She was good at singing, and lived her life playing around with her...

A masterpiece of life sketches overflowing with heartwarming affection and laughter that portrays the modern common people with humor and pathos,...

A man and his girlfriend work for a cosmetics company, but would like to open their own store. The company is planning to send someone to Paris for...

When a woman unfairly suspects her husband of flirting with a shop assistant, she decides to flirt with their landlord to get revenge. Considered to...

A father and son are both heavy drinkers. However, the son dies in an accident at a bar, leaving behind a fiance…. A unique social satire that...

In the autumn of 1945, Petty Officer Tadashi Yamaji is among the numerous war crimes suspects facing death on the gallows for maltreatment of Allied...

The fourth instalment in the Life's Simple Pleasures (Salaryman Mejiro Sanpei) series.

In the movies of those times, you can see young boys in the company scene often. Those boys were called kyuji (給仕), which means...

A comedy about Hikoichi, a mediocre train conductor who falls in love with a beautiful widow Sayuri.

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

A film dealing with the comings and goings of individuals in the immediate postwar period.

A man is found dead of an apparent suicide but there is speculation that he was murdered. An investigation reveals that he and his wife were at odds...

1945 Japanese movie