Satoko Date Movies

Enoken plays a frog-oil-hawking conman whose claims to martial prowess land him in hot water with the local samurai gentry - but not before he falls...

War-time jidaigeki by Eisuke Takizawa.

Michiko gets pregnant after a rape. She marries a boring business partner of her father to avoid the shame. Later she meets the rapist again who is...

The story is based on the serial novel by Tsunoda Kikuo.

Part two of Shimizu's major silent Seven Seas, a family drama of the intertwining fates of the rich, decadent Yagibashis and the far less prosperous...

Melodrama by Kiyoshi Saeki

Toshie, a young, conservative secretary-typist has fallen in love with Shozo Narita, a young man she has met through her work.

As suggested by the title, this film takes up the theme of the city, beginning with a series of traveling shots from Chiyo's point of view on a bus...

"Karayuki-san offers a no-holds-barred depiction of the discrimination faced by a former prostitute who returns to Japan from Singapore with her...

Japanese drama film.

A bar girl tries to pass her three children, each from a different father, to rural relatives.

A newly hired daily newspaper writer covering the society beat receives an assignment to cover Tokyo at night by walking and observing it. He gets...

An early film by Kon Ichikawa

A young couple jump into the sea as part of a suicide pact. The man is rescued and subsequently discovers that his lover is also alive and working in...

Film adaptation of the hit song