Gen Shimizu Movies

A comedic tale that follows several quirky individuals who navigate the twists and turns of their daily lives.

1958 Japanese movie

A Japanese adaptation of Guy de Maupassant's short story Boule de Suif, directed by Kimura Keigo

Saburo Sarutobi, a former member of the Zengakuren, and Maruo Inumaruo, a former member of the police force, have joined two rival companies,...

Tetsuya, a worker at a US Air Base who moonlights as a bartender with his bar hostess roommate, dreams to move to the United States one day....

A musical about the escapades of some tanuki passing themselves off as humans in human society.

A young princess is kidnapped and put on a pirate ship bound for Hokkaido and the villainous Jaguar. Her only hope is the cook and a young man who...

A period film about a peasant revolt in the region near Mount Fuji, occasioned by high officials' depriving the farmers of their water rights.

The picture tells of a tremendous conflict between ju-jitsu, an aggressive art practiced by vicious hoodlums led by Takamatsu, and judo, which is...

Obscure Japanese movie by director Kyotaro Namiki

1960 version of Lion Festival of Echigo

A young country boy leaves his village for Tokyo, where he begins to work as a stock trader. First part (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku...

Toyotomi Hideyoshi (Hitoshi Ueki) starts out as Nobunaga's "Sandal Keeper" but climbs the ranks to eventually become a trusted general.