Masao Shimizu Movies

Bittersweet shomin-geki drama by Keigo Kimura

A man is wrongfully accused of murder.

A film about the Ghost of Okiku that's based on the kabuki play Bancho Sarayashiki.

A pure love melodrama movie.

1962 Japanese movie

Rambler Shinji arrives in town armed with nothing but a guitar. With assistance from an old gun-for-hire friend, he sets about to stop the mob from...

Harada Kai, the Date clan's Chamberlain attempts to take power from the lord himself.

Private eye Bannai Tarao (Chiezo Kataoka) and his assistant Masako (Chizuru Kitagawa) investigate the mysterious murder of a baseball player who was...

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 film tells the story of a group of high school boxing team members who spend their days drinking, sailing and chasing girls, and who more often...

1962 Japanese movie

Life and love in corrupt postwar Tokyo, as a young couple struggles against both the law and the mob.

The film depicts the life of a high school student today, touching on issues of purity, sports, higher education, and employment, through the pursuit...

Yoji Kitami, a fisherman's son, is a student in Tokyo. His father had died at sea and Taichiro, his brother, is sending him to the university. But...

At the beginning of the Meiji era, three brothers of a samurai family each stand up to the times.

Nomi-gumi, who plans to control Tama City, has begun to hurt Takase-gumi. Muraki, an executive, was entrusted with the destruction, but he was a...

A youth lyrical story of pure love of a girl who grew up in the Kyoto Gion quarter, with a geisha mother and sisters Maiko and a college student.

The premature death of a young mother serves as inspiration for her husband and son.