Ken Mitsuda Movies

Historical drama about a sleepy-eyed ronin.

A university boxing captain struggles between love and ambition as he secretly longs for a woman promised to another. When betrayal and heartbreak...

On his release from prison a young yakuza, along with his brother, decides to turn his back on criminal life instead of taking over the position of...

In this loose adaptation of "Hamlet," illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi climbs to a high position within a Japanese corporation and marries the...

A cosmetics saleswoman falls for a rival executive.

1956 Japanese movie

It is based on the story "The Lawyer" by attorney Hiroshi Masaki and his account of Japan's "Headless Murder Case" in which a police officer beat a...

A Japanese woman writes down three stories she has witnessed or heard of in her diary, each about the difficult situation a young woman finds herself...

Kanae, who broke up with her husband and moved to her uncle's house, met two men when her father, a university professor, collapsed. Michihara, a...

After graduating from a high school in the Seto Inland Sea, Koji, a childhood friend of Yaeko, went to Tokyo to enter university wearing a heartfelt...

Caught in a corporate power struggle, a man uses betrayal and strategy to expose corruption and settle personal scores—only to find true...

In Kabuki style, the film tells the story of a remote mountain village where the scarcity of food leads to a voluntary but socially-enforced policy...

It is brother against brother in this tale of love and betrayal within the famed Yagyu clan. In one of their earliest films together, superstars...

Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She describes life's vicious cycle: acting cheerful...

The story of the tender love between Junki, the son of a wealthy landowner, and Kayuki, the daughter of a forester, who decided to unite their...

During the war a university professor meets a girl and marries her. Very soon however, it is apparent that their needs are not matched. He would much...

Helping her mother manage a nightclub, young Emiko quickly realizes how difficult life is.

Though plagued by ill health all his life, a young Japanese man is obligated to fulfill his family's longstanding military tradition.

Film directed by Saeki Kozo with Wakao Ayako.