Akihiko Katayama Movies

Live-action adaptation of Yoshiro Kato’s manga.

Japanese drama film.

Hideki Yamaga runs a used bookstore in Ginza. He is a man known for his great physical strength, helping the weak and standing up to the strong, and...

This drama centers on an elderly politician and depicts how humans can return to their true selves when they are freed from selfish desires and...

1962 Japanese movie

Japanese film.

Adapted from a novel by Kaoru Funayama

Obscure Japanese movie by director Kyotaro Namiki

This film begins with a teacher describing to his students how brave the crew was which died as result of Japan's first submarine accident. The film...

In this four part mystery-adventure, detective Kogoro Akechi and the members of the Boy Detectives Club must capture the Bronze Monster, a giant...

1962 Japanese movie

The story of love and friendship between a seamstress girl and a member of a student ensemble, who, against all odds, turned a song written by the...

A young man hands in his notice at work and breaks up with his girlfriend in order to pursue his true nature and dream of shaping the world according...

Saburō Takada transfers from a city to a very small school. The village children suspect that Saburō is actually Matasaburō, the wind...

Adaptation of a famous Kyouka Izumi novel. Set in the early 1900's, it tells the story of the impossible love between a young scholar a beautiful...

1961 Japanese movie

Born into a poor farming family, Yukie left home with her only son Ryokichi, leaving her grandfather Heisaku behind, to search for her husband...