Masao Shimizu Movies

A romance with political overtones about the relationship of a sheltered bourgeois woman and a doctor who devotes himself to caring for the poor....

University student Arima Yasuhiro becomes acquainted with Ishihama, the president of a pharmaceutical company with a dark past, slowly but surely...

1962 Japanese movie

Ebihara is a budding novelist entangled in a complicated web of relationships with three women from three different generations: Kazue, a coquettish...

1962 Japanese movie

1962 Japanese movie

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

Dr. Kinoshita, whose rocket experiments had been a series of failures, discovers a strange flying saucer zooming through the night sky at super...

After learning that he has accidentally killed a man in a fight, Unokichi must look after the man's pregnant widow.

Three girls come to Tokyo to stay with their elder sister. Actually they are running away from home because their father has married again to a very...

Hanjiro is a struggling painter that shares a tiny apartment in the back streets of Ginza with his jazz pianist friend who works at a bar. When he...

1962 Japanese movie

A village romantic drama. (Now lost.)

Japanese crime film.

A crime story (with strong elements of comedy) that pits a determined detective against a gang of pickpockets in Osaka. The detective (played by...

One of many adaptations of "Onna no isshō", this time by Yasuzo Masumura as a starring vehicle for famed actress Machiko Kyo.

Director Iwauchi Katsumi adapted this melodrama from Sasazawa Saho's award winning novel about two young lovers from different sides of the tracks...

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

A youth drama about a sincere and pretty young maiko who comes to Tokyo for the first time in her life and fills her little heart with the joys and...