Akitake Kōno Movies

Detective Tarao investigates the deaths of police officers who were involved in solving a kidnapping case.

Saburo and Keiko fall in love with each other but the tide of war separates them.

A young girl named Oichi is abandoned by her mother and blinded by a lightning strike. When her guardian is killed, she learns to wield a sword from...

In 1730, the Tokugawa Shogunate orders the Yagyu Clan to repair a huge shrine. Since it cannot refuse the Shogunate's request, the impoverished Yagyu...

The Shinsengumi is a special unit of ronin commissioned by the Tokugawa shogunate to counter anti-shogunate activities in Kyoto. A sinister plot to...

This film is strongly anti-war film. The film is based on the collection of writings by Japanese student soldiers who died during World War II. The...

A suspense work based on the "Miyagi Incident," an attempted coup d'etat led by some officers working for the Ministry of the Defense and the General...

During the early days of the war a young student, Makito (Kazuo Funaki), falls in love with Yuko (Mayumi Ozora), the widow of a naval officer. She,...

Young lord Saburo Nobuyasu struggles to find comfort in life. His arranged marriage to Tokuhime, daughter of one-time family enemy Oda Nobunaga,...

Story of a romance between a middle-aged journalist and a young woman.

Tadashi Imai 1946 movie

An action-packed, dramatic gangster film.

The story of a certain engineer from his youth until he retired from the Japanese National Railways after the war .

1963 Japanese movie

Film about the 2-26 Incident.

An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chief and the local gangster bosses.

This historical film depicts the life of a man who was at the mercy of the waves during transition from the end of the Edo period to the Meiji...

Three IJN flyers Mikami (Susumu Fujita), Kawakami (Masayuki Mori) and Murakami (Akitake Kono) are good friends, and they are all renowned for their...