Yoshio Inaba Movies

One of Japan's most popular stories is the tale of Kutsukake Tokijiro, a traveling gambler who finds that he must take care of the wife and child of...

As Japan's economic growth policies intensify, small-scale farmers embark on a first-ever communal dairy farming initiative in their village. They...

A beautifully told story of a woman hardened by marriage to a man she doesn't love, after giving herself to another. She dedicates herself to her...

Sayo has just celebrated her sixteenth birthday when she attends a temple festival. On her way back she sees a large cherry tree which is infamous...

A great ambition to portray with sharp satire and humor the course of modern anxiety and love that is about to be driven to despair.

Based on true events surrounding a Korean student who had entered Japan unlawfully and escaped illegal alien internment.

Tells of the feelings and sufferings of a young girl with an incurable paralytic disease.

A taut, economical policier-cum-gang-hostage thriller.

1962 Japanese movie

Sashichi is a dapper and handsome man. He is called a doll Sashichi because he is "a nice man like a doll." On top of that, he is a considerable...

After discovering a slaughtered corpse, the investigating team of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department began canvassing the area around the crime...

An industrialist is diagnosed with terminal cancer. He is abroad in Europe at the time, and a glimpse of a Japanese woman in that setting causes him...

A 1961 film directed by Yoshiyuki Kuroda.

An action-packed, dramatic gangster film.

Set at the end of the Siege of Osaka this film follows the exploits of several members of the defeated Toyotomi clan as they cope with the post...

Based on the novel of the same name by Seichô Matsumoto.

A film by Hiroshi Inagaki.

After an old man is attacked by a bear in the snowy mountains of northern Japan, he vows to hunt down the marauder.