Isao Bitō Movies

Okatsu is a widow raising five children - adults but still mama-dependent - in mid-eighteenth century Edo, Japan. Her frugality attracts unflattering...

After a death-defying game of chicken one evening in 1958, Akagi nonchalantly enters a Yakuza Mahjong parlor to shake the cops' trail. Even...

At a certain high school in Karuizawa, students relied on ordinary local trains for their commute, but with only seven trains running per day,...

Comedy feature.

Motozo Imamura, a.k.a. Gen, grew up in an upper-class family, but he never went to school and spent his days playing around. One day, he walked into...

Dramatic story of one man trying to make a difference.

1964 musical.

This idol film centers on the love story between Mari Asami (Mari Amachi), a designer at a toy manufacturer, and Shunji Kawachi (Kensaku Morita), a...

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...

Shinjiro Iijima (Hakuryu) is a blackmail genius who never misses his prey. Using a robbery brought in by the local gangster Kasahara (Kazuki Namioka)...

The documentary about how Beatles went popular in Japan and did a concert in Budokan back in 1966.