Masao Shimizu Movies

Harada Kai, the Date clan's Chamberlain attempts to take power from the lord himself.

A story of a servant girl whose life is upturned by her doomed love for a spineless young man.

Ichiro’s family used to be a large landowner, but now he is living in poverty with his mother. His mother works hard to get her son through...

Shunsuke Washimi, a member of the karate club, misunderstands the affections of Chiyo, a lodging house girl who is in love with him and in the midst...

A small community in wartime Japan learn how to make do with less.

Ginko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one geisha house to the next, trying to find love and hope...

Sasaki Kojiro tells the story of the genius who staked his love, glory, and life on a duel with the supreme master of the sword, Miyamoto Musashi...

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

A Japanese adaptation of Guy de Maupassant's short story Boule de Suif, directed by Kimura Keigo

Japanese film.

The movie is about a man who started a brothel to make money out of his poor circumstances in the late Meiji period.

Follows the struggles of a yakuza wife after his husband gets hurt in a knife fight.

A youth lyrical story of pure love of a girl who grew up in the Kyoto Gion quarter, with a geisha mother and sisters Maiko and a college student.

The story of a novelist whose wife is confined in a mental hospital. His love for her drives him to write about her, though he runs into trouble when...

Yoji Kitami, a fisherman's son, is a student in Tokyo. His father had died at sea and Taichiro, his brother, is sending him to the university. But...

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

Film from 1967.