Akitake Kōno Movies

1956 Japanese film, originally released in two parts.

1963 Japanese movie

Young men endure challenging flight training in the Yokaren, a program feeding new pilots into the Army and Navy. By the time of the filming, the...

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...

Nominated for Golden Berlin Bear.

An action-packed, dramatic gangster film.

Television production of I Want to Be a Shellfish. On a post-war peaceful day in Japan, Toyomatsu Shimizu, a barber as well as a good father and...

War-time jidaigeki by Eisuke Takizawa.

The final, third part of an entertaining historical drama depicting the eventful story of the revenge of an actor with a strange fate, with a variety...

A comedy about Hikoichi, a mediocre train conductor who falls in love with a beautiful widow Sayuri.

1962 Japanese movie

Story of a bandit king part 2.

Thanks to a secret message hidden on the two sacred swords Kaen and Suien, the samurai Genji Kurô (Nakamura Kinnosuke) found the hidden...