Arata Shibata Movies

In the northern province, two waitresses Mieko and Hanako from Tokyo, are missing somewhere near the River Kitakami. At night, the villagers of...

1961 Japanese movie

A motorcycle courier (Ken Utsui) is recruited to test a new high-speed motorboat but another company is willing to kill to win the competition to...

In 1870's Tokyo, Den steals to support the daughter of her first marriage and her consumptive second husband. She falls in love with a young...

A samurai is ordered by his lord to go to Edo and investigate the truth behind the rumor of a rebellion against him.

A unique and controversial film directed by Umeji Inoue, based on the original story by Shintaro Ishihara, which depicts the image of a group of...

Every year, at the festival, familiar merchants such as Toraemon, a magic trick, Tokubei, a blowgun, Kaji, acrobatics, and Unsaibo, a ritual, gather...

Directed by Daisuke Itō.

1961 Japanese movie

For the poor, Edo is Hell on Earth, starving under the rule of Tanuma Okitsugi, corrupt councilor to the shogun. But the courageous vagabond called...

1962 Japanese movie

A hilarious comedy where newly appointed teacher Oyae shows off her unusual plays as she fights alone against a group of five bad boys.

Katiri is a reporter so ambitiously amoral that he’ll sell out anyone—including his partner and the drug dealer he’s sleeping...

1956 Japanese film, originally released in two parts.

Desiring another officer’s new wife, a military police lieutenant fabricates evidence of treason that consigns the innocent man to torture and...

A Western-inspired film where a pair of traveling beekeepers odyssey by covered wagon from Kyushu, the southernmost of the Japanese archipelago's...

1958 jidaigeki directed by Masaki Mori for Shintoho.