Movies: Setsuko Wakayama

A prehistoric monster called Gigantis emerges alongside another creature named Angurus....

Two fishing scout pilots make a horrifying discovery when they encounter a second Godzilla alongside a new monster named Anguirus. Without the weapon that killed the original, authorities attempt to lure Godzilla away from the mainland. But Anguirus ...

Edmund Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an oversized nose (matched only by his great heart) loves a lady. But she sees him only as a friend, so he helps another man to woo her by giving him the poetry of h...

Historical drama about a sleep-eyed ronin...

Once an average and seemingly ordinary Tokyo girl, she suddenly finds herself as a TV star owing to her discovery by a casting company, which noticed photographs that her cousin had sent. When another actress falls ill she is given the role instead. ...

Three humorous love stories set in rural Japan....

Adaptation of a novel by Yojiro Ishizaka, originally released in two parts....

33-year-old poor writer Ogata was able to endure his miserable life cheerfully thanks to Yoshie, a 19-year-old innocent young wife. After graduating from a girls' school in Hokuriku, she immediately moved to Tokyo to meet and marry Ogata. After neatl...

Teacher Yukiko finds herself in opposition to conservative faculty and villagers after defending a student for being in a relationship with a young man from Tokyo....

An adaptation of the popular Sazae-san comic strip. The first entry in Toho's Sazae-san series....

A Japanese melodrama about three sisters, rival fashion companies, and attempted murder by overheated bathroom....

War film by Kon Ichikawa...

On Wings of Love is a 1957 Japanese romantic musical film directed by Toshio Sugie. It was Toho's highest-grossing film of the year and the first film released in Tohoscope....

Directorial debut by Umetsugu Inoue, the famous director of Musicals...

Set at the end of World War II and after Japan's defeat, it is a melodrama about a man and a woman at the mercy of war. Wataru is entrusted by his best friend who has gone off to war with his sister Reiko to marry her, but he is not ready to abandon ...

A wandering Jirocho stumbles upon his wife's possible murder and has other adventures while on the run....

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Woman melodrama by Shiro Toyoda...

Jirocho the gambler hits the road....

The film follows a young civil engineer, played by Toshiro Mifune, who is assigned to the Tase Dam construction site in what is now Hanamaki City, Iwate Prefecture, and the human relationships involved in building the dam. A masterpiece by director S...