Movies: Osamu Maruyama

1962 Japanese movie...

1964 musical....

This is the story of a blind masseur who tricks people, steals, and kills; he is the anti-Zatoichi....

Industrial espionage gets in the way of love and marriage for factory worker Katayanagi....

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Hikaru Genji, the haunted romantic hero of Lady Murasaki Shikibu’s “Genji Monogatari” (Tale of Genji) comes to life in this new tale of his further romantic adventures. Young Genji, the emperor’s illegitimate son cuts a swath through the women of the...

A young woman decides to leave school in order to help her sister....

The lives of five sex workers employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation is debating the passage of an anti-prostitution law....

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A young man named Kijima who works as a pianist in a small bar is surprised when one of the customers asks if he won't pretend to be the fiance of his sister. He is even more surprised when he is offered a million yen to play this apparently harmless...

Utsugi, a seventy-seven-year-old man of refined tastes who is recovering from a stroke, discovers that, while his body is decaying, his libido still rages on -- unwittingly sparked by the gentle, kindly attentions of his daughter-in-law Satsuko, a ch...

One of Kinugasa's last films--based on the story by Tanizaki Jun'ichirō....

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The romantic struggles of three close friends who came back from the war....

The story of Kiyoko, a young woman who has successfully managed to make a break with her dysfunctional family who have been trying to arrange a marriage for her with a disagreeable man whom she has rejected....

Up until this point, young Sayuri Nanjo has had to live most of her life in a nun-run boarding school for orphans and away from her parents. That's all about to change when her real father mysteriously comes to get her and finally bring her home....

1959 Japanese movie...

When a theater troupe's master visits his old flame, he unintentionally sets off a chain of unexpected events with devastating consequences....

1961 Japanese movie...

1957 Japanese movie...