Movies: Aiko Mimasu

Story of loyal sailors giving their lives for their country as human torpedoes towards the end of the War....

With World War II is coming to its end and Japan nearing defeat, Japanese military leaders step up suicide attacks on Allied ships. Toei legend Koji Tsuruta stars as a Kamikaze squad leader who has second thoughts about suicide runs. He becomes torn ...

Melodrama about two sisters with different mothers....

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An adaptation of the popular Sazae-san comic strip...

During the bloody era of the Tokugawa Shogunate collapse, a man appeared capable of overthrowing a corrupt government and ending the feud between the Choshu and Satsuma clans. This is the story of Tsukigat Khanpayit, the sword maker of the Choshu cla...

Based on a novel by Tei Fujiwara...

A home drama about a mother and her three daughters, based on the novel by Fumiko Hayashi....

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A Girl isn't Allowed to Love is a 1955 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa....

The story of three sportsman brothers living in the Ginza. One day, the three meet a raving beauty on separate occasions and are unaware they have met the same girl....

Coal miner Isamu Oba is forced to quit his village and leave his mother and siblings behind. Mining buddy Ichiro accompanies him to Tokyo, and the pair enjoy several "fish-out-of-water" sequences before finding employment at a boxing gym with trainer...

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 (Tatsuya Nakadai). Oscar winning Hiroshi Inagaki directs this epic motion picture based on Genzo Murakam...

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The first in a series of 31 "mother films" produced by Daiei in the post-war period....