Movies: Tomio Aoki

1962 Japanese movie...

Yuki is a young, single mother supporting herself and her son, Haru, with a job as a bar hostess....

This film was mainly shot in the Japanese skiing resort Hokkaido in 1937-38 and was intended to create support for the coming winter olympics of 1940 in Japan which however were cancelled because of the Japanese-Chinese war. A Japanese production, it...

A businessman runs afoul of the law and commits suicide, leaving behind a wife and five children. The eldest son takes the family to Tokyo and labors to restore its name and fortune...

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1962 Japanese movie...

George Mihara was ordered by his grandfather Tom to go to Japan. The purpose was to deliver a $100,000 check to Matsuyama, a Japanese soldier who had helped Tom around the time of World War I, and to perform some act of kindness in Japan using $300 p...

1961 Japanese movie...

Kanako is an intelligent and beautiful girl in her third year of high school, but there was a dark shadow. Raised by her father, Jusaburo, who is the owner of the Matsukawa troupe, she grew up without knowing the love of her mother. She has been on s...

A prisoner escapes from prison to find the real criminal....

The story focuses on the widower Nemoto, ostensibly a businessman, who has one son, Kanichi, the hero of the title. Nemoto remarries; his new wife is a widow with a son and daughter of her own. However, Nemoto’s business turns out to be out a shady s...

Silent comedic short by Mikio Naruse...

A salaryman finds some money in the street and gets a reward for returning it to its rightful owner. However his colleagues immediately start borrowing money and selling him things he doesn't need, much to his wife's annoyance. Considered to be a los...

A romantic adventure tale about a young guy working on a whale-hunting vessel and his love for a childhood sweetheart....

The adventures of a modern day descendant of a famed Edo era thief are the basis for this short supernatural comedy romp....

A Japanese film...

Kato's splendid mustache is an obstacle when it comes to finding a job. However, he gets a job as a security guard at a construction site. The president of the construction company tries to grow a mustache like Kato's and, failing, orders Kato to sha...

Directed by Mikio Naruse. It is presumed to be lost....

If you throw this child away...