Tsutomu Shimomoto Movies

A man is wrongfully accused of murder.

A botanist woos the secretary of an industrialist whose company threatens the local water supply.

Ayako (Sayuri Yoshinaga) is a free-willed college girl who shares a room with Takako and Kimie. They each have a clear vision of what they want from...

Sequel to "Guys Who Never Learn".

A father gives his four daughters his substantial retirement allowance on the stipulation that they leave him alone, as he wants some freedom. Each...

One spring, Tasaka, an elementary school teacher, receives a new class of first graders. While taking the children's attendance, Tasaka is surprised...

Yoshinori sells plots of land in a cemetery, and is involved in a stale ten-year-old marriage with bored housewife Atsuko. When Atsuko makes a male...

1962 Japanese movie

A romance of a pure young lover and his heartbreak for a beautiful older woman.

When a broadcasting company takes away its financial support from a symphony orchestra, some of the members refuse to admit defeat. The first...

Terasaki, the new history teacher at the Senior High School, finds encouragement in the words of his Principal. "There are no bad children in this...

It's a story of the life of a man who advocated the necessity of sex education to children, which was unusual at the time, solely opposed to the...

Based on the Seichō Matsumoto's story The Woman Who Took the Local Paper.

Satsuo Yamamoto's filmic depiction of the famous 1949 Matsukawa Incident.

One day, Reiko, who is engaged, meets a young man named Kondo, and she likes him, although she has a fiancé. On top of this, Reiko, suffering...

A human drama that rethinks what it means to be a family through the images of a couple, parent and child whose paths have crossed.

Traveling to Africa in a cultural exchange program, a young Japanese engineer discovers a world completely unlike the one he knows. His interaction...

Japanese drama

One of Sayuri Yoshinaga's first leading roles.