Movies: Junji Masuda

A Japanese family weathers much hardship after their military uncle comes to live with them during WWII....

The sixth and last Moonlight Mask film in the original series produced by Toei in the 1950s....

A young woman tries to keep her family together after her father disowns her sister....

Poor social conditions badly affect the relationship between a married couple, when the husband, who is desperately searching for work, fails to notice the terrible sacrifices made by his wife when she accepts a job at a local inn....

Fourth Moonlight Mask theatrical film....

Strip dancer Carmen falls in love with Hajime, who is engaged to the daughter of a right-wing politician....

After discovering a slaughtered corpse, the investigating team of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department began canvassing the area around the crime scene. As a result, they found a wallet with bloodstains that seemed to belong to the victim, a woma...

A film dealing with the trials and tribulations of a primary school before and after the Pacific War, set in Fukashima Prefecture....

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1961 Toei adaptation of Yokomizo's novel....

Yasuichiro Isa, who works in the labor section of Sone Mining Tokyo Headquarters, paid a monthly fee for his younger brother, Reiji, who was in trouble because he had a bonus of 10,000 yen more....

Television production of I Want to Be a Shellfish. On a post-war peaceful day in Japan, Toyomatsu Shimizu, a barber as well as a good father and husband, is suddenly arrested by the Prefectural Police as a war criminal and sued for murder. According ...

A touching story about a young boy, Genta, who bravely takes on life's challenges in hopes of finding a better life for himself and his sickly mother....

Airline captain saves passengers from a brutal murderer on a plane during four hours of terror....

An action-packed, dramatic gangster film....

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Mokichi is the widowed father of three daughters, with whom he lives on the premises of a temple since the war. All three daughters become involved in some sort of complicated relationships....

Based on Matsumoto Seicho's classic mystery novel of the same name, the story centers around a group of detectives who are determined to find the truth behind an apparent double suicide....

Sayuri, a young woman born to a simple life on a farm, moves to Tokyo to pursue a life long dream of becoming a singer. Through dance, music, and songs, this story shows how a girl raised on a farm was able to make her dream a reality, with the love ...