Daisuke Katō Movies

A married Japanese forester during WWII is sent to Indochina to manage forests. He meets a young Japanese typist and promises to leave his wife. He...

A math teacher loses his job while falling in love with a local girl.

In a slum in Edo Japan, a ronin hopes that his deceased father's former master will hire him while a disgraced hairdresser attempts to regain his...

Otsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Her daughter Katsuyo doesn't see any future in her mother's trade...

A young country boy leaves his village for Tokyo, where he begins to work as a stock trader. First part (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku...

A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.

When an only child is struck by a car and dies, the child's mother seeks vengeance against the driver in this thrilling drama. The car was driven by...

Tashiro coincidentally meets his best friend Sugimoto in a bar very close to the apartment in which Sugimoto’s wayward wife is found dead....

It's a man's world. Shimamura, an artist, comes to this snowbound town to rejuvenate himself. He connects with Komako, a geisha he met on a previous...

A woman remembers her own marriage when dealing with the love life of her son.

Drama about the lives of the five daughters and daughter-in-law of a store owner.

Remake of Kurosawa's films Sanshiro Sugata and Sanshiro Sugata part 2. A young man, Sanshiro Sugata, troubled by personal problems, takes up judo....

A boy steals a knife from an old samurai, unaware of its value, setting off a strange chain of events.

1962 Japanese movie

Part two of Shin Saburi's Theater of Life adaptation.

Part one of The Masterless 47.

The famous showdown at Kagiya corner has been told many times, but never before with the realism and intensity of this version scripted by Kurosawa...

A man is involved in a fatal car accident, and though he is blameless, his company transfers him to a remote branch in a small town. Before he...

A widowed high-school teacher tries to raise his four children alone.

A husband and wife's pet peeves and minor irritations escalate into major rifts and animosity.