Shinsuke Ashida Movies

1962 Japanese movie

A man and a woman meet through a strange fate. This unique melodrama depicts the course of their budding love in a corner of the big city.

Who will be the next prime minister? As two candidates start to compete, political game and brutal murder ensue. And the existence of secret love...

A man is wrongfully accused of murder.

The body of Sakai Hatsuko, a woman of 23 who has been slain with a knife, has been found in a forest. Some days later, Ueda Hiroshi, a 19-year-old...

Based on Kakuko Mori's autobiography, about her life and retirement from acting due to her increasing blindness.

Somewhat unique as it appears to be one of the very rare appearances of master thespian Itô in a yakuza role.

The Japanese government decides to install a radar on the top of Mt. Fuji, in order to detect typhoons as far as 800 km south of the Japanese...

Nakata (Keiichiro Akagi) is a nihilistic young buck who is willing to do anything to get money in his pockets. As he knocks back a couple drinks that...

A film adaptation of Seicho Matsumoto's novel of the same title, starring Muga Takewaki and Yoko Shimada. Set in Japan at the end of the war, the...

A Japanese soldier is forced to question alliances when he meets and falls in love with the leader of the rebel movement.

A film from Nikkatsu's "moodo akushon" (mood/action) subgenre.

East-West Transportation, headquartered in Tokyo, operates daily scheduled cargo flights on the Tokaido Road from Tokyo to Osaka and back, as the...

1962 Japanese movie

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

Yuji, a budding writer, meets and starts falling in love with his best friend’s girlfriend, Natsuko. The attraction is mutual but due to the...

Hidejiro is a wandering yakuza with a ‘karashi botan’ (Chinese lion and peony) tattoo. Owing a favor to the Soda Family, he kills the...

Based on the comic by Tatsu Kariya. Featuring journalist Shiro Yamaoka who works for Touzai Shimbun. He is a cynical food critic who is tasked by...

End of the Taisho period. In the city of Kiryu, where the wind is constantly blowing, the heads of the yakuza families of Kanhasshu (eight Kanto...