Jūzō Itami Movies

Based on the Chinese classic "Jin Ping Mei". Original Japanese cut directed by Koji Wakamatsu and produced by Shochiku. Set in Song-dynasty China, Wu...

A youth drama set in a Japanese university which is home to a group of active, leftist students.

Kaze is a philandering TV producer. His wife and nine of his mistresses conspire to kill him. However each woman would rather keep him alive, as long...

Documentary about the making of Juzo Itami's film "Tampopo" (1985).

Jūzō Itami's debut short film, concerning a group of unique young people in the high economic growth period who are into games with rubber band pistol...

This sensuously beautiful film chronicles the activities of four sisters who gather in Kyoto every year to view the cherry blossoms. It paints a vivid...

Country girl Akiko visits a Tokyo college in search of her hometown sweetheart. In the course of finding him, she runs into various odd inhabitants of...

Three men vs. gangsters in a fight involving smuggled gold.

Prisoners with special skills from all over Japan are sent to the battlefront on a mission.

Intellectual collegue professor Sasa becomes obsessed with beautiful Sugiko, a virgin. Eventually, luring her to a love hotel.

Yukio, a farm boy, and Toru, a fisherboy, live in a small Japanese village that is periodically threatened by a volcano on one side and tidal waves on...

Working on a documentary about infamous painter Mamiya Ichiro, a TV crew filming at his old home come under attack from the ghost of the painter's wif...

A survivor of the tragic mass suicides on Tokashiki Island in 1945 falls in love with a near-mute motorcycle engineer.

This is an ensemble period drama adapted from Shotaro Ikenami's popular novel, featuring the famous Kabuki actor brothers Kinnosuke Manya and Katsuo N...

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 lett...

A TV film based on the kidnapping and murder of 4 year old Yoshinobu Murakoshi.

Kenkichi Godai, a reporter for the social affairs desk, returns home after covering the war-torn Vietnam. Compared to Vietnam, with its gunpowder smok...