Tomio Aoki Movies

In a back alley of the Shitamachi district of Tokyo, Kihachi bears witness to a series of romantic complications involving the inhabitants of the...

1962 Japanese movie

This 1932 adaptation is the earliest sound version of the ever-popular and much-filmed Chushingura story of the loyal 47 retainers who avenged their...

Graduate Okajima finds his old-fashioned beard makes life difficult in a comedy exploring the tension between tradition and modernity.

1965 Nikkatsu youth film.

Silent comedic short by Mikio Naruse

A young doctor discovers that the city hall of records has a record of his death. He and some friends try to seek out the person who reported it, and...

1962 Japanese movie

When Tsukamoto is made redundant he cannot bring himself to tell his wife. Instead he investigates other employment opportunities. Considered to be a...

1962 Japanese movie

Roppeita is big in size, clumsy and full of energy. When his grandfather orders him to move out to Tokyo to save a sinking milk delivery business a...

1961 Japanese movie

Directed by Mikio Naruse. It is presumed to be lost.

A romantic adventure tale about a young guy working on a whale-hunting vessel and his love for a childhood sweetheart.

During college military training exercises, the bond between two friends and athletic rivals is tested when one of them becomes involved with a woman...

1961 Japanese movie

Period film from 1934.

Yuki is a young, single mother supporting herself and her son, Haru, with a job as a bar hostess.