Chishū Ryū Movies

Japanese war film.

This bittersweet comedy tells the tale of a group of college roommates attempting to cheat their way through their exams. As the title goes, things...

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...

Inochi uruwashi

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

A young woman is attacked by a serial rapist and murderer whom her detective father is investigating. Though she survives, the impact of the event...

Young female teacher Kyoko Miyake relocates to a small seaside town with her runaway little sister, but their new life is complicated by hoodlum-like...

An epic drama depicting the lineage of a military family that lived for three generations before, during, and after World War II, against the...

A film dealing with the comings and goings of individuals in the immediate postwar period.

The sweet but naive denizens of a charming port town are hoodwinked by a couple of con men at the outset of World War II. But the hustlers’...

The movie depicts the youth of kamikaze pilots who scattered young lives in the sky.

In the autumn of 1945, Petty Officer Tadashi Yamaji is among the numerous war crimes suspects facing death on the gallows for maltreatment of Allied...

After a friend and business colleague dies, Tora-san visits the man's daughter, then takes her to Tokyo so she can study for a night school exam.

When a woman unfairly suspects her husband of flirting with a shop assistant, she decides to flirt with their landlord to get revenge. Considered to...

A story about the lives of four sisters and their manipulative mother who must come to terms with each of their decisions in life.