Bontarō Miake Movies

1961 Theater of Life adaptation.

The southern tip of Shikoku. This village, surrounded by a bay, where, according to legend, the former warriors of the Heike clan settled, is famous...

Detective Goto, who had sniffed out drugs as the culprit behind the murder of an elderly woman, was run over and killed while pursuing the culprit....

Yukiko Shiba, a doctor, and Akira Sakai, a composer and musician, are lovers. Their love is a forbidden one. He is married, with children. She is a...

1948 adaptation of Golden Devil, part 2

A 1937 Japanese language film directed by Tomu Uchida, starring Ryo Akaboshi, Mitsuru Date and Hisao Furutani.

This film begins with a teacher describing to his students how brave the crew was which died as result of Japan's first submarine accident. The film...

The magical swordsman battles a gang of cutthroats, who are led by a peg-legged villain.

Mysterious incidents occur one after another on the express train as it plows through the dark night on the railroad tracks! The first woman is...

A lowly drunken samurai finds an abandoned baby in the woods and takes it home. A gift from a fox. But there's something special about the boy.

A young woman seduced by a rich man, takes revenge on him with the help of a young idealistic worker. Considered a lost film.

1948 Japanese movie

An early example of the Japanese war film, closer to documentary realism than the kind of propaganda produced at the height of the Pacific War. "A...

A comedy directed by Yasuzo Masumura starring Yunosuke Ito.