Daisuke Katō Movies

Part one of The Masterless 47.

The purple hood reveals the embezzlement of public money by officials. A remake of Masahiro Makino's 1923 film.

Lonely youth Shinji meets Hatsue, a pretty pearl diver, on the beach and the two fall in love. But Shinji has a rival for Hatsue's affections, Yasuo.

A drama film based on Ken Domon's photography of the children around the Chikuho coal mines

A kind of modern dress "Donzoko" "The Lower Depths", about slum life in Osaka, where a greedy widow (Mimasu) takes advantage of her poor roomers,...

Story of young love in the hills.

Iemon Tamiya is an impoverished masterless samurai who craves a better life, which he cannot have because of his marriage to Oiwa, who is completely...

A single mother from the country raising a 6th grade boy comes to Tokyo, leaves the boy to live with his uncle's family, runs a struggling grocery...

1958 Japanese movie

Story of a bandit king part 2.

The fifth entry in the Company President Series

A film adaptation of Rikuo Honjo's novel "Ishikari River".

A melodrama based on the novel by Yasunari Kawabata, telling about the tragic fate of a mother and daughter who are attracted to the same man.

Period film about a feudal era judge living in Edo

This period film is inspired by one of the most notorious scandals to have taken place in Edo-period Japan. The heroine, Ejima, was a lady of the...

Jida-geki by Santaro Marune.

Toramatsu is a very enthusiastic policeman. Believing that the police should help others he is dismissed the force when his pistol is stolen while...