Yōsuke Natsuki Movies

Set in a juvenile detention center and depicted with a documentary touch.

A new yakuza war erupts in Hiroshima

A 1964 war film directed by Kengo Furusawa

Story of a textile designer-turned featherweight boxer (Kubo) who, a la Champion ( 1949), loses everything as he battles his way to the top.

Costume comedy

A group of hustling peddlers swindle rural towns with fake goods, facing betrayals, close calls, and constant setbacks as they chase survival and...

A film by Shinobu Hashimoto.

Comedy about a pair of salarymen.

Modern love story about three disparate sisters, one (Tsukasa) of whom who suspects her husband (Kobayashi) has been unfaithful.

Eiichiro, a talented young salesman, grows disillusioned with office politics and returns to his family’s traditional tofu business, applying...

Fourth entry in the Ekimae series, focusing on the restoration of a Fukushima hot spring inn.

Punch, Pinch, and Sench become involved in a murder mystery centering on a Chinese billionaire (Mihashi), actually a Japanese yakuza, who claims to...

Engineer Shuichi defies his wealthy family to live with bar hostess Kazuyo, whose loyalty to her struggling family complicates their love. As class,...

Ryusuke and Joe Oki escape from prison. Ryusuke was incarcerated for killing his younger brother Yasuhiko, who was a bouncer at the cabaret "Three...

A non-prolific writer, Takayama Osamu and his wife, Yoshiko, though not blessed with children, live happily together. They should have had peaceful...

Kitahara (Hitoshi Ozawa) is a prisoner who is obsessed with escaping from prison. He is a born escapee, who is not waiting for anyone or seeking...

Action melodrama.

A young man from a family photo studio becomes a newspaper photojournalist, learning the risks and demands of the job through repeated setbacks. His...