Frankie Sakai Movies

A lighthearted satire of Japan’s postwar corporate elite, The Executive Gentleman’s Register blends farce, romance, and boardroom comedy...

While on a business trip to Kyushu, a paint company president competes with a rival firm for a key overseas client, only to face setbacks both in...

1962 Japanese movie

As Marukyū Department Store plans its Hawaii expansion, company executives become sidetracked by local pleasures and personal entanglements. By...

This fairy tale depicts the heartwarming connection between a young man who has lost his memory and the gypsies.

A continuation of Hungry Soul, from the same year. Reiko, who tolerates abuse in her marriage to a man 23 years her senior, is friends with Mayumi, a...

Period piece about a samurai who marries a mysterious beautiful young woman who claims to have lost her memory.

A Japanese comedy based on a serialized novel by Shotaro Yasuoka.

Shûe Matsubayashi movie

Documentary following the travels of the Waseda University Middle-Africa Expedition Team and their encounters with the beauty of the African...

1962 Japanese movie

Comedy about three soldiers, two female reporters, six prostitutes, and the wife of an officer, all stranded on a South Seas island at the end of...

A young girl is rigorously trained in the feminine arts so that she can become a geisha. As she struggles through life, she learns to live not just...

A side show snake man who dreams of becoming a drummer tries to save a blind flower girl.

In this outing, Shoji (Morishige) and his employees plan to build a hotel for Expo 70.

Television production of I Want to Be a Shellfish. On a post-war peaceful day in Japan, Toyomatsu Shimizu, a barber as well as a good father and...

A drama by director Masaharu Segawa.

Follow-up to "Ekimae Ryokan." Set around the Yurigaoka and Nishi-Ikuta stations on the Odakyu-Odawara line, the film takes up the problem of real...