Shigeru Ogura Movies

In Depression-era Japan, a courteous bus driver carries an eclectic group of passengers from the mountainous Izu to Tokyo.

A luckless geisha struggles to make a living for herself and her young son.

A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.

Oiwa has been searching for the one who killed her father for a long time. She comes to Yedo and sees a man named Naosuke. The film is based on the...

A sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love letters for other people.

After mastering swordsmanship at the dojo of Chiba Shusaku, and unable to serve a clan due to his illness, Hirate Miki becomes a ronin who winds up...

Where Chimneys Are Seen focuses primarily on the interconnected lives of two couples in a lower-middle-class neighborhood in Senju, a poor industrial...

A comedic retelling of the legend of the loyal 47 ronin.

Based on the story of Shimizu no Jirocho.

Two reporters find that they are repeatedly beaten to the scoop by a new female journaist, 'young miss'. They decide to team up with her to...

Domestic comedy produced by Shin Toho Studios directed by Komori Kiyoshi and starring Todoroki Yukiko and Ito Yunosuke.

Japanese comedy film.

Chie, who's chosen as 'Ms. Woman Diver', and her friend Yuki, have been missing for several days after they left for Tokyo to be interviewed by a...

Fictionalized retelling of the life of a Geisha poisoner.

Japanese sports comedy film about kendo.

In Depression-era Tokyo, the life of a single mother and her young son are disrupted by the return of her ex-husband, who fathered the child and...

Japanese comedy film.

Kyôko Yashiro's film debut for Shintoho.

1957 crime film