Fumiko Okamura Movies

Taisuke is kind-hearted but overall lacks ambition. Taizo is smarter, but given to fits of emotion and impulsive violence. The samurai brothers fight...

A penniless orphan loses the woman he loves, when her family arranges a marriage to a wealthy playboy. He believes she was blinded by greed, and...

A spirited young teacher challenges the conservative school employing her with liberal thinking and teaching methods.

Group of women escape Chinese controlled area for Japanese occupied lands during Pacific War.

Follows the lives of three sisters who have a dance act together.

1949 drama film

The movie "Jump Out of the Window" is a heartwarming work that depicts the interaction between two families. Shusuke Tokuyama (Den Obinata) runs an...

A wealthy family will not allow the military to grow crops on their fields due to their superstitious beliefs about their son's illness.

Inoue was something of a rarity in the sense, that he was a Shochiku house director who seems to have worked mostly in period films, often with big...

A young botanical researcher moves to the highlands to collect plants for research, and falls in love with a nurse there.

The eldest daughter of a noble family is in love with an aviator while being courted by a fellow aristocrat she thinks is a dullard. Told from the...

The eldest daughter of a noble family is in love with an aviator while being courted by a fellow aristocrat she thinks is a dullard. This part is...

1939 Japanese movie

A hospital melodrama where the conflict between love and friendship rules the faith of the protagonists.

Drama directed by Yasushi Sasaki.

Melodrama about a talented singer who finally makes her debut

1962 Japanese movie. Remake of the 1939 movie

On vacation's eve, a boy is sent to the countryside to live with his uncle after his father is imprisoned and accused of embezzlement.

Hana wa itsuwarazu (1941) is the second directorial work by Shochiku's Oba Hideo. Oba had previously worked as an assistant director to Shimizu...