Shinsuke Ashida Movies

The story of a novelist whose wife is confined in a mental hospital. His love for her drives him to write about her, though he runs into trouble when...

This is the second installment in the Shichinin no Keiji police procedural series.

1962 Japanese movie

End of the Taisho period. In the city of Kiryu, where the wind is constantly blowing, the heads of the yakuza families of Kanhasshu (eight Kanto...

Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Namida ni naritai" by Teruhiko Saigo.

Miyoko Sekiguchi, who works at a second-rate trading company, and car mechanic Koji Fukumoto are in love. The morning after Koji and Miyoko went out...

A Western-inspired film where a pair of traveling beekeepers odyssey by covered wagon from Kyushu, the southernmost of the Japanese archipelago's...

Third film of the 7 detectives series

Adapted from the original work by the literary giant Yasunari Kawabata. Through the lives of three sisters each following their own path, the film...

1962 Japanese movie

A poignant entertainment epic about a righteous mountain man, a young company director with new ideals, and a beautiful woman with wild charm, whose...

In the third movie of the Gambler series, the Wandering Gambler is defeated by a cheat that he cannot expose and his dice hand is crushed. Now the...

Yuji, a budding writer, meets and starts falling in love with his best friend’s girlfriend, Natsuko. The attraction is mutual but due to the...

A blockbuster youth action film based on the serialized novel in Nikkan Sports by Yoshirō Akinaga, now adapted for the screen.

A film adaptation of Seicho Matsumoto's novel of the same title, starring Muga Takewaki and Yoko Shimada. Set in Japan at the end of the war, the...

1884. The samurai days have come to an end. Capitalism and democracy flourished across Japan. But in Chichibu, an area just north of Tokyo, samurai...

Moriya Tomoko, a young girl working for a publishing company, is told by a woman art dealer that her real father did not die, as everyone believes,...