Movies: Yōtarō Katsumi

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A romantic melodrama about the shifting relationship between Ryosuke and Miki as their precarious employment and social circumstances shift around them....

An early film by Kon Ichikawa...

A young man who is unable to tell his childhood friend how he feels makes a pledge with her to reveal all of their secrets during the upcoming festival....

The few residents left on the streets in Tokyo share their individual stories and come to understand the melancholy of saying goodbye....

Okoma, a witty young woman working as a conductor in an old, rickety bus in Kōfu, Yamanashi (rural Japan), has a creative idea that could avert the dwindling number of passengers when her job and the bus company itself are at stake....

An episodic film about life in and around a rural police station and the people it serves....

A female doctor's story of her life in an isolated leper colony....

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1941 Toho adaptation of Natsume's novel....

A film that begins with wit and comedy when a husband tries to hide and mask his drinking, which his Jesus freak and very Christian wife dislikes, by gargling and other methods, turns somber when the man loses his job after being fired. He attempts t...

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