Akira Ifukube Movies

Kosaka drops to death while ice climbing with his friend Uozu to see the sunrise on the New Year’s Day. The investigators try to find the cause...

A film about the Ghost of Okiku that's based on the kabuki play Bancho Sarayashiki.

Based on the novel by Torahiko Tamiya.

The film follows a young civil engineer, played by Toshiro Mifune, who is assigned to the Tase Dam construction site in what is now Hanamaki City,...

Kabuki adaptation: A princess, a figure from the literary past who anticipates a modern woman, tempts a self-righteous priest.

A family of Kyoto textile workers struggles after tragedy.

A short film made exclusively for Toho's Online Godzilla Fest 2020. Godzilla rampages through the city before approaching a reporter standing in the...

Period drama based on the novel by Saisei Murō.

Minamimura, who had always wanted to be free, suddenly quits his job. His hardworking wife is surprised and angry, and throws him out of the house....

Kôfuku eno shôtai - Invitation to happiness

A villager's family is ostracized after he makes an accusation of rigged elections

On January 26, 1948, a robbery of the Teigin bank took place in Tokyo - the criminal poisoned the bank employees and fled the scene with a large...

Kazuo Miyagawa’s prizewinning black-and-white cinematography draws out the moral shadings of Nobel laureate Yasunari Kawabata’s 1952...

Zatoichi is sworn to protect the life of a young girl and without any real allies finds himself in the middle of a bloody turf war.

1950 film directed by Senkichi Taniguchi

Is it the sin of a woman's heart that casts ripples unexpectedly among peaceful people? In the bustling streets of dazzling colors, where revelry...

Three bank robbers, Eijima, Nojiri, and Takasugi, flee the police and escape into the mountains. At an inn high in the Japanese Alps, Eijima and...