Kenzō Tabu Movies

Journalists Ichiro Sakai and Junko cover the wreckage of a typhoon when an enormous egg is found and claimed by greedy entrepreneurs. Mothra's fairies...

The advertising director of Pacific Pharmaceuticals, frustrated with the low ratings of their sponsored TV program, seeks a more sensationalist approa...

The lives of a family of kelp (kombu) merchants in Osaka across three generations, spanning from the Meiji era through the aftermath of World War II.

Remake of 1949 film

1962 Japanese movie

The final film by Yuzo Kawashima.

Film directed by Kenji Misumi

Comedy of manners set on the "Kodama" train between Tokyo and Osaka, before the opening of the Shinkansen. In the leading role, Frankie Sakai plays a...

Based on a 1956 television feature on Japan’s national network, NHK, this is one of Uchida’s rarest films. A socially conscious drama with a contempor...

Astronauts Glenn and Fuji investigate Planet X and encounter mysterious aliens known as the Xiliens, who ask Earth's people to help save their world f...

Film by director Kenji Misumi

Second movie in the yoidore hakase serie

Gang of robbers quarrel about the loot, but when one of them gets killed, his younger brother seeks them out to ice them one by one.

A timid salaryman is the subject of this black comedy.

Story of a resourceful hobo (Kobayashi),a con woman (Takamine) who pretends to be a victim of the Nagasaki A-bomb, and two orphaned children who beco...

Second of the three Awamori-kun movies.

Ayako Wakao won the Blue Ribbon and the Kinema Jumpo for this film.