Isao Bitō Movies

A black comedy about a former Rock'n'Roll singer, who becomes the mayor of Tokyo.

Okatsu is a widow raising five children - adults but still mama-dependent - in mid-eighteenth century Edo, Japan. Her frugality attracts unflattering...

After three consecutive days of heavy rain, the water level at Sumida River rises and the newly built Eitai Bridge collapses just two years after its...

A film about an orphan kid in Japan in 1943

The four kinds of love that Yuriko experiences, namely, a childhood longing love, a dream of marriage, a maternal love, and a destined love between...

Life seems to be good for Shintoto, an up-and-coming rakugo artist who has just had his first sexual experience at a local brothel. Lucky for him, he...

The story of love and friendship between a seamstress girl and a member of a student ensemble, who, against all odds, turned a song written by the...

Akagi appears again one year after the night where he first played mahjong.

1964 musical.

After a death-defying game of chicken one evening in 1958, Akagi nonchalantly enters a Yakuza Mahjong parlor to shake the cops' trail. Even...

Shinjiro Iijima (Hakuryu) is a blackmail genius who never misses his prey. Using a robbery brought in by the local gangster Kasahara (Kazuki Namioka)...

The documentary about how Beatles went popular in Japan and did a concert in Budokan back in 1966.