Akihiko Katayama Movies

1956 Japanese movie

This film begins with a teacher describing to his students how brave the crew was which died as result of Japan's first submarine accident. The film...

Toshiko is the madam of a bar in Osaka who tries to keep her private life private and claims not to have a lover. However, she is in fact having a...

A melodramatic love story, a would-be apprenticeship between the titular bad girl and the optimistic scholar returning from the big city. It is...

1961 Japanese movie

Obscure Japanese movie by director Kyotaro Namiki

1956 Japanese movie

The eldest daughter of the Takamatsu family, Atsuko, a widow, returns home due to not getting along with her late husband's family. On the other...

In this four part mystery-adventure, detective Kogoro Akechi and the members of the Boy Detectives Club must capture the Bronze Monster, a giant...

Adapted from a novel by Kaoru Funayama

Live-action adaptation of Yoshiro Kato’s manga.

Sachiko's beloved sister Nobuko was supposed to go to Tohoku when she suddenly dies in a car accident in Hamamatsu. Sachiko begins to trace her...

Depicts four cheerful, young former college students with promising futures who die tragic deaths as pilots in the Kamikaze Special Attack Corps.

1945 Japanese movie

1962 Japanese movie

Set in the late thirteenth century, this film depicts the defense of southern Japan led by the Kono clan against the Mongol invasion in 1281.

Directorial debut by Umetsugu Inoue, the famous director of Musicals

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...