Kōichi Itō Movies

Pre-war Asakusa was a riotous district of cabarets, dance-halls and brothels - a striking backdrop for Shimazu's story of innocence and experience....

A hospital melodrama where the conflict between love and friendship rules the faith of the protagonists.

Film directed by Kôzô Saeki

Following a young man through his childhood ambition to follow his father into the military to losing his life in combat in China.

Adaptation of Kishida Kunio's novel. Set against the backdrop of a power struggle within a hospital, depicts the love lives of the director's...

Directed by Senkichi Taniguchi

In this comic sequel to Yoshimura Kozaburo's original, Minami no Kaze, ex-baron (Saburi Shin) is in Singapore where he meets an old friend who...

Yukiko Shiba, a doctor, and Akira Sakai, a composer and musician, are lovers. Their love is a forbidden one. He is married, with children. She is a...

A youth movie depicting the love between college students.

A comedy directed by Yasuzo Masumura starring Yunosuke Ito.

Takeshi Ijuin leaves for Chicago to be a cameraman, and a few years later returns to Japan. But he only learned the technique of homicide in Chicago....

A Daiei erotic film depicting the five passionate love affairs of a voluptuous married woman, driven by her beauty.

Yuki is a young, single mother supporting herself and her son, Haru, with a job as a bar hostess.

A romantic tale depicting the beautiful and tragic love between a young man and woman from aristocratic families who are caught in the crossfire of...

A unique tale of romance and action in which an escaped convict fights villains to save his comrade’s sister from danger, only to fall in...