Akihiko Katayama Movies

1961 Japanese movie

A village struggles to survive when the nearby lake becomes barren of fish.

On February 4th of the 16th year of the Genroku era, Yatō Uemon no Shichi reminisces while waiting his turn for seppuku at the Mizuno residence....

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

Japanese drama film.

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...

Adaptation of a famous Kyouka Izumi novel. Set in the early 1900's, it tells the story of the impossible love between a young scholar a beautiful...

1961 Japanese movie

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...

The common-law wife and daughter of a wealthy old man plot to murder him and steal his fortune, with the help of their male acquaintances.

Born into a poor farming family, Yukie left home with her only son Ryokichi, leaving her grandfather Heisaku behind, to search for her husband...

1962 Japanese movie

Japanese musical.

Directorial debut by Umetsugu Inoue, the famous director of Musicals

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...

1956 Japanese movie

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...