Seiji Miyaguchi Movies

Remake of 1949 film

Five swindle stories, taking place in five international cities: Tokyo, Japan ("Fumiko's Five Benefactors" by Hiromichi Horikawa); Amsterdam, The...

1959 Japanese movie

1958 Japanese movie

"Shacho" comedy about the president of a salt manufacturing company.

Ushimatsu's father told him never to reveal his lower-caste heritage; years later, he now contemplates confiding in an activist fighting against such...

Asada Keiko and Kurokawa Saburo are two young college students. When Keiko visits Saburo's house, she meets his father Kokichi and his mother Motoko....

The wife of an elite government official left her husband, and a young journalist is sent to investigate the case. But his boss has a hidden agenda.

A divorced woman enters a marriage arranged by her mother in exchange for money to save the life of her seriously ill son.

After Torajiro's latest attempt to find a bride goes awry, he starts traveling again and runs into Utako (last seen in Tora-san's Dear Old Home), now...

Pure love story

A fishing union depends on two brothers to make up the losses caused by the dishonest captains they replaced.

Yakuza boss Furuya leans more and more on his protege Takao Shoji, though Shoji has become romantically involved with Furuya's mistress, Natsue....

Historical drama about a sleepy-eyed ronin.

A promising dancer asks her professor to write a libretto for a Nō play. He then introduces her to a student of classical literature, but also a...

While Sakura and Hiroshi struggle to save funds to build a house, Torajiro befriends three young women on vacation during his travels.

A greedy Japanese barmaid serves her aged escort too many noodles.

Yukiko Nogami is rescued during a mountain blizzard by handsome forester Shinkichi, and the two subsequently fall in love. But when Shinkichi dies in...

Kiku and her brother Isamu are social outcasts, children of a prostitute mother and black GI father, in postwar Japan.