Daisuke Katō Movies

When the only son of a working class woman is fatally struck by a car driven by the adulterous wife of a company president in a hit-and-run, the...

A drama film based on Ken Domon's photography of the children around the Chikuho coal mines.

Iemon Tamiya is an impoverished masterless samurai who craves a better life, which he cannot have because of his marriage to Oiwa, who is completely...

Comedy about a husband and wife.

The story of a group of young people who organise their own travelling symphony orchestra to provide music for people living in remote villages...

A food company president is promoted to chairman, but his continued involvement creates leadership confusion.

A cosmetics executive promoted to chairman faces chaos at home and work as his company undergoes major changes and internal power shifts.

Hayase, a schoolteacher, assists Sakai in editing a German-Japanese dictionary. Hayase owes much to Sakai, as Sakai raised him for 13 years after...

In order to get Kanako (Izumi Yukimura) married, her mother places a rental listing in the student medical school newsletter and attempts to find a...

Period comedy with fantasy elements.

Drama about the lives of the five daughters and daughter-in-law of a store owner.

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

While Keisuke and Jiro were brothers, the characters of the two were opposite. My older brother Keisuke was a sophomore college graduate, a honest...

A kind of modern dress "Donzoko" "The Lower Depths", about slum life in Osaka, where a greedy widow (Mimasu) takes advantage of her poor roomers,...

After an argument with his father a son leaves his home and comes back only, as an adult, many years later just to cause them problem after problem.

Genji, the illegitimate offspring of a Japanese potentate, goes by the philosophy of "love 'em and leave 'em" as a matter of course. Only when his...

An aging company president pushes a youth-focused corporate fitness campaign but struggles to keep up himself.