Chūzaburō Wakamiya Movies

Jiro, a smooth-talking, womanizing bartender, flees from a Yakuza boss to Yanagase.

Based on a true story, an elderly woman resiliently spends nine months attempting to retrieve her husband's dead body, fighting government...

Taka, the daughter of Naniwa-ya, a longtime Osaka store owner, married Kichisaburo Kawashima-ya, the son of a kimono wholesaler. Her husband just...

A young country boy leaves his village for Tokyo, where he begins to work as a stock trader. First part (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku...

Nine maids serve the household of a writer and his wife. The couple treat their maids like daughters and marry them off to eligible men. So, they are...

Writer Jippensha Ikku hears Tsutaya Juzaburo, a wholesaler of picture books, mutter on his deathbed, "Where has Sharaku gone?" He begins to figure...

Love story of a working-class boy and girl.

Explicit drama about a young woman who becomes involved with a group of college students who play "spin-the-bottle" and the women must make love or...

The film portrays a satirical view of today's heartless money-oriented society.

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...

1962 Japanese movie

The story follows Misako Kitaoka, a junior college graduate and Nitto Lease sales department employee, as she grows through work, love, and...

A truck driver is reunited with friends from his youth in a seedy bar and gets drawn into a web of crime.

1967 Japanese movie

After years of living a comfortable existence as a housewife, Aki starts to suspect that her husband is hiding something.

1960 Japanese movie

1962 Japanese movie

A privileged son betrays his family for the favors of a geisha in 18th century Osaka.

The story follows a humble merchant from Tohoku who travels to Tokyo to fulfill his dream of buying goods directly from wholesalers. During his stay,...