Akitake Kōno Movies

1960 Toei film.

In 1730, the Tokugawa Shogunate orders the Yagyu Clan to repair a huge shrine. Since it cannot refuse the Shogunate's request, the impoverished Yagyu...

Based on a short story by Dazai Osamu, produced under the national film law. The film's hero falls in love with the youngest daughter of a family he...

From runaway brides to a typhoon, the continued adventures of Ushikata police station.

The story of a certain engineer from his youth until he retired from the Japanese National Railways after the war .

Tatsuo Torigoe, the president of Torigoe Industries, attempts suicide but survives and reveals his motives for suicide to his only daughter, Akiko.

An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chief and the local gangster bosses.

This is the second installment of the trilogy based on Japan’s greatest novel “The Great Bodhisattva Pass”, following the life and...

In 17th century Japan, Young Lord Masato returns after years abroad to find everything changed: his peace-loving father has died in what he soon...

1962 Japanese movie

A comedy about Hikoichi, a mediocre train conductor who falls in love with a beautiful widow Sayuri.

Biographical film about bacteriologist Dr. Hideyo Noguchi.

A man and a woman meet through a strange fate. This unique melodrama depicts the course of their budding love in a corner of the big city.

An action-packed, dramatic gangster film.

Young lord Saburo Nobuyasu struggles to find comfort in life. His arranged marriage to Tokuhime, daughter of one-time family enemy Oda Nobunaga,...