Kappei Matsumoto Movies

This film focuses on Koreans living in Japan. The filmmaker’s humanism comes across in the portrayal of a girl living in a shabby tenement, the...

A taxi robbery and murder occurred in Fukagawa late at night. Detectives Nagata and Miyagawa of the Metropolitan Police Department's First...

The actions and downfall of a man who lives a life of cold calculation, adapted from a Hideo Shirasaki novel.

Suspense film based on Ryuji Hori's non-fiction book about the kidnapping and murder of 4-year-old Yoshinobu Murakoshi in 1963.

The body of a woman was found in a manhole. Is it an affair? The victim is a clerk at a mannequin manufacturing company. At the age of 26, she was a...

A story of the conflicting friendship and love between two young men over a young girl from a working-class neighborhood.

1961 Japanese movie

A young man whose father is on death row discovers a terrifying underworld trap that was set up thirteen years ago. At seventeen years old, he risks...

An action-packed, dramatic gangster film.

First film of "Mysterious Thirteen Nights" series.

After Shuichiro moved to Tokyo, the Tanno family became completely female, including Mrs. Tanno, Shuichiro's daughter-in-law Manzuko, painter...

Gekko Kamen faces off against Satan's Claw, who is after the treasure of the Kingdom of Baradai.

Sanae Nakahara, playing the role of a proactive female college student, persuades a stubborn old man and mediates the forbidden love of a young...

Depicts the boyhood days of Dr. Noguchi, world famous bacteriologist, who was born in a poor village as a farmer's son.

1956 Japanese movie

Representing a destitute mother in an infanticide trial, a female lawyer attempts to convince a conservative prosecutor of the benefits of Japan's...

Samonji, a reporter, receives a message on his answering machine from his friend Takada that says "stop it... zero plan! February." Learning that...