Fumiko Okamura Movies

1958 Toei movie

Following the Second World War, the lives of various people in a poverty-stricken area of Tokyo are entertwined. Pachinko parlor girls, shoeshine...

Adaptation of the popular Sazae-San comic strip. The first entry in the series shot in color.

Inoue was something of a rarity in the sense, that he was a Shochiku house director who seems to have worked mostly in period films, often with big...

Ichiro’s family used to be a large landowner, but now he is living in poverty with his mother. His mother works hard to get her son through...

After receiving a phone call from a woman whose child has contracted polio, government official Masayoshi Sakata decides to do everything he can to...

The eldest daughter of a noble family is in love with an aviator while being courted by a fellow aristocrat she thinks is a dullard. Told from the...

1958 Toei movie.

A traditional bar mistress in Kyoto clashes with her Tokyo rival.

On vacation's eve, a boy is sent to the countryside to live with his uncle after his father is imprisoned and accused of embezzlement.

As she takes a position as a gym teacher at a girls’ school as a form of “life training” before marriage, what awaits her...

Koharu, a young geisha, is in love with Kenichi, an apprentice carpenter to her father Masagoro. Their love life comes to a sudden halt after an...

Three couples connected to rival business and theatrical families navigate complicated romances, workplace disputes, and family opposition.

A film adaptation of Nobuko Yoshiya’s popular novel.