Mantarō Ushio Movies

Order of Yakuza

Kikuji is the scion of an Osaka merchant family whose traditional power is matrilineal. Instructed by his overbearing mother and grandmother to give...

Three stories about the relationship between men and women: "Playgirl" (Masumura/Shirasaka), "Company No. 2" (Yoshimura/Kasahara), and "San Nyotai"...

Detective Katahachi meets a young and beautiful pickpocket and doesn’t arrest her because she was not in the act. Instead, he listens to the...

Tamio Moroi, a young university graduate, works at a large brewery where he is taught to do nothing but look busy. When his father goes insane, he is...

The sincere, selfless love of a foolish mother for her daughter set against the backdrop of the circus.

A female reporter is fired for writing about police corruption; to make money while hiding from the press, she posts a bounty upon herself.

Inspired by the "Shimoyama Incident," which caused a great stir in society in 1949, the year before its release, this masterpiece suspense film...

Ken Uehara plays the role of a prominent figure in the red-light district and portrays his violent personality.

Hibari no komoriuta (ひばりの子守唄, literally "Hibari's Lullaby") is a 1951 black-and-white Japanese film...

Comedy starring the manzai team of Chick and Tack, and set in the world of salarymen.