Machiko Kitagawa Movies

1961 Japanese movie

Based on a comic strip by Kaoru Akiyoshi. First in a four part film series.

Kurama Tengu uncovers a suspicious gold robbery tied to a political scheme within the shogunate. As he follows the clues, hidden alliances,...

Every year, at the festival, familiar merchants such as Toraemon, a magic trick, Tokubei, a blowgun, Kaji, acrobatics, and Unsaibo, a ritual, gather...

1955 Japanese movie

1962 Japanese movie

When corruption spreads through a real estate company, president Hiyoshi brings in his honest friend Ryūtarō to reform it. Facing union...

Toho comedy shot in Tohoscope featuring performances from the Peanuts and the Crazy Cats. Original released alongside another Toho comedy, King Kong...

The fourth an final film in the "Jirocho igaiden" series.

Hachigoro, a carpenter living in the Rakugo Tenement, is an honest and skilled craftsman, but he loves sake more than his three daily meals, and had...

1962 Japanese movie

1961 Japanese movie

Shiro Yabe, a young gangster who boarded the second class on the Tokaido Line after finishing a dangerous smuggling transaction in Kobe, is next to a...

A young salesman wins over a rival ink company while falling for the president’s daughter. Drawn into kendo rivalries and pressured to lose, he...