Tōru Abe Movies

A love melodrama.

Kenta (Kayama), a boxer-turned-wandering minstrel becomes involved in a yakuza plot to rid slum dwellers from a piece of land the gangsters wish to...

Kanako is an intelligent and beautiful girl in her third year of high school, but there was a dark shadow. Raised by her father, Jusaburo, who is the...

Assistant Police Inspector Saburo Tatsuno, a former jazz pianist, is assigned to uncover a narcotics ring. But he falls victim to the seductive wiles...

Drama directed by Yasushi Sasaki.

Story of a romance between a middle-aged journalist and a young woman.

Canal - A river created by cutting through nature for the sake of human life that flows silently, encompassing good, evil, sorrow, and joy, just like...

1954 Japanese film starring professional wrestler Rikidozan.

Rookie reporter Yukiko helps save the failing Miyako Times with her friends, while romance and comic chaos unfold around her and fortune-teller...

The film is set during the days of the scarcity of food after World War II, during which five men ate an elephant that died in a zoo. The elephant's...

1966 Japanese movie

Shigeru is a young man who works as a window cleaner. His older brother Kenzo has just returned from prison and is determined to start life anew. But...

Olympic gymnast Yukiko resists marriage plans, stumbling into a newspaper job under reporter Tsubasa. Amid comic mix-ups with a fake fortune teller,...

A wife remarries after her doctor husband dies in a stormy lake, but is distressed when he appears in her dreams every night.

1958 Japanese movie