Kyū Sazanka Movies

When Yumiko Tsuyama, a potter by profession, comes inquiring about a room for rent in an old mansion overlooking Osaka, she finds a bizarre...

The 12th "Ekimae" feature.

After finding a winning lottery ticket, the daughter and wife convince their father who’s been acting like a millionaire that it’s all...

Police beat a murder confession out of four innocent men who are then sentenced to death. Based on a true story.

An ambitious young woman uses her sex appeal to solve financial problems in her family, including a brother in debt to the yakuza, and a father who...

Nishi is an advertising executive for a caramel company that is planning to launch a new product, in fierce competition with two other companies.

A recently released gangster has to cope with the recent shifts of power between gangs, while taking care of a thrill-seeking young woman, who got in...

The four principals in a love affair collide when jealousy, blackmail and suicide enter the picture.

Crime melodrama about two detectives (Ikebe and Arashima) and one detective's trumpet-playing son (Sato) who become involved in a complex murder...

In postwar Osaka’s bustling textile district, a tough and highly rational moneylender named Katsumi builds a successful lending business in a...

The 22nd film in the Ekimae series about shop-owners living near Akabane Station, Tokyo.