Kappei Matsumoto Movies

Based on true events surrounding a Korean student who had entered Japan unlawfully and escaped illegal alien internment.

1953 Japanese movie

First film of "Mysterious Thirteen Nights" series.

Film adaptation of the stage version of Samuil Marshak's "Twelve Months"

Fukasaku and Chiba are back in a sequel filmed with the same cast and released just two weeks after the first film. This time the storyline is set in...

This film focuses on Koreans living in Japan. The filmmaker’s humanism comes across in the portrayal of a girl living in a shabby tenement, the...

Representing a destitute mother in an infanticide trial, a female lawyer attempts to convince a conservative prosecutor of the benefits of Japan's...

Junpei Kihara, a young president of the University's wrestling club, is nicknamed "Mr. Chop". One day, on the way back from visiting the hospital...

After her mother's funeral, Yuriko, dressed in mourning clothes, sees off her lover Shintaro as he leaves in the powdery snow, and resolves to part...

Master swordsman and loyal vassal Saotome Mondonosuke goes on a mission to find a missing princess.

1956 Japanese movie

A beautifully told story of a woman hardened by marriage to a man she doesn't love, after giving herself to another. She dedicates herself to her...

A young woman is attacked by a serial rapist and murderer whom her detective father is investigating. Though she survives, the impact of the event...

A travelling theater troupe, led by Umagoro Ichikawa, comes to play in a mining town, and manages to sell every seat. Before the play begins,...

Focuses on the mutual antipathy of two groups of children in an Izu village.

Gekko Kamen faces off against Satan's Claw, who is after the treasure of the Kingdom of Baradai.

1956 Japanese movie

A journalist decides to do his own investigation after a series of strange murders are committed during a local election campaign.