Yōichi Numata Movies

Part 2 of Holiday in Japan

During the Tenpo era, the peasants of the Kanto region were in dire straits due to successive natural disasters. Maebashi's boss, Shiroganeya...

Two lovers lost in the mountains. In what direction do not go, they find themselves in a mysterious forest pond, as if some kind of force does not...

Ichiro Yoshida, the father of the boy Kiyoshi, who has been repatriated from China, returns home after a ten-year separation. The father, who has...

A young female samurai comes upon a dying messenger and agrees to deliver the scroll he was carrying to its destination. However, unbeknownst to her,...

Japanese film about a juvenile delinquent who becomes a part of the Japanese Self-Defense Forces.

A new documentary on director Nobuo Nakagawa and the making of the film, Jigoku. Featuring exclusive interview with Nakagawa collaborators.

Set in Japan's Tenpyou era (729-749 CE), four young monks are sent to China to study Buddhism and bring a high priest back to Japan with them. The...

A portrait of a man trying to become an artist in order to escape from his life as a miserable peasant due to severe annual tribute during the reign...

An exciting historical drama in which a beautiful woman secretly solves the family problems of the Owari clan. Hibari Misora plays two roles: a...

Live-action adaptation of Ko Kojima's manga "Sennin buraku".

Atsuko is an office secretary who is also her family's primary source of income and caretaker in postwar Japan.

Arrested for the murder of her wealthy businessman father, convicted on false evidence and sentenced to death, Kyoko is determined to prove her...

Harada Kai, the Date clan's Chamberlain attempts to take power from the lord himself.

1961 Japanese movie

Senta lives with his mother and little brother and supports them by working at day at a factory and attending eighth grade in the evening. One day he...