Bontarō Miake Movies

1958 Japanese movie

This film depicts the fighting spirit of the frontline troops on Guadalcanal.

Born into a poor farming family, Yukie left home with her only son Ryokichi, leaving her grandfather Heisaku behind, to search for her husband...

A beautiful but sad romantic melodrama about three sisters who are uninhibited, pure and lovely, and who stand tall like the peaks of a place that...

Akiko Yasutomi, an 18-year-old high school student, lives in poverty with her mother Hisako, but she has feelings for her cousin, a medical student...

1948 adaptation of Golden Devil

Mysterious incidents occur one after another on the express train as it plows through the dark night on the railroad tracks! The first woman is...

The fall of an accountant enthralled by the sexual charms of a cabaret dancer.

The tragic fate of Minoru Ikeda, a talented blind boy whose only joy was playing the violin.

The title of the film reflects the custom of writing poems and lyrics on paper lanterns. The film tells about the difficult relationship between the...

A dead beauty is found in the trunk. Kubota (Miaki), Okayama (Kawazu) and Tsuji (Funakoshi) begin investigating this mysterious crime at the...

The former Japanese Naval Academy was at Etajima, one of the many islands of the beautiful Inland Sea. Among the new cadets were Ishikawa and Murase....

Retired police inspector Kurusu is vacationing at a seaside hotel when one night he hears a child's screaming...but there are no children staying in...

1957 Japanese movie

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

1961 Theater of Life adaptation.