Mantarō Ushio Movies

Order of Yakuza

The days leading up to a toddler's second birthday are seen alternately from the child's point of view as well as that of his parents.

The story contrasts the life of two doctors, former classmates and now both assistant professors at Naniwa University Hospital in Osaka. The...

On the eve of the Russo-Japanese war at the beginning of the 20th century, small-town girl Okane has married an old wealthy man to escape a life of...

As she takes a position as a gym teacher at a girls’ school as a form of “life training” before marriage, what awaits her...

Following the tragic death of his father, a young boy's family trains his horse to compete in the local derby.

A literary masterpiece that sharply critiques the ethics of modern romance, featuring a 48-year-old father who burns through the last of his youth...

A traditional bar mistress in Kyoto clashes with her Tokyo rival.

A comedy about newlyweds.

Kikuji is the scion of an Osaka merchant family whose traditional power is matrilineal. Instructed by his overbearing mother and grandmother to give...

Comedy starring the manzai team of Chick and Tack, and set in the world of salarymen.

A young engineer and a pure-hearted mountain girl take on the challenges of the Akan primeval forest, where lawlessness and violence run rampant.

Detective Katahachi meets a young and beautiful pickpocket and doesn’t arrest her because she was not in the act. Instead, he listens to the...