Akiko Wakabayashi Movies

Osami, a soldier-of-fortune from Japan, joins with priest Ensai in a quest for the ashes of the great Buddha. Their journey takes them to a kingdom...

An Ishiro Honda film.

A young Tokyo couple’s blissful newlywed life is turned upside down when an unexpected pregnancy arrives, sending them on a whirlwind quest for...

Action melodrama.

Comedy about a Japanese-American professor, a nuclear scientist, who returns to Japan to search for a typically subservient Japanese wife.

1962 Japanese movie

Based on the comic by Fuyuhiko Okabe.

1963 Japanese movie

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

Story of rebellious youth follows the 19-year-old son of a Hokkaido farmer who has an affair with the daughter of a wealthy trading company...

A young detective tries to determine whether a mysterious death was the result of murder or self-defense.

1961 Japanese movie

Modern love story about three disparate sisters, one (Tsukasa) of whom who suspects her husband (Kobayashi) has been unfaithful.

1962 Japanese movie

Toho-produced crime drama involving the drug trade.

1962 Japanese movie

A newlywed couple moves into an apartment complex where each family faces everyday problems.

1962 Japanese movie

Intelligence director Suritai asks agent Kitami to steal money from anti-government guerrillas.