Movies: Yasukiyo Umeno

  • 1997
    Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald

    Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald (1997)

    Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald

    7.61997HD

    A love story written by an ordinary housewife is going to be broadcast as a radio drama and almost everyone among the crew insists on changing various parts of the play to their liking....

    Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald
  • 2008
    The Magic Hour

    The Magic Hour (2008)

    The Magic Hour

    7.62008HD

    A hustler who gets in trouble with a gang boss in the port town of Sukago agrees to make good with the don by putting him in contact with a mysterious hitman — an assassin the hustler has no idea how to contact. Instead, he hires an actor to play the...

    The Magic Hour
  • 1957
    A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era

    A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era (1957)

    A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era

    7.11957HD

    Saheji, a man-about-town, gets stuck at a high-class brothel when he can’t pay the bill. He makes the best of his situation by performing various tasks amidst the tumult of the end of the shogunate—but always by making sure to get a “commission” for ...

    A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era
  • 1978
    The Demon

    The Demon (1978)

    The Demon

    6.51978HD

    When Sokichi stops providing his long-time lover Kikuyo enough money to pay for the care of their three young children, Kikuyo leaves the children with Sokichi - and his very surprised and angry wife Oume - and disappears....

    The Demon
  • 1964
    Cruel Gun Story

    Cruel Gun Story (1964)

    Cruel Gun Story

    6.51964HD

    Businessmen arrange the early release from prison of Togawa, serving time for taking revenge on the truck driver whose carelessness confined Togawa's sister, Rie, to a wheelchair. They want Togawa to hijack an armored truck loaded with 120 million ye...

    Cruel Gun Story
  • 1974
    Sandakan No. 8

    Sandakan No. 8 (1974)

    Sandakan No. 8

    7.71974HD

    A young journalist interviews an elderly woman about being forced into prostitution in Borneo at a brothel called Sandakan No. 8....

    Sandakan No. 8
  • 1970
    Where Spring Comes Late

    Where Spring Comes Late (1970)

    Where Spring Comes Late

    7.51970HD

    The story is set in 1970 during the time of the first EXPO in Japan. The film’s main figure is a miner who suddenly becomes unemployed because the mine he worked in was shut down. He decides to resettle with his whole family to Hokkaido in northern J...

    Where Spring Comes Late
  • 1981
    Station

    Station (1981)

    Station

    6.11981HD

    A detective goes out of his way to crack the case of a serial killer who specialises in murdering police officers....

    Station
  • 1982
    Suspicion

    Suspicion (1982)

    Suspicion

    6.71982HD

    A car going at 25 mph plunges into the sea at Shinko Harbour, Toyama prefecture. Inside is the local business magnate Fukutaro Shirakawa, who perishes. Riding alongside him and surviving unhurt is his second wife, Kumako. It soon comes to light that ...

    Suspicion
  • 1958
    The Perfect Game

    The Perfect Game (1958)

    The Perfect Game

    6.21958HD

    College students come up with a scam to rob a gambling house. When it comes time to collect, the money isn't there, leading the young men into even more serious crime....

    The Perfect Game
  • 1981
    Call from Darkness

    Call from Darkness (1981)

    Call from Darkness

    5.71981HD

    Keiko Inagawa (Asami Kobayashi) pays a visit to neurologist Aizawa about her fiancé Tatsuo Tamura (Kaoru Kobayashi). A mysterious case involving the disappearance of Tatsuo’s three brothers, one after the other, is yet to be resolved and now Tatsuo, ...

    Call from Darkness
  • 1978
    Love and Faith

    Love and Faith (1978)

    Love and Faith

    6.31978HD

    Sen Rikyu is a ceremonial tea master who advises warlord Hideyoshi in sixteenth-century feudal Japan. His daughter, the beautiful Lady Ogin, has an unrequited love for Lord Ukon, who has angered Hideyoshi by becoming a Christian convert. Ogin's fathe...

    Love and Faith
  • 1971
    Tora-san's Love Call

    Tora-san's Love Call (1971)

    Tora-san's Love Call

    81971HD

    Taking a message from Hiroshi's father to heart, Torajiro attempts to give up his wandering ways....

    Tora-san's Love Call
  • 1964
    Only on Mondays

    Only on Mondays (1964)

    Only on Mondays

    6.21964HD

    Yuka is a “good-time girl” from Yokohama who is persuaded by her papa to sleep with a foreign business executive so that he can close an important deal. Nakahira presents a shrewdly observed portrait of a modern, sexually assertive woman—an unsettlin...

    Only on Mondays
  • 1980
    Writhing Tongue

    Writhing Tongue (1980)

    Writhing Tongue

    6.21980HD

    Masako, a five-year-old girl living, gets a scratch on her finger. After that, she suffered horrible spasms. The doctor checks on her and arrives at the conclusion that she has tetanus. Her parents have to bear the sufferings of their child. The once...

    Writhing Tongue
  • 2006
    Star Reformer

    Star Reformer (2006)

    Star Reformer

    7.32006HD

    Satoshi Nomura, a top-level bureaucrat of a prefecture government, has passion for his career. One day, he is hired by the fixed-term personnel exchange training between public and private businesses. This personnel exchange training is part of some ...

    Star Reformer
  • 1997
    The Eyes of Asia

    The Eyes of Asia (1997)

    The Eyes of Asia

    6.71997HD

    Nakaura of Julian (Julião Nakaura), a priest of the Society of Jesus, was one of four young ambassadors sent to Rome by the Jesuits in 1538, as proof that Japan had converted to Christianity. Fifty years after the mission, which so fascinated Europea...

    The Eyes of Asia
  • 1981
    Willful Murder

    Willful Murder (1981)

    Willful Murder

    7.31981HD

    The president of the Japanese National Railways is found dead during a period in which train service is plagued by numerous layoffs, strikes and shutdowns. The government says that the president was murdered; the police claim it was a suicide. A quiz...

    Willful Murder
  • 1979
    Tora-san's Dream of Spring

    Tora-san's Dream of Spring (1979)

    Tora-san's Dream of Spring

    81979HD

    Tora-san's opinions about Americans get challenged when another wandering peddler Michael Jordan stops by Shibamata....

    Tora-san's Dream of Spring
  • 1983
    Tora-san Goes Religious?

    Tora-san Goes Religious? (1983)

    Tora-san Goes Religious?

    81983HD

    Tora-san visits brother-in-law Hiroshi's hometown to attend a memorial service for his late father. When the local temple priest becomes intoxicated, Tora-san wearing the priest's robe delivers the memorial speech, much to his family's surprise. Thin...

    Tora-san Goes Religious?