Noriko Sengoku Movies

Bored Hatamoto film #20

1962 Japanese movie

Inspired by the "Shimoyama Incident," which caused a great stir in society in 1949, the year before its release, this masterpiece suspense film...

Based on the novel "Kyokatsu" ("Blackmail") by Ichiro Kashiwara.

When his pistol is stolen, police detective Murakami is humiliated, especially when the gun is later implicated in a crime. Working with his...

A girl rebels against her mother, who runs a brothel in Yokohama, and attempts to find freedom on her own.

Untaro Tatsumura, a pioneer of the salaryman class, had retired from active duty and was living a leisurely life in Ito with his wife, while serving...

A Hibari Misora musical about an impoverished girl and her brother in Postwar Japan.

Mizusawa (Takenouchi Yutaka), an explosives expert, is arrested and charged with a string of bank robberies. Because he is a flight risk, Detective...

A vampire stalks a female editor as she pursues a case in Kofu that took place at the villa of a writer of bizarre novels in Karuizawa.

Gen is a lonely orphan boy. His sole sense of companionship comes from an imaginary friend, the god Prince Fudo-Myo. Prince Fudo-Myo comes to the...

Benio, a peppy tomboy, is surprised to learn that she has been secretly betrothed by her grandfather to a young officer named Shinobu Ijuin. Because...

“Quit working as a nurse!” “All right, I will!” thus began the married life of Yasuo and Keiko. But the reality is harsh....

Yukio, a farm boy, and Toru, a fisherboy, live in a small Japanese village that is periodically threatened by a volcano on one side and tidal waves...

1960 Japanese movie

Based on a 1956 television feature on Japan’s national network, NHK, this is one of Uchida’s rarest films. A socially conscious drama...

The story of a group of young people who organise their own travelling symphony orchestra to provide music for people living in remote villages...

Inspector Uno and college student Yuko Nagai investigate another strange mystery.