Bontarō Miake Movies

Tomoraka Tasaka's first postwar work.

Based on the novel by Shofu Muramatsu, the film is dedicated to the actors of the renowned Japanese Kabuki theatre. Set in Japan in 1885, the story...

1946 Japanese movie.

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...

Yosuke Machida of the Daito Shinpo hears from a boy named Toshi-bo, whom he found on the street, that Toshi-bo’s older sister, Toyo, was...

A mystery story set on a haunted island: a student is murdered, followed by the suicide of his lover.

1961 Theater of Life adaptation.

A sad love film where the action takes place in Kyoto, in a trading house. Considered a lost film.

The film depicts a group of boys and girls who graduate from a local junior high school and head to Tokyo to find employment, and the teachers who...

Obscure Masumura film shot in 1961.

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...