Movies: Nobuo Chiba

Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed when his first post after medical school takes him to a small country clinic under the gruff doctor Red Beard. Yasumoto rebels in numerous ways, but Re...

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 poverty....

A headstrong young man seeks to join the Shinsengumi, but while his determination impresses his superiors, questions begin to arise as to his true identity and intentions....

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Follow-up to "Ekimae Ryokan." Set around the Yurigaoka and Nishi-Ikuta stations on the Odakyu-Odawara line, the film takes up the problem of real estate around the expanding Yurigaoka apartments....

1963 Japanese movie...

Japanese comedy film....

A wandering Jirocho stumbles upon his wife's possible murder and has other adventures while on the run....

The mythical adventures of the legendary Chinese trickster Monkey, who must outwit a variety of wily demons who stand in the way of him and his fellow Buddhist travelers. Though portrayed as a literal, if rather anthropomorphized, monkey in the origi...

Japanese comedy film....

An Ishiro Honda film....

Japanese sex comedy film....

An adaptation of the popular Sazae-San comic strip....

Adaptation of the popular Sazae-San comic strip. The first entry in the series shot in color....

Based on a comic strip by Kaoru Akiyoshi. First in a four part film series....