Arata Shibata Movies

A Western-inspired film where a pair of traveling beekeepers odyssey by covered wagon from Kyushu, the southernmost of the Japanese archipelago's...

1961 Japanese movie

For the poor, Edo is Hell on Earth, starving under the rule of Tanuma Okitsugi, corrupt councilor to the shogun. But the courageous vagabond called...

Two lovers lost in the mountains. In what direction do not go, they find themselves in a mysterious forest pond, as if some kind of force does not...

Japanese comedy film.

1959 Japanese movie

Japanese comedy film.

Desiring another officer’s new wife, a military police lieutenant fabricates evidence of treason that consigns the innocent man to torture and...

Harada Kai, the Date clan's Chamberlain attempts to take power from the lord himself.

1962 Japanese movie

In 1870's Tokyo, Den steals to support the daughter of her first marriage and her consumptive second husband. She falls in love with a young...

Directed by Daisuke Itō.

In Tokyo, Osen is the servant girl of an unscrupulous antiques dealer, Kumazawa, who takes in the penniless Sokichi Hata. Kumazawa mistreats Sokichi...

1958 jidaigeki directed by Masaki Mori for Shintoho.

A prisoner escapes from prison to find the real criminal.

1958 Japanese movie

Chie, who's chosen as 'Ms. Woman Diver', and her friend Yuki, have been missing for several days after they left for Tokyo to be interviewed by a...

Japanese film about a juvenile delinquent who becomes a part of the Japanese Self-Defense Forces.

1956 Japanese film, originally released in two parts.