Yōichi Numata Movies

Just before the end of the war, Japanese soldier Kitani is released from prison, having served his term for theft. Told in flashback, viewers learn...

This film is strongly anti-war film. The film is based on the collection of writings by Japanese student soldiers who died during World War II. The...

The story is of two people. One is deaf, the other deaf and mute. They marry after meeting at a school reunion, and the film follows their trials and...

A young female samurai comes upon a dying messenger and agrees to deliver the scroll he was carrying to its destination. However, unbeknownst to her,...

Shihomi Etsuko plays a race car driver who also lends out her services to the Japanese Secret Service. Although there really isn't much of a "chase"...

The film follows a young civil engineer, played by Toshiro Mifune, who is assigned to the Tase Dam construction site in what is now Hanamaki City,...

Atsuko is an office secretary who is also her family's primary source of income and caretaker in postwar Japan.

Kindaichi challenges the mystery of an incident in which three sisters were killed one after the other according to an ancient tradition on an...

Senta lives with his mother and little brother and supports them by working at day at a factory and attending eighth grade in the evening. One day he...

Live-action adaptation of Ko Kojima's manga "Sennin buraku".

During the naval battle of Midway in WWII, the battleship Mutsu was in its home port in Japan. The ship's officers and crew were frustrated at not...

Five women classmates from a college in Tokyo are on the first stretch of a walking tour when one of them, Masako, falls ill at a railway station....

Japanese drama.

Third and last "Maboroshi tantei" film, based on the manga by Jiro Kuwata.

On September 1, 1923, an unprecedented earthquake hit the Kanto region. The streets are filled with victims, and rumors are circulating around. The...

Arrested for the murder of her wealthy businessman father, convicted on false evidence and sentenced to death, Kyoko is determined to prove her...