Frankie Sakai Movies

Young widow Ine is suffering under the harsh treatment of her mother in law. As a former Geisha, Ine had struggled to be accepted into the...

The 22nd film in the Shacho comedy series.

Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Tokyo baka odori" by Haruo Oka and Chiyoko Shimakura.

A young asthmatic man learns he has magical powers.

Japanese comedy film.

Japanese animation adaptation of a 19th century French novel: A boy is given up by his foster parents to a traveling performer.

Roppeita is big in size, clumsy and full of energy. When his grandfather orders him to move out to Tokyo to save a sinking milk delivery business a...

Zero Mostel plays an inspector on the trail of criminals who have captured a robot called Chatze(sp?) played by Felix Silas. The inspector has...

A group of one-hit wonder scam artists led by the troubled "Kanpai," dealing with impotence, embark on a lively and poignant societal comedy. They...

The 18th "Ekimae" feature.

The fifth "Ekimae" film set in a Chinese restaurant in Yokohama's Chinatown.

After the father of her son leaves her high and dry, Kazuko gives her child up for adoption and takes a job at a hot spring resort, watching her son...

The 17th "Ekimae" feature.

Television production of I Want to Be a Shellfish. On a post-war peaceful day in Japan, Toyomatsu Shimizu, a barber as well as a good father and...

When Yumiko Tsuyama, a potter by profession, comes inquiring about a room for rent in an old mansion overlooking Osaka, she finds a bizarre...

1968 film

1962 Japanese movie

The 22nd film in the Ekimae series about shop-owners living near Akabane Station, Tokyo.