Yōichi Numata Movies

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...

In 1941, overpopulated Japan faces an economic boycott and its armed forces push further to the south. And despite negotiations between Japan and the...

Meiji Tenno portrays the buildup to the Russo-Japan War. In addition to showing the political events that led to war, it also shows the era from the...

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto leads the Combined Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy to defeat the American Fleet.

A movie that depicts the tragic fate of many Yokaren flight-academy pilots.

A group of Japanese tourists try to forget their pasts and find themselves in India.

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...

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

A omnibus movie consisting of the three parts: "Kechinbo", "Yowak" and "Kōshoku".

Dr. Mikami is an elderly somewhat clumsy, very popular therapist, his patients turn to him with all possible and impossible questions. Because Dr....

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...

Japanese sports comedy film about kendo.

Set in Japan's Tenpyou era (729-749 CE), four young monks are sent to China to study Buddhism and bring a high priest back to Japan with them. The...

Ichiro Yoshida, the father of the boy Kiyoshi, who has been repatriated from China, returns home after a ten-year separation. The father, who has...

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

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,...

The story of a lone wolf struggling with human compassion and duty.

In January 1904, the situation between Japan and Russia had grown tense. The Emperor Meiji is deeply concerned, for Russia has started to build an...