Umetsugu Inoue was a Japanese film director and scriptwriter. He directed 115 movies, wrote 101 screenplays, and is credited with the original story for five films. In addition, he worked with all six major Japanese film production companies.
Release Date:1983-12-24
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Japanese dance and musical film presenting Toshihiko Tahara, a singer then noted for his abilities as a dancer, with a large supporting cast of singers and dancers – mainly drawn from the roster of the Johnny & Associates talent agency of Johnny Kitagawa. The film was shot in the Tokyo Takarazuka Theatre Tokyo and Yurakucho on January 29–30.
Release Date:1983-08-04
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Remake of the 1957 film "The Stormy Man".
Release Date:1983-08-04
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Release Date:1982-10-23
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Job:Director
Release Date:1982-06-03
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Job:Director
Release Date:1982-01-02
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:1
The protagonist, Naito Samon, was secretly ordered by Tokugawa Ieyoshi, the 12th Shogun of the Tokugawa Shogunate, to begin a new era of reform by fighting evil in various disguises with his minions.
Release Date:1981-10-07
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:13
Vote Count:1
Kogoro approaches the true face of a bloody clown who attacks beautiful women one after another!
Release Date:1981-10-03
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Job:Director
Release Date:1980-11-01
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Job:Director
Vote Count:1
Release Date:1980-04-12
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Job:Director
Release Date:1979-12-04
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Job:Director
Release Date:1979-08-02
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Job:Director
Release Date:1979-04-14
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Job:Director
Release Date:1979-01-02
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Job:Director
Release Date:1978-12-12
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Release Date:1978-10-14
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Job:Director
Release Date:1978-08-08
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Job:Director
Release Date:1978-04-08
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Original work: The second installment of Edogawa Rampage's Inference Masterpiece series, which began airing on Asahi TV in the second half of the 1970s and gained popularity. Famous actor Tian Zhimao plays detective wise Kogoro. A magician who targets the Yucun family, who obtain huge wealth through gemstones. Even the wise Kogoro was fooled by his meticulous criminal plan
Release Date:1978-01-07
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Okada, who had escaped death in the duel, suffered the greatest humiliation in the presence of his beloved Fumiko, and disappeared. Mitani and Fumiko are united, but when Okada's body is found, Fumiko becomes embroiled in a terrible incident... The story is about a beautiful woman who sends all the men who woo her to their deaths.
Release Date:1977-08-20
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Job:Director
Release Date:1977-08-20
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:19
Japanese crime film.
Release Date:1976-06-26
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Suspense film about a beautiful photographer who becomes involved in a murder case.
Release Date:1975-10-10
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Japanese crime film.
Release Date:1974-02-16
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:1
Two sisters, Ching-ping (Irene Chen I-ling) and Pai-hung (Betty Ting Pei) struggle to find a workable act after their magician father and younger sister leave to try their luck in Taiwan. A good friend gets them cast in a new movie, and the rest is history....
Release Date:1972-01-15
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Release Date:1971-11-20
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Teenage heart throbs Ching Li and Paul Chin Pei come across like Annette Funicello and Frankie Avalon in the musical Sunset, a musical romp that plays similar to one of Hollywood's famous "Beach Party" movies. A car load of girls meets a car load of boys and Ching and Paul ultimately fall in love. Yet the film takes an acrid twist and turns out to be more like a Shakespearian tragedy than a beach-babe party.
Release Date:1971-11-19
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Set against the background of a giant newspaper company. A girl reporter on the staff of the newspaper witnesses the accidental killing of one of the top executives, whose wife is having an affair with the head of the company.
Release Date:1971-11-13
Department:Directing
Job:Director
At midnight, Yamabe, a killer, escapes from prison. Two years before, bribed by a narcotic smuggler, Yamabe killed a real estate broker. As he was being arrested by detective Negoro, the detective's bullet struck Sakuko, Yamabe's girl friend who attempted to protect him, and crippled her. When Yamabe was sent to prison, Negoro cared for her and they fell in love. Sakuko asked him to marry her, but Negoro was reluctant to take the killer's sweetheart from him. Learning of the relationship of his girl friend and the detective, Yamabe had pledged revenge.
Release Date:1971-09-15
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:2
This is a film about three pretty young ladies from Hong Kong who work as sales agents who travel to a resort in Japan for the sole purpose of meeting and wooing millionaires.
Release Date:1971-08-18
Department:Directing
Job:Director
shaw production
Release Date:1971-06-11
Department:Directing
Job:Director
To prevent a drug ring from killing her brother, Ping Ping surrenders to police, claiming she is guilty of trafficking drugs. She is subsequently jailed. Years later she joins fellow inmates to escape and the girls are bent on smashing the drug ring and to wipe out its members.
Release Date:1971-04-16
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:1
Legendary jewel thieves "Nocturnal Earl" (Ling Yun) and "Fragrant Night" (Lily Ho) are set on a collision course for destiny when both arrive in Japan to get their hands on the famous "Venus Tear Diamond." But sparks fly between the jewel thieves and the two fall instantly in love, without knowing that their beloved is after the very jewel each is seeking! To make matters worse, the diamond is in the possession of a randy widow who has her eye on the debonair male thief, and there's even a mystery man interested in the widow, too. Who's going to get the Venus Tear Diamond, and will it mean the end to a perfect love?
Release Date:1971-02-05
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Betty Ting Pei plays the lead, a Taiwanese singer searching in Hong Kong for her younger sister, who disappears after coming to HK to be discovered as a nightclub singer.
Release Date:1970-11-20
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Job:Director
Release Date:1970-07-01
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Job:Director
Release Date:1970-05-29
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Three men and three women beguile, blackmail, bicker and backstab (sometimes literally) each other all the way to a shock surprise ending, in this death-filled, haunted house mystery, written and directed by Shaw Brothers' Japanese maestro Inoue Umetsugu.
Release Date:1970-03-19
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:1
This movie stars Peter Chen Ho as a male teacher in an all girls school. The girls are teens and, since they live there, are kind of tickled to see a male teacher. They don't particularly lust after him, but they kind of crush on him. The title of the film refers to a baby that Chen minded as a favor in a doctor's office, only to find the mother left him with Chen. Chen has to take care of the baby and, inevitably, has to bring him to school and hide him, as he lives there also.
Release Date:1970-02-18
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:1
Seijuro Fujihana, head master of the Fujihana dance school, is a proud and lonely artist. And because of his character, his group lacks the prosperity of others. He wishes his daughter Kasumi, gifted like himself, to take over and develop the Fujihana, but she wishes to marry Hiroshi, head of a jazz band which her father opposes. Kisaburo, Seijuro's No.1 disciple, wants to marry Kasumi and take over the Fujihana with the backing of the chairman of the supporters' association.
Release Date:1970-01-15
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Contemporary drama of action-oriented photographer who scuba-dives. He witnesses an accident that appears to be a homicide.
Release Date:1969-10-15
Department:Directing
Job:Director
The sex appeal factor shoots skyhigh here with Ting playing Susan, a young woman hiding from her father by being a nightclub singer in Japan. Pop singer Chao Ke-jen (the handsome Lin Chong) gets permission from his boss to visit Japan – but only on condition he finds the boss’s daughter. Boy finds girl, boy falls in love. But will Daddy approve?
Release Date:1969-08-27
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Shaw Brothers musical about three Showgirls chasing millionaires.
Release Date:1969-05-20
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Story of love, jealousy and hatred among waitresses of a deluxe bar.
Release Date:1969-05-17
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:4
Pinky and Yoko are about to graduate. Full of hope and uncertainties they embark on a tale of temptation.
Release Date:1969-02-21
Department:Directing
Job:Director
A mad scientist wants to get his hands on a certain growth-accelerating serum developed by Hong Kong scientist Dr. Li Zong-Hua so that he can create an army of supermen and conquer the world.
Release Date:1968-12-21
Department:Directing
Job:Director
There's nothing like a good, opulent, gaudy musical to lift the spirits, but when it's a 1960's Hong Kong musical orchestrated by a Japanese director and composer, it breaks through the ranks as a classic of campy kitsch. A follow-up to the previous year's megahit Hong Kong Nocturne, with the same Japanese creative team, Hong Kong Rhapsody follows the fortunes of an unemployed magician whose love life is so knotty it would take Houdini to unravel!
Release Date:1968-01-29
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Ling Yun plays the replacement hired for a popular band whose egotistic drummer quit to join a rival group. When the new arrival becomes a hit, he earns the jealous wrath of the predecessor. Meanwhile, the young drummer's mother is fervently against his music career. With the gorgeous Lily Ho as the manageress of the band and some terrific drumming set pieces, the whole thing, needless to say, comes off with a bang.
Release Date:1967-11-15
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:1
Li Bing, a nightclub entertainer and a reformed thief was caught up in a fight against a criminal syndicate after forcing a cohort to return the wallet he previously stole from an assistant of a scientist who has just recently completed a doomsday device.
Release Date:1967-09-17
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Release Date:1967-08-19
Department:Directing
Job:Director
A musical about 3 sisters, singers and dancers, and their dad, a magician performing in nightclubs until they make their own life.
Release Date:1967-02-07
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:4
Release Date:1966-12-24
Department:Directing
Job:Director
A remake of the 1957 classic "Man Who Raised a Storm" with Watari Tetsuya in the title role.
Release Date:1966-10-03
Department:Writing
Job:Story
The golden duo of Yukio Hashi and Chieko Baisho. A film rich in a variety of songs, dances and falling in love to the rhythm of Yukio Hashi's song of the same name.
Release Date:1966-07-30
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Release Date:1966-03-05
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Release Date:1965-12-18
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Release Date:1965-10-02
Department:Directing
Job:Director
A crime film released in 1965
Release Date:1965-08-25
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Release Date:1965-06-25
Department:Directing
Job:Director
The story of an unusual friendship between a vagabond, masterless samurai and a magistrate.
Release Date:1965-05-08
Department:Directing
Job:Director
A young man named Kijima who works as a pianist in a small bar is surprised when one of the customers asks if he won't pretend to be the fiance of his sister. He is even more surprised when he is offered a million yen to play this apparently harmless role. Actually, it is anything but harmless. Both the customer and his sister are involved in a jewel robbery in which they have double-crossed two of their accomplices who are now out of prison and thirsting for revenge.
Release Date:1965-02-06
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Organized thieves battle against the Shogun’s ruthless ruling in attempt to get back their land.
Release Date:1964-12-24
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:2
This unique melodrama depicts the anguish of a new wife whose husband confesses to her his infertility on their wedding night. The virgin wife, who spends her days in a state of unfulfillment, is gradually attracted to a young playboy, but she is unable to cross the line. One day, her husband proposes to have a child through artificial insemination.
Release Date:1964-10-03
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Chairman of the Shin Nihon Kaihatsu company Fukazawa, using clever ways to circumvent the law, rose to the top of the economic backstage. Three people are sacrificed to his greed. The president of a small company who committed suicide, a Yakuza who died during the destruction of his territory, and a former viscount whose wife and property were stolen by Fukazawa. Their sons vowed to hunt down Fukazawa and take revenge.
Release Date:1964-07-25
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:1
Release Date:1964-04-25
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:10
Pro boxer Aoshima Toru is diagnosed with a terminal brain tumor and given three months to live. He uses his prize money to pay the medical expenses for a young boy with polio. But when Toru learns from his fiancee Itsuko that his own mother has died, things take a turn for the worse.
Release Date:1964-03-15
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Follows the lives of three sisters who have a dance act together.
Release Date:1963-12-14
Department:Directing
Job:Director
A detective investigates a criminal organization's involvement in real estate.
Release Date:1963-10-19
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Assistant Police Inspector Saburo Tatsuno, a former jazz pianist, is assigned to uncover a narcotics ring. But he falls victim to the seductive wiles of Maki, the beautiful night club singer and one of the leaders of the ring. One by one, Maki's discarded lovers vanish and Tatsuno faces a similar fate. Tatsuno confesses to his identity under torture and this leads to the murder of his undercover colleague. He realizes that his career is ruined and this, plus Maki's charm, induces him to join the smugglers. Before submitting his resignation, however, he leads the police on a wild-goose chase while a big narcotics transaction is taking place in another part of town, and this puts him among the leaders of the underworld. When Maki turns her attention to a youthful singer, Tatsuno realizes that he has gambled his whole life and lost. So he stabs the tantalizing beauty, and is in turn shot down in a gangland revenge killing.
Release Date:1963-08-11
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Release Date:1963-07-13
Department:Directing
Job:Director
A suspense directed by Umetsugu Inoue, starring Ayako Wakao, depicting the intense lust created by the passion of a writhing woman.
Release Date:1963-06-08
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:1
In the mountain regions of Hida, the dreams of a peasant named Kyonosuke, who longed to be a samurai, come true when he becomes one of three doubles, of shadows, of Lord Yasutaka. After months of intense and cruel training, he faces his destiny when the Lord and the other two shadows are killed in battle and he must take on the role of Lord Yasutaka....
Release Date:1963-04-21
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:11
Order of Yakuza
Release Date:1962-12-26
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Release Date:1962-10-12
Department:Directing
Job:Director
1962 Japanese movie
Release Date:1962-07-29
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Release Date:1962-04-18
Department:Directing
Job:Director
The cunning detective Akeichi must foil a kidnapping plot orchestrated by the notorious jewel thief known as Black Lizard.
Release Date:1962-03-14
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:9
Release Date:1962-01-03
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Japanese life during the past thirty-five turbulent years is depicted in this film through the eyes of two police detectives. One is Henmi, who comes to Tokyo in 1926 from faraway Kagoshima to join the Tokyo police force. His closest friend is Nihei, a farmer's son from Tohoku who becomes the steadying influence on headstrong Henmi.
Release Date:1961-11-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
One night, three wives, Matsuyo, Keiko and Mari, receive a mysterious telephone call. The voice tells them that she has their husbands with her and invites them to " P " Hotel to see for themselves. They have been married for many years and are bored with their husbands, and are about to secretly carry on affairs with the other's mates.
Release Date:1961-08-13
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Release Date:1961-04-26
Department:Directing
Job:Director
A woman has to give up her dream of becoming an actress when her family goes into debt, but she catches the eye of a businessman while working at a nightclub. He sets her up with her own nightclub, but with expectations attached.
Release Date:1961-01-14
Department:Directing
Job:Director
The story of three sportsman brothers living in the Ginza. One day, the three meet a raving beauty on separate occasions and are unaware they have met the same girl.
Release Date:1961-01-03
Department:Directing
Job:Director
A crime boss gets out of prison and tries to find who from his organization betrayed him.
Release Date:1960-07-10
Department:Directing
Job:Director
After the boxing champion retires, the head of a powerful gym, Minegishi (So Yamamura), recommends Yamanaka (Hiroshi Kawaguchi), who is no longer in top form and is ranked number one, for a title fight, but his comrade Hata (Kojiro Hongo) is not happy with this choice, and so he moves to the gym run by the criminal businessman Goda (Toru Abe) and burning desire to beat Yamanaka.
Release Date:1960-04-27
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Release Date:1959-08-30
Department:Directing
Job:Director
A coming-of-age story about two newcomers to the world of professional baseball who compete for Rookie of the Year honors and love.
Release Date:1959-05-12
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Release Date:1959-03-18
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Kenichi, who lives like a stray dog among fellow gangsters, finds his love for the first time while the police are trying to catch him on suspicion of murder.
Release Date:1959-01-03
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Release Date:1958-11-03
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Yōko dreams of becoming a dancer and begins working with the famous musician Takeo.
Release Date:1958-07-06
Department:Directing
Job:Director
"Tomorrow is Another Day" tells the story of three brothers who struggle to shake free of the father's ties to the yakuza underworld. A star vehicle for the popular singer/actor Yūjirō Ishihara.
Release Date:1958-04-29
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Release Date:1958-03-18
Department:Directing
Job:Director
A young doctor discovers that the city hall of records has a record of his death. He and some friends try to seek out the person who reported it, and uncover a shady group of criminals with a sinister plot.
Release Date:1958-01-15
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:1
Shoichi Kokubun (Yujiro Ishihara) is a roughneck street musician, who has a brother that is determined to propel him into stardom. In attempt to catch the attention of a popular jazz band, his brother appeals to their manager who has the power to make him a star. In a graphic portrayal of love, betrayal and success, Shoichi brews up a storm with a 'rat-a-tat-tat' on the drums.
Release Date:1957-12-28
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:7
In a warehouse area at night, a drunk chief engineer is stabbed to death by someone who whistles. After the break of dawn, two seamen join the crew of a rusty cargo ship Kaiyo Maru. One is a troublemaker with bad attitudes, Senkichi Nomura, who pursues an enemy in order to take revenge for his father's death. The other is Keizo Sasaki, a buff, eagle-eyed man on board for a certain mission.
Release Date:1957-09-29
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:7
Kanako is an intelligent and beautiful girl in her third year of high school, but there was a dark shadow. Raised by her father, Jusaburo, who is the owner of the Matsukawa troupe, she grew up without knowing the love of her mother. She has been on stage since she was a child, but oneday she cried and complained to her father, and she stopped going to school. In a mock exams, Kanako overtook her classmate Tetsuji to take the lead. That evening, Kanako went to the Yasue Theater in the neighboring town with Eikichi, and saw the affair of her stepmother, Yumi, who should have been resting due to her illness. The man ran away in a hurry, and Yumi confessed that Kanako's mother, Miyako, had also run away for the same reason...
Release Date:1957-07-30
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Eikichi Yamashiro, who is a former contender for the boxing title, works as a manager at a Club Champion owned by his fiancé Natsuko’s father. He lost a title match five years ago as he was besotted by Natsuko, but Eikichi actually cannot give up the dream of the championship. One day, he meets Shuntaro Fuma, who is a punk kid but a promising boxer, and realizes the dream that he himself could never fulfill. Then, they together start to train with the aim of the title. Mari Shiraki is an up-and-coming ballerina under the patronage of Eikichi as well. Eikichi forbids Shuntaro and Mari to be romantically involved with someone during their training, however, they start to go on a date. (source: Nikkatsu International)
Release Date:1957-05-01
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:4
It’s been five years since her husband had passed away. Fuyuko lives in the quiet suburbs, in a small but loving home with her three beautiful daughters. Haruko, the eldest, is the lead vocalist in a band. Natsuko is the conscientious type, who spends her days in ballet classes beautifying herself. The youngest of the three, Akiko is a bookworm who found her niche in philosophy. Although the sisters may appear to have nothing in common, there is one thing they all agree on; "Mom needs a new husband".
Release Date:1957-01-03
Department:Directing
Job:Director
A unique and controversial film directed by Umeji Inoue, based on the original story by Shintaro Ishihara, which depicts the image of a group of young people in the agony of mistrust, love and hate with a powerful touch.
Release Date:1956-12-19
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Japanese drama film.
Release Date:1956-09-11
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Emi Ikushima, a star actress in the Roses, is half-hearted, but she wasn't disappointed by the news of her father Enmy's sudden death, and she performed enthusiastically on the stage that night, attracting a crowded audience.
Release Date:1956-06-14
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:1
Ise, a successful entrepreneur, accidentally murders his lunatic wife after he is spotted having an affair with his secretary, Harumi. In his attempt to perfect his crime, he drives to a remote quarry to bury his wife’s body, but along the way, he finds another dead body in the back of his car! Given no choice, Ise dumps both bodies. Meanwhile, Yoshie begins her search for her missing brother, Yoshihiko. After surprising twists and turns, Ise faces his fate.
Release Date:1956-03-14
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:3
A good young man accidentally joins a group of leg breakers
Release Date:1955-10-18
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Five years have passed since the three comrades who saved their lives on the Burma Campaign-Kenichiro Kishi, Eiji Shiga, and Daizo Kobayashi promised to meet again five years later at the platform of Shinagawa Station, which was crowded with repatriates. , The day of reunion is approaching.
Release Date:1955-08-09
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Ruriko's father is a well known scientist who's involved in secret research that even his family doesn't know about. Ever since he moved up to the research laboratory in Hokkaido, Ruriko hasn't heard from him. The only thing that reminded her of his warmth was the green music box that he’d left behind for her. She longed to reunite with her father. The little box played music that lifted her spirits, to a place where everything was perfect.
Release Date:1955-05-08
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:1
Urban love comedy in which Koji Tsuruta, who works for the Tokyo Metropolitan Government's Parks and Greenery Department, plays love shepherd to a number of women, including his true love, Inako Arima.
Release Date:1954-11-16
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Release Date:1954-06-29
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Japanese musical.
Release Date:1954-01-09
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Fourth installment in the "Achako's Notebook of Youth" series.
Release Date:1953-06-03
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Directorial debut by Umetsugu Inoue, the famous director of Musicals
Release Date:1952-06-19
Department:Directing
Job:Director
In a small town, according to the homecoming of Professor Ishinaka, the youth culture group was overwhelmed to make a presentation for the summer festival, but because of lack of funds, she works part-time at the spectacle of a tour, a haunted house Especially. The ghost was a struggle amongst the people, it was a great success in filling the crowd, but in the circus hut next to it, Kenji who was supposed to have disappeared was pitiful.
Release Date:1951-08-03
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
A romantic melodrama about the shifting relationship between Ryosuke and Miki as their precarious employment and social circumstances shift around them.
Release Date:1950-12-08
Department:Directing
Job:Assistant Director
A film by Kiyoshi Saeki
Release Date:1950-03-07
Department:Directing
Job:Assistant Director