Frankie Sakai Movies

Fukuzo, Kato and Matsuko, Kato's wife, are operating the "Kurenai Sightseeing Service" in Tokyo. Fukuzo and Kato were comrades during the war. One...

1962 Japanese movie

1971 Japanese movie

Based on the novel "Ekimae Ryokan" by Masuji Ibuse, a longtime hotel employee struggles to bring his old-fashioned ryokan in line with postwar...

1968 film

The day has come for recruits to enlist in the Japanese Marine Corps. The recruits, who have left the free world to enter this strict military life,...

Executives from a Japanese department store travel to Hawaii to acquire land for expansion but become entangled in romantic distractions and...

Eighth in the Ekimae series, portraying competition between two hot spring resort owners in Yamanashi.

A clothing manufacturer president tries to revitalize his company during a business downturn by securing new sales partners and chasing a deal with a...

Dr. Kinoshita, whose rocket experiments had been a series of failures, discovers a strange flying saucer zooming through the night sky at super...

1953 Japanese movie

Sixth entry in the Ekimae series, loosely based on the folktale of the tanuki and the tea kettle.

1963 Japanese movie

Seventh in the Ekimae series, detailing the exploits of the landladies around Ryogoku Station in Tokyo, and their sumo clientele.

1972 Japanese movie