Frankie Sakai Movies

Japanese soldiers stranded in Manokwari, New Guinea, improvise a theater play to keep their spirits up and endure the extremely difficult conditions.

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

As Marukyū Department Store plans its Hawaii expansion, company executives become sidetracked by local pleasures and personal entanglements. By...

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

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...

Japanese comedy film.

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

Period comedy about an undertaker's assistant in love with the daughter of a wealthy doctor. When her father refuses to allow the young lovers to...

Third film in the "Ekimae" series, this time set in Hamamatsu. A widow named Keiko and her brother Jiro run the bento shop, "Goraku." One day, Keiko...

On a post-war peaceful day in Japan, Toyomatsu Shimizu, a barber as well as a good father and husband, is suddenly arrested by the Prefectural Police...

The story of a novelist whose wife is confined in a mental hospital. His love for her drives him to write about her, though he runs into trouble when...

Ensemble comedy.

Period piece about a samurai who marries a mysterious beautiful young woman who claims to have lost her memory.

Penultimate 23rd "Ekimae" comedy is about oil-field exploration.

A drama from director Masaharu Segawa.

The 12th "Ekimae" feature.

A young asthmatic man learns he has magical powers.