Chikako Hosokawa

Ashita Koso

The 8th NHK Asadora. Starring Yumiko Fujita in a family drama. The first Asadora filmed in color.

Profound Desires of the Gods

Tokyo engineer Kariya arrives on a primitive tropical island, where he interacts with the Futori clan, to drill...

When a Woman Ascends the Stairs

Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She describes l...

Children of Hiroshima

Shows the devastation caused by the atomic bomb, and by use of a fictional storyline, portrays the struggle of...

Buddha

An Indian prince leaves his world of comfort and riches behind to wander and meditate for six years in search o...

Late Chrysanthemums

What is the life of a Geisha like once her beauty has faded and she has retired? Kin has saved, and become a we...

Fighting Delinquents

This rarely seen gem from master Suzuki casts teenage heartthrob Koji Wada as a young misfit who suddenly finds...

The Snowy Heron

The story follows Oshino, a geisha who is trying to start a new life with a lover who is a painter. However, he...

The Maid's Kid

In order to pay back Mrs. Kajiki for her good deed in the past, Hatsu moves from her village in Akita to Tokyo...

Eternity of Love

A Hiromichi Horikawa movie

Gambler's Dilemma

The love story between a traveling guest and a geisha who inadvertently becomes the leader of her father's yaku...

A Design for Dying

Shikiko Oba is nimble with her fingers and teaches dressmaking and designing. Among her pupils are Rinko, Katsu...

Actress

Based on Kakuko Mori's autobiography, about her life and retirement from acting due to her increasing blindness.

The Call of Blood

Two brothers seek revenge on the yakuza responsible for the death of their father.

A Samurai Never Tells a Lie

The shogun's vassal Harima Aoyama and a chamber maid are in love with each other, but they cannot be together d...

A Secret Rendezvous

After witnessing a murder, a married woman and a student agree not to meet and see each other out of fear of ex...

Miniature

Ginko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one geisha house to t...

限りなき情熱

Is it the sin of a woman's heart that casts ripples unexpectedly among peaceful people? In the bustling streets...

Love is Lost

Based on the novel by Torahiko Tamiya.

Sunset Hill

A yakuza falls in love with his brother's mistress while he is serving his sentence, and hides out in Hakodate...

Drifting

Adaptation of Fumiko Hayashi's novel.

The Flame of Devotion

The tragic tale of Kiyono, a young woman from the mountain who fell in love with Takuji, a fisherman's son, and...

This Day's Life

Shinobi no Mono 3: Resurrection

[Period covered: 1595-1600] We last saw ninja Ishikawa Goemon, as he was about to be boiled alive. But a good n...

The Seasons of Love

A family is slowly falling apart: the father is absent from the start, the mother a kept woman thanks to her ch...

The Mud-Spattered Pure Heart

Jiro, a young yakuza, and Mami, a diplomat’s daughter, are two young lovers from different worlds. Having met b...

High School Third Graders

In 1963, Funaki Kazuo's debut song of the same name was released and then it was adapted to a movie based on Ke...

The Young and Bad

Not too long ago, Soichiro was considered one of the most powerful men in business. But his business had failed...

The Day of Youth

At Tokyo Gakuen University, Takema, son of Tatsunosuke, chief of the Waku gang, is a freshman who wishes to pre...

Windy Street

Adapted from the original work by the literary giant Yasunari Kawabata. Through the lives of three sisters each...

Lost Love

Shimamura is a young man whose family went broke and lost their house. One day, as he returns to his former hou...

Tokai no kaii 7-ji 03-bu

Miyamoto Tokunosuke works at a Detective Agency in the heart of Tokyo. When his lover Ranko tells him that she'...

The Frozen Plains

1962 Japanese movie

The War Without Weapons

It's a story of the life of a man who advocated the necessity of sex education to children, which was unusual a...

That Guy and I

Asada Keiko and Kurokawa Saburo are two young college students. When Keiko visits Saburo's house, she meets his...

The Passionate Spinster

She'd watched them go one by one. Friend after friend. White dress after another. Yet again, Shimako was attend...