Mitsue Tachibana

Those Who Make Tomorrow

In postwar Japan, two sisters—a film studio script girl and a revue dancer—become swept up in the growing labor...

Forty-Eight Man

Jidai-geki by Kiyoshi Saeki

A Man Among Men

Gangsters Ken and Maki are rivals in the ticket-scalping game. They make an uneasy truce, but Ken wrecks the tr...

The Vampire Moth

The story of a professional nude model stalked by a bizarre, unknown man wearing a hideous mask.

Duel in the Sun

A film by Kiyoshi Saeki

The Blue Mountains: Part I

Teacher Yukiko finds herself in opposition to conservative faculty and villagers after defending a student for...

Repast

In post-WWII Osaka, a middle-aged woman is forced to examine her dreary life and marriage when her husband's yo...

Husband and Wife

A married couple looking for an apartment move in with the husband's co-worker, a widower. The husband becomes...

The Angry Street

University students Sudo and Mori make money by picking up rich girls in dance clubs and conning them into givi...

恐妻時代

Ghost Man

A ghost man with his face hidden entirely by bandages is killing beautiful nude models. Detective Kindaichi inv...

Girls in the Orchard

Girls in the Orchard (1953) is about tension between the life of a family in a rural area with all the traditio...

Escape at Dawn

Mikami, a Japanese soldier, is captured by Chinese forces. Although able to escape, he is treated with contempt...

How the Bell of Liberty Rings

Set during Japan's Bakumatsu period, the film follows Fukuzawa Yukichi, a poor samurai's son who defies societa...

Eleven High School Girls

With his simple appearance, eyes shining with love and a sense of justice, and voice burning with youthful pass...

Settlement of Love

Living in a house that has lost its man to the war a year earlier are the widow and her child. Four of the dead...

When We Came Back

Melodrama by Kiyoshi Saeki

War and Peace

A woman remarries after receiving official notification that her husband has died, but he returns.

情艶一代女

Based on the serialized story "東京一代女" which appeared in Tokyo Shinbun. A geisha known for her dancing begins tr...

Tokyo Profile

A motley cast of characters, including a human billboard and a shoeshine girl, help a 5 year old girl after she...

Uta e! Taiyō

1945 Japanese movie

All Sold Out

Wakôdo no uta

Wharf with the Weeping Girl

After a gang killing forces him to flee abroad, ex-yakuza Ryūji returns to Yokohama a year later to find his lo...

Nonsense Detective Story: The Phantom Woman

Beyond The Stars

Mama's Diary