Mitsuko Yoshikawa

The Funeral

When Wabisuke's father-in-law unexpectedly dies, the family goes through a series of random events and occurren...

I Was Born, But...

Brothers Keiji and Ryoichi move to a new neighborhood in the Tokyo suburbs after their father, an office clerk,...

Akitsu Hot Springs

Just after WW2, a romance between an innkeeper and a man with tuberculosis unravels near a thermal spring.

Talented Woman

Set in an old merchant house in Kyoto, the film traces the passing of an era through the story of a parent and...

Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family

After the death of her husband, an elderly woman and her youngest, unmarried daughter are forced to sell their...

Four Sisters

A story about the lives of four sisters and their manipulative mother who must come to terms with each of their...

Record of a Tenement Gentleman

A hard-hearted old woman in a bombed-out Tokyo neighborhood reluctantly takes in an abandoned boy, leading to a...

A Carpenter and Children

A carpenter, Shigetsugu, learns a lesson of love and humanity from five orphaned children and an affectionate w...

With Songs in My Heart

Sayuri, a young woman born to a simple life on a farm, moves to Tokyo to pursue a life long dream of becoming a...

The Valley Between Love and Death

A great ambition to portray with sharp satire and humor the course of modern anxiety and love that is about to...

The Only Son

A rural widow sends her only son to Tokyo to receive a better education. Years later, she visits him and finds...

Burden of Life

A middle-aged father has just married off his third daughter, but still has his nine year old son to raise whom...

The Yellow Climate

Based on the mystery novel of the same name by Seichō Matsumoto.

Apart from You

An aging geisha, whose angry teenage son is ashamed of her profession, works alongside a young geisha, resentfu...

Delinquent Girl

A melodramatic love story, a would-be apprenticeship between the titular bad girl and the optimistic scholar re...

Journey

Bakeneko: A Vengeful Spirit

Nabeshima Naoshige murders his lord, Ryuzoji Takafusa, seeking to gain power and steal his Lord’s wife. To avoi...

Don't Tell Your Wife About It

A Japanese screwball comedy about the battle between the sexes: two timid men, egged on by their wives, end up...

Maria of the Ant Village

Alongside Tokyo's Sumida River is a ragpickers' settlement known as Ant Village. One night, a young Catholic gi...

Zangiku monogatari

Based on the novel by Shofu Muramatsu, the film is dedicated to the actors of the renowned Japanese Kabuki thea...

Eleven High School Girls

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

Mother and Child

The movie follows a young woman (Kinuyo Tanaka), a daughter of a high-ranking businessman and his neglected mis...

What Did the Lady Forget?

A professor, Komiya, and his bossy wife, Tokiko, are to look after Setsuko, their high-spirited niece from Osak...

The Living Magoroku

A wealthy family will not allow the military to grow crops on their fields due to their superstitious beliefs a...

A Fishwife's Tale

Hibari Misora plays Yoshiko, the popular daughter of a fish market owner. After discovering that she was adopte...

Okoto and Sasuke

A period piece about the love of a wealthy blind woman, a teacher of koto and shamisen, and her devoted manserv...

Zatoichi's Vengeance

Zatoichi comes upon a dying man who asks him to give a bag of money to "Taichi". Zatoichi has no idea who this...

Wedding Ring

A jewelry store president begins to fall for the doctor treating her husband's illness.

The Lady and the Beard

Graduate Okajima finds his old-fashioned beard makes life difficult in a comedy exploring the tension between t...

The Tale of Oiwa's Ghost

A samurai plots to reclaim his estranged wife after she leaves him over a murder scandal. When her sister falls...

Deep River Melody

A poignant story about a young couple, Setsu and Chozo, who are torn apart to save Setsu's father's restaurant.

Samurai Hawk

1716, Yoshimune becomes the 8th Shogun as high Shogunate officials are attacked. While the government tries to...

Mark of Blood

Three young yakuza, Fujitaro, Matsugoro and Kanjuro, travel the country fighting evil.

The Tale of Genji

An eroticized adaptation of Murasaki Shikibu's classic novel, written over 1000 years ago. Genji, the son of th...

A Mother Should Be Loved

A young man discovers that the woman who raised him is his stepmother. His stepbrother, who is unaware of the r...

Dash to the Sun

A song drama based on the autobiographical song "The sun is laughing" by composer Endo Minoru. It tells the sto...