Reiko Hibiki

The Crowded Train

Tamio Moroi, a young university graduate, works at a large brewery where he is taught to do nothing but look bu...

Manji

The four principals in a love affair collide when jealousy, blackmail and suicide enter the picture.

The Most Valuable Wife

Kyoko is the third daughter of the Nonomiya family, a very ordinary family. Momoko, the eldest daughter, is mar...

Warm Current

The story revolves around a young man appointed to rescue a troubled hospital who must choose between two women...

A Woman's Life

Based on Kaoru Morimoto oft performed 1945 play, a starring vehicle for famed actress Machiko Kyo as Kei an abu...

Closing Time

Outlaw island

The southern tip of Shikoku. This village, surrounded by a bay, where, according to legend, the former warriors...

Diary of a Mad Old Man

Utsugi, a seventy-seven-year-old man of refined tastes who is recovering from a stroke, discovers that, while h...

A Woman's Testament

The first story concerns an attractive young woman who works in a Tokyo nightclub. Her plan for a solid financi...

Beauty the Enemy

In a rural district of Tokyo, the owner of a farm is abandoned by his two daughters who are attracted to the li...

Tree of Love

1954 Japanese movie

Triangle Moods

Ayako Wakao portrays a downtown rice ball shop girl whose heart is set on her business. Involved in her life ar...

Black Test Car

Two car manufacturers spy on each other to try to find out details and prices of a new sports car each is about...

Modae

This unique melodrama depicts the anguish of a new wife whose husband confesses to her his infertility on their...

The Red Water

Comedy drama film

The Story of a Blind Woman

At sixteen, due to illness, Tsuruko goes blind, and has no choice but to become a massage therapist. One day, s...

The Burdened Sisters

Obscure Masumura film shot in 1961.

Machi no uwasa mo sanjûgo nichi

A bride suddenly disappears from the wedding venue, and her boyfriend begins searching for her. Things get hect...

Ninja in a Business Suit

An industry research director, Isomura, is killed in a suspected hit-and-run, but his employee, Hinuma, believe...

Ashita kara otona da

1960 Japanese movie

The Forest of No Escape

Adaptation of Seicho Matsumoto's novel of the same name.

情熱の詩人啄木

1962 Japanese movie

A Grain of Wheat

The film depicts a group of boys and girls who graduate from a local junior high school and head to Tokyo to fi...

Bury Me Deep

A suspense directed by Umetsugu Inoue, starring Ayako Wakao, depicting the intense lust created by the passion...

Kokoro no nichigetsu

The Lowest Man

A young offender who is already guilty of many crimes is sentenced again for rape. Upon his release from prison...

Whispering Death Beauty

Fujiko Niwa, a nurse, is in love with Dr. Suga, but fear clutches her heart when she overhears that Reiko, the...

Sentimental Mobsters

A young man who followed his father's wishes and became a travel actor causes a big commotion with his fellow m...

Onsen Geisha