Tamae Kiyokawa

Love for an Idiot

A middle-aged factory engineer trains, marries, and ultimately loses a teenage bride after she enslaves him to...

The Akasaka Sisters: Soft Touch of Night

Set in the postwar turmoil, Akasaka no shimai paints a vivit portrait of the life of three sisters who struggle...

Love Letter

Five years after the end of the Second World War, Reikichi, a repatriated veteran, translates love letters for...

On This Earth

Ichiro’s family used to be a large landowner, but now he is living in poverty with his mother. His mother works...

Third Class Executives

1950s Japanese comedy.

Jacks and Jills

Beyond the Hills

Story of young love in the hills.

Seisaku's Wife

On the eve of the Russo-Japanese war at the beginning of the 20th century, small-town girl Okane has married an...

My Geisha

Famed movie director Paul Robaix breaks with tradition by not casting his actress-comedienne wife, Lucy Dell, i...

大当り男一代

Shinzō, the heir of the prominent Edo lumber dealer Yamashiroya, left home when his stubborn father, Chōzaemon,...

Currents of Youth

It was supposed to be about a love story, but it was and was not. An aircraft mechanic working for the governme...

Ginza Cosmetics

A few days in the life of a quiet geisha, single mother of a smart young boy, in the lively Tokyo quarter of Gi...

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 Blue Sky Maiden

Yuko is sent to the coastal regions to be raised away from the rest of her sophisticated family where she finds...

Nonki saiban

A spectacular comedy with a star-studded cast that depicts unusual trials and unexpected verdicts regarding the...

Kekkon Sanjûshi

Snake Woman's Curse

An old man dies of heartbreak when a cruel landlord is about to repossess his land. The old man haunts the land...

Ditch

Postwar Tokyo. Pin and Toku live in the squatter area of Kappanuma. Pin and Toku are avid gamblers. They take i...

Wait for Tomorrow

Kohei Misugi works in a vegetable market, but his ambition is to be a photographer. He is given his first oppor...

Mama, I Need You!

After finishing the course of junior high school, Kazuo comes up to Tokyo, leaving his mother alone in the unpr...

Women Doing Time

Part 2 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series

Drifting

Adaptation of Fumiko Hayashi's novel.

Sing, Young People!

A story about four best friends and their lives inside and outside college. Then suddenly one of them receives...

A Mother's Love

A bar girl tries to pass her three children, each from a different father, to rural relatives.

China Night

Wartime propaganda filmed by the Japanese in occupied China, Shirley Yamaguchi portrays an orphan rescued from...

Love's Cheerleader

Directorial debut by Umetsugu Inoue, the famous director of Musicals

Five Sisters

The story of five sisters.

Marathon Samurai

The TV drama of Ima Harube was adapted by Yagi Ryuichiro ("Komuso Henge"), directed by Mori Issei ("I Am Fujiki...

Hideko the Bus Conductor

Okoma, a witty young woman working as a conductor in an old, rickety bus in Kōfu, Yamanashi (rural Japan), has...

Rogue

Coal miner Isamu Oba is forced to quit his village and leave his mother and siblings behind. Mining buddy Ichir...

直八子供旅

Beyond the Hills

Adaptation of a novel by Yojiro Ishizaka, originally released in two parts.

Utamaro, Painter of the Woman

Kitagawa Utamaro is a famous ukiyo-e artist known for his paintings of beautiful women. The courtesan who becam...

Meeting of the Ghost of Apres-Guerre

In a small town, according to the homecoming of Professor Ishinaka, the youth culture group was overwhelmed to...

When We Came Back

Melodrama by Kiyoshi Saeki

Five Star Private