Tamae Kiyokawa

A forceful indictment of the devastating effects of war and nationalistic fanaticism on the average man, who, in the face of the absurdity of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chōjūrō Kawarasaki

Coal miner Isamu Oba is forced to quit his village and leave his mother and siblings behind. Mining buddy Ichiro accompanies him to Tokyo, and the...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ken Takakura

Japanese noir.

Genre: Action

Cast: Kanjūrō Arashi

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

Genre:

Cast: Michiyo Aratama

Directorial debut by Umetsugu Inoue, the famous director of Musicals

Genre:

Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

Melodrama by Kiyoshi Saeki

Genre:

Cast: Ken Uehara

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Yūji Hori

1961 Toei comedy

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Eitarō Shindō

Ushinosuke returns to his hometown to become a farmer. Part three (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku Shishi’s novel, Oban.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Daisuke Katō

Part 2 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series

Genre:

Cast: Mako Midori

Story of young love in the hills.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yū Fujiki

On the eve of the Russo-Japanese war at the beginning of the 20th century, small-town girl Okane has married an old wealthy man to escape a life of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

1962 Japanese movie

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

The otherwise promising young man Asaji (Heihachirô Ôkawa) and his younger brother Yuji (Hideo Saeki) face blighted lives because of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

As suggested by the title, this film takes up the theme of the city, beginning with a series of traveling shots from Chiyo's point of view on a bus...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

The Old Man of the Propeller can be seen as a comedic amalgam of “King Lear” and “Christmas Carol”. A neighborhood loan shark...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

This is a rokyoku film of Tenjuken Ungetsu II (Hideko Itami), a popular rokyoku performer who was famous for her seven different voices for men and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

1962 Japanese movie

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

1962 Japanese movie

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

A picture-story-show operator, accompanies her son, Akira, who lives apart from her, to a hot-spring medical treatment and spend a moment of brief...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

9th directorial work by Yamamoto Satsuo.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

Kitagawa Utamaro is a famous ukiyo-e artist known for his paintings of beautiful women. The courtesan who became his model became even more popular....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

1962 Japanese movie

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

It was supposed to be about a love story, but it was and was not. An aircraft mechanic working for the government is matched by his boss with the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

1950s Japanese comedy.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

1949 Japanese film

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

1950 drama film

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

1962 Japanese movie

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

After finishing the course of junior high school, Kazuo comes up to Tokyo, leaving his mother alone in the unproductive northern district. He finds a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

A priest in Hokkaido adopts a blind orphan girl, and as she grows up he finds himself falling in love with her.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

Jidaigeki by Tai Kato

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

Famed movie director Paul Robaix breaks with tradition by not casting his actress-comedienne wife, Lucy Dell, in his latest film production, a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

Akogare no Hawaii kôro

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

Set in Qingdao, China, a Japanese company locates an office there and begins work and cooperation with a local Chinese company for business. Many...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

Kichigoro, a firefighter from the Maeda family of the Kaga Principality, rescues Oshimo, the younger sister of Jirokichi, a city firefighter from the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

A luckless geisha struggles to make a living for herself and her young son.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

Okoma, a witty young woman working as a conductor in an old, rickety bus in Kōfu, Yamanashi (rural Japan), has a creative idea that could avert the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

1940 Japanese movie

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

Police detective Heiji is assigned to catch the masked Maboroshi gang of robbers who have terrorized all of Edo leaving few clues as to who their...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

Japanese comedy directed by Noriaki Yuasa.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

A sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love letters for other people.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

Yoshimura's 48th film is the contemporary story of a well-to-do family showing the frailties and failings of the class, the egotism, and the complete...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

1952 Japanese film directed by Kunio Watanabe.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

Kotaro Shimoyama, once a government official, loses his job and separates from his wife, Sachie. He now resides with his daughter, Haruko. By chance,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

Japanese musical.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

1936 P.C.L. adaptation of Natsume's novel.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

Second "Pfc. Story" sequel and the ninth and final sequel to "Story of Second Class Private", the only one in both series not directed by Seiichi...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

Japanese comedy film.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

Japanese comedy film.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

"Karayuki-san offers a no-holds-barred depiction of the discrimination faced by a former prostitute who returns to Japan from Singapore with her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

In A Tale of Archery, young, timid bowmaster Kazuma (Akitake Kôno) seeks to beat the archery record set by Hoshino Kanzaemon, a mysterious...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

A self-absorbed young actor humiliates an elderly Noh performer, who then commits suicide. His act of cruelty compels his father to disown him,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

A small community in wartime Japan learn how to make do with less.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

A spectacular comedy with a star-studded cast that depicts unusual trials and unexpected verdicts regarding the five deadly sins: the crime of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

Adaptation of a novel by Nobuko Yoshiya that was serialized in "Shufu no tomo" between 1939 and 1940.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

Postwar Tokyo. Pin and Toku live in the squatter area of Kappanuma. Pin and Toku are avid gamblers. They take in Tsuru, a slightly demented woman who...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

Japanese "kayo" film based on the song "Ieraishan" by Yoshiko Yamaguchi.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

Kinta (Nabe Osami) is Japanese by birth, but raised by a Chinese man. He stowsaway to Japan to see his girlfriend Yukiko but gets picked up for...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

A story about four best friends and their lives inside and outside college. Then suddenly one of them receives a surprising offer to be a movie star.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

Japanese drama film.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

Japanese comedy film.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

Tanuma Kandayuu is a high class samurai of the house of Nabeshima. He finds a lavish board of Go (a Chinese Board game) at Kinbei's store. He...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

Twenty-year-old Yoshiko (Setsuko Hara) and her younger sister Asako (Yōko Yaguchi) struggle to accept changes in their home during the preparations...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

Japanese domestic drama.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

Adaptation of Fumiko Hayashi's novel.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

Part 2 of a 2-part romance (fist part - Kafuku zempen) based on a story by noted author Kikuchi Kan. In the second half, we discover that Toyomi is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

Kohei Misugi works in a vegetable market, but his ambition is to be a photographer. He is given his first opportunity to demonstrate his talent by...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

An Ishiro Honda film.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

A young man and woman are determined to marry despite opposition from her parents.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

Nobuo is a hot-headed hoodlum fresh out of reform school who struggles to make a clean break with his tearaway past.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

Part 1 of a 2-part romance based on a story by noted author Kikuchi Kan. The central character here is Toyomi (played by Takako IRIE, star of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

The story follows Oshino, a geisha who is trying to start a new life with a lover who is a painter. However, her past filled with debts and pimps...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

Kanazawa in the Taisho era. A former junior high school student, Ichiro's family used to be a large landowner, but now they are living in poverty...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

Hideko, a young Baseball fan, determined to cheer for her favourite baseball team by creating a new song for them.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

A motley cast of characters, including a human billboard and a shoeshine girl, help a 5 year old girl after she is separated from her mother on the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

Lord for a Night is a 1946 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

Kôfuku eno shôtai - Invitation to happiness

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

The final film in Shimizu’s thirty-plus year career, Image of a Mother remains true to Shimizu’s central themes as a young boy must learn...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

1950 Japanese movie

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

Japanese prison exploitation movie. Part 1 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

1961 Japanese movie

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

When Shinsuke returns to Kyushu from the Russo-Japanese War he finds his Judo school hall neglected and in decay. His Judo teacher has died and his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

1960 Toei film

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

Based on a comic strip by Kaoru Akiyoshi. First in a four part film series.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao