Hisako Yamane Movies

A melodrama of the ups and downs of youth, based on Bunroku Shishi’s popular novel. Chiharu, a ballerina, and Shinichi, a thorough rationalist...

1952 Japanese movie

Period film about the legendary detective Umon

Melodrama by Kon Ichikawa

Jidai-geki by Kiyoshi Saeki

An early film by Kon Ichikawa

Japanese mystery thriller.

Upon discovering that her father has a mistress, a young girl befriends the "other woman" and her child. Realizing that her half-sister is doomed to...

Hanakosan (1943, TOHO, MAKINO Masahiro), a thoroughly light and joyful musical comedy, influenced by Busby Berkeley films, against the national...

A unique literary work that describes the end of a married woman who rebelled against her husband's adultery and became addicted to her own sexuality.

1951 Japanese movie

Dai-ni-bu: Aijô ruten: Kiyoshi Saeki directed movie

Based on a short story by Dazai Osamu, produced under the national film law. The film's hero falls in love with the youngest daughter of a family he...

Once an average and seemingly ordinary Tokyo girl, she suddenly finds herself as a TV star owing to her discovery by a casting company, which noticed...

A conflict between two yakuza families in Tokyo, the Izus and the Yoshidas, has recently broken out. When an Izu underling starts a fight with a...

A 1942 film.

1956 Japanese film, originally released in three parts.

1942 adaptation of Izumi Kyoka's novel.