Mitsuko Yoshikawa Movies

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

Hibari Misora plays Yoshiko, the popular daughter of a fish market owner. After discovering that she was adopted, she sets out to help her biological...

Silent comedic short by Mikio Naruse

Atsuko is an office secretary who is also her family's primary source of income and caretaker in postwar Japan.

A young doctor, Kozo Tsumura, falls for young nurse Katsue Takaishi. But she's got a secret: she's a widow with a son. Kozo and Katsue decide to run...

Inoue was something of a rarity in the sense, that he was a Shochiku house director who seems to have worked mostly in period films, often with big...

1948 adaptation of Golden Devil, part 2

After the death of his parents, railway worker Yuichiro Murofushi returns to his hometown and agrees to an arranged marriage at the insistence of his...

1930. In splendid snowy settings, the trials and pain of a woman married to a man who maintains a relationship with their servant.

A melodramatic love story, a would-be apprenticeship between the titular bad girl and the optimistic scholar returning from the big city. It is...

An anthology of thirteen patriotic stories about Japanese citizens contributing to the war effort.

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

A period piece about the love of a wealthy blind woman, a teacher of koto and shamisen, and her devoted manservant. Based on a novella by Tanizaki...

Two childhood friends go their own ways but meet again some years later after they have both married. They get re-acquainted, meet each others’...

1961 Japanese movie

1961 Japanese movie

A salaryman finds some money in the street and gets a reward for returning it to its rightful owner. However his colleagues immediately start...

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