Mitsuko Yoshikawa Movies

Alongside Tokyo's Sumida River is a ragpickers' settlement known as Ant Village. One night, a young Catholic girl, Satoko Kitahara, who has been...

1716, Yoshimune becomes the 8th Shogun as high Shogunate officials are attacked. While the government tries to keep these incidents under wraps, they...

A young man rents an apartment in Tokyo and discover it was built by his father. He falls in love with the daughter of the mistress of the house and...

Japanese war film.

Japanese home drama starring Kinuyo Tanaka.

1961 Japanese movie

Hatamoto Akabane Tanaka once ruined his life with alcohol in his youth, leaving behind his wife and son, Hanji, to embark on a journey. He killed a...

The movie follows a young woman (Kinuyo Tanaka), a daughter of a high-ranking businessman and his neglected mistress, as she struggles to ease her...

1962 Japanese movie

A touching action film about a young yakuza who becomes infected with evil because he has the ability to easily decipher the mechanism of a safe....

1948 adaptation of Golden Devil

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

Japanese silent jidaigeki from 1927.

1939 Japanese movie

Machiko falls in love with a mysterious man, but her family wants something different for her.

The story focuses on the widower Nemoto, ostensibly a businessman, who has one son, Kanichi, the hero of the title. Nemoto remarries; his new wife is...

1954 Japanese movie

1962 Japanese movie. Remake of Mori's 1942 original movie

The three-hour Ai yo jinrui to tomo ni are / Love, Be with Humanity (1931) starts as a satire of alienation in the world of money, develops into a...

Sayuri, a young woman born to a simple life on a farm, moves to Tokyo to pursue a life long dream of becoming a singer. Through dance, music, and...