Hisako Yamane Movies

Iemon Tamiya is an impoverished masterless samurai who craves a better life, which he cannot have because of his marriage to Oiwa, who is completely...

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

Bittersweet shomin-geki drama by Keigo Kimura

Jidai-geki by Kiyoshi Saeki

An early film by Kon Ichikawa

Song of the White Orchid was a co-production of Toho and Mantetsu, the railway that served the colonial region of Manchuria, and the first film in...

Michiko Asakura was married to the eldest son of the Sakuma family, an unsealed family in Shinshu, but died from her husband and returned to her...

Period film about the legendary detective Umon

1944 war movie

Melodrama by Kon Ichikawa

Based on the comic by Ichio Matsushita

1951 Japanese movie

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...

The story of an airport and its air traffic control crew in a remote and northern Japanese town. Three of the air traffic controllers are female with...