Hisako Yamane Movies

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...

Dai-ichi-bu: Dôkai-wan no rantô - Kiyoshi Saeki directed movie.

A comedy about two salarymen who routinely degrade themselves for their boss.

The story is set in a rural village, where the village mayor gives a speech at the local community center as a theater troupe visits the village for...

Jidai-geki by Kiyoshi Saeki

A handsome man and a beautiful woman who seek to restore the Toyotomi clan by taking in the orphaned Princess Tsuru.

1952 Japanese movie

A young woman (Kuga), recuperating at a sanitarium in Karuizawa, falls in love with a young student (Ishihama) but returns to Tokyo to be with her...

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

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...

Film by Buichi Saitô

Based on the comic by Ichio Matsushita

1944 war movie

The story deas with the experiences of an exceptionally strong-willed, middle class Tokyo "ojōsan" who comes to teach in a middle school in the...

An early film by Kon Ichikawa

A 1942 film.

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...

A lighthearted and entertaining film that incorporates popuar songs into a period drama.

Based on the collection of letters by Ozaki Hidemi, who was implicated in the Sorge spy incident, the film depicts the bond between a husband and...