Hatsuko Wakahara Movies

A war propaganda film centered on the mobilization of student soldiers.

Movie about biological mothers, foster mothers, and stepmothers.

A realistic film that sharply portrays a cross-section of postwar society.

An envelope of obscene woodblock prints makes a perverse connection between a violent homeless boxer, a feckless husband and a wife with a past...

1950 daiei movie.

Following the unexpected death of her father, stage actress Emi Ikushima has to navigate the pitfalls of her rising fame and her increasingly...

1946 Japanese movie.

A great ambition to portray with sharp satire and humor the course of modern anxiety and love that is about to be driven to despair.

Shinjiro, the only son of Sakai Hospital, could not forget Mie, a geisha he had met at a munitions factory during the war. He refused to marry...

The female members of the family of the Minister of Health and Welfare, who has just proposed a program of birth control, become pregnant one after...

A dispute over the estate of a wealthy family’s patriarch erupts between the son’s widow and her child on one side, and the...

A violent story of loyalty and revenge among the many "yakuza" or gambling groups in Japan.

Chief editor Shiro Kamisaka (Hisaya Morishige) of Sankei Publishing Inc. is being tried for embezzlement and the staging of Chiyo Umehara's suicide....

Young female teacher Kyoko Miyake relocates to a small seaside town with her runaway little sister, but their new life is complicated by hoodlum-like...