Kuniko Miyake Movies

1956 Drama by Toshio Sugie

The story follows Oshino, a geisha who is trying to start a new life with a lover who is a painter. However, her past filled with debts and pimps...

The story tells of Tsuchiya, a university professor and a widower who is in love with a widow who runs a small restaurant, and his son is in love...

Hikaru Genji, the haunted romantic hero of Lady Murasaki Shikibu’s “Genji Monogatari” (Tale of Genji) comes to life in this new...

1962 Japanese movie

Up until this point, young Sayuri Nanjo has had to live most of her life in a nun-run boarding school for orphans and away from her parents. That's...

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.

Following the tragic death of his father, a young boy's family trains his horse to compete in the local derby.

A 1937 Japanese film.

"Youth After School" takes Tokyo and Kyoto as the stage, and tells the story of a family that develops around the daughter's marriage. The play was...

Kazuko Matsuo sings the theme song to this drama film.

1962 Japanese movie

Ignoring the protests of his working-class mother, a young man becomes wrapped up in the world of delinquents and yakuza.

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

A penniless orphan loses the woman he loves, when her family arranges a marriage to a wealthy playboy. He believes she was blinded by greed, and...