Yōko Minamida Movies

Film directed by Seiji Hisamatsu and starring Wakao Ayako

Story of an ex-con trying to go straight, but of course the old ways die hard.

A 1970 juvenile delinquent drama.

The Domain: Where The Blade Enters

Joe Shishido is an ambitious bike racetrack tout who becomes inadvertently involved in a triangle with a vulnerable prostitute (Izumi Ashikawa) and...

A woman who grew up in a prestigious household, begins to have an affair outside the marriage.

The lives of two brothers, Kunio and Akira Kasahara, are changed forever when their father is murdered. Kunio sets out on a manhunt to avenge his...

Canal - A river created by cutting through nature for the sake of human life that flows silently, encompassing good, evil, sorrow, and joy, just like...

A touching literary and artistic story about the sadness and pathos of a woman's love, crying in agony over her hidden past.

A fresh graduate from a university in Tokyo takes a job as an English teacher at a prestigious high school in Kobe. However, shortly after arriving,...

This fairy tale depicts the heartwarming connection between a young man who has lost his memory and the gypsies.

An action masterpiece depicting the brotherhood of a younger brother (a student yakuza who breaks the gang rules and the law), and an older brother...

1962 Japanese movie

Film directed by Shima Koji and starring Wakao Ayako

The film is set in Karafuto after the radio broadcast of the Imperial Rescript on the Termination of the War. On August 15, 1945, Soviet forces...

A beautiful and healthy young girl growing up in poverty overcomes hardships and grows into a woman in this deeply moving literary epic.