Hisako Yamane Movies

In the Okawa household, Miharu is the breadwinner, while her husband, Soma, handles the domestic chores. One day, a poor student couple moves into...

Japanese film released to commemorate the 7th anniversary of Shintoho's founding.

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...

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...

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

Jidai-geki by Kiyoshi Saeki

It is 1921 and a town has a newspaper which prints urgent bulletins as required. The Washington-based CITES treaty, in which Japan participates, puts...

1951 Japanese movie

Melodrama by Kon Ichikawa

Government-sponsored film set during the Pacific War, depicting the lives of people working as stevedores.

A unique literary work that describes the end of a married woman who rebelled against her husband's adultery and became addicted to her own sexuality.

Period film about the legendary detective Umon

An early film by Kon Ichikawa

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...

The story is based on the serial novel by Tsunoda Kikuo.

Set against the 1877 Satsuma Rebellion, two Osaka families navigate the radical social shifts of the early Meiji Era. As the merchant class ascends...