Kikuko Hanaoka

Japanese sex comedy film.

1961 Toei adaptation of Yokomizo's novel.

Japanese comedy film.

Home drama about tin craftsmen and their families in downtown Tokyo. Though poor, they do not lose their cheerfulness or give in to oppression.

Japanese comedy film.

Japanese comedy film.

1959 Shintoho adaptation of Kyoka Izumi's novel "A Woman's Pedigree".

The ghost of a samurai's wife takes revenge on her husband.

Japanese comedy film.

Japanese comedy film.

A fox in disguise, Okon, returns the favor to a man who rescued her from a fatal trap.

Japanese comedy film.

A blind masseur visits a samurai to request the return of a loan. The samurai kills him in anger, then has his servant dump the body in the Kasane swamp. However, the ghost of the masseur returns to haunt the samurai, who kills his wife by mistake and then goes to the swamp and drowns himself. 20 years later, the masseur's daughter unknowingly falls in love with the samurai's son who has been brought up to be a servant. After she is horribly disfigured in an accident, he plots to run away with another woman, but the path of their escape lies by the Kasane swamp...

An exciting historical drama in which a beautiful woman secretly solves the family problems of the Owari clan. Hibari Misora plays two roles: a charming princess and a dashing youngster, performs songs and dances throughout the film until the big decisive battle.

Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Wakai omawari-san" by Shiro Sone.

Japanese comedy film.

Oiwa has been searching for the one who killed her father for a long time. She comes to Yedo and sees a man named Naosuke. The film is based on the kabuki classic: Toukaidou Yotsuya Kaidan (1826) written by Tsuruya Nanboku and is one of the most famous ghost stories throughout Japan.

Japanese youth film about kendo.

The day to day life in an establishment for delinquent teenage girls.

Scammer Horikawa Shinbei hopes to make a quick buck using Namie, a stripper under his control.

Based on the play ”Mabuta no haha” by famed author Shin Hasegawa, this is the first major starring role for Tomisaburo Wakayama. This heartfelt story concerns a wandering gambler from Banba by the name of Chutaro. Set during the Tenpo Period, Chutaro runs afoul of Boss Sukegoro of Iioka. Pursued by vengeance seeking swordsmen, Chutaro displays his phenomenal martial art skills. Abandoned as a child, he seeks to find his long lost mother, while at the same time fighting off numerous attacks by Iioka’s men.

Japanese comedy film.

1954 Japanese film starring professional wrestler Rikidozan.

Early adaptation of the book "The Inugami Clan", featuring the detective Kōsuke Kindaichi.

Japanese war film.

Un hombre triste y preocupado, Reikichi Mayumi (Masayuki Mori), encuentra un nuevo trabajo cinco años después del final de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Él escribirá cartas de amor de otras personas. Sus ideas sobre el amor y sus principios personales serán probados cuando se reencuentra con su ex novia, Michiko (Yoshigo Kuga), una mujer con un pasado oscuro marcado por la guerra.

Japanese war drama.

1952 Japanese film directed by Kunio Watanabe.

Japanese comedy film.

Japanese comedy film.

Thriller drama by Kon Ichikawa

A luckless geisha struggles to make a living for herself and her young son.

A bar girl tries to pass her three children, each from a different father, to rural relatives.

An early film by Kon Ichikawa

Tanuma Kandayuu is a high class samurai of the house of Nabeshima. He finds a lavish board of Go (a Chinese Board game) at Kinbei's store. He recommend Kinbei to offer it to his lord. Kinbei hesitates at first, since he knows the board has a mysterious legend surrounding it; it's believed that for every game played on the board, one death is required.

Police detective Heiji is assigned to catch the masked Maboroshi gang of robbers who have terrorized all of Edo leaving few clues as to who their leader is.

Lord for a Night is a 1946 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa.

The Way of Drama unfolds in the world of kabuki in Osaka, but also addresses the politics of popular culture and the rivalry between theatrical styles like those used by amateur actors to dramatise contemporary events.

A small community in wartime Japan learn how to make do with less.

War-time jidaigeki by Eisuke Takizawa. Didn't find anything about it online, but Takizawa was a well-regarded director in his time. Akira Kurosawa worked as A.D. on several of his films.

A 1942 film.

En el Tokyo de 1885, Kikunosuke Onoue, hijo de un importante actor, descubre, desolado, que es aplaudido únicamente por ser el heredero de su padre y que, en realidad, el público se mofa de sus interpretaciones. La única persona que se atreve a ser sincera con él es Otoku, la niñera de los hijos de su hermano. pero precisamente por ello es despedida, y a Kikunosuke le prohiben verla por temor a los rumores que se desatarían por su relación con una sirvienta.

Two cowardly palanquin carriers know the culprit of a murder but are too scared to report it to the police. In the mean time, an innocent man is arrested as the murderer and chaos ensues. Pre-war jidaigeki film.

"The Dancing Girl of Izu" tells of the story between a young male student who is touring the Izu Peninsula and a family of traveling dancers he meets there, including their youngest girl. The student finds the naïve girl attractive even though he eventually has to part with the family after spending memorable time together.

Shunsaku Atsumi, su madre Kishiyo, su aburrida esposa Masako su encantadora hijita Shingeko viven juntos en una confortable casa adquirida con los beneficios que les proporciona su boyante negocio de pescadería. No obstante, tan pintoresco cuadro no carece de trapos sucios. Nueve años antes, la verdadera madre de Shingeko, Tamae, dejó a Shunsaku y a su hija para marchar a Norteamérica. Un día, Shunsaku es acusado de un crimen, y Tamae regresa a casa convertida en una actriz de éxito en los Estados Unidos y reclama la custodia de su hija. Entretanto, en la empresa de Shunsaku, los trabajadores y la dirección se hallan enfrentados por motivos salariales. Tamae se ofrece para sacar a la compañía de sus apuros con su propio dinero, pero Shunsaku se niega en redondo. Shunsaku ingresa en prisión y la compañía se desliza hacia la quiebra...

When a young man inherits his father's lucrative business, he cheats the system to set up three of his college friends with jobs.

Film by Hiroshi Shimizu, featuring an early role for frequent Ozu and Naruse collaborator Hideko Takamine.

Directed by Yasujirô Shimazu.

The three-hour Ai yo jinrui to tomo ni are / Love, Be with Humanity (1931) starts as a satire of alienation in the world of money, develops into a lumberland epic with a forest fire on Sakhalin Island, turns into a tragedy of King Lear dimensions, and manages to amaze the blasé audience with a happy end in the Wild West.