Mitsuko Yoshikawa Movies

A musical film made for the inauguration of Shochiku's Ofuna Studio, with an all-star cast of the era.

Japanese war film.

Based on the mystery novel of the same name by Seichō Matsumoto.

Akogare no Hawaii kôro

The eldest daughter of a noble family is in love with an aviator while being courted by a fellow aristocrat she thinks is a dullard. Told from the...

Inoue was something of a rarity in the sense, that he was a Shochiku house director who seems to have worked mostly in period films, often with big...

On vacation's eve, a boy is sent to the countryside to live with his uncle after his father is imprisoned and accused of embezzlement.

1962 Japanese movie

Kinuyo is a daughter of rice cracker shop in downtown. She fell in love with her sister's boyfriend. It is a story whose theme is warm human...

Hisshoka is a 1945 Drama film directed by four Japanese directors.

Based on the serialized story "東京一代女" which appeared in Tokyo Shinbun. A geisha known for her dancing begins...

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

Three men fall in love with the same young girl who works in a tonkatsu restaurant in the Shitamachi district of Tokyo.

Domestic comedy involving a strong wife and a "henpecked" husband taking place in a family-run judo school.

Hiromasa Nomura World War II era film

A young doctor, Kozo Tsumura, falls for young nurse Katsue Takaishi. But she's got a secret: she's a widow with a son. Kozo and Katsue decide to run...

A young couple flee their disapproving parents, get lost of Mt. Akagi and find a cache of gold protected by the ghost of a gangster.

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

1951 Japanese movie