Kuniko Miyake Movies

"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...

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

A former naval officer returns to Japan after the Second World War ends, encounters the former mistress who ratted him out, and reconnects with his...

While working in an education center for lonely children, a mother seeks her missing son.

1962 Japanese movie

Goto Tamiko starred in TV commercials and her father, Keisuke, was a powerful financier who is now fallen on hard times. Tamiko wants to marry her...

A melodrama based on the novel by Yasunari Kawabata, telling about the tragic fate of a mother and daughter who are attracted to the same man.

This moving movie depicts the preciousness of life through the interaction between a man with a dark past and a boy battling illness.

Obscure Masumura film shot in 1961.

A young woman decides to leave school in order to help her sister.

Story of two close friends who long to become pilots in the air corps. Only one succeeds in entering the service, while the other finds a job in...

The story is centered around the devastating experiences of two villagers, Osaki Shuichi, and his cousin, Nishimiura Kinue, when they leave their...

Japanese mystery thriller.

1954 Japanese movie

A reformatory in the remote countryside houses 200 delinquents and problem children. The teachers and caretakers face much trouble. The school is...