Hisako Yamane Movies

Based on the collection of letters by Ozaki Hidemi, who was implicated in the Sorge spy incident, the film depicts the bond between a husband and...

In Edo Period Japan, a noblewoman's banishment for her love affair with a lowly page signals the beginning of her inexorable fall.

Iemon Tamiya is an impoverished masterless samurai who craves a better life, which he cannot have because of his marriage to Oiwa, who is completely...

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...

1944 war movie

Director Hiroshi Inagaki's early version of the life and death of famed swordsman Sasaki Kojiro. Otani Tomoemon gives a brilliant performance as...

The story of the tender love between Junki, the son of a wealthy landowner, and Kayuki, the daughter of a forester, who decided to unite their...

A 1942 film.

1956 Japanese film, originally released in three parts.

Part 2 starts where the first film ended, with Iemon disposing of the bodies of his wife and Kohei, marrying upward, and being blackmailed by the...

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...

Jidai-geki by Kiyoshi Saeki

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

1951 Japanese movie

An early film by Kon Ichikawa

Based on a short story by Dazai Osamu, produced under the national film law. The film's hero falls in love with the youngest daughter of a family he...