Kuniko Igawa Movies

A 28-year-old single woman is pressured to marry.

A story about a high school sophomore, Uzumi Keiko (Kyoko Kami), in a coastal Japanese city, Keiko’s coming-of-age story centers on her...

In postwar Japan a young woman is unable to marry her sweetheart because her family's in difficult circumstances and needs her income to keep afloat.

Hiromasa Nomura World War II era film

A young yakuza student is led back to the straight and narrow path by his uncle.

The Nakata family, father, mother, son Hideo, and daughters Taeko and Akiko live in the poorer section of modern Tokyo. Their troubles start when the...

A boy, who is separated from his mother in an air raid, endures suffering and grief alongside his kind uncle.

1955 Japanese movie

Minoru delivered newspapers to earn money for high school, but when his mother came down with illness he decided to use this money for her doctor's...

After surviving the double suicide pact she made with her lover, a woman gives birth to their child.

A rural village elder plans an event on the return of a farmer's daughter from the city, unaware that she has become a Westernized burlesque artist.

1953 Japanese movie

A 1950 film by director 原研吉.

On March 11 in the seventh year of Tenpo (1836), a monk named Bennō, who fell in love with a geisha named Oshima, was publicly exposed at...