Yaeko Mizutani Movies

In postwar Japan, a new teacher, Miyamoto Yasuko, is discovered by her estranged daughter, Fukuoka Shōko, at a high school. As Yasuko confronts...

Two residents of Edo city Yaji and Kita make a journey to the temple of Ise, as part of a religious pilgrimage, but actually to get away from their...

Could I But Live

1953 Japanese movie

A 1950 film by director 原研吉.

Directed in 1921

Chushingura has been made into a movie several times before, but this time it will be presented in a widescreen version with all natural colors and a...

An elderly woman devoted to her foster-daughter searches for a good husband for her.

Melodrama about two sisters with different mothers.

The story of a sailor who begins a love affair with a woman he saves from suicide.

A 1946 Japanese film directed by Keigo Kimura.

An early Japanese sound film, notable for being the only Japanese film ever to use the Western Electric Sound System. Contrary to most Western...

Bored Hatamoto movie #29

A movie adaptation of Funayama Kaoru's novel of the same name, which depicts the story of a modern youth who is attracted to the evil path. Saburi...

An Ishiro Honda film.

Returning from wartime China, Keiichi reunites with his mother Inako and adopted sister Tomi. He becomes drawn to Tomi’s beauty, and his mother...

Uta’s mother died when she was six years old; her father she never met. She was forced to adopt a traveller’s life when her grandmother...