Hisako Yamane

Windy Street (1959)

Adapted from the original work by the literary giant Yasunari Kawabata. Through the lives of three sisters each following their own path, the film offers a richly poetic exploration of what constitutes happiness for women. ...

Zesshou (1958)

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 destinies against their parents' wishes. Neither war nor years of separation could kill this love. It was only cu ...

A Slope in the Sun (1958)

The young Takako Kuramoto has come to Tokyo to study and starts working for the rich Tashiro family as tutor of the daughter, Kumiko, while she receives attention from her two older brothers, Yukichi and Shinji. Meanwhile, the exact parentage of Shinji com ...

Who's the Real Killer (1957)

Film about a car dealer who gets into financial trouble. ...

This Day's Life (1957)

Song of the Underworld (1956)

A conflict between two yakuza families in Tokyo, the Izus and the Yoshidas, has recently broken out. When an Izu underling starts a fight with a Yoshida man, Fuyu, the Izu family sends Tsuruta, a senior member of the clan, to make a personal apology to Fuy ...

Kobushidake denki (1956)

1956 Japanese film, originally released in three parts. ...

Shiawase wa doko ni (1956)

The Baby Carriage (1956)

Upon discovering that her father has a mistress, a young girl befriends the "other woman" and her child. Realizing that her half-sister is doomed to being regarded as an outcast, the heroine sets about to spiritually legitimize the girl. ...

Iroha Elegy (1955)

Ghost Story of Youth (1955)

A melodrama of the ups and downs of youth, based on Bunroku Shishi's popular novel. Chiharu, a ballerina, and Shinichi, a thorough rationalist and childhood friend. A woman named Tomi Funakoshi appears in front of the two, who are thinking of getting marri ...

The Moon Has Risen (1955)

Mokichi Asai is a widowed father living in Nara with three daughters—Chizuru, Ayako, and Setsuko. The youngest, Setsuko, plays matchmaker for her older sisters, leading to humorous and awkward romantic entanglements. ...

Kenkagarasu (1954)

Historical drama about two samurai who fight over everything yet unite together to fight an evil lord. ...

Kenkyō edo-murasaki (1954)

Japanese film released to commemorate the 7th anniversary of Shintoho's founding. ...

Hana to ryû - Dai-ni-bu: Aijô ruten (1954)

Dai-ni-bu: Aijô ruten: Kiyoshi Saeki directed movie ...

Hana to ryû - Dai-ichi-bu: Dôkai-wan no rantô (1954)

Dai-ichi-bu: Dôkai-wan no rantô - Kiyoshi Saeki directed movie. ...

Aijô ni tsuite (1953)

Michiko Asakura was married to the eldest son of the Sakuma family, an unsealed family in Shinshu, but died from her husband and returned to her parents' house in Tokyo with her five-year-old daughter Yoshiko. ...

My Wonderful Yellow Car (1953)

One Thousand Ryo Ship in the Wind and Clouds (1952)

1952 Japanese movie ...

Forty-Eight Man (1952)

Jidai-geki by Kiyoshi Saeki ...

Kin no tamago: Golden Girl (1952)

Once an average and seemingly ordinary Tokyo girl, she suddenly finds herself as a TV star owing to her discovery by a casting company, which noticed photographs that her cousin had sent. When another actress falls ill she is given the role instead. Her fi ...

The Life of Oharu (1952)

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

Farewell to Spring (1952)

Bittersweet shomin-geki drama by Keigo Kimura ...

Casebooks of Detective Umon: The Incident of the Fawn-Pattern Cloth (1952)

Period film about the legendary detective Umon ...

Wedding March (1951)

Melodrama by Kon Ichikawa ...

Sekidô matsuri (1951)

A film by Kiyoshi Saeki. Very little information availabe. ...

Sasaki Kojiro (1951)

Director Hiroshi Inagaki's early version of the life and death of famed swordsman Sasaki Kojiro. Otani Tomoemon gives a brilliant performance as Sasaki Kojiro, who rises from humble beginnings to national fame, and a young Toshiro Mifune appears as the leg ...

Swords and Brocade (1951)

A young lord joins gang of Robin-esque robbers. ...

Zoku Sasaki Kojiro (1951)

1951 Japanese movie ...

Snow-Flake (1950)

Sanshiro of Ginza (1950)

An early film by Kon Ichikawa ...

Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2 (1949)

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 evil Naosuke. ...

Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1 (1949)

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 devoted to her husband. ...

Late Night Confession (1949)

Japanese mystery thriller. ...

365 Nights (1948)

A young man rents an apartment in Tokyo and discover it was built by his father. He falls in love with the daughter of the mistress of the house and decides to marry her. Only to discover that his father is is in debt and wants him to marry Ranko so that s ...

Kuro-uma no danshichi (1948)

A Thousand and One Nights with Toho (1947)

The debut film of Shin Toho Productions ...

Both You and I (1946)

A comedy about two salarymen who routinely degrade themselves for their boss. ...

A Descendant of Urashima Taro (1946)

Reputedly based on Frank Capra's 1939 film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, A Descendant of Tarô Urashima is about a repatriated soldier who becomes populist politician in the Japanese Happiness Party. ...

Three Women of the North (1945)

The story of an airport and its air traffic control crew in a remote and northern Japanese town. Three of the air traffic controllers are female with one of them working with her dead fiancé's sister. The engaged man had gone to war and never returned. ...

Tokkan ekichô (1945)

Based on the comic by Ichio Matsushita ...

Four Marriages (1944)

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 is visiting to arrange an engagement for his friend who has been drafted to fight in the war. ...

Harbor of Life (1944)

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

The Cruel Sea (1944)

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 a limit on the number of warships any country can possess. As a result, Japan has to decommission a ship t ...

This Happy Life (1944)

A small community in wartime Japan learn how to make do with less. ...

Idaten Kaido (1944)

Miss Hanako (1943)

Hanakosan (1943, TOHO, MAKINO Masahiro), a thoroughly light and joyful musical comedy, influenced by Busby Berkeley films, against the national policy under the wartime, was made into a film from comic serials by SUGIURA Yukio published in a magazine. ...

Omokage no machi (1942)

A 1942 film. ...

Onna keizu (1942)

1942 adaptation of Izumi Kyoka's novel. ...

The Man Who Waited (1942)

A bizarre murder at a hot springs resort threatens to disrupt an Edo detective's (Hasegawa) vacation. When his hot-blooded wife (Yamada) starts snooping around, however, he finds himself reluctantly drawn in to the case. ...

Currents of Youth (1942)

It was supposed to be about a love story, but it was and was not. An aircraft mechanic working for the government is matched by his boss with the latter man's daughter (Setsuko Hara) who is both beautiful and aggressive. Yet, he picks a woman who is less a ...

A Man's Flower Road of Triumph (1941)

The Seven Changes of a Paper Crane (Part 2) (1941)

The story is based on the serial novel by Tsunoda Kikuo. ...

The Seven Changes of a Paper Crane (Part 1) (1941)

The story is based on the serial novel by Tsunoda Kikuo. ...

Travelling Actors (1940)

This film depicts a troupe of wandering kabuki players traveling through rural Japan. ...

Harmonica Boy (1940)

The only son of a sushi chef hates sushi and decides to leave home to search for a job and make his own way. ...

Song of the White Orchid (1939)

Song of the White Orchid was a co-production of Toho and Mantetsu, the railway that served the colonial region of Manchuria, and the first film in the Kazuo Hasegawa/Shirley Yamaguchi (Ri Koran) "Continental Trilogy." Handsome Hasegawa (representing Japan) ...

Numazu Officer School (1939)

Japanese war movie ...

Old Songs (1939)

Set against the 1877 Satsuma Rebellion, two Osaka families navigate the radical social shifts of the early Meiji Era. As the merchant class ascends to economic prominence, the former samurai class faces a steady decline in status and traditional structure. ...