Machiko Kitagawa

Las Vegas Free-For-All (1967)

The Crazy Cats, a Japanese musical-comedy group, were showcased a series of comic adventures throughout the 1960s. Las Vegas Free-For-All, one of their most popular movies, featured scenes filmed on location in Las Vegas, Los Angeles, and Hawaii. Appearing ...

Irresponsible Life in Edo Japan (1964)

A comedy directed by Kajiro Yamamoto, based on an original idea by Koji Toita, co-written by Yasuo Tanami, who worked on "Hibari Chiemi Izumi Sannin Yoba" and Kajiro Yamamoto, who worked on "The Story of a Genius Swindler: Tanuki no Hanamichi." Photographe ...

The Sandal Keeper (1964)

Toyotomi Hideyoshi (Hitoshi Ueki) starts out as Nobunaga's "Sandal Keeper" but climbs the ranks to eventually become a trusted general. ...

Hibari, Chiemi, Izumi: We Are Three Best Friends (1964)

Fūryū onsen bantō nikki (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

Chûshingura (1962)

After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their honor. ...

A Wanderer's Notebook (1962)

Based on the life and career of novelist Fumiko Hayashi, she bitterly struggles for literary recognition in the first half of the 20th-century – her affairs with feckless men, the jobs she took to survive (peddler, waitress, bar maid), and her arduous, o ...

Shin kitsune to tanuki (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

Me and Me (1962)

Toho comedy shot in Tohoscope featuring performances from the Peanuts and the Crazy Cats. Original released alongside another Toho comedy, King Kong vs. Godzilla. ...

Whirlpool of Love (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

The Dangoro Party in the Sky (1962)

The film adaptation of Kazuo Kikuta novel "Kumo no Ue Dangoro Ichiza", which enjoyed great success at the performances of the Toho Takarazuka Theater at the end of the year. The troupe "Kumo no Ue Dangoro" continues to tour from town to village. The small ...

The Tenth Game of New Salarymen: Salaryman Ittoru (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

Kanpai! Sararīman shokun (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

The Witness Killed (1961)

Japanese neo-noir crime drama movie directed by Jun Fukuda ...

Structure of Hate (1961)

Drama about two college friends, now working for the same banking firm, torn apart by jealousy over their inequitable positions and love lives. ...

Zoku sararīman yajikita dōchū (1961)

1961 Japanese movie ...

The Lovelorn Geisha (1960)

A woman and her daughter are in love with the same man, a chef at the restaurant that the mother manages. He is slightly crippled from frostbite in his years in Siberian labor camps and considers himself 'already dead'. ...

When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (1960)

Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She describes life's vicious cycle: acting cheerful around drunks, dressing and living well to convey confidence, needing money for these expenses and for her d ...

Sazae-san's Newlywed Family (1959)

Sazae's wish came true and she got married to Masuo. The two ended up living together at Sazae's parents' home, the Isono family. However, the newlywed life that started at the Isono family was a disaster. At the Isono family, where bonito and Wakame prank ...

Three Generations of Company Presidents Part II (1959)

7th film in the President series and the first entry in color. ...

The Spell of the Hidden Gold (1958)

Historical drama about a sleepy-eyed ronin. ...

The H-Man (1958)

When a narcotics deal goes sour and a suspect disappears, leaving only his clothes, Tokyo police question his wife and stake out the nightclub where she works. ...

The Capital of Love (1958)

Aiko, a bar hostess, falls for the son of a company president who also keeps a mistress, and whose family disapproves of his relationship with the bar hostess. ...

A Farewell to the Woman Called My Sister (1957)

An Ishiro Honda film. ...

The Beauty Expert (1957)

A Teapicker's Song of Goodbye (1957)

An Ishiro Honda film. ...

Oshidori kenkagasa (1957)

The Lonely Swordsman (Part 2) (1957)

Historical drama about a sleep-eyed ronin ...

The Lonely Swordsman (Part 1) (1956)

Historical drama about a sleepy-eyed ronin. ...

Aishu no machi ni kiri ga furu (1956)

Three Generations of Company Presidents (1956)

The third installment in the Shacho Series. ...

Gale Winds! Tengu Karama (1956)

The 40th and final "Tengu Kurama" feature starring Kanjuro Arashi. ...

A Wife's Heart (1956)

A young woman tries to raise money to open her own coffee shop. She arranges a loan when her rigid family won't help and then her husband becomes jealous of the loan officer. ...

Masura o hashutsu fukai (1956)

Based on a comic strip by Kaoru Akiyoshi. First in a four part film series. ...

The Maiden Courtesan (1956)

Period romantic drama. ...

Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple (1955)

After years on the road establishing his reputation as Japan's greatest fencer, Takezo returns to Kyoto. Otsu waits for him, yet he has come not for her but to challenge the leader of the region's finest school of fencing. To prove his valor and skill, he ...

All is Well (1955)

Daichi Tateharu who was an employee of the Mori Seisakusho has been recruited from Siberia, but the company changed its name to Toyo Denki Seisakusho, and the president Shingo Mori was the general affairs manager. ...

The Black Fury (1954)

A narcotics investigator for the harbor police, Eiichi Tsuda, is driven by thoughts of vengeance for the overdose death of his brother and the subsequent decline and death of their mother. Tsuda acts viciously and with disdain for legal niceties in his exp ...

Last of the Wild Ones (1954)

A legendary gangster raises himself out of a small town and gathers followers on his rise to power. ...

Sound of the Mountain (1954)

An ingratiating bride develops warm ties to her father-in-law while her cold husband blithely slights her for another woman. ...

Omatsuri hanjiro (1953)

Every year, at the festival, familiar merchants such as Toraemon, a magic trick, Tokubei, a blowgun, Kaji, acrobatics, and Unsaibo, a ritual, gather toward the port town. ...

Escape Zone (1953)

Shiro Yabe, a young gangster who boarded the second class on the Tokaido Line after finishing a dangerous smuggling transaction in Kobe, is next to a beautiful woman with a sad face. ...