Yuriko Hanabusa

Five Gents' Trick Book (1965)

The 22nd film in the Shacho comedy series. ...

Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster (1964)

After a meteorite unleashes a three-headed beast upon Tokyo, Mothra tries to unite with Godzilla and Rodan to battle the extraterrestrial threat. ...

3 Gents in the Snow Country (1964)

Shûe Matsubayashi movie ...

Hail the 3 Gents (1964)

A lighthearted satire of Japan's postwar corporate elite, The Executive Gentleman's Register blends farce, romance, and boardroom comedy with the polished charm of 1960s salaryman cinema. When mild-mannered secretary Tsutomu Harada's wedding is postponed ...

The Elegant Life of Mr. Everyman (1963)

A salaryman's drunken ravings in public attract the attention of journalists who coerce him into telling them his life's story. ...

Travel Stories of a Company President (1963)

It is the 16th series of the call series with the highest masterpiece among the "President" series. The president of the U. s.solar paint, heitaro Domoto (Morishige), has become completely American, and plans to rationalize the company to the American styl ...

Boku chin hōrō-ki (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

Three Gentlemen Return from Hong Kong (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

Shimizu Port Salaryman Part II (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

Shimizu Port Salaryman (1962)

Blood-Red Water in the Channel (1961)

Nikkatsu finally responds to Suzuki's growing discontentment by giving him a bigger budget and a better script. This episodic collection of "real coast guard action stories" was the perfect vehicle for Koji Wada. Whatever negative press he had received for ...

Hikkoshi yatsure (1961)

Manao Horiuchi movie ...

Police Department Part 15: Alibi (1961)

The First Investigation Department is investigating a murder case that took place at a government agency, with particular attention to finding an alibi for the suspects. A security guard was killed in the building, the safe was broken into, but nothing was ...

The Great Road (1960)

The story of a certain engineer from his youth until he retired from the Japanese National Railways after the war . ...

Love in the Mountains (1959)

A mother and her daughter who run a quiet mountain hotel, and guests who visit the hotel. A girl who does not know what a broken heart is, the attractive joy of first love, and separation is like parting with life. The mother-daughter duet with Isuzu Yamad ...

Diary of a Company President: Peaceful Period (1959)

Sixth entry in the Company President Series. ...

Sister with Sister (1958)

Yoshiko finds new life and love interests when she takes a new job as an office worker. ...

Detective Duel (1958)

A friendly rivalry turns into romance for Yukiko, an elite female detective, and a handsome private eye named Mitamura while both are investigating the missing person's case from a wealthy family. ...

Botchan (1958)

1958 Shochiku adaptation of Natsume's novel. ...

Police Precinct Part 7 (1958)

The body of a woman was found in a manhole. Is it an affair? The victim is a clerk at a mannequin manufacturing company. At the age of 26, she was a widow with a child, and she went missing after he went to collect her salary from the bank. A colleague at ...

Romance Freestyle (1958)

The love between young college students Toki and the handsome Takaga is tested when Takaya's parents, who despise Toki's family's geisha house business, intervenes in their relationship. ...

The Third President (1958)

The fifth entry in the Company President Series ...

Assistant President (1958)

The 4th movie in the Sacho series ...

On Wings of Love (1957)

On Wings of Love is a 1957 Japanese romantic musical film directed by Toshio Sugie. It was Toho's highest-grossing film of the year and the first film released in Tohoscope. ...

Good Luck to These Two (1957)

A young man and woman are determined to marry despite opposition from her parents. ...

Omoide tsukiyo (1956)

Japanese romance film. ...

The President Talks Bank (1956)

The president learns that the company's biggest stockholder is also a friend of his singing teacher and spies on his movements. ...

Miai Ryokou (1955)

A chance ride in a car leads to an unforgettable relationship. A misunderstanding leads to more misunderstanding... Love and thrills in this coming-of-age romance film. ...

The Wolves (1955)

A group of five rookie insurance salespersons, driven to desperation by the impossibility of their work in Japan's failing postwar economy, form a plan to rob a cash delivery truck in order to provide for their families. ...

Murder on the Last Train (1955)

One of the earliest Japanese cop films following a mysterious killing on the last train to Mitaka, Tokyo. ...

Spring Voyage (1955)

Japanese youth film. ...

Jirocho, the Hunted (1953)

A wandering Jirocho stumbles upon his wife's possible murder and has other adventures while on the run. ...

The Red Light Military Base (1953)

Story about a poor Japanese woman living near an American army base who resorts to prostitution. ...

Adolescence Part II (1953)

A story of unhappy youths and the perils of lack of sex education. ...

Miniature (1953)

Ginko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one geisha house to the next, trying to find love and hope in the process. No matter how hard she tries, she just can't escape her sad fate. ...

Murahachibu (1953)

A villager's family is ostracized after he makes an accusation of rigged elections ...

Reminiscence (1953)

Kazuo Miyagawa's prizewinning black-and-white cinematography draws out the moral shadings of Nobel laureate Yasunari Kawabata's 1952 novel Thousand Cranes, a quietly devastating story of a young man, orphaned during the war, who stumbles into a passionate ...

Adolescence (1952)

Parent apathy to sexual education leads to various troubles for the young cast. ...

Children of Hiroshima (1952)

Shows the devastation caused by the atomic bomb, and by use of a fictional storyline, portrays the struggle of the ordinary Japanese people in dealing with the aftermath. ...

Divorce (1952)

No overview. ...

Story of a Beloved Wife (1951)

Story of a Beloved Wife is an autobiographical work based on Shindo's first marriage. Jūkichi Uno stars as a struggling screenwriter, and Nobuko Otowa stars as the wife who supports him through his early struggles. ...

The Blue Pearl (1951)

The Blue Pearl depicts the interplay between a young man from Tokyo and two ama (pearl divers; literally "women of the sea") in a superstitious coastal town. Though raised within the same tradition-bound crucible, the two women – Noe and Riu – are port ...

Pirates (1951)

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The Tale of Genji (1951)

Genji, the illegitimate offspring of a Japanese potentate, goes by the philosophy of "love 'em and leave 'em" as a matter of course. Only when his heart is broken by Awaji does Genji realizes how much pain he himself has caused. ...

Senka o koete (1950)

Listen to the Voices of the Sea (1950)

This film is strongly anti-war film. The film is based on the collection of writings by Japanese student soldiers who died during World War II. The film is located to Burma. It shows the everyday problems of soldiers in contrast of their ideas and the cyni ...

Town of Violence (1950)

An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chief and the local gangster bosses. ...

Spring Snow (1950)

The Yoshikawa family is a typical small town family. With only the father's and daughter's salaries to support the family's six members, life is not easy. ...

Slope of the Ringing Bell Hill: The Third Volume (1949)

The adventures of a demobilised soldier and a group of war orphans under his care on Ringing Bell Hill. Third installment of a wartime film trilogy. ...

Jakoman and Tetsu (1949)

In a village subsisting on it herring fishery, a one-eyed criminal named Jakoman terrorizes the inhabitants. One of them, the son of the head of one of the fish companies by the name of Tetsu, decides to overthrow Jakoman and his cohorts. ...

Slope of the Ringing Bell Hill: The Second Volume (1949)

The adventures of a demobilised soldier and a group of war orphans under his care on Ringing Bell Hill. Second installment of a wartime film trilogy. ...

Slope of the Ringing Bell Hill: The First Volume (1948)

The adventures of a demobilised soldier and a group of war orphans under his care on Ringing Bell Hill. First installment of a wartime film trilogy. ...

Spring Awakens (1947)

Slice of life film centered on a couple of years in the life of a rural high school girl. ...

The Devil's toast (1947)

Retired police inspector Kurusu is vacationing at a seaside hotel when one night he hears a child's screaming...but there are no children staying in the hotel. But when an ex-actress who is also a guest there mentions an unsolved murder that occurred on th ...

Yurusareta ichiya (1946)

Eleven High School Girls (1946)

With his simple appearance, eyes shining with love and a sense of justice, and voice burning with youthful passion, the eleven students felt unexpectedly in each other's hearts that "this teacher will surely be our confidant," and looked at each other and ...

Life Is like a Somersault (1946)

After learning that he has accidentally killed a man in a fight, Unokichi must look after the man's pregnant widow. ...

Saigo no kikyō (1945)

1945 Japanese movie ...

Tokkan ekichô (1945)

Based on the comic by Ichio Matsushita ...

Toward the Decisive Battle in the Sky (1943)

Young men endure challenging flight training in the Yokaren, a program feeding new pilots into the Army and Navy. By the time of the filming, the pressure of the war had led the government to shorten the training and expand the age range of the recruits. ...

Ongaku dai-shingun (1943)

A 1943 film. ...

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. ...

Wings of Victory (1942)

Green Earth (1942)

Set in Qingdao, China, a Japanese company locates an office there and begins work and cooperation with a local Chinese company for business. Many Japanese engineers also move to China, with their families, for the company in order to construct a canal. The ...

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 ...

Sky of Hope (1942)

What is marriage? Young couple in match-making wanted to know before they decide. They visited married couples of sisters and brothers. Love comedy in 1942. ...

Schoolgirl Records (1941)

A "slice-of life" film about a group of high school girls in 1940s Japan. ...

Life Begins at 61 (1941)

Japanese war-era film ...

Kodakara fūfu (1941)

Okumura Ioka (1940)

Okumura Ioko story directed by Shiro Toyoda ...

Wedding Day (1940)

Twenty-year-old Yoshiko (Setsuko Hara) and her younger sister Asako (Yōko Yaguchi) struggle to accept changes in their home during the preparations of their widowed father's wedding to his chosen bride, Maki Tsuneko (Sadako Sawamura), who's anxious about ...

Hikari to kage (Zenpen) (1940)

Part one of two. ...

Hikari to kage (Kōhen) (1940)

Part two of two. ...

Ichiyo Higuchi (1939)

Japanese film based on the life of writer Ichiyo Higuchi (1872-1896). ...

Shanghai Landing Party (1939)

This film attempts to reconstruct the tension of the Battle of Shanghai through an episode in an understated way, introducting its story in a documentary mode. In the film story, Japan's marine regiment protects Japanese residents and Chinese refugees-wome ...

Enoken's Hokaibo (1938)

An irreverent take on a medieval Noh drama, Hokaibo sees Enoken play the titular monk whose lusts drive him to murder. ...

The Giant (1938)

Japanese adaptation of LES MISERABLES. The last film of director Itami took inspiration from Les Miserables. Transpiring during the Southwestern War of 1877 in Japan, which was the last civil war in the country, a criminal escapes prison only to be found ...

Young People (1937)

Based on an original story by Yojiro Ishizaka, this well-made drama is set in a Christian school in a beautiful northern harbor town. Teacher Masaki (Obinata) speaks up for Keiko, one of the girls at the school, every time she causes problems because he fe ...

Learn from Experience, Part One (1937)

Wealthy young Toyomi and Shintaro are in love. However, Shintaro's father is arranging for him to marry Yurie, the scion of an even wealthier family. The two lovers flee to Tokyo, but when Shintaro returns to proclaim his intent to marry Toyomi, his father ...

Avalanche (1937)

The study of a one-year marriage that begins to crumble. A married man is torn between the love of his wife, and the attraction to a cousin of his wife. ...

Mother's Melody (1937)

The prewar film Haha no kyoku (Mother's Melody, 1937) is known for its place in Japanese film history as one of the top three melodramas as well as for its authorship: Yamamoto Satsuo is an auteur not usually associated with filming melodramas. Yamamoto ma ...

The Daughter of the Samurai (1937)

Teruo gets caught up in a conflict between tradition and modernism after returning to Japan from Germany after having spent a number of years there studying. Now, he is supposed to marry Mitsuko, the daughter of his adoptive father, to whom Teruo has long ...

Hikoroku Laughs a lot (1936)

Hikoroku Laughs a lot ...

Brother and Sister (1936)

Ino tries to control Mon's every move, but she becomes a fallen woman, having an affair with a student, Obata whereas her sister San remains a "good girl." The mother is very supportive of her daughters, but, the father, Akaza, who is the stonecutter forem ...

I Am a Cat (1936)

1936 P.C.L. adaptation of Natsume's novel. ...

Wife! Be Like a Rose! (1935)

Kimiko, a Tokyo white-collar working girl, lives with her serious, intellectual, haiku-writing mother. Kimiko seeks to marry her boyfriend but needs her absent father to act as the go-between and negotiate the marriage. Kimiko travels and finds her father ...

Radio Queen (1935)

Drifting (1935)

Adaptation of Fumiko Hayashi's novel. ...

Botchan (1935)

1935 P.C.L. adaptation of Natsume's novel. ...

Romantic and Crazy (1934)

In 1930s Tokyo, the energetic Enoken and his ragtag group of friends navigate a series of chaotic misadventures involving romance and poverty. ...