Tamae Kiyokawa Movies

A college football star gets caught in a scandal involving a geisha teacher, endangering his team’s season and his family’s...

Japanese musical.

The young boy Michio struggles with the loss of his mother while his widowed father, Sadao remarries the kind-hearted Sonoko, who has a daughter of...

Adaptation of a novel by Nobuko Yoshiya that was serialized in "Shufu no tomo" between 1939 and 1940.

On a Sunday morning, young dentist Toshio Ezaki wakes up with a hangover, on a bench in his office. He finds a poisoned woman in a green-striped...

Kitagawa Utamaro is a famous ukiyo-e artist known for his paintings of beautiful women. The courtesan who became his model became even more popular....

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

Kôfuku eno shôtai - Invitation to happiness

Directorial debut by Umetsugu Inoue, the famous director of Musicals

Shinzō, the heir of the prominent Edo lumber dealer Yamashiroya, left home when his stubborn father, Chōzaemon, dismissed his lover, the...

1962 Japanese movie

A carefree student from a traditional sake shop family balances love, rebellion, and a bike race while clashing with gangsters and his old-fashioned...

Kinta (Nabe Osami) is Japanese by birth, but raised by a Chinese man. He stowsaway to Japan to see his girlfriend Yukiko but gets picked up for...

After some fruitless career hunting in downtown Tokyo, Chiyo accepts a job as a bar hostess in Shiba ward. Well away from glamorous Asakusa and...

The three Matsunami sisters navigate adulthood and the complex social pressures of finding a husband while living under their traditional...

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