Movies: Kikuko Hanaoka

In late 19th century Tokyo, Kikunosuke Onoue, the adopted son of a legendary actor, himself an actor specializing in female roles, discovers that he is only praised for his acting due to his status as his father's heir. Devastated by this, he turns t...

This horror tale relates the consequences of a Japanese legend which tells of a man who has to betray his wife in order to achieve power....

When a young man inherits his father's lucrative business, he cheats the system to set up three of his college friends with jobs....

A sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love letters for other people....

Tanuma Kandayuu is a high class samurai of the house of Nabeshima. He finds a lavish board of Go (a Chinese Board game) at Kinbei's store. He recommend Kinbei to offer it to his lord. Kinbei hesitates at first, since he knows the board has a mysterio...

"The Dancing Girl of Izu" tells of the story between a young male student who is touring the Izu Peninsula and a family of traveling dancers he meets there, including their youngest girl. The student finds the naïve girl attractive even though he eve...

Oiwa has been searching for the one who killed her father for a long time. She comes to Yedo and sees a man named Naosuke. The film is based on the kabuki classic: Toukaidou Yotsuya Kaidan (1826) written by Tsuruya Nanboku and is one of the most famo...

A luckless geisha struggles to make a living for herself and her young son....

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Directed by Yasujirô Shimazu....

Thriller drama by Kon Ichikawa...

An actress returns to Tokyo after a successful stint in Hollywood to reclaim—with the help of her gangster brother—the daughter she abandoned years before....

Lord for a Night is a 1946 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa....

Early adaptation of the book "The Inugami Clan", featuring the detective Kōsuke Kindaichi....

A poignant story about a young couple, Setsu and Chozo, who are torn apart to save Setsu's father's restaurant....

A bar girl tries to pass her three children, each from a different father, to rural relatives....

A 1942 film....

The Way of Drama unfolds in the world of kabuki in Osaka, but also addresses the politics of popular culture and the rivalry between theatrical styles like those used by amateur actors to dramatise contemporary events....

1959 Shintoho adaptation of Kyoka Izumi's novel "A Woman's Pedigree"....

Japanese comedy film....