Movies: Kuniko Igawa

From 1928 to 1946, the lives of 12 young people and their school teacher in a poor Japanese village are profoundly affected by historical events and personal circumstances....

A 28-year-old single woman is pressured to marry....

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

After the death of her husband, an elderly woman and her youngest, unmarried daughter are forced to sell their house to cover his debts and decide to move in with one of the former's children, each of whom is scarcely happy to accommodate....

A rural village elder plans an event on the return of a farmer's daughter from the city, unaware that she has become a Westernized burlesque artist....

The story of the trials and tribulations of a lighthouse keeper and his wife....

Representing a destitute mother in an infanticide trial, a female lawyer attempts to convince a conservative prosecutor of the benefits of Japan's democratized post-war legal system....

The few residents left on the streets in Tokyo share their individual stories and come to understand the melancholy of saying goodbye....

After surviving the double suicide pact she made with her lover, a woman gives birth to their child....

Minoru delivered newspapers to earn money for high school, but when his mother came down with illness he decided to use this money for her doctor's bill and gave up going to high school. His friends heard about this, and they donated money to his mot...

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On March 11 in the seventh year of Tenpo (1836), a monk named Bennō, who fell in love with a geisha named Oshima, was publicly exposed at Nihonbashi for committing an illicit act with a woman. While this was happening, an extravagant procession led b...

The mistress of a crook real estate broker comes to terms with her soulless existence after an artist paints her portrait....

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In a time of continuous civil wars ravaging the fields of feudal Japan, the eldest son of a very poor peasant family, living alongside the bridge over the Fuefuki river, decides to serve a warlord to escape his miserable condition, being soon followe...

A boy, who is separated from his mother in an air raid, endures suffering and grief alongside his kind uncle....

A student at a woman's university takes a controversial action against the school's old-fashioned doctrines....

A young widow, made world weary by her abusive, neglectful husband, finds herself in a minor scandal when she's seen with her intense, no-nonsense childhood sweetheart....

1953 Japanese movie...

A young man who is unable to tell his childhood friend how he feels makes a pledge with her to reveal all of their secrets during the upcoming festival....