Michiko Hoshi Movies

A melodramatic love story, a would-be apprenticeship between the titular bad girl and the optimistic scholar returning from the big city. It is...

Japanese comedy film.

Harima Aoyama (Chiyonosuke Azume) was a young hatamoto (samurai bannerman) to the Shogun. He seduced his commoner house maid Okiku (Hibari). He...

A geisha helps a runaway who looks just like her.

Melodrama about two sisters with different mothers.

A story of young people in the immediate aftermath of World War II, their post-war careers, sorrows, and triumphs.

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

Popular geisha Koharu suspects that Yusaku, a handsome stranger she falls in love with, is involved in a robbery of precious diamond.

Koharu, a flamboyant geisha, unexpectedly wins a trip to Sado Island in a TV contest. She is accompanied by three people. Koharu had been dreaming of...

Early jidaigeki by Tai Kato

1978 Japanese film directed by Yoichi Takabayashi.

Hibari Misora plays a singing guide, who is secretly in love, her fortunes turn for the worse when a gangster’s henchman hears her singing and...

Fifth film in the 'Travels of Lord Mito' franchise.

An upstanding young man’s racy adventure filled with conspiracies and love.

1961 Toei comedy

A group of five law enforcers search Edo for a missing sword.

A murdered pawnbroker found clutching a blood-soaked wedding gown, the kidnapped daughter of a Shogun vassal, mysterious robberies, brutal killings,...