Chisako Hara Movies

A single mother from the country raising a 6th grade boy comes to Tokyo, leaves the boy to live with his uncle's family, runs a struggling grocery...

1961 Japanese movie

A biographical dramatization about the production of the original Ultraman, the beloved classic special effects fantasy series from Eiji Tsuburaya.

Set in 13th century Kyoto, where the Imperial court is under control of the clergy. Shijo was a peasant girl sold to a powerful daima as a concubine....

In this Japanese drama, a village girl goes to Tokyo and becomes a sex worker to support her ailing mother. While there she meets an unmarried...

Tateo, young and neurotic, wishes to leave the village his mother has raised him in.

A remake of the 1953 film of the same name.

In the middle of the period of high economic growth in Japan, a family is thrown into disarray over work, money, and romance. Their father's sudden...

Japanese comedy film released to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Shintoho's founding.

Detective Kogoro Akechi is faced with a peculiar murder case involving forgeries of classic pornographic artworks.

Yuzo Kayama is an American-Japanese operative working for the US to uncover an arms deal between an American seller and Chinese communists, and to...

Amid management shakeups and arranged marriage plans at Sekai Electric, an executive couple tries to support a young woman’s relationship with...

The story of a Japanese man who as a 16-year-old went to Maui to work in the sugar cane fields in order to support his family back in Japan. Now 89...

Suspense drama about a married salaryman whose affair with one of his co-workers is compromised when, returning from a clandestine meeting with his...

1962 Japanese movie

1977 Japanese film directed by Tengo Yamada.

Adapted from the Seicho Matsumoto story "Tazutazushi". Ryohei Suzuki, a manager at a travel company, is married to his superior's daughter, but...

Japanese film directed by Tadashi Imai.

1961 Japanese movie

A young wife is frightened that her husband and her father's second wife may be in cahoots with each other and are after her fortune. And then,...