Kikuko Hanaoka Movies

A fox in disguise, Okon, returns the favor to a man who rescued her from a fatal trap.

The three-hour Ai yo jinrui to tomo ni are / Love, Be with Humanity (1931) starts as a satire of alienation in the world of money, develops into a...

Film by Hiroshi Shimizu, featuring an early role for frequent Ozu and Naruse collaborator Hideko Takamine.

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

33-year-old poor writer Ogata was able to endure his miserable life cheerfully thanks to Yoshie, a 19-year-old innocent young wife. After graduating...

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...

Live-action adaptation of Ko Kojima's manga "Sennin buraku".

This horror tale adapts the Japanese legend which tells of a man who faces the consequences of betraying his wife in order to acquire wealth and...

Japanese comedy film.

Japanese comedy film.

Based on the play ”Mabuta no haha” by famed author Shin Hasegawa, this is the first major starring role for Tomisaburo Wakayama. This...

1961 Toei adaptation of Yokomizo's novel.

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

The ambiguous relationship between a woman musician and her young student.

Japanese comedy film.

1952 Japanese film directed by Kunio Watanabe.

A picture-story-show operator, accompanies her son, Akira, who lives apart from her, to a hot-spring medical treatment and spend a moment of brief...

Japanese youth film about kendo.

In 1887, two businessmen, Echigo-ya and Kitahara, compete for railroad construction authorization from the government. The minister states that a...