Kikuko Hanaoka Movies

1961 Toei adaptation of Yokomizo's novel.

In the first year of Chōroku, Satomi Yoshimi, lord of Takita Castle in Awa, faces defeat by neighboring lord Anzai Kagesuren. As the castle...

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...

An early film by Kon Ichikawa

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

short film about Banchō Sarayashiki.

1952 Japanese film directed by Kunio Watanabe.

Thriller drama by Kon Ichikawa

Japanese youth film about kendo.

Home drama about tin craftsmen and their families in downtown Tokyo. Though poor, they do not lose their cheerfulness or give in to oppression.

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

Japanese comedy film.

In 1942 South China, hardened field hospital nurse Yukiko secretly loves Sergeant Nemoto. The arrival of a fragile new nurse, Keiko, reawakens...

War-time jidaigeki by Eisuke Takizawa.

Japanese comedy film.

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

Scammer Horikawa Shinbei hopes to make a quick buck using Namie, a stripper under his control.

1950 Japanese movie