Kikuko Hanaoka Movies

A small community in wartime Japan learn how to make do with less.

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

Japanese comedy film.

Japanese youth film about kendo.

1954 Japanese film starring professional wrestler Rikidozan.

Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Wakai omawari-san" by Shiro Sone.

An early film by Kon Ichikawa

A spectacular comedy with a star-studded cast that depicts unusual trials and unexpected verdicts regarding the five deadly sins: the crime of...

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

1950 Japanese movie

Japanese comedy film.

Japanese comedy film.

Tanuma Kandayuu is a high class samurai of the house of Nabeshima. He finds a lavish board of Go (a Chinese Board game) at Kinbei's store. He...

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

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...

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

Lord for a Night is a 1946 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa.