Kikuko Hanaoka Movies

Two cowardly palanquin carriers know the culprit of a murder but are too scared to report it to the police. In the mean time, an innocent man is...

1952 Japanese film directed by Kunio Watanabe.

When a young man inherits his father's lucrative business, he cheats the system to set up three of his college friends with jobs.

Japanese war drama.

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

A sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love letters for other people.

Japanese sex comedy film.

A blind masseur visits a samurai to request the return of a loan. The samurai kills him in anger, then has his servant dump the body in the Kasane...

A group of bandits flee to the mountains after killing an evil moneylender. Remake of Hiroshi Inagaki's Jigoku no mushi (1938).

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

"The Dancing Girl of Izu" tells of the story between a young male student who is touring the Izu Peninsula and a family of traveling dancers he meets...

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

short film about Banchō Sarayashiki.

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

The Way of Drama unfolds in the world of kabuki in Osaka, but also addresses the politics of popular culture and the rivalry between theatrical...

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

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 comedy film.

1959 Shintoho adaptation of Kyoka Izumi's novel "A Woman's Pedigree".