Hisako Yamane Movies

1952 Japanese movie

Song of the White Orchid was a co-production of Toho and Mantetsu, the railway that served the colonial region of Manchuria, and the first film in...

A young man rents an apartment in Tokyo and discover it was built by his father. He falls in love with the daughter of the mistress of the house and...

A melodrama of the ups and downs of youth, based on Bunroku Shishi’s popular novel. Chiharu, a ballerina, and Shinichi, a thorough rationalist...

An early film by Kon Ichikawa

1942 adaptation of Izumi Kyoka's novel.

Bittersweet shomin-geki drama by Keigo Kimura

A bizarre murder at a hot springs resort threatens to disrupt an Edo detective's (Hasegawa) vacation. When his hot-blooded wife (Yamada) starts...

Period film about the legendary detective Umon

Dai-ni-bu: Aijô ruten: Kiyoshi Saeki directed movie

Melodrama by Kon Ichikawa

Historical drama about two samurai who fight over everything yet unite together to fight an evil lord.

The only son of a sushi chef hates sushi and decides to leave home to search for a job and make his own way.

1945 Japanese movie

A young lord joins gang of Robin-esque robbers.

Reputedly based on Frank Capra’s 1939 film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, A Descendant of Tarô Urashima is about a repatriated soldier who...