Kuniko Igawa Movies

A 28-year-old single woman is pressured to marry.

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

In a time of continuous civil wars ravaging the fields of feudal Japan, the eldest son of a very poor peasant family, living alongside the bridge...

A wealthy family will not allow the military to grow crops on their fields due to their superstitious beliefs about their son's illness.

From 1928 to 1946, the lives of 12 young people and their school teacher in a poor Japanese village are profoundly affected by historical events and...

Minoru delivered newspapers to earn money for high school, but when his mother came down with illness he decided to use this money for her doctor's...

The few residents left on the streets in Tokyo share their individual stories and come to understand the melancholy of saying goodbye.

The mistress of a crook real estate broker comes to terms with her soulless existence after an artist paints her portrait.

A rural village elder plans an event on the return of a farmer's daughter from the city, unaware that she has become a Westernized burlesque artist.

In the 30th year, Nirasaki Den'emon established the Nirasaki Hokkaido Development Company with investment from Sonoi to build railway facilities....

In postwar Japan a young woman is unable to marry her sweetheart because her family's in difficult circumstances and needs her income to keep afloat.

After the death of her husband, an elderly woman and her youngest, unmarried daughter are forced to sell their house to cover his debts and decide to...

A student at a woman's university takes a controversial action against the school's old-fashioned doctrines.

On March 11 in the seventh year of Tenpo (1836), a monk named Bennō, who fell in love with a geisha named Oshima, was publicly exposed at...

A young widow, made world weary by her abusive, neglectful husband, finds herself in a minor scandal when she's seen with her intense, no-nonsense...

After surviving the double suicide pact she made with her lover, a woman gives birth to their child.

1953 Japanese movie

The story of the trials and tribulations of a lighthouse keeper and his wife.