Mitsuko Yoshikawa Movies

In Depression-era Tokyo, the life of a single mother and her young son are disrupted by the return of her ex-husband, who fathered the child and...

Set in an old merchant house in Kyoto, the film traces the passing of an era through the story of a parent and child.

Based on the mystery novel of the same name by Seichō Matsumoto.

A carpenter, Shigetsugu, learns a lesson of love and humanity from five orphaned children and an affectionate woman named Oritsu. It's a winning...

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 jewelry store president begins to fall for the doctor treating her husband's illness.

1962 Japanese movie

A touching action film about a young yakuza who becomes infected with evil because he has the ability to easily decipher the mechanism of a safe....

1948 adaptation of Golden Devil, part 2

A boy falls in love with a girl. Neither of them know that she's to be sold to a brothel.

A samurai plots to reclaim his estranged wife after she leaves him over a murder scandal. When her sister falls victim to a scheme, he and his friend...

Atsuko is an office secretary who is also her family's primary source of income and caretaker in postwar Japan.

A great ambition to portray with sharp satire and humor the course of modern anxiety and love that is about to be driven to despair.

Nabeshima Naoshige murders his lord, Ryuzoji Takafusa, seeking to gain power and steal his Lord’s wife. To avoid her fate, Lady Takafusa drowns...

Japanese silent film from 1928.

1961 Japanese movie

A song drama based on the autobiographical song "The sun is laughing" by composer Endo Minoru. It tells the story of a young man who moves to Tokyo...

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...

Inoue was something of a rarity in the sense, that he was a Shochiku house director who seems to have worked mostly in period films, often with big...

A middle-aged father has just married off his third daughter, but still has his nine year old son to raise whom he resents as he was unwanted.