Nijiko Kiyokawa Movies

A study of uneasy relationships among the inhabitants of a tiny rural community.

A five member circus runs into problems while touring rural Japan.

A humorous yakuza action melodrama with gangsters, drugs and that old comedy-standby, white slavery.

Near the end of the Taisho era (1912-1926), Enokichi, a popular figure in the world of boxing entangled in the Yakuza business.

Based on the comic by Yutaka Asou

1961 Japanese movie

Film directed by Seiichirô Uchikawa.

Sugimoto Gonkuro is travelling along from Tosa to Edo. On his journey he will meet both good and bad people.

Japanese comedy film.

A tanuki-themed musical.

The Old Man of the Propeller can be seen as a comedic amalgam of “King Lear” and “Christmas Carol”. A neighborhood loan shark...

Swimmers Akio and Natsuko train hard for national competition while Natsuko struggles with family chaos — her father’s affair and her...

A 1954 film.

"Karayuki-san offers a no-holds-barred depiction of the discrimination faced by a former prostitute who returns to Japan from Singapore with her...

After killing the deceiver, the Masa gambler comes to Ina. There is a horse market in Ina, and the landowner Tamegoro, plans to steal the proceeds...

The story follows a dysfunctional family whose daily life is thrown into chaos when an English tutor from abroad moves into their home. Her presence...

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