Tamae Kiyokawa
My Geisha
as uncreditedFamed movie director Paul Robaix breaks with tradition by not casting his actress-comedienne...
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Love for an Idiot
as MasakoA middle-aged factory engineer trains, marries, and ultimately loses a teenage bride after she...
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Ghost Cat of Nabeshima
as uncreditedTanuma Kandayuu is a high class samurai of the house of Nabeshima. He finds a lavish board of Go...
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The Blue Sky Maiden
as uncreditedYuko is sent to the coastal regions to be raised away from the rest of her sophisticated family...
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Ginza Cosmetics
as Saku KineyaA luckless geisha struggles to make a living for herself and her young son.
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Seisaku's Wife
as OmakiOn the eve of the Russo-Japanese war at the beginning of the 20th century, small-town girl Okane...
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The Song Lantern
as uncreditedA self-absorbed young actor humiliates an elderly Noh performer, who then commits suicide. His...
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Love Letter
as uncreditedA sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love...
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Currents of Youth
as Makiko's AuntIt was supposed to be about a love story, but it was and was not. An aircraft mechanic working...
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Utamaro, Painter of the Woman
as uncreditedKitagawa Utamaro is a famous ukiyo-e artist known for his paintings of beautiful women. The...
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大当り男一代
as 女房お兼Shinzō, the heir of the prominent Edo lumber dealer Yamashiroya, left home when his stubborn...
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Meeting of the Ghost of Apres-Guerre
as uncreditedIn a small town, according to the homecoming of Professor Ishinaka, the youth culture group was...
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Learn from Experience, Part Two
as uncreditedPart 2 of a 2-part romance (fist part - Kafuku zempen) based on a story by noted author Kikuchi...
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The Akasaka Sisters: Soft Touch of Night
as uncreditedSet in the postwar turmoil, Akasaka no shimai paints a vivit portrait of the life of three...
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Snake Woman's Curse
as TamiAn old man dies of heartbreak when a cruel landlord is about to repossess his land. The old man...
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Mama, I Need You!
as uncreditedAfter finishing the course of junior high school, Kazuo comes up to Tokyo, leaving his mother...
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Love's Cheerleader
as TamaeDirectorial debut by Umetsugu Inoue, the famous director of Musicals
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This Happy Life
as uncreditedA small community in wartime Japan learn how to make do with less.
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The Boy Who Came Back
as uncreditedNobuo is a hot-headed hoodlum fresh out of reform school who struggles to make a clean break...
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Hideko the Bus Conductress
as InnkeeperOkoma, a witty young woman working as a conductor in an old, rickety bus in Kōfu, Yamanashi...
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Achako's Notebook of Youth: Tokyo
as Female bossJapanese comedy film.
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Zokuzoku Ôban: Dotô hen
as OyoshiUshinosuke returns to his hometown to become a farmer. Part three (of four) of the film...
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The Ditch
as uncreditedPostwar Tokyo. Pin and Toku live in the squatter area of Kappanuma. Pin and Toku are avid...
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The Road I Travel with You
as uncreditedThe otherwise promising young man Asaji (Heihachirô Ôkawa) and his younger brother Yuji (Hideo...
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Shin nitōhei monogatari medetaku gaisen no maki
as uncreditedSecond "Pfc. Story" sequel and the ninth and final sequel to "Story of Second Class Private",...
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Women Doing Time
as uncreditedPart 2 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series
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Green Earth
as uncreditedSet in Qingdao, China, a Japanese company locates an office there and begins work and...
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Image of a Mother
as uncreditedThe final film in Shimizu’s thirty-plus year career, Image of a Mother remains true to Shimizu’s...
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Good Luck to These Two
as uncreditedA young man and woman are determined to marry despite opposition from her parents.
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The Fighting Firemen
as ObunKichigoro, a firefighter from the Maeda family of the Kaga Principality, rescues Oshimo, the...
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Sing, Young People
as Boarding house landladyA story about four best friends and their lives inside and outside college. Then suddenly one of...
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A Tale of Archery at the Sanjusangendo
as OmatsuIn A Tale of Archery, young, timid bowmaster Kazuma (Akitake Kôno) seeks to beat the archery...
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The Day Before
as OmasaA forceful indictment of the devastating effects of war and nationalistic fanaticism on the...
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Pastoral Symphony
as uncreditedA priest in Hokkaido adopts a blind orphan girl, and as she grows up he finds himself falling in...
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Learn from Experience, Part One
as uncreditedPart 1 of a 2-part romance based on a story by noted author Kikuchi Kan. The central character...
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Tokyo Profile
as uncreditedA motley cast of characters, including a human billboard and a shoeshine girl, help a 5 year old...
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On This Earth
as Tami - Mineya's wifeKanazawa in the Taisho era. A former junior high school student, Ichiro's family used to be a...
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Lord for a Night
as uncreditedLord for a Night is a 1946 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa.
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Morning's Tree-Lined Street
as Madame at caféAs suggested by the title, this film takes up the theme of the city, beginning with a series of...
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Invitation to Happiness
as uncreditedKôfuku eno shôtai - Invitation to happiness
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Wait for Tomorrow
as uncreditedKohei Misugi works in a vegetable market, but his ambition is to be a photographer. He is given...
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The Snowy Heron
as uncreditedThe story follows Oshino, a geisha who is trying to start a new life with a lover who is a...
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Zenigata Heiji Detective Story: Heiji Covers All of Edo
as uncreditedPolice detective Heiji is assigned to catch the masked Maboroshi gang of robbers who have...
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Beyond the Hills
as Mineko FurukawaStory of young love in the hills.
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Chained Bitch
as uncreditedJapanese prison exploitation movie. Part 1 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series
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The Judo Champ
as uncreditedWhen Shinsuke returns to Kyushu from the Russo-Japanese War he finds his Judo school hall...
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Rogue
as TerukoCoal miner Isamu Oba is forced to quit his village and leave his mother and siblings behind....
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Karayuki-san
as uncredited"Karayuki-san offers a no-holds-barred depiction of the discrimination faced by a former...
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A Gentle Breeze With Father
as uncredited9th directorial work by Yamamoto Satsuo.
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Under the Blossoming Peach
as uncreditedA picture-story-show operator, accompanies her son, Akira, who lives apart from her, to a...
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The Chivalrous Youth of Great Edo
as uncreditedJidaigeki by Tai Kato
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Hideko the Cheerleader
as Hideko's grandmotherHideko, a young Baseball fan, determined to cheer for her favourite baseball team by creating a...
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Nightshade Flower
as uncreditedJapanese "kayo" film based on the song "Ieraishan" by Yoshiko Yamaguchi.
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The Old Man of the Propeller
as uncreditedThe Old Man of the Propeller can be seen as a comedic amalgam of “King Lear” and “Christmas...
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Nonki saiban
as uncreditedA spectacular comedy with a star-studded cast that depicts unusual trials and unexpected...
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Marriageable Age
as uncreditedYoshimura's 48th film is the contemporary story of a well-to-do family showing the frailties and...
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Age of Japanese Guerrillas
as ToraKinta (Nabe Osami) is Japanese by birth, but raised by a Chinese man. He stowsaway to Japan to...
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Marathon Samurai
as uncreditedThe TV drama of Ima Harube was adapted by Yagi Ryuichiro ("Komuso Henge"), directed by Mori...
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