Yaeko Izumo
Ikiru
as Housewife (uncredited)Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position...
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Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island
as (uncredited)A humble and simple Takezo abandons his life as a knight errant. He's sought as a teacher and...
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Chûshingura
as uncreditedAfter their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await...
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Floating Clouds
as uncreditedA married Japanese forester during WWII is sent to Indochina to manage forests. He meets a young...
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Repast
as uncreditedMichiyo lives in the small place Osaka and is not happy with her marriage; all she does is cook...
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Snow Country
as uncreditedIt's a man's world. Shimamura, an artist, comes to this snowbound town to rejuvenate himself. He...
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After the death of her husband, an elderly woman and her youngest, unmarried daughter are forced...
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Late Chrysanthemums
as uncreditedWith delicate, unobtrusive strokes, Naruse evokes both the humor and bitterness of his...
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The Lady of Musashino
as uncreditedSet in post-war Japan, The Lady of Musashino tells the story of Michiko, a disillusioned young...
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Girls of the Night
as uncreditedIn the wake of the 1956 Prostitution Prevention Law, a young woman recently released from one of...
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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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White Beast
as uncreditedThe critical establishment was clearly not prepared to accept a woman's prison film featuring...
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Burden of Life
as uncreditedA middle-aged father has just married off his third daughter, but still has his nine year old...
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Sudden Rain
as Matsuno KatakuraA husband and wife's pet peeves and minor irritations escalate into major rifts and animosity.
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Moment of Terror
as uncreditedWhen an only child is struck by a car and dies, the child's mother seeks vengeance against the...
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Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka
as uncreditedThree humorous love stories set in rural Japan.
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The Tree of Love
as Haruko Minezawa, nurseA young doctor, Kozo Tsumura, falls for young nurse Katsue Takaishi. But she's got a secret:...
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Kisan Detective Story: The Mysterious Doll-Maker
as uncredited1953 jidaigeki directed by Nobuo Nakagawa of Jigoku and Ghost of Yotsuya fame.
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Husband and Wife
as uncreditedA married couple looking for an apartment move in with the husband's co-worker, a widower. The...
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Marital Relations
as uncreditedThe story of a couple, a spoiled son and a down-to-earth girl, in Osaka in the early Showa era....
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Swift Current
as uncreditedThe film follows a young civil engineer, played by Toshiro Mifune, who is assigned to the Tase...
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The Age of Assassins
as uncreditedA nerdy young college instructor named Shinji Kikyo returns home one day to find himself the...
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The Blue Pearl
as uncreditedThe Blue Pearl depicts the interplay between a young man from Tokyo and two ama (pearl divers;...
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The New Road: Akemi
as uncreditedThe eldest daughter of a noble family is in love with an aviator while being courted by a fellow...
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Spring Awakens
as Female Teacher BSlice of life film centered on a couple of years in the life of a rural high school girl.
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A Woman's Life
as uncreditedA woman remembers her own marriage when dealing with the love life of her son.
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Song of the Flower Basket
as Oteru, the maidThree men fall in love with the same young girl who works in a tonkatsu restaurant in the...
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Introspection Tower
as Miss KonoA reformatory in the remote countryside houses 200 delinquents and problem children. The...
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On Wings of Love
as O-kikuOn Wings of Love is a 1957 Japanese romantic musical film directed by Toshio Sugie. It was...
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Fighting Yasubei
as uncreditedYasube Nakayama left the clan and lives in Edo. One day, Yasubei visits his uncle Rokuroemon...
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Spring Thunder
as uncreditedEiko is an innocent young lady born into a wealthy family with nothing to offer. She was good at...
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The Lights of Asakusa
as dancer in 'Carmen'Pre-war Asakusa was a riotous district of cabarets, dance-halls and brothels - a striking...
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Nobuko
as UmezawaA spirited young teacher challenges the conservative school employing her with liberal thinking...
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A Holiday in Tokyo
as uncreditedMay Kawaguchi is a famous Japanese fashion designer. Returning to Tokyo from her home in New...
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Rokujō yukiyama tsumugi
as uncreditedYoung widow Ine is suffering under the harsh treatment of her mother in law. As a former Geisha,...
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New Woman Question and Answer
as uncreditedJie (Michiko Kuwano) attended a women's university with the financial support of her geisha...
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Flowers of Patriotism
as uncreditedA nurse's tale of self-sacrifice during wartime. The title is borrowed from a patriotic song...
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Once More
as uncreditedA romance with political overtones about the relationship of a sheltered bourgeois woman and a...
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Lovers' Duet
as Apartment landladyMelodrama about a talented singer who finally makes her debut
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Dancing with a Mask
as uncreditedJapanese propaganda film about the Normanton Incident.
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Wood and Stone
as MizutaniMovie about a devoted and single woman and her daughter. The mother's nickname is "Bokuseki"...
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Mother's Love Letter
as uncreditedDomestic comedy involving a strong wife and a "henpecked" husband taking place in a family-run...
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Moon of the Plateau
as uncreditedAn older sister and brother (Mieko Takamine and Masayoshi Otsuka) come to visit their...
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