Kiyoko Hirai

The citizens of Tokyo panic when they see UFOs in the sky. The aliens are benign, however, and have come to warn of a runaway planetoid known as ...

Pu Zhe , the younger brother of the Emperor of Manchukuo, Pu Wen, marries Ryuko the daughter of a long-established aristocratic family – ...

An intellectual couple in a staid and tedious marriage are surprised when the wife’s niece, who has run away from home, turns up ...

In Dancing Girl Shimizu replaces the movement of the protagonists with an almost incessant lateral movement of the camera, outdoors shooting ...

Set in post-war Japan, The Lady of Musashino tells the story of Michiko, a disillusioned young woman trapped in a loveless marriage. She confides ...

Shinnosuke is introduced to Shizu as a prospective marriage partner, but he falls in love with her widowed sister Oyu. Convention forbids Oyu to ...