Mitsuko Yoshikawa

The films of Gosho are known both from his sensible composition as well as his continuous, insightful interpretation of the present moment. ...

In 1936, Shochiku’s studios moved from Kamata to Ofuna. That year Shimazu Yasujiro, one of the more acclaimed directors under contract at ...

An errant salaryman’s son gets lost until a man from the Tokyo tenements brings him to vendor Tane, who’s reluctant to let the kid ...

The movie follows a young woman (Kinuyo Tanaka), a daughter of a high-ranking businessman and his neglected mistress, as she struggles to ease ...

For decades, film buffs have been told that until Kurosawa’s RASHOMON, Japanese cinema was a forbidden kingdom, bearing little relationship ...

A woman asks her brother to speak to her son. After she’s sacrificed everything for him, it seems he’s going to squander it all for ...

Reikichi Kawamura is an executive at his father’s security firm; he knows he has responsibilities, but he’s not terribly enamored of ...

A jewelry store president begins to fall for the doctor treating her husband’s illness. Release: Wedding Ring 1950 720p General: mkv | 1.97 ...

The story focuses on the widower Nemoto, ostensibly a businessman, who has one son, Kanichi, the hero of the title. Nemoto remarries; his new ...

After the death of her husband, Mrs Toda and her youngest daughter receive a frosty welcome from the extended family. Release: The Brothers and ...

Family drama. 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 ...

In the formally ravishing Every-Night Dreams, set in the dockside neighborhoods of Tokyo, a single mother works tirelessly as a Ginza bar hostess ...

A wealthy family will not allow the military to grow crops on their fields due to their superstitious beliefs about their son’s illness. ...

Graduate Okajima finds his old-fashioned beard makes life difficult in a comedy exploring the tension between tradition and modernity. Release: ...

The film tells of the strained relationship between a mother and her two sons after the death of the family patriarch. Release: Haha wo kowazuya ...

On vacation’s eve, a boy is sent to the countryside to live with his uncle after his father is imprisoned and accused of embezzlement. ...

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

An affluent medical professor, Komiya, and his bossy wife, Tokio, are to look after Setsuko, their high-spirited niece from Osaka. Setsuko is a ...

For Apart from You, Mikio Naruse turned his camera on the lives of working women, which he would continue to do throughout his long career. In ...

A poor factory worker, visiting the Tokyo son she has skimped to educate, finds even a college degree doesn’t make a difference in ...