Hisako Yamane Movies

Song of the White Orchid was a co-production of Toho and Mantetsu, the railway that served the colonial region of Manchuria, and the first film in...

A young lord joins gang of Robin-esque robbers.

A former samurai, whose lover had died while he was traveling, was returning to Edo when he met a woman at Shinagawa-juku.

The story of an airport and its air traffic control crew in a remote and northern Japanese town. Three of the air traffic controllers are female with...

Film by Buichi Saitô

Canal - A river created by cutting through nature for the sake of human life that flows silently, encompassing good, evil, sorrow, and joy, just like...

1942 adaptation of Izumi Kyoka's novel.

Based on a short story by Dazai Osamu, produced under the national film law. The film's hero falls in love with the youngest daughter of a family he...

The 1st movie in the Kobushidake denki series.

1944 war movie

Based on the comic by Ichio Matsushita

A young woman (Kuga), recuperating at a sanitarium in Karuizawa, falls in love with a young student (Ishihama) but returns to Tokyo to be with her...

A young man rents an apartment in Tokyo and discover it was built by his father. He falls in love with the daughter of the mistress of the house and...

Michiko Asakura was married to the eldest son of the Sakuma family, an unsealed family in Shinshu, but died from her husband and returned to her...

A lighthearted and entertaining film that incorporates popuar songs into a period drama.

A small community in wartime Japan learn how to make do with less.

It is 1921 and a town has a newspaper which prints urgent bulletins as required. The Washington-based CITES treaty, in which Japan participates, puts...

1945 Japanese movie

Historical drama about two samurai who fight over everything yet unite together to fight an evil lord.