Shizue Natsukawa Movies

A carpenter, Shigetsugu, learns a lesson of love and humanity from five orphaned children and an affectionate woman named Oritsu. It's a winning...

Adaptation of Fumiko Hayashi's novel.

The story of two young men whose ambition is to become the personal bodyguards to the Shogun's uncle, Lord Mito Komon. Portrayed by a pair of up and...

Based on the serialized story "東京一代女" which appeared in Tokyo Shinbun. A geisha known for her dancing begins...

A classic melodramatic love tragedy addressing social inequality in Taishō-era Japan, The nostalgic scenes of 1920s Tokyo provides a valuable...

1949 drama film

Hibari Misora plays a singing guide, who is secretly in love, her fortunes turn for the worse when a gangster’s henchman hears her singing and...

In Nihonbashi, a fire broke out in the Kodenma-cho prison, and the prisoners were released. With the proviso that if the prisoner does not return...

1962 Japanese movie

Set in post-WWII Osaka, a young woman trapped working in a sordid lodging house run by her abusive stepfather falls for a visiting criminal in hopes...

A father curries favor with his bosses to further his career, but his wife has lost faith in him. She returns to her family home while they rent out...

Shochiku's commemorative 3000th film production; a suspenseful period drama.

Taking place in Shinshu in the 1920s, Tsumakoi Okoma, while traveling to hone her gambling skills, teams up with the vagabond Tsukuba Tsuneji and...

Shizuko hesitates between two suitors. While the one she marries commits suicide following a scandal, the other refuses to marry out of love for her....

Nobuo is a hot-headed hoodlum fresh out of reform school who struggles to make a clean break with his tearaway past.

Story of young love in the hills.

Directed by Senkichi Taniguchi

A young widow, made world weary by her abusive, neglectful husband, finds herself in a minor scandal when she's seen with her intense, no-nonsense...