Tamae Kiyokawa Movies

The three Matsunami sisters navigate adulthood and the complex social pressures of finding a husband while living under their traditional...

Okoma, a witty young woman working as a conductor in an old, rickety bus in Kōfu, Yamanashi (rural Japan), has a creative idea that could avert...

Melodrama by Kiyoshi Saeki

It was supposed to be about a love story, but it was and was not. An aircraft mechanic working for the government is matched by his boss with the...

An Ishiro Honda film.

A bar girl tries to pass her three children, each from a different father, to rural relatives.

Adaptation of a novel by Nobuko Yoshiya that was serialized in "Shufu no tomo" between 1939 and 1940.

Japanese comedy directed by Noriaki Yuasa.

Ushinosuke returns to his hometown to become a farmer. Part three (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku Shishi’s novel, Oban.

Part 2 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series

1961 Toei comedy

When Shinsuke returns to Kyushu from the Russo-Japanese War he finds his Judo school hall neglected and in decay. His Judo teacher has died and his...

1961 Japanese movie

Atsuko, a seamstress at a clothing shop in Ginza, spends her days quietly going about her work, oblivious to the gossip about romance swirling around...

Coal miner Isamu Oba is forced to quit his village and leave his mother and siblings behind. Mining buddy Ichiro accompanies him to Tokyo, and the...

1950s Japanese comedy.