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...

The debut film of Shin Toho Productions

Bittersweet shomin-geki drama by Keigo Kimura

Government-sponsored film set during the Pacific War, depicting the lives of people working as stevedores.

Harsh film about a car dealer who gets into financial trouble.

1942 adaptation of Izumi Kyoka's novel.

Melodrama by Kon Ichikawa

Reputedly based on Frank Capra’s 1939 film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, A Descendant of Tarô Urashima is about a repatriated soldier who...

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...

The story is based on the serial novel by Tsunoda Kikuo.

A 1942 film.

Period film about the legendary detective Umon

1956 Japanese film, originally released in three parts.

The only son of a sushi chef hates sushi and decides to leave home to search for a job and make his own way.

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...

Upon discovering that her father has a mistress, a young girl befriends the "other woman" and her child. Realizing that her half-sister is doomed to...

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...