Mitsuko Yoshikawa Movies

A silk factory worker is persuaded to support her son's education up to a college level despite their poverty. Many years later, she travels to Tokyo...

The story deals with Fuji, nicknamed Waka-danna (Young Master), the star athlete on his university's rugby team. The son of a wealthy soy sauce...

Melodrama about a talented singer who finally makes her debut

A period piece about the love of a wealthy blind woman, a teacher of koto and shamisen, and her devoted manservant. Based on a novella by Tanizaki...

A newly hired daily newspaper writer covering the society beat receives an assignment to cover Tokyo at night by walking and observing it. He gets...

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

Domestic comedy involving a strong wife and a "henpecked" husband taking place in a family-run judo school.

Each one of us lives differently. So, there are many tragedies and comedies in our lives. She feels many conflicts in living her life between truth...

A touching action film about a young yakuza who becomes infected with evil because he has the ability to easily decipher the mechanism of a safe....

Young geisha Kohana scrambles to realize her dream of bringing back her grandmother’s restaurant business.

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

Japanese war film.

From the opening theme song to the grand finale, you know that you have found something special as this exciting movie stars the great Misora Hibari...

1962 Japanese movie. Remake of Mori's 1942 original movie

A melodrama by noted auteur and father of director Yoshitaro Nomura, Hotei Nomura. This is apparently the first adaptation of Izumi Kyoka's The...

Three men fall in love with the same young girl who works in a tonkatsu restaurant in the Shitamachi district of Tokyo.

Three young yakuza, Fujitaro, Matsugoro and Kanjuro, travel the country fighting evil.

1716, Yoshimune becomes the 8th Shogun as high Shogunate officials are attacked. While the government tries to keep these incidents under wraps, they...

Two young brothers become the leaders of a gang of kids in their neighborhood. Ozu's charming film is a social satire that draws from the antics of...