Tamae Kiyokawa Movies

After finishing the course of junior high school, Kazuo comes up to Tokyo, leaving his mother alone in the unproductive northern district. He finds a...

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

Twenty-year-old Yoshiko (Setsuko Hara) and her younger sister Asako (Yōko Yaguchi) struggle to accept changes in their home during the...

The young boy Michio struggles with the loss of his mother while his widowed father, Sadao remarries the kind-hearted Sonoko, who has a daughter of...

Japanese "kayo" film based on the song "Ieraishan" by Yoshiko Yamaguchi.

Directorial debut by Umetsugu Inoue, the famous director of Musicals

Story of young love in the hills.

A picture-story-show operator, accompanies her son, Akira, who lives apart from her, to a hot-spring medical treatment and spend a moment of brief...

Part 2 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series

Ichiro’s family used to be a large landowner, but now he is living in poverty with his mother. His mother works hard to get her son through...

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...

Kitagawa Utamaro is a famous ukiyo-e artist known for his paintings of beautiful women. The courtesan who became his model became even more popular....

1949 Japanese film

Part 1 of a 2-part romance based on a story by noted author Kikuchi Kan. The central character here is Toyomi (played by Takako IRIE, star of...

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

Hideko, a young Baseball fan, determined to cheer for her favourite baseball team by creating a new song for them.

Japanese prison exploitation movie. Part 1 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series