Mitsuko Yoshikawa Movies

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

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 penniless orphan loses the woman he loves, when her family arranges a marriage to a wealthy playboy. He believes she was blinded by greed, and...

Hiromasa Nomura World War II era film

Silent comedic short by Mikio Naruse

A story about the lives of four sisters and their manipulative mother who must come to terms with each of their decisions in life.

Set in an old merchant house in Kyoto, the film traces the passing of an era through the story of a parent and child.

A reformatory in the remote countryside houses 200 delinquents and problem children. The teachers and caretakers face much trouble. The school is...

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

An eroticized adaptation of Murasaki Shikibu's classic novel, written over 1000 years ago. Genji, the son of the emperor, has gained renown among the...

1948 adaptation of Golden Devil

Based on the mystery novel of the same name by Seichō Matsumoto.

1961 Japanese movie

1939 Japanese movie

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

A hen-pecked man works as his artist wife's model and a house-husband. When her patron flirts with her and humiliates him, he decides to get revenge...

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...

A family story in the year of 1943 during the war. The director is Shunkai Mizuho, who worked on "Hibari no Circus Sad Kobato" starring Hibari Misora...

Atsuko is an office secretary who is also her family's primary source of income and caretaker in postwar Japan.