Tamae Kiyokawa Movies

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...

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

Kinta (Nabe Osami) is Japanese by birth, but raised by a Chinese man. He stowsaway to Japan to see his girlfriend Yukiko but gets picked up for...

On the eve of the Russo-Japanese war at the beginning of the 20th century, small-town girl Okane has married an old wealthy man to escape a life of...

Part 2 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series

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...

Shinzō, the heir of the prominent Edo lumber dealer Yamashiroya, left home when his stubborn father, Chōzaemon, dismissed his lover, the...

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

Kôfuku eno shôtai - Invitation to happiness

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...

Melodrama by Kiyoshi Saeki

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

Adaptation of a novel by Yojiro Ishizaka, originally released in two parts.

Yuko is sent to the coastal regions to be raised away from the rest of her sophisticated family where she finds out from her ill grandmother that she...

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

Japanese comedy film.

An Ishiro Honda film.