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...

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...

When Wabisuke's father-in-law unexpectedly dies, the family goes through a series of random events and occurrences as the funeral unfolds over three...

Ignoring the protests of his working-class mother, a young man becomes wrapped up in the world of delinquents and yakuza.

An errant salaryman's son gets lost until a man from the Tokyo tenements brings him to vendor Tane, who's reluctant to let the kid board.

Yoshida’s first big-budget production and colour film is a haunting tale of unrequited love and postwar disillusion. The story of the fatal...

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

1948 adaptation of Golden Devil

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

Zatoichi comes upon a dying man who asks him to give a bag of money to "Taichi". Zatoichi has no idea who this is but when he comes upon a small town...

A woman in a bar was killed at a new construction site in an apartment building, and a handbag containing the value of five million yen was taken...

After the death of her husband, an elderly woman and her youngest, unmarried daughter are forced to sell their house to cover his debts and decide to...

A professor, Komiya, and his bossy wife, Tokio, are to look after Setsuko, their high-spirited niece from Osaka. Despite being a minor, Setsuko is a...

Lord for a Night is a 1946 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa.

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

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...

Two childhood friends go their own ways but meet again some years later after they have both married. They get re-acquainted, meet each others’...

A young man falls in love with a prostitute and is disowned by his family. He is then drafted, and heads off to war. Script exists - considered to be...

A young man discovers that the woman who raised him is his stepmother. His stepbrother, who is unaware of the revelation, resents his mother for...

Hatamoto Akabane Tanaka once ruined his life with alcohol in his youth, leaving behind his wife and son, Hanji, to embark on a journey. He killed a...