Keiko Kishi

The Twilight Samurai

The Twilight Samurai

Seibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth century. A widower with a meager income, Seibei ...
The Makioka Sisters

The Makioka Sisters

This sensuously beautiful film chronicles the activities of four sisters who gather in Kyoto every year to view the cherry blossoms. It paints a ...
The Yakuza

The Yakuza

1974  

The Yakuza

When George Tanner does business with high-ranking Yakuza Tono, Tono kidnaps his daughter, and George summons his old friend, private eye Harry ...
Her Brother
6.9

Her Brother

1960  

Her Brother

Set in 1926 when Japanese tradition was much stronger, this drama looks at the inner workings of a small family, especially the relationship ...
Early Spring
7.7

Early Spring

1956  

Early Spring

A young salaryman and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship while he embarks on an extramarital affair.
Growing Up
7.1

Growing Up

1955  

Growing Up

A boy falls in love with a girl. Neither of them know that she’s to be sold to a brothel.
Here Is a Spring
N/A

Here Is a Spring

The story of a group of young people who organise their own travelling symphony orchestra to provide music for people living in remote villages ...
Mother’s First Love
N/A

Mother’s First Love

A melodrama based on the novel by Yasunari Kawabata, telling about the tragic fate of a mother and daughter who are attracted to the same man.
Always in My Heart Part 3
6.2

Always in My Heart Part 3

Machiko and Haruki’s drama continues. Machiko is not allowed to see Haruki. They finally meet again, but Haruki departs to Europe.
The Garden of Women
6.9

The Garden of Women

A student at a woman’s university takes a controversial action against the school’s old-fashioned doctrines.
Always in My Heart Part 2
6.2

Always in My Heart Part 2

Machiko and Haruki’s drama continues. Two meet again in Hokkaido only to be separated again.
Always in My Heart
6.8

Always in My Heart

Machiko Ujiie and Haruki Atomiya first meet and fall in love on Ginza’s Sukiyabashi Bridge during the Great Tokyo Air Raid in March 1945. Machiko ...
Hibari’s Circus: The Sad Little Dove
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Hibari’s Circus: The Sad Little Dove

Mariko studies at a missionary school in Shinshu. She drops out of school and joins her father on a circus tour when she discovers that her ...
Kyōshū
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Kyōshū

1952  

Kyōshū

Doctor’s Day Off
7.4

Doctor’s Day Off

Having completed the first year at his new medical practice, a doctor plans to relax on his day off. However, it is not to be: on this hectic day ...
治郎吉格子

治郎吉格子

Aboard a ship connecting Kyoto and Osaka, Osan was pickpocketed by a sham blind biwa player. A man who looked like a merchant retrieved the ...
Songfest! The 3 Young Musketeers!
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Songfest! The 3 Young Musketeers!

Saito Torajiro directed this light comic musical about the lives and loves of three cheerful, lively young men on the R University Rugby Club, ...
Bored Hatamoto: The Imposter
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Bored Hatamoto: The Imposter

Around the Genroku era, there was a man named Saotome Shusui-no-Suke, nephew to the senior councilor Matsudaira Sakon Shogen. He was commonly ...
Minami kaze

Minami kaze

1951  

Minami kaze

1951 Japanese movie