Mitsuko Yoshikawa Movies

Directed by Mikio Naruse. It is presumed to be lost.

Otoku asks her brother Bunkichi to speak with her son Seiichi, a young man for whom sacrificed everything but who now seems to be headed for a...

On vacation's eve, a boy is sent to the countryside to live with his uncle after his father is imprisoned and accused of embezzlement.

Kinuyo is a daughter of rice cracker shop in downtown. She fell in love with her sister's boyfriend. It is a story whose theme is warm human...

A spirited young teacher challenges the conservative school employing her with liberal thinking and teaching methods.

Domestic comedy involving a strong wife and a "henpecked" husband taking place in a family-run judo school.

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

Two people are fascinated by a sculptor's statue. The film is lost.

Follows the life of Tsuru, the poor daughter of farmers in Shinshu, Japan.

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

The eldest daughter of a noble family is in love with an aviator while being courted by a fellow aristocrat she thinks is a dullard. Told from the...

1948 Japanese movie

Inoue was something of a rarity in the sense, that he was a Shochiku house director who seems to have worked mostly in period films, often with big...

The story is centered around the devastating experiences of two villagers, Osaki Shuichi, and his cousin, Nishimiura Kinue, when they leave their...

Hiromasa Nomura World War II era film

An adventure of a feisty girl Oyuki and Santa, a homeless child she saves.

Film by Hiroshi Shimizu, featuring an early role for frequent Ozu and Naruse collaborator Hideko Takamine.