Movies: Kikuko Hanaoka

A sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love letters for other people....

Japanese war film....

1959 Shintoho adaptation of Kyoka Izumi's novel "A Woman's Pedigree"....

Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Wakai omawari-san" by Shiro Sone....

Japanese sex comedy film....

33-year-old poor writer Ogata was able to endure his miserable life cheerfully thanks to Yoshie, a 19-year-old innocent young wife. After graduating from a girls' school in Hokuriku, she immediately moved to Tokyo to meet and marry Ogata. After neatl...

An early film by Kon Ichikawa...

Early adaptation of the book "The Inugami Clan", featuring the detective Kōsuke Kindaichi....

Oiwa has been searching for the one who killed her father for a long time. She comes to Yedo and sees a man named Naosuke. The film is based on the kabuki classic: Toukaidou Yotsuya Kaidan (1826) written by Tsuruya Nanboku and is one of the most famo...

short film about Banchō Sarayashiki....

Japanese comedy film....

Tanuma Kandayuu is a high class samurai of the house of Nabeshima. He finds a lavish board of Go (a Chinese Board game) at Kinbei's store. He recommend Kinbei to offer it to his lord. Kinbei hesitates at first, since he knows the board has a mysterio...

The ambiguous relationship between a woman musician and her young student....

1954 Japanese film starring professional wrestler Rikidozan....

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

A blind masseur visits a samurai to request the return of a loan. The samurai kills him in anger, then has his servant dump the body in the Kasane swamp. However, the ghost of the masseur returns to haunt the samurai, who kills his wife by mistake an...

Japanese comedy film....

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

A fox in disguise, Okon, returns the favor to a man who rescued her from a fatal trap....

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