Hatsuko Wakahara Movies

A film adaptation of a novel that caused a stir among women for its incisive examination of romantic relationships between men and women.

Chief editor Shiro Kamisaka (Hisaya Morishige) of Sankei Publishing Inc. is being tried for embezzlement and the staging of Chiyo Umehara's suicide....

A war propaganda film centered on the mobilization of student soldiers.

Michiko is a spirited young woman who was invited by the delinquent Kuniko to a shady cabaret, where she was introduced to a pseudo-gentleman named...

Following the unexpected death of her father, stage actress Emi Ikushima has to navigate the pitfalls of her rising fame and her increasingly...

Japanese drama film.

1962 Japanese movie

A dispute over the estate of a wealthy family’s patriarch erupts between the son’s widow and her child on one side, and the...

Movie about biological mothers, foster mothers, and stepmothers.

At Shizumoto, a geisha shop not far from Ginza, a group of geisha are going about their day, putting up a modest resistance to the tragedies of life....

Deep down, a dark shadow always lingered in the heart of Ushio, a young prosecutor who had made a name for himself by cracking down on organized...

An envelope of obscene woodblock prints makes a perverse connection between a violent homeless boxer, a feckless husband and a wife with a past...

Shinjiro, the only son of Sakai Hospital, could not forget Mie, a geisha he had met at a munitions factory during the war. He refused to marry...

A great ambition to portray with sharp satire and humor the course of modern anxiety and love that is about to be driven to despair.

A blockbuster youth action film based on the serialized novel in Nikkan Sports by Yoshirō Akinaga, now adapted for the screen.