Michiyo Kogure Movies

An Ishiro Honda Film.

Kazuo Miyagawa’s prizewinning black-and-white cinematography draws out the moral shadings of Nobel laureate Yasunari Kawabata’s 1952...

Jidaigeki by Tai Kato

1948 Japanese movie

Based on the novel by Kojin Shimomura. Story of a young boy and his adventures in the country. His idyllic life is shattered by the illness and death...

Jidaigeki film from 1960

The tragedy of the geiko girl Ume and the men who try to pursue her.

A biographical movie about Shinran

In 39 interviews with actors and actresses, writers, producers and staff members, interspersed with film excerpts and stills, Shindō recounts...

Two men head a team who steal a factory payroll valued at 500 million yen. Then a hoodlum gang goes after the team for the money.

When the aging leader of the yakuza gang Maeda-gumi decides to retire, many of the gang members have no confidence in the young man he has chosen to...

1962 Japanese movie

Love-hate drama of three beautiful sisters in Ooku in Edo Castle.