Sachiko Hidari Movies

As her husband Eiichi becomes more entangled in his life as businessman, Naoko looks for ways to expand her own life even as her husband's life...

Suicide has long been used as a form of social protest in Japan. In this film, set in 1703, samurai culture is being transformed by the emergence of...

Kingoro Yanagiya's 100th film.

An ethical, young tax collector new to his area encounters increasingly absurd individuals and groups coping with their post-war woes.

Set in the time of steam locomotives and covering a period of almost 30 years, this sensitive film tells the story of the wife of a railroad worker...

Nobuo is a hot-headed hoodlum fresh out of reform school who struggles to make a clean break with his tearaway past.

A young woman begins murdering all those responsible for her ailing father's condition. Because the girl is so outwardly sweet and innocent, the...

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

Three young women make a suicide pact, but they grow to have a better understanding of themselves.

With his penultimate film, Uchida revisited one of his popular prewar titles, 1936’s Theatre of Life, an adaptation of Shiro Ozaki’s...

Sukiyaki can be viewed two ways, a popular Japanese cuisine or a gathering of a family. This heart-warming comedy takes place in Yokohama, where the...

Hoshino Bunzo raises up his orphan grandson, Keiji whose right leg gets paralyzed when he was an infant. Bunzo loves Keiji so much that he does every...

Japanese drama film, originally released in two parts.

1962 Japanese movie

First live action adaptation of Keiji Nakazawa's manga.

Japanese drama film.

A lifetime story of a woman who stubbornly lives in a poor mountain village in post-war Japan.

The story of a selfless mother and her family throughout the decades, from the 1920's to the 1960's.