Aiko Mimasu Movies

The first in a series of 31 "mother films" produced by Daiei in the post-war period.

A home drama about a mother and her three daughters, based on the novel by Fumiko Hayashi.

Based on a novel by Tei Fujiwara

Melodrama about two sisters with different mothers.

Set in the pleasure district of Kyoto, Tamiko (Yoshiko Mita, in her first lead role) is a young girl attending high school by day and training as a...

A love melodrama about five siblings and the daughter of a businessman.

Directed by Nobuo Adachi and starring Aiko Mimasu as a mother who lost three of her four sons to war. Aki is an elderly mother who has lost three of...

A story about being scared of getting old.

An entertainment film set in a movie studio, featuring songs and hidden talents performed by male and female stars.

A romantic story about a young medical student and a Japanese dancer who meet while watching a university ice hockey league game, and how they...

A child who was taken in and raised by a woman from a once-impoverished traveling theater troupe grows up to be a beautiful young woman and performs...