Hatsuko Wakahara Movies

A realistic film that sharply portrays a cross-section of postwar society.

The story of a young police officer who risks his career to save the soul of a woman who curses societal evils and chooses the path of...

A passionate young man who lives for judo, the innocent girl he adores, and a challenge to the judo boss… A major match where love and life...

Yamagami, who had been working as an engineer at an automobile factory in Manchuria, returns to postwar Tokyo for the first time in five years and is...

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.

1950 daiei movie.

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

1945 Japanese movie

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...

A crime film released in 1962

This rarely seen gem from master Suzuki casts teenage heartthrob Koji Wada as a young misfit who suddenly finds himself the unwitting pawn in an...

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...

Japanese crime film

Minowada, a young teacher at a National People's School, has his own theory of education and the daughter of his linguistics teacher becomes drawn to...

The rehabilitation of a delinquent on leaving reformatory. Her redemption comes through a boy in a wheelchair; by his rehabilitation, growing comes...