Kikuko Hanaoka Movies

Japanese comedy film.

A small community in wartime Japan learn how to make do with less.

A bar girl tries to pass her three children, each from a different father, to rural relatives.

War-time jidaigeki by Eisuke Takizawa.

In the first year of Chōroku, Satomi Yoshimi, lord of Takita Castle in Awa, faces defeat by neighboring lord Anzai Kagesuren. As the castle...

Japanese comedy film.

A 1942 film.

A omnibus movie consisting of the three parts: "Kechinbo", "Yowak" and "Kōshoku".

The Way of Drama unfolds in the world of kabuki in Osaka, but also addresses the politics of popular culture and the rivalry between theatrical...

Japanese comedy film.

Based on the play ”Mabuta no haha” by famed author Shin Hasegawa, this is the first major starring role for Tomisaburo Wakayama. This...

Film by Hiroshi Shimizu, featuring an early role for frequent Ozu and Naruse collaborator Hideko Takamine.

Police detective Heiji is assigned to catch the masked Maboroshi gang of robbers who have terrorized all of Edo leaving few clues as to who their...

Japanese comedy film.

Japanese comedy film.

The ambiguous relationship between a woman musician and her young student.

The day to day life in an establishment for delinquent teenage girls.

Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Wakai omawari-san" by Shiro Sone.

A picture-story-show operator, accompanies her son, Akira, who lives apart from her, to a hot-spring medical treatment and spend a moment of brief...