Nijiko Kiyokawa Movies

The Wayside Pebble is an effective drama about the hardships of a childhood spent with a brusque, cold-hearted father and a submissive mother. The...

Taro Kuroki, 42, is a stuntman with a samurai's heart. He loves adventures, plays pranks with the police, tries to cure a cat lady by reversing her...

Japanese film based on the life of writer Ichiyo Higuchi (1872-1896).

Hide-chan (Hideko Takamine) and her family are on a trip to Tokyo. While visiting a fairground, a pickpocket (Kamatari Furukawa) steals the father's...

In a village subsisting on it herring fishery, a one-eyed criminal named Jakoman terrorizes the inhabitants. One of them, the son of the head of one...

Melodrama by Kiyoshi Saeki

1936 P.C.L. adaptation of Natsume's novel.

An episodic film about life in and around a rural police station and the people it serves.

The story of two young men whose ambition is to become the personal bodyguards to the Shogun's uncle, Lord Mito Komon. Portrayed by a pair of up and...

Bored Hatamoto film #17

Based on the comic by Shosuke Kurakane. Shown in two parts.

1962 Japanese movie

A film dealing with the comings and goings of individuals in the immediate postwar period.

"Karayuki-san offers a no-holds-barred depiction of the discrimination faced by a former prostitute who returns to Japan from Singapore with her...

The main focus is on the 5 member band of a small circus as it runs into problems while touring rural Japan. It also pays lots of attention to the...

Japanese family drama.

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