Tag Archives: Yoshiko Kuga

After Teiko’s new husband disappears on a business trip, she discovers Read More »

This valiant melodrama is the brilliant debut as a moviemaker of the great Japanese actress Kinuyo Tanaka Read More »

A romantic drama depicting the lives of two generations of a family who run a florist shop in Tokyo. Read More »

Hatsuko Umabuchi is a widow who runs a prosperous geisha house in present-day Kyoto. Read More »

In the Tokugawa Era, the clan of Lord Yagyu has hidden away three scrolls containing clan secrets which Read More »

Set in a rural village in the Shinshu region, this melodrama about lovers of different social classes spans two generations: that of a mother, and her son. Read More »

A demobilized soldier becomes a day laborer with a road construction gang, and his wife goes to work to bolster their income. Read More »

A young woman falls for a middle aged business man, but things get complicated when she also starts having feelings for his wife. Read More »

This movie takes a look at a Westernized suburban area in Japan in the late ’50s. Read More »

The eldest daughter of a rural family Mon returns home from Tokyo pregnant after an affair with a college student Kobata Read More »

Saburo and Keiko fall in love with each other but the tide of the war separates them. Read More »

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A young wife looses patience with her career-minded husband and returns to her parents’ home while an unpaid mortgage force the couple to rent out their home for the summer to the husband’s boss. Read More »

Two men at an ironworks encounter roadblocks: the first does not have the grades to get a job, while the other finds himself falling for a co-worker. Read More »

A family in the city of Tokyo running a liquor store overcome their impotence and dysfunction as they induce an understanding through each other of how to deal with their individual problems. Read More »