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Tag Archives: Yoshiko Kuga
Love Letter AKA Koibumi (1953) Kinuyo Tanaka, Masayuki Mori, Yoshiko Kuga, Jûkichi Uno
This valiant melodrama is the brilliant debut as a moviemaker of the great Japanese actress Kinuyo Tanaka Read More »
Beautiful days AKA Uruwashiki saigetsu (1955) Masaki Kobayashi, Keiji Sada, Yoshiko Kuga, Isao Kimura
A romantic drama depicting the lives of two generations of a family who run a florist shop in Tokyo. Read More »
The Woman of Rumour AKA Uwasa no onna (1954) Kenji Mizoguchi, Kinuyo Tanaka, Tomoemon Otani, Yoshiko Kuga
Hatsuko Umabuchi is a widow who runs a prosperous geisha house in present-day Kyoto. Read More »
Ninjitsu AKA Yagyû bugeichô (1957) Hiroshi Inagaki, Toshirô Mifune, Yoshiko Kuga, Kyôko Kagawa
In the Tokugawa Era, the clan of Lord Yagyu has hidden away three scrolls containing clan secrets which Read More »
Snow Flurry AKA Kazabana (1959) Keisuke Kinoshita, Keiko Kishi, Ineko Arima, Yoshiko Kuga
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 »
Ballad of a Worker AKA Futari de aruita iku haru aki (1962) Keisuke Kinoshita, Hideko Takamine, Keiji Sada, Yoshiko Kuga
A demobilized soldier becomes a day laborer with a road construction gang, and his wife goes to work to bolster their income. Read More »
Elegy of the North AKA Banka (1957) Heinosuke Gosho, Yoshiko Kuga, Masayuki Mori, Mieko Takamine
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 »
Good Morning AKA Ohayô (1959) Yasujirô Ozu, Keiji Sada, Yoshiko Kuga, Chishû Ryû
This movie takes a look at a Westernized suburban area in Japan in the late ’50s. Read More »
Older Brother, Younger Sister (1953) Mikio Naruse, Machiko Kyô, Masayuki Mori, Yoshiko Kuga
The eldest daughter of a rural family Mon returns home from Tokyo pregnant after an affair with a college student Kobata Read More »
Till We Meet Again (1950) Tadashi Imai, Yoshiko Kuga, Eiji Okada, Osamu Takizawa, Drama, History
Saburo and Keiko fall in love with each other but the tide of the war separates them. Read More »
Yuki fujin ezu / Portrait of Madame Yuki (1950) Kenji Mizoguchi, Michiyo Kogure, Yoshiko Kuga, Ken Uehara, Drama, Romance
Kyo mo mata kakute ari nan / Thus Another Day (1959) Keisuke Kinoshita, Teiji Takahashi, Yoshiko Kuga, Kanzaburô Nakamura, Drama, Romance
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 »
Kono ten no niji / The Eternal Rainbow (1958) Keisuke Kinoshita, Teiji Takahashi, Yoshiko Kuga, Takahiro Tamura, Drama
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 »
Kono hiroi sora no dokoka ni / Somewhere Beneath The Wide Sky (1954) Masaki Kobayashi, Keiji Sada, Yoshiko Kuga, Hideko Takamine, Drama
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 »