Hatsuko Wakahara

1962 Japanese movie

1962 Japanese movie

A dead lover returns as a ghost

Orphans who transport stolen goods rebel against the yakuza organization that stole their youth through extortion and violence.

A crime film released in 1962

1962 Japanese movie

A young army surgeon, Kyoji Fujisaki, accidentally contracts syphilis during a WWII field operation. Back at his father’s clinic, he treats himself...

1945 Japanese movie

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

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 violent story of loyalty and revenge among the many "yakuza" or gambling groups in Japan.

Young female teacher Kyoko Miyake relocates to a small seaside town with her runaway little sister, but their new life is complicated by hoodlum-like...

An envelope of obscene woodblock prints makes a perverse connection between a violent homeless boxer, a feckless husband and a wife with a past...

The female members of the family of the Minister of Health and Welfare, who has just proposed a program of birth control, become pregnant one after...

Based on the short story The Psychological Test by Edogawa Rampo.

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...

Japanese crime film

Japanese drama film.

1960 action film.

Mysterious incident at a secret factory! Important documents lost! What is the true identity of the enemy's invisible spy?

A blockbuster youth action film based on the serialized novel in Nikkan Sports by Yoshirō Akinaga, now adapted for the screen.

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.

1967 Nikkatsu film.

A war propaganda film centered on the mobilization of student soldiers.

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...

1946 Japanese movie.

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 villain’s niece and...

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

Deep down, a dark shadow always lingered in the heart of Ushio, a young prosecutor who had made a name for himself by cracking down on organized...

Movie about biological mothers, foster mothers, and stepmothers.

Ken Uehara plays the role of a prominent figure in the red-light district and portrays his violent personality.

Shinjiro, the only son of Sakai Hospital, could not forget Mie, a geisha he had met at a munitions factory during the war. He refused to marry...

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...

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...

1950 daiei movie.

A film adaptation of a novel that caused a stir among women for its incisive examination of romantic relationships between men and women.

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 are on...

Eiji Izutsu, a young architectural engineer, suddenly came into a massive inheritance on the condition that he marry a woman named Chigusa Takemura,...

With his mother’s wishes and a young woman’s prayers in his heart, a spirited young man fights to uphold the honor of college judo.

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

Two barbers have fallen for each other, but their fathers are both stubborn, and, on top of that, they’re old rivals from the past.

In this downbeat, emotionally gripping drama, a lone guardian of some small huts on one of the northernmost, small islands off Japan remembers his...

A moving story depicting the spirit of a young marathon runner who set a new world record in Boston, encouraged by the love of his family, a young...