Movies: Kikuko Hanaoka

In late 19th century Tokyo, Kikunosuke Onoue, the adopted son of a legendary actor, himself an actor specializing in female roles, discovers that he is only praised for his acting due to his status as his father's heir. Devastated by this, he turns t...

A sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love letters for other people....

This horror tale relates the consequences of a Japanese legend which tells of a man who has to betray his wife in order to achieve power....

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A blind masseur visits a samurai to request the return of a loan. The samurai kills him in anger, then has his servant dump the body in the Kasane swamp. However, the ghost of the masseur returns to haunt the samurai, who kills his wife by mistake an...

Early adaptation of the book "The Inugami Clan", featuring the detective Kōsuke Kindaichi....

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

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Oiwa has been searching for the one who killed her father for a long time. She comes to Yedo and sees a man named Naosuke. The film is based on the kabuki classic: Toukaidou Yotsuya Kaidan (1826) written by Tsuruya Nanboku and is one of the most famo...

An actress returns to Tokyo after a successful stint in Hollywood to reclaim—with the help of her gangster brother—the daughter she abandoned years before....

Tanuma Kandayuu is a high class samurai of the house of Nabeshima. He finds a lavish board of Go (a Chinese Board game) at Kinbei's store. He recommend Kinbei to offer it to his lord. Kinbei hesitates at first, since he knows the board has a mysterio...

A luckless geisha struggles to make a living for herself and her young son....

Japanese comedy film....

1961 Toei adaptation of Yokomizo's novel....

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 styles like those used by amateur actors to dramatise contemporary events....

An early film by Kon Ichikawa...

A spectacular comedy with a star-studded cast that depicts unusual trials and unexpected verdicts regarding the five deadly sins: the crime of beauty, the crime of a terrifying wife, the crime of taking the wrong course, the crime of seducing, and th...

Live-action adaptation of Ko Kojima's manga "Sennin buraku"....

Japanese comedy film....

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