Mitsuko Kusabue Movies

A young woman's life is turned upside down when her husband suddenly disappears, leaving behind numerous debts and his illegitimate child. Desperate...

Fifty elderly women are abandoned to die on a snow covered mountain, but instead wor together to build their own village named "Dendera." Some of the...

Kikuji is the scion of an Osaka merchant family whose traditional power is matrilineal. Instructed by his overbearing mother and grandmother to give...

Story of young love in the hills.

A 1970s Toho coming-of-age film.

Based upon the novel by Minato Kanae. The story is about three women who all live in the same countryside town but who never interact with one...

1961 Japanese movie

1962 Japanese movie

Thriller directed by Seiji Maruyama

Set at the end of the Siege of Osaka this film follows the exploits of several members of the defeated Toyotomi clan as they cope with the post...

1958 Japanese movie

An Ishiro Honda film.

A longtime hotel employee (Morishige) struggles to bring his old-fashioned ryokan in line with postwar Japanese business practices.

Based on the novel of the same name by Yoshio Kataoka.

Shûe Matsubayashi movie

The head of Oshu, Harumichi Honma, was ordered by the boat bugyo (Commissioner of the board) Tajima Kuze to extract five gold coins to the Shogun...