Hisako Yamane Movies

In Edo Period Japan, a noblewoman's banishment for her love affair with a lowly page signals the beginning of her inexorable fall.

Director Hiroshi Inagaki's early version of the life and death of famed swordsman Sasaki Kojiro. Otani Tomoemon gives a brilliant performance as...

A bizarre murder at a hot springs resort threatens to disrupt an Edo detective's (Hasegawa) vacation. When his hot-blooded wife (Yamada) starts...

1956 Japanese film, originally released in three parts.

Bittersweet shomin-geki drama by Keigo Kimura

A melodrama of the ups and downs of youth, based on Bunroku Shishi’s popular novel. Chiharu, a ballerina, and Shinichi, a thorough rationalist...

Mokichi is the widowed father of three daughters, with whom he lives on the premises of a temple since the war. All three daughters become involved...

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

Part 2 starts where the first film ended, with Iemon disposing of the bodies of his wife and Kohei, marrying upward, and being blackmailed by the...

Reputedly based on Frank Capra’s 1939 film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, A Descendant of Tarô Urashima is about a repatriated soldier who...

A young lord joins gang of Robin-esque robbers.

Japanese film released to commemorate the 7th anniversary of Shintoho's founding.

Upon discovering that her father has a mistress, a young girl befriends the "other woman" and her child. Realizing that her half-sister is doomed to...

This film depicts a troupe of wandering kabuki players traveling through rural Japan.

The story is based on the serial novel by Tsunoda Kikuo.

Dai-ni-bu: Aijô ruten: Kiyoshi Saeki directed movie