Nijiko Kiyokawa Movies

A bar girl tries to pass her three children, each from a different father, to rural relatives.

The third film in the Taro series, following "The World's Most Noble Guy: Taro's Eternity" and "The World's Most Noble Guy: Taro's Rush." Taro, who...

A drama film based on Ken Domon's photography of the children around the Chikuho coal mines.

Film about a station master's romance with a young prostitute.

When poverty-stricken Korean-Japanese (Zainichi) discover there is valuable iron ore in the rubble of a destroyed shantytown they plan to haul it out...

Saheita, the final heir of a once rich and respectable family, can't refuse the many villagers that come to him for favours and money, even though he...

1961 Japanese movie

Hide-chan (Hideko Takamine) and her family are on a trip to Tokyo. While visiting a fairground, a pickpocket (Kamatari Furukawa) steals the father's...

A former samurai, whose lover had died while he was traveling, was returning to Edo when he met a woman at Shinagawa-juku.

A young girl moves to Tokyo and endures the rivalries between other high school girls of varying cultural and economic backgrounds.

A group of hustling peddlers swindle rural towns with fake goods, facing betrayals, close calls, and constant setbacks as they chase survival and...

Sugimoto Gonkuro is travelling along from Tosa to Edo. On his journey he will meet both good and bad people.

An adaptation of the popular Sazae-san comic strip

1962 Japanese movie

The story tells of Tsuchiya, a university professor and a widower who is in love with a widow who runs a small restaurant, and his son is in love...

A comedic retelling of the legendary encounter between Sasaki Kojiro and Miyamato Musashi.

A conscript from a poor background writes the Emperor asking if he can stay in the army when his service is up.

Kimie, a traveling guitarist, performs at various inns at help out her sickly mother. One night while out with her mother, Otoshi, Kimie unexpectedly...