Yaeko Mizutani Movies

An Ishiro Honda film.

After receiving a phone call from a woman whose child has contracted polio, government official Masayoshi Sakata decides to do everything he can to...

Depicting the lives and spirit of geisha during and after the war.

An elderly woman devoted to her foster-daughter searches for a good husband for her.

Uta’s mother died when she was six years old; her father she never met. She was forced to adopt a traveller’s life when her grandmother...

A tale of love and tears that blossomed in the shadow of the Seinan War.

Two residents of Edo city Yaji and Kita make a journey to the temple of Ise, as part of a religious pilgrimage, but actually to get away from their...

A movie adaptation of Funayama Kaoru's novel of the same name, which depicts the story of a modern youth who is attracted to the evil path. Saburi...

Melodrama about two sisters with different mothers.

1953 Japanese movie

An early Japanese film

A 1946 Japanese film directed by Keigo Kimura.

Asako works in a hostel for troubled young women. When a beautiful young girl is brought in one day after committing theft, Asako finds out from the...

In postwar Japan, a new teacher, Miyamoto Yasuko, is discovered by her estranged daughter, Fukuoka Shōko, at a high school. As Yasuko confronts...

The story of a sailor who begins a love affair with a woman he saves from suicide.

An early Japanese sound film, notable for being the only Japanese film ever to use the Western Electric Sound System. Contrary to most Western...