Mitsuko Mito Movies

A family story in the year of 1943 during the war. The director is Shunkai Mizuho, who worked on "Hibari no Circus Sad Kobato" starring Hibari Misora...

The movie follows a young woman (Kinuyo Tanaka), a daughter of a high-ranking businessman and his neglected mistress, as she struggles to ease her...

This drama centers on an elderly politician and depicts how humans can return to their true selves when they are freed from selfish desires and...

A 1959 Yoshiaki Bansho adaptation of an Osaragi Jiro story.

Hana wa itsuwarazu (1941) is the second directorial work by Shochiku's Oba Hideo. Oba had previously worked as an assistant director to Shimizu...

A melodrama set in Kuroshima.

As the map fragments are united, conspiracies tighten around the magistrate’s clan. Storms, uprisings and betrayals lead the young hero to the...

Contrast between two outlooks on life: one of a poor factory worker and the other the heir to millions.

Shinpachi Morimura, who was born in a fusuma craftsman's house, wants to join the Japanese navy. However, his father wants him to continue in the...

Japanese war movie.

Japanese life during the past thirty-five turbulent years is depicted in this film through the eyes of two police detectives. One is Henmi, who comes...

Episode in the life of a composer of a popular Japanese song.

When a young woman named Kanako goes to Lake Yamanaka with her close friends, she meets a young businessman, Saeki, who gives her an expensive pearl...