Nijiko Kiyokawa Movies

A painfully sad woman's heart cries from forbidden love. A love triangle drawn by three stars of Japanese cinema: Keiji Sada, Miyuki Kuwano and Keiko...

A film dealing with the comings and goings of individuals in the immediate postwar period.

Shimamura & Mineko return to Kamagasaki in Osaka. In their return Shimamura quickly finds himself defending a lady in distress. During the skirmish...

Based on the comic by Tatsu Kariya. Featuring journalist Shiro Yamaoka who works for Touzai Shimbun. He is a cynical food critic who is tasked by...

A parody of the Kabuki play about thieves, "Five Men of the White Waves".

An uptight young man comes to suspect that his factory worker girlfriend has a secret involving his boorish older brother.

1949 Japanese film

A promising dancer asks her professor to write a libretto for a Nō play. He then introduces her to a student of classical literature, but also a...

A Tokyo student transfers to a rural school and finds it difficult to adjust himself to its customs and traditions. One of the customs is the wearing...

Hanjiro is a struggling painter that shares a tiny apartment in the back streets of Ginza with his jazz pianist friend who works at a bar. When he...

This is the only surviving “Mito Komon Manyu-ki” film. This release also known as "Adrift Tour Memoir" or literally "Mito Komon's...

1962 Japanese movie

Young geisha Kohana scrambles to realize her dream of bringing back her grandmother’s restaurant business.

Melodrama about a young factory girl who "chooses riches over chastity".

Kita Ippei (Atsumi Kiyoshi) became a security officer in the Metropolitan Police Department's Security Division after catching a thug who attacked a...

Based on the comic by Machiko Hasegawa

A study of uneasy relationships among the inhabitants of a tiny rural community.

This film focuses on Koreans living in Japan. The filmmaker’s humanism comes across in the portrayal of a girl living in a shabby tenement, the...