Machiko Kitagawa Movies

A narcotics investigator for the harbor police, Eiichi Tsuda, is driven by thoughts of vengeance for the overdose death of his brother and the...

The first of four "Comic Storyteller' features.

Hachigoro, a carpenter living in the Rakugo Tenement, is an honest and skilled craftsman, but he loves sake more than his three daily meals, and had...

1956 japanese movie.

Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She describes life's vicious cycle: acting cheerful...

After years on the road establishing his reputation as Japan's greatest fencer, Takezo returns to Kyoto. Otsu waits for him, yet he has come not for...

The fourth an final film in the "Jirocho igaiden" series.

Historical drama about a sleepy-eyed ronin.

Based on a comic strip by Kaoru Akiyoshi. First in a four part film series.

Based on the life and career of novelist Fumiko Hayashi, she bitterly struggles for literary recognition in the first half of the 20th-century...

An ingratiating bride develops warm ties to her father-in-law while her cold husband blithely slights her for another woman.