Kuniko Miyake Movies

A woman's struggle for equality in Japan in the 1880s. Eiko Hirayama leaves Okayama for Tokyo, where she helps the fledgling Liberal Party and falls...

Hikaru Genji, the haunted romantic hero of Lady Murasaki Shikibu’s “Genji Monogatari” (Tale of Genji) comes to life in this new...

This period film is inspired by one of the most notorious scandals to have taken place in Edo-period Japan. The heroine, Ejima, was a lady of the...

1962 Japanese movie

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...

Obscure Masumura film shot in 1961.

Atsuko is an office secretary who is also her family's primary source of income and caretaker in postwar Japan.

A Japanese melodrama about three sisters, rival fashion companies, and attempted murder by overheated bathroom.

Following the tragic death of his father, a young boy's family trains his horse to compete in the local derby.

Up until this point, young Sayuri Nanjo has had to live most of her life in a nun-run boarding school for orphans and away from her parents. That's...

A 1937 Japanese film.

A middle-aged father has just married off his third daughter, but still has his nine year old son to raise whom he resents as he was unwanted.

Sixth film of the Bannai Tarao series starring Chiezo Kataoka.

Sequel to "Island of Horrors" (獄門島, 1949).