Hatsuko Wakahara Movies

A realistic film that sharply portrays a cross-section of postwar society.

With his mother’s wishes and a young woman’s prayers in his heart, a spirited young man fights to uphold the honor of college judo.

In this downbeat, emotionally gripping drama, a lone guardian of some small huts on one of the northernmost, small islands off Japan remembers his...

A moving story depicting the spirit of a young marathon runner who set a new world record in Boston, encouraged by the love of his family, a young...

Michiko is a spirited young woman who was invited by the delinquent Kuniko to a shady cabaret, where she was introduced to a pseudo-gentleman named...

1946 Japanese movie.

Movie about biological mothers, foster mothers, and stepmothers.

Shinjiro, the only son of Sakai Hospital, could not forget Mie, a geisha he had met at a munitions factory during the war. He refused to marry...

Eiji Izutsu, a young architectural engineer, suddenly came into a massive inheritance on the condition that he marry a woman named Chigusa Takemura,...

A crime film released in 1962

Deep down, a dark shadow always lingered in the heart of Ushio, a young prosecutor who had made a name for himself by cracking down on organized...

1950 daiei movie.

A young army surgeon, Kyoji Fujisaki, accidentally contracts syphilis during a WWII field operation. Back at his father’s clinic, he treats...

A dispute over the estate of a wealthy family’s patriarch erupts between the son’s widow and her child on one side, and the...

A film adaptation of a novel that caused a stir among women for its incisive examination of romantic relationships between men and women.

The female members of the family of the Minister of Health and Welfare, who has just proposed a program of birth control, become pregnant one after...