Movies: Yaeko Izumo

Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life....

Movie about a devoted and single woman and her daughter. The mother's nickname is "Bokuseki" (wooden head) because of his supposed stubbornness. No.10 in the list of "The 10 best films of 1940" by Kinema Junpo....

Two young women start their first jobs at a construction firm, where buried family secrets and a company ban on office romance collide with youthful idealism and a fight for love and equality....

Kodakara Sodo (The Treasure That Is Children) is a 1935 black and white Japanese silent film with benshi accompaniment directed by Torajiro Saito. This is a rare example of a silent Japanese slapstick film that has survived to this day....

An older sister and brother (Mieko Takamine and Masayoshi Otsuka) come to visit their grandfather (Takeshi Sakamoto) who lives deep in the mountains. As for their parents, father was serving in the South Seas and mother died of illness on her way hom...

If you throw this child away...

Melodrama about a talented singer who finally makes her debut...

Eiko is an innocent young lady born into a wealthy family with nothing to offer. She was good at singing, and lived her life playing around with her cronies, organizing music concerts and so on. However, things change when her father's business fails...

A spirited young teacher challenges the conservative school employing her with liberal thinking and teaching methods....

1953 jidaigeki directed by Nobuo Nakagawa of Jigoku and Ghost of Yotsuya fame....

Domestic comedy involving a strong wife and a "henpecked" husband taking place in a family-run judo school....

Japanese propaganda film about the Normanton Incident....

A romance with political overtones about the relationship of a sheltered bourgeois woman and a doctor who devotes himself to caring for the poor. Over a ten-year period - from 1936 through the war - they find each other and are separated again by the...

An Ishiro Honda film....

In the wake of the 1956 Prostitution Prevention Law, a young woman recently released from one of Japan's new rehabilitation centers struggles to build a new life....

1939 Japanese movie...

Three men fall in love with the same young girl who works in a tonkatsu restaurant in the Shitamachi district of Tokyo....

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A humble and simple Takezo abandons his life as a knight errant. He's sought as a teacher and vassal by Shogun, Japan's most powerful clan leader. He's also challenged to fight by the supremely confident and skillful Sasaki Kojiro. Takezo agrees to f...

A young doctor, Kozo Tsumura, falls for young nurse Katsue Takaishi. But she's got a secret: she's a widow with a son. Kozo and Katsue decide to run away to Kyoto, but her child suddenly became sick and she just missed the train and Kozo. She makes i...