Kikuko Hanaoka Movies

In late 19th century Tokyo, Kikunosuke Onoue, the adopted son of a legendary actor, himself an actor specializing in female roles, discovers that he...

This horror tale relates the consequences of a Japanese legend which tells of a man who has to betray his wife in order to achieve power.

When a young man inherits his father's lucrative business, he cheats the system to set up three of his college friends with jobs.

Tanuma Kandayuu is a high class samurai of the house of Nabeshima. He finds a lavish board of Go (a Chinese Board game) at Kinbei's store. He...

A blind masseur visits a samurai to request the return of a loan. The samurai kills him in anger, then has his servant dump the body in the Kasane...

A group of bandits flee to the mountains after killing an evil moneylender. Remake of Hiroshi Inagaki's Jigoku no mushi (1938).

A sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love letters for other people.

Lord for a Night is a 1946 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa.

An actress returns to Tokyo after a successful stint in Hollywood to reclaim—with the help of her gangster brother—the daughter she...

A spectacular comedy with a star-studded cast that depicts unusual trials and unexpected verdicts regarding the five deadly sins: the crime of...

Japanese comedy film.

A luckless geisha struggles to make a living for herself and her young son.

1954 Japanese film starring professional wrestler Rikidozan.

A bar girl tries to pass her three children, each from a different father, to rural relatives.

A 1942 film.

Japanese war film.

An early film by Kon Ichikawa

Japanese comedy film.

Scammer Horikawa Shinbei hopes to make a quick buck using Namie, a stripper under his control.