Hiroko Kawasaki Movies

Jie attended a women's university with the financial support of her geisha sister Oha and became a lawyer. The aim. Michiko, one of the seven best...

Graduate Okajima finds his old-fashioned beard makes life difficult in a comedy exploring the tension between tradition and modernity.

A modern girl suddenly intrudes into a widower's family home.

Japanese drama from 1934. A major production of Shochiku Studio, directed by Hiroshi Shimizu.

The Idiot, by Fyodor Dostoevsky.

Sakura Ondo was a sound adaptation based on a popular 1934 song, produced at the Shochiku Kamata Studio as part of a five-studio competition to...

The eldest daughter of a noble family is in love with an aviator while being courted by a fellow aristocrat she thinks is a dullard. This part is...

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...

A young girl gives up high school to help out family expenses and starts to work as a bus conductor.

This 1932 adaptation is the earliest sound version of the ever-popular and much-filmed Chushingura story of the loyal 47 retainers who avenged their...

Japanese film from 1934, based on a novel by Itsuma Maki (real name Kaitarō Hasegawa).

The story is centered around the devastating experiences of two villagers, Osaki Shuichi, and his cousin, Nishimiura Kinue, when they leave their...

Japanese film from 1933, adapted from Masao Kume's serialized newspaper novel.

The film is a lengthy work interweaving characters from different backgrounds and social strata in a narrative centered around the experiences of its...

A young man falls in love with a prostitute and is disowned by his family. He is then drafted, and heads off to war. Script exists - considered to be...

Japanese silent film from 1932.

Part two of Shimizu's major silent Seven Seas, a family drama of the intertwining fates of the rich, decadent Yagibashis and the far less prosperous...

Miyake has a boyfriend, Daijiro Natsukawa, who is a novelist, but considering her future marriage, Miyake is also looking for a job for her, but...