Kikuko Tachibana Movies

A literary masterpiece that sharply critiques the ethics of modern romance, featuring a 48-year-old father who burns through the last of his youth...

A story of first love between a misogynistic astronomer and a dancer he met on the street.

A blind little girl searches for her mother.

A tragic love story set in a hot-spring town.

Tomoraka Tasaka's first postwar work.

Movie about biological mothers, foster mothers, and stepmothers.

Enoken's first film at Daiei.

A poignant and deeply moving story of the officers and men of the Saipan “Total Annihilation” Unit, who, longing for their loved ones...

1946 Japanese movie.

A yakuza returning from an island journey takes a stranger’s young child under his wing as he travels, gives up the woman he loves to his...

Kosaka drops to death while ice climbing with his friend Uozu to see the sunrise on the New Year’s Day. The investigators try to find the cause...

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...

A former geisha marries a widowed farmer, but ends up running away to Tokyo after being unable to cope with the hardships of life in the countryside.