Teruko Kishi Movies

Two young women must come to terms with the fact that a man they're deeply linked to is a murdering rapist.

A woman, Tome, is born to a lower class family in Japan in 1918. The title refers to an insect, repeating its mistakes, as in an infinite circle. Imam...

1954 Japanese movie

Ichikawa's 1956 adaptation of Nihonbashi was the first to take the work of Kyoka Izumi— until then regarded as a writer of common tragic melodramas—a...

A man is wrongfully accused of murder.

First japanese talking movie.

After their father dies, his children try to get by on a house boat.

A fishing union depends on two brothers to make up the losses caused by the dishonest captains they replaced.

A young journalist interviews an elderly woman about being forced into prostitution in Borneo at a brothel called Sandakan No. 8.

Film adaptation of the stage version of Samuil Marshak's "Twelve Months"

A woman marries, gives birth to a stillborn child, and divorces, falls in love with a hotel-keeper, only to find herself subordinated to his drive for...

When a group of men from the Hanya clan search his town for a missing geisha, a brave ronin decides to help her and a drunken calligrapher. In doing s...

Born to a prestigious family, Natsuko is not impressed by any one of her suitors. Determined to spend her life serving god, she sets off to a convent...

After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labor chief at a large mining operation in Manchuria...

The story contrasts the life of two doctors, former classmates and now both assistant professors at Naniwa University Hospital in Osaka. The brilliant...

Five longtime friends get back together, but are disappointed to find that their bonds are not as strong as they once were.

A lifetime story of a woman who stubbornly lives in a poor mountain village in post-war Japan.