Mitsuko Yoshikawa Movies

A song drama based on the autobiographical song "The sun is laughing" by composer Endo Minoru. It tells the story of a young man who moves to Tokyo...

The movie follows a young woman (Kinuyo Tanaka), a daughter of a high-ranking businessman and his neglected mistress, as she struggles to ease her...

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

A newly hired daily newspaper writer covering the society beat receives an assignment to cover Tokyo at night by walking and observing it. He gets...

Atsuko is an office secretary who is also her family's primary source of income and caretaker in postwar Japan.

A wealthy family will not allow the military to grow crops on their fields due to their superstitious beliefs about their son's illness.

Sheriff Goro goes undercover to investigate drug smugglers.

A story of Minako who struggles finding love and peace in life. When Minako’s hope for ultimate happiness, marriage to her beloved...

Machiko falls in love with a mysterious man, but her family wants something different for her.

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. Told from the...

Sabu Toshinobu is an archaeologist who has taken a liking to Kinuyo Tanaka, the daughter of an archaeologist at an inn in Izu, where he is visiting...

Hibari Misora plays Yoshiko, the popular daughter of a fish market owner. After discovering that she was adopted, she sets out to help her biological...

Each one of us lives differently. So, there are many tragedies and comedies in our lives. She feels many conflicts in living her life between truth...

A musical film made for the inauguration of Shochiku's Ofuna Studio, with an all-star cast of the era.

Alongside Tokyo's Sumida River is a ragpickers' settlement known as Ant Village. One night, a young Catholic girl, Satoko Kitahara, who has been...

The story deals with Fuji, nicknamed Waka-danna (Young Master), the star athlete on his university's rugby team. The son of a wealthy soy sauce...

Based on the serialized story "東京一代女" which appeared in Tokyo Shinbun. A geisha known for her dancing begins...

Silent comedic short by Mikio Naruse

From the opening theme song to the grand finale, you know that you have found something special as this exciting movie stars the great Misora Hibari...

1951 Japanese movie