Setsuko Hara Movies

Sanae is left a widow after her prestigious husband dies, but holds the proceeds of a million yen insurance policy. Being childless, her former...

The woman prison has a cast all with a story of their own and with no dull or routine day. There is an employee who is divorced after her husband had...

A silk mill worker living through a dark and twisted youth… What is chastity? A powerful work that speaks to society through the anguished...

Teruo gets caught up in a conflict between tradition and modernism after returning to Japan from Germany after having spent a number of years there...

Four unlucky pirates head to a weather tracking station set on a remote island with the intention of holding the weather trackers as hostages and...

Continuation of The Blue Mountains: Part I. Released a week later.

A novice city-based teacher's first assignment is to a fishing village's grade school. The young teacher's first week with her new students is...

A skilled country doctor's talents are such that he can even perform operations as difficult and novel as removing a patient's kidney for the first...

Shot mostly in Tokyo, this comedy depicts two Chinese tourists who have travelled from their country to Japan in order to experience the latter...

Ushinosuke returns broke to his hometown, where everyone believes he's rich and successful. Part two (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku...

1956 Drama by Toshio Sugie

Teacher Yukiko finds herself in opposition to conservative faculty and villagers after defending a student for being in a relationship with a young...

After Japan's defeat in the war, the Anjo family lose their peerage and wealth. Since their mansion is due to pass into the hands of a creditor, the...

This film attempts to reconstruct the tension of the Battle of Shanghai through an episode in an understated way, introducting its story in a...

Ushinosuke returns to Tokyo with new ambitions. Fourth and final part of the film adaptation of Bunroku Shishi’s novel, Oban.

In a household of three the husband is a salaryman who lives with his younger sister and wife in Tokyo. He is returning home late in the evenings...

Being acquainted with the bride's uncle, a famed private detective is invited to a wedding ceremony. The groom's family is moneyed and owns large...

A group of Japanese nursing students and their instructor is serving at an army camp in China. When Japan loses the war the group sets out to depart...

When a family comprised of a couple with one son is hurled into poverty when the businessman father loses his business, the mother and son move to...