Machiko Kyō Movies

This film by Toyoda depicts the hard life of an unmarried mother in Tokyo. Umeko (Machiko Kyo), at 36, is working in a bar, struggling valiantly to...

A studio introduction version for Daiei Stars.

During a Soviet circus tour in Japan, a small street musician, Ken, meets a clown, Yuri Nikulin. Upon learning that his sick father is being treated...

Yoshimura's 48th film is the contemporary story of a well-to-do family showing the frailties and failings of the class, the egotism, and the complete...

A crime boss gets out of prison and tries to find who from his organization betrayed him.

Set in the post-World War II climate of the 1960s in Kobe, the movie explores the struggle for power within the powerful Manpyo family.

Based on the original work of Akutagawa Prize-winning writer Ashihei Hino, the film depicts the love of the proud geisha Nobukichi Hakata in the...

A female reporter is fired for writing about police corruption; to make money while hiding from the press, she posts a bounty upon herself.

In post-WWII Japan, an American captain is brought in to help build a school, but the locals want a teahouse instead.

Comedy drama by Kon Ichikawa

The story of two sisters in post-war Japan. One is a geisha and the other works for the tourist board.

The story of Yoshinaka during the tumultuous period of warring related to us in the Heike Monogatari. Close in setting to Kinugasa’s famous...

A girl marries her elderly employer but in reality is in love with his son.

Based on the novel by Junichiro Tanizaki. Story of the beautiful blind daughter of a wealthy businessman who falls in love with a servant.

The cunning detective Akeichi must foil a kidnapping plot orchestrated by the notorious jewel thief known as Black Lizard.

The beauty of the Japanese family system is portrayed through the women who greet a woman who went to America thirty years ago to visit her grave.

1959 adaptation of Junichiro Tanizaki's novel.

When bribe money from a rigged election funnels into a dam construction project, collusion, lust, greed and even murder are on the ballot.