Hyo Kitazawa Movies

Fourth installment of Nikkatsu's "Drifter" series, with Kobayashi Akira.

A drama about relations between Japanese immigrants and the indigenous Ainu on Hokkaido, the most northerly island of Japan. From a novel by Taijun...

A period comedy set at the end of the Sengoku Period about Sasuke Saruhi, a middle-aged ninja.

Young Hiroko’s conservative principles place her at odds with most modern women, as she has already submitted to her mother’s choice of...

Richness, severity and pureness of love is beautifully and sentimentally depicted.

1941 Toho adaptation of Natsume's novel.

Japanese film based on the life of writer Ichiyo Higuchi (1872-1896).

Let's Go, Grandma! plays like an exuberant, goofy update to Yasujiro Ozu's Tokyo Story. Kinuyo Tanaka plays the titular Grandma, who, after selling...

1960 Japanese movie

Meet Saotome Ai, a high school girl from a well-to-do family. When she was a small child, she was in an accident that resulted in a young boy being...

The story deas with the experiences of an exceptionally strong-willed, middle class Tokyo "ojōsan" who comes to teach in a middle school in the...

Jidaigeki from 1940

A romantic melodrama about the shifting relationship between Ryosuke and Miki as their precarious employment and social circumstances shift around...

"Karayuki-san offers a no-holds-barred depiction of the discrimination faced by a former prostitute who returns to Japan from Singapore with her...

Optimistic student Hideyoshi struggles to land a job at Japan Motors, facing setbacks and rivalry but winning his way in through...

1936 P.C.L. adaptation of Natsume's novel.

One of three titles released the same year, with the same title based on the same story. This is the P.C.L. (Toho) Version