Kikuko Hanaoka Movies

1950 Japanese movie

The last fight put up by remaining forces and a special volunteer nursing corps in 1944-5.

An early film by Kon Ichikawa

A 1942 film.

When a young man inherits his father's lucrative business, he cheats the system to set up three of his college friends with jobs.

The ambiguous relationship between a woman musician and her young student.

1952 Japanese film directed by Kunio Watanabe.

A small community in wartime Japan learn how to make do with less.

A bar girl tries to pass her three children, each from a different father, to rural relatives.

Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Wakai omawari-san" by Shiro Sone.

Japanese comedy film.

Thriller drama by Kon Ichikawa

1959 Shintoho adaptation of Kyoka Izumi's novel "A Woman's Pedigree".

Scammer Horikawa Shinbei hopes to make a quick buck using Namie, a stripper under his control.

Home drama about tin craftsmen and their families in downtown Tokyo. Though poor, they do not lose their cheerfulness or give in to oppression.

War-time jidaigeki by Eisuke Takizawa.

Japanese comedy film.