Hiroko Machida Movies

Hayase, a schoolteacher, assists Sakai in editing a German-Japanese dictionary. Hayase owes much to Sakai, as Sakai raised him for 13 years after...

A romance between a young koto prodigy and the head of a koto school’s daughter.

Hibari no komoriuta (ひばりの子守唄, literally "Hibari's Lullaby") is a 1951 black-and-white Japanese film...

Three stories about the relationship between men and women: "Playgirl" (Masumura/Shirasaka), "Company No. 2" (Yoshimura/Kasahara), and "San Nyotai"...

A man operates a small real estate business near Osaka. A man from Tokyo asks for help in buying a large tract of land in order, he says, to build an...

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...

The intense selfishness of a man brings him fame and fortune but not happiness.

1945 Japanese movie

A thriller of deduction and duels, in which a newspaper reporter bravely takes on a gang in the city’s skyscraper district over a mysterious...

As she takes a position as a gym teacher at a girls’ school as a form of “life training” before marriage, what awaits her...

1961 Japanese movie

Movie about biological mothers, foster mothers, and stepmothers.

1959 youth comedy.

Detective Katahachi meets a young and beautiful pickpocket and doesn’t arrest her because she was not in the act. Instead, he listens to the...

Centered on a young college student who puts his youthful passion into developing true judo and the fiery mentor he admires and studies under.

A biting portrait of the world of classical Japanese dance: an ambitious young woman (Wakao Ayako) shoves aside her mentor (Kyo Machiko) on her way...

One of Kinugasa's last films--based on the story by Tanizaki Jun'ichirō.