Noriko Honma Movies

An Ishiro Honda film. The second part of A Rainbow Plays in My Heart released the same day as the first film.

Forced on the road by yakuza obligations, a man sets out on a reckless journey to Tsumagoi. Movie posters for local cinemas were often displayed at...

Walking home late one night, a down-on-his-luck sewage worker runs into a drunk businessman with a briefcase full of cash. His impulsive decision...

A large family scrapes by on the meager salaries of the father and three eldest sons, who left school in order to work and support the family. The...

An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chief and the local gangster bosses.

Where Chimneys Are Seen focuses primarily on the interconnected lives of two couples in a lower-middle-class neighborhood in Senju, a poor industrial...

A legendary gangster raises himself out of a small town and gathers followers on his rise to power.

An Ishiro Honda film. The first part of A Rainbow Plays in My Heart released the same day as the second film.

1962 Japanese movie

A group of hustling peddlers swindle rural towns with fake goods, facing betrayals, close calls, and constant setbacks as they chase survival and...

In this downbeat, emotionally gripping drama, a lone guardian of some small huts on one of the northernmost, small islands off Japan remembers his...

Japanese "kayo" film based on the song "Ieraishan" by Yoshiko Yamaguchi.

Ushinosuke returns to his hometown to become a farmer. Part three (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku Shishi’s novel, Oban.

Lonely youth Shinji meets Hatsue, a pretty pearl diver, on the beach and the two fall in love. But Shinji has a rival for Hatsue's affections, Yasuo.

Girls in the Orchard (1953) is about tension between the life of a family in a rural area with all the traditions (continuing family business, taking...

Masako, the daughter of an impoverished itinerant tinsmith, wins a grammar school composition contest with an essay about her neighborhood. The much...

Outspoken student Noriko stands up to bullies and befriends pitcher Mitsuo. As their bond deepens, she impulsively declares she wants to marry...