Yoshiko Hirose Movies

The famous showdown at Kagiya corner has been told many times, but never before with the realism and intensity of this version scripted by Kurosawa...

A high-born woman named Okuni travels around the country with Gohei, a samurai retainer who is in service to her. They are in search of Tomonojo, who...

The rise of the famed gambler.

The Blue Pearl depicts the interplay between a young man from Tokyo and two ama (pearl divers; literally “women of the sea”) in a...

The troubled relationship between a writer and his ballet teacher wife, who has for years loved another man, finally leads to the breakup of the...

A married couple looking for an apartment move in with the husband's co-worker, a widower. The husband becomes jealous of the widower and his wife.

Jidai-geki by Kiyoshi Saeki

A motley cast of characters, including a human billboard and a shoeshine girl, help a 5 year old girl after she is separated from her mother on the...

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

Period film about a feudal era judge living in Edo

Story about a poor Japanese woman living near an American army base who resorts to prostitution.

A family comprised of a man, woman and their only son is torn apart when the father, who is a doctor with his own clinic, is to go off to war. Soon...

A wandering Jirocho stumbles upon his wife's possible murder and has other adventures while on the run.

A film by Kiyoshi Saeki