Hisako Yamane Movies

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

Michiko Asakura was married to the eldest son of the Sakuma family, an unsealed family in Shinshu, but died from her husband and returned to her...

Dai-ni-bu: Aijô ruten: Kiyoshi Saeki directed movie

Period film about the legendary detective Umon

Reputedly based on Frank Capra’s 1939 film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, A Descendant of Tarô Urashima is about a repatriated soldier who...

The only son of a sushi chef hates sushi and decides to leave home to search for a job and make his own way.

Government-sponsored film set during the Pacific War, depicting the lives of people working as stevedores.

It is 1921 and a town has a newspaper which prints urgent bulletins as required. The Washington-based CITES treaty, in which Japan participates, puts...

1945 Japanese movie

Historical drama about two samurai who fight over everything yet unite together to fight an evil lord.

A comedy about two salarymen who routinely degrade themselves for their boss.

Hanakosan (1943, TOHO, MAKINO Masahiro), a thoroughly light and joyful musical comedy, influenced by Busby Berkeley films, against the national...

1956 Japanese film, originally released in three parts.

Japanese war movie

Dai-ichi-bu: Dôkai-wan no rantô - Kiyoshi Saeki directed movie.

The story is based on the serial novel by Tsunoda Kikuo.