Michiko Hoshi Movies

This is the second installment of the trilogy based on Japan’s greatest novel “The Great Bodhisattva Pass”, following the life and...

1961 Japanese movie

As a result of illness and unemployment, Yamaoka Tatewaki, a "Hatamoto" (or direct vassal of the Shogun), pawned his family heirloom, a valuable Gosu...

1958 Japanese movie

The first work in the series "Cases of An Actor in Disguise" starring Kokichi Takada, based on the original work of Tatsuro Jinde. Kasumi Ippei is a...

Classic kaidan ghost story set in the Edo period

"Masayoshi Ryanko" jumps into the den of the underworld swirling with smuggling and murder, and defeats the culprit with a heart-pounding pistol.

A young, feisty woman named Osome searches for her true love in the midst of a family crisis.

Tomotaka Tasaka's A Pebble by the Wayside (Robo no Ishi), made in 1938 and taken from a Yuzo Yamamoto novel, takes place around 1902, was about a...

1951 Japanese movie. The characters of Mito Kōmon and Yaji and Kita are brought together

Hibari Misora plays a singing guide, who is secretly in love, her fortunes turn for the worse when a gangster’s henchman hears her singing and...

Fifth film in the 'Travels of Lord Mito' franchise.

From the opening theme song to the grand finale, you know that you have found something special as this exciting movie stars the great Misora Hibari...

1978 Japanese film directed by Yoichi Takabayashi.