Yoshiko Kuga Movies

On a Sunday morning, young dentist Toshio Ezaki wakes up with a hangover, on a bench in his office. He finds a poisoned woman in a green-striped...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Yūji Hori

A gentle, war-shattered ex-soldier, Kinji Kameda, arrives in wintry Hokkaidō and is pulled into a volatile tangle of love and pity between the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Setsuko Hara

In postwar Tokyo, a blunt, alcohol-soaked doctor diagnoses a swaggering young yakuza with tuberculosis, forging an uneasy bond that’s tested...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takashi Shimura

Wataru's outwardly liberal views on marriage are severely tested when his daughter declares her love for a coworker and is adamant to live her own...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Shin Saburi

A lighthearted take on director Yasujiro Ozu’s perennial theme of the challenges of inter­generational relationships, Good Morning tells...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Keiji Sada

Japan, 1137. The Taira family, a samurai clan, becomes involved in the disputes between Emperor Toba and the monks of Mount Hiei.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

After living a traumatic experience in Tokyo, Yukiko returns to Kyoto, where Hatsuko, her mother, runs a brothel, which upsets Yukiko very much.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

A young woman takes up her new job as the servant of a noblewoman and soon discovers that underneath her facade of luxury lies great unhappiness.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michiyo Kogure

After the fall of the Tokugawa Shogunate, there was a series of battles fought while the former supporters of the Tokugawa shogunate retreated to the...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kōtarō Satomi

After the previous Godzilla attack, a miniature arms race ensues to collect his cells. Concerned over Godzilla's possible return, the Japanese...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kunihiko Mitamura

A harsh young man seduces a freeloading young woman and eventually takes advantage of her knack for hitchhiking to rob middle-class men.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Yūsuke Kawazu

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Cast: Miyuki Kuwano

In the Tokugawa Era, the clan of Lord Yagyu has hidden away three scrolls containing clan secrets which, if revealed, would cause revolution and...

Genre: Action

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

One week into newlywed Teiko Uhara's marriage, her husband, Kenichi, leaves on a short business trip and never returns. Teiko travels across Japan to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshiko Kuga

In the Tokugawa Era, the clan of Lord Yagyu has hidden away three scrolls containing clan secrets which, if revealed, would cause revolution and...

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Cast: Koji Tsuruta

The eldest daughter of a rural family Mon returns home from Tokyo pregnant after an affair with a college student Kobata, which causes a scandal that...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Machiko Kyō

A Tokyo family running a liquor store overcome impotence and dysfunction as they induce an understanding through each other of how to deal with their...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiji Sada

After surviving the double suicide pact she made with her lover, a woman gives birth to their child.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiko Kishi

A romantic drama depicting the lives of two generations of a family who run a Tokyo florist shop.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiji Sada

A coming-of-age story portrayed as the loss of all youthful illusions. Sixteen-year-old Yoichi dreams of becoming a sailor. His parents are...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shinji Tanaka

An ethical, young tax collector new to his area encounters increasingly absurd individuals and groups coping with their post-war woes.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Isao Kimura

Two men at an ironworks encounter roadblocks: the first does not have the grades to get a job, while the other finds himself falling for a co-worker.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chishū Ryū

A student at a woman's university takes a controversial action against the school's old-fashioned doctrines.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mieko Takamine

A father curries favor with his bosses to further his career, but his wife has lost faith in him. She returns to her family home while they rent out...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Teiji Takahashi

When a wealthy, selfish family decides to take care of an elderly hobo who collapsed near their home, they are beset by visits from his numerous...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mariko Okada

A Japanese soldier who died in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in Hawaii entrusted Henry Gray with an unfinished score and promised to complete it.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chieko Higashiyama

During the raging war between the Toyotomi and Tokugawa clans, the swordsman Mohei (whose family has been completely decimated) is recruited by...

Genre: History

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Slice of life film centered on a couple of years in the life of a rural high school girl.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuya Ishiguro

​Reiko, a young woman with a physical disability, begins a clandestine affair with the married architect Katsuragi, but also becomes...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshiko Kuga

Kansuke Yamamoto is a samurai who dreams of a country united, peaceful from sea to sea. He enters the service of Takeda, the lord of Kai domain. He...

Genre: Action

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Omnibus of love stories from 1947 directed by famous directors, featuring big stars.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

Five years after the end of the Second World War, Reikichi, a repatriated veteran, translates love letters for Japanese women to American GIs, while...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Masayuki Mori

A Japanese woman writes down three stories she has witnessed or heard of in her diary, each about the difficult situation a young woman finds herself...

Genre: History

Cast: Yatsuko Tan'ami

Ichiro Yoshida, the father of the boy Kiyoshi, who has been repatriated from China, returns home after a ten-year separation. The father, who has...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chikage Awashima

Genre: Drama

Cast: Akira Kubo

Japanese drama

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ineko Arima

This is a biographical film about the late Yoko Araki, who was the wife of Japan's leading photographer, Nobuyoshi Araki.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Naoto Takenaka

In Harari-cho, a small and quiet bayside town by the sea, the firemen have not seen a fire for nearly twenty years. Each day passes eventlessly......

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hidekazu Akai

2000 live-action Japanese film.

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Cast: Mitsuko Mori

A straight young woman living in Tokyo becomes involved in the lives of a gay man and his married lover.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Misa Shimizu

Melodrama about two sisters with different mothers.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuo Saitō

1950 Japanese movie

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Cast: Onoe Baiko VII

Sukezo, a former manga comic artist, takes up the art rock business by setting up a shop in a shed by the river. He tries hard to be successful, but...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Naoto Takenaka

Saburo and Keiko fall in love with each other but the tide of war separates them.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Yoshiko Kuga

University students Sudo and Mori make money by picking up rich girls in dance clubs and conning them into giving them cash. Mori is the brains of...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Jūkichi Uno

Japanese noir.

Genre: Action

Cast: Kanjūrō Arashi

Ignoring the protests of his working-class mother, a young man becomes wrapped up in the world of delinquents and yakuza.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Akira Ishihama

A demobilized soldier becomes a day laborer with a road construction gang, and his wife goes to work to bolster their income. Their modest dream is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Takamine

A high-school girl acquires the ability to time travel.

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Nana Nakamoto

Set at the end of the Siege of Osaka this film follows the exploits of several members of the defeated Toyotomi clan as they cope with the post...

Genre: History

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Japanese comedy film.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kingorō Yanagiya

Based on the "2.26 Incident", an attempted coup d'état in Japan 1936, launched by radical ultra-nationalist parts of the military. Several...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kenichi Hagiwara

Japanese drama film.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Yoshiko Kuga

Kantarou Kobayashi is an ordinary businessman who has multiple troubles on hand. He's been having an affair with a woman working in the same company,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tomokazu Miura

A childless lawyer and his wife take in the quiet daughter of an imprisoned client, whose presence eventually creates romantic tension with the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Setsuko Hara

A melodramatic love story, a would-be apprenticeship between the titular bad girl and the optimistic scholar returning from the big city. It is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masayuki Mori

Genre: Drama

Cast: Miki Sanjō

An intellectual couple in a staid and tedious marriage are surprised when the wife’s niece, who has run away from home, turns up unexpectedly...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Yoshiko Kuga

The fall of an accountant enthralled by the sexual charms of a cabaret dancer.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takashi Shimura

In 1919, a group of Japanese immigrants arrives in Hawaii. Among them Yoshio Inoue and his wife Kishimo and Sumi, a young woman ready to get married...

Genre: War

Cast: Hideko Takamine

The woman prison has a cast all with a story of their own and with no dull or routine day. There is an employee who is divorced after her husband had...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Setsuko Hara

The obstinate black market trader Okyo lives together with her son Seitaro, who works as a mechanic for a bus company. She also looks after her son's...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiji Sada

The film consists of three short stories. Tomiko, the heroine of the first story, "The Flower Girl" (dir. Kozaburo Yoshimura), is a little girl who...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nobuko Otowa

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takahiro Tamura

In a village subsisting on it herring fishery, a one-eyed criminal named Jakoman terrorizes the inhabitants. One of them, the son of the head of one...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Based on Muneta Hiroshi's military novel. The main character, Yamaguchi Zensuke, is a military dog soldier. He joins the army and winds up sent...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

If two clouds go away, the eyes of a maiden who gets wet in tears, Tsukaman Aise who earnestly wished, and the two who cried under the harsh trials...

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Cast: Yoshiko Kuga

1961 Japanese movie

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Cast: Shinichirō Mikami

A home drama about a mother and her three daughters, based on the novel by Fumiko Hayashi.

Genre: Family

Cast: Michiyo Aratama

Film directed by Yasuki Chiba.

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Cast: Michiko Hoshi

Young and beautiful Matsuko lives alone with her father in old Kamakura. Matsuko experienced love once, with Munehiro, who married another girl. But...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shima Iwashita

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Cast: Shinichi Himori

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michiyo Kogure

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

A young woman (Kuga), recuperating at a sanitarium in Karuizawa, falls in love with a young student (Ishihama) but returns to Tokyo to be with her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshiko Kuga

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Cast: Yoshio Tabata

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Cast: Yoshiko Kuga