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...

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

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.

Period film about a feudal era judge living in Edo

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 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.

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

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...

Jidai-geki by Kiyoshi Saeki

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

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 film by Kiyoshi Saeki

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