Kimiko Hayashi

It was supposed to be about a love story, but it was and was not. An aircraft mechanic working for the government is matched by his boss with the...

This film depicts a troupe of wandering kabuki players traveling through rural Japan.

Following Flower Picking Diary (1939), Tamizo directed another film starring Hideko Takamine, based on a story by Nobuko Yoshiya. Takamine plays a...

Okiyo runs a restaurant in Asakusa. She struggles with the times and the relationships around her.

In A Tale of Archery, young, timid bowmaster Kazuma (Akitake Kôno) seeks to beat the archery record set by Hoshino Kanzaemon, a mysterious...

Based on the book Heaven and Maiko by Yoshiya Nobuko, it is the story of two girls of different family backgrounds in Osaka.

Set against the backdrop of an imperial victory in the civil war leading up to the Meiji Restoration, Fallen Blossoms tells the story of the sorrows...