Hisako Yamane Movies

During the Edo Period, a noblewoman's banishment for her love affair with a lowly page signals the beginning of her inexorable fall.

Mokichi Asai is a widowed father living in Nara with three daughters—Chizuru, Ayako, and Setsuko. The youngest, Setsuko, plays matchmaker for...

The young Takako Kuramoto has come to Tokyo to study and starts working for the rich Tashiro family as tutor of the daughter, Kumiko, while she...

A lighthearted comedy featuring city dwellers flocking to a remote mountain hot spring inn, all entangled in the mystery of hidden gold bars.

Melodrama by Kon Ichikawa

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

A unique literary work that describes the end of a married woman who rebelled against her husband's adultery and became addicted to her own sexuality.

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

Upon discovering that her father has a mistress, a young girl befriends the "other woman" and her child. Realizing that her half-sister is doomed to...

Part 2 starts where the first film ended, with Iemon disposing of the bodies of his wife and Kohei, marrying upward, and being blackmailed by the...

1952 Japanese movie

Film by Kon Ichikawa

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

The story is set in a rural village, where the village mayor gives a speech at the local community center as a theater troupe visits the village for...

A young man rents an apartment in Tokyo and discover it was built by his father. He falls in love with the daughter of the mistress of the house and...