Chieko Naniwa Filmes

Eleventh film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.

Based on a novel by Kôen Hasegawa

A girl rebels against her mother, who runs a brothel in Yokohama, and attempts to find freedom on her own.

Taka, the daughter of Naniwa-ya, a longtime Osaka store owner, married Kichisaburo Kawashima-ya, the son of a kimono wholesaler. Her husband just...

A wandering vagrant, Hantaro, risks his life to save a beautiful blind girl and her father from con artists.

Directed by Hiroshi Inagaki, the drama, set in the brothels of Shimabara in post-war Kyoto, is a moving look at the lives of women of tenacity and...

1962 Japanese movie

Kind hearted yakuza Hanjiro of Asama risks his life in saving his henchman Genjiro and his family.

When Yumiko Tsuyama, a potter by profession, comes inquiring about a room for rent in an old mansion overlooking Osaka, she finds a bizarre...

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

1962 Japanese movie

Ayako Wakao won the Blue Ribbon and the Kinema Jumpo for this film.

A biographical movie about Shinran

Young geisha Kohana scrambles to realize her dream of bringing back her grandmother’s restaurant business.

Melodrama about a young factory girl who "chooses riches over chastity".

Kita Ippei (Atsumi Kiyoshi) became a security officer in the Metropolitan Police Department's Security Division after catching a thug who attacked a...

Period piece about a young man who, because of his hard life alone in the world, has become a yakuza. When he hears that his mother may be living in...