Movies: Michiyo Kogure

1961 Japanese movie...

A young yakuza student is led back to the straight and narrow path by his uncle....

Kazuo Miyagawa’s prizewinning black-and-white cinematography draws out the moral shadings of Nobel laureate Yasunari Kawabata’s 1952 novel Thousand Cranes, a quietly devastating story of a young man, orphaned during the war, who stumbles into a passi...

Kempeitai fights American spies in Japan...

Early film by Kenji Misumi....

A biographical movie about Shinran...

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Japanese comedy film....

A yakuza member embarks on a trail of revenge for his murdered boss. Senzo, the successor of the Mita Family, searches for the man bearing a tattoo of a dragon who is said to be responsible for the death of their former leader....

Jidaigeki film from 1960...

A love comedy directed by Osamu Takahashi based on an original screenplay by Kei Tasaki....

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This was 1942, so it was a national policy film, no matter what you call it. But when the war was still on the winning side, there wasn't even a little bit of sadness in the film (as the war was getting worse and worse, the burdens on our backs were ...

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Pretty Oshige is deceived by her first love. After this, she lives a hard lifestyle, working at a number of jobs. Her only pleasure is her nephew, who eventually becomes a merchant marine. When Oshige meets her old love ten years later, she is able t...

A geisha helps a runaway who looks just like her....

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The tragedy of the geiko girl Ume and the men who try to pursue her....

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