Movies: Chieko Naniwa

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

A biographical movie about Shinran...

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

An adaptation of the popular Sazae-San comic strip. The first entry in the series shot in TohoScope....

On Wings of Love is a 1957 Japanese romantic musical film directed by Toshio Sugie. It was Toho's highest-grossing film of the year and the first film released in Tohoscope....

Japanese drama film....

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

1955 Japanese movie...

1963 Japanese movie...

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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 resilience....

The phantom thief, known as the "Actor Kid", who was creating a stir in the Daimyo's mansion, especially in the inner chambers, was called Inaba Goutaro. He was the adopted son of a samurai, Inaba Buemon. An incident occurred where his foster father ...

World Electric's top ad model disappears, throwing the company into disarray. A fortune-teller’s influence spreads through upper management, sending staff on a misguided search. Misinformation, internal friction, and unexpected revelations push the c...

1961 Japanese movie...

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

A young man steals money for a cabaret singer....

On March 11 in the seventh year of Tenpo (1836), a monk named Bennō, who fell in love with a geisha named Oshima, was publicly exposed at Nihonbashi for committing an illicit act with a woman. While this was happening, an extravagant procession led b...

Fourth sequel to "Story of Second Class Private"....

A parody based on Kabuki plays about thieves led by the famous Soshun Kochiyama....