Movies: Michiko Hoshi

The lives of several Japanese families are shattered as the USA and the USSR move toward war, Japan finds itself caught in the middle, and Tokyo is ultimately evacuated as the two superpowers invoke the 'nuclear option'....

Detective Tarao investigates the deaths of police officers who were involved in solving a kidnapping case....

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A tragic drama - a dismembered torso of a woman rises up on the banks of the Arakawa River. The body is only the torso. Her legs were discovered on the opposite bank. The only clue, a man was trying to throw something in from a car with a license pla...

Film about the 2-26 Incident....

To solve the mystery of her deceased husband, his wife departs to Shinshu....

A poignant story about a young couple, Setsu and Chozo, who are torn apart to save Setsu's father's restaurant....

One of the earliest Japanese cop films following a mysterious killing on the last train to Mitaka, Tokyo....

1961 Toei comedy...

Koharu, a young geisha, is in love with Kenichi, an apprentice carpenter to her father Masagoro. Their love life comes to a sudden halt after an argument between their two fathers. Can their love survive in spite of the bitterness between their two f...

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A group of five law enforcers search Edo for a missing sword....

An upstanding young man’s racy adventure filled with conspiracies and love....

This is the second installment of the trilogy based on Japan’s greatest novel “The Great Bodhisattva Pass”, following the life and times of bloodthirsty samurai, Tsukue Ryunosuke. Blinded in an explosion and further injured from a fall, the master sw...

A taxi robbery and murder occurred in Fukagawa late at night. Detectives Nagata and Miyagawa of the Metropolitan Police Department's First Investigation Division, who suspect the perpetrator as a habitual offender, flew to Yanagibashi using the remai...

An upstanding young man who is popular with the ladies takes on a corrupt group of men in his company....

The story of a certain engineer from his youth until he retired from the Japanese National Railways after the war ....

1950 film directed by Senkichi Taniguchi...

On a quiet spring day in the suburbs, a stray dog found the corpse of a baby. Three days after his death, the blood group of the victim was determined. Detectives Hayashi, Kaneko, Nagata and Yamagata begin their investigation, suspecting the parents ...