Hyo Kitazawa
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1911-05-18
Locus Natus: Tokyo, Japan
Et ut: Хё Китадзава
The Angry Rambler
Fourth installment of Nikkatsu's "Drifter" series, with Kobayashi Akira.
release : 1960.11.16popularis : 0.897
Wife of a Lily
This is a rokyoku film of Tenjuken Ungetsu II (Hideko Itami), a popular rokyoku performer who was famous for her seven different voices for men and...
release : 1940.03.06popularis : 1.424
Currents of Youth
It was supposed to be about a love story, but it was and was not. An aircraft mechanic working for the government is matched by his boss with the...
release : 1942.02.14popularis : 1.24
The Beautiful Hawk
One of three titles released the same year, with the same title based on the same story. This is the P.C.L. (Toho) Version
release : 1937.10.01popularis : 2.412
元祿美少年記
On February 4th of the 16th year of the Genroku era, Yatō Uemon no Shichi reminisces while waiting his turn for seppuku at the Mizuno residence....
release : 1955.12.21popularis : 5.587
The Outsiders
A drama about relations between Japanese immigrants and the indigenous Ainu on Hokkaido, the most northerly island of Japan. From a novel by Taijun...
release : 1958.11.26popularis : 2.36
Once More
A romance with political overtones about the relationship of a sheltered bourgeois woman and a doctor who devotes himself to caring for the poor....
release : 1947.04.01popularis : 1.043
I Am a Cat
1936 P.C.L. adaptation of Natsume's novel.
release : 1936.04.14popularis : 1.34
Bellflower
Following Flower Picking Diary (1939), Tamizo directed another film starring Hideko Takamine, based on a story by Nobuko Yoshiya. Takamine plays a...
release : 1940.07.30popularis : 1.672
Ichiyo Higuchi
Japanese film based on the life of writer Ichiyo Higuchi (1872-1896).
release : 1939.05.31popularis : 1.24
The Pacific War and the International Military Tribunal
In 1941, overpopulated Japan faces an economic boycott and its armed forces push further to the south. And despite negotiations between Japan and the...
release : 1959.01.03popularis : 2.441
Karayuki-san
"Karayuki-san offers a no-holds-barred depiction of the discrimination faced by a former prostitute who returns to Japan from Singapore with her...
release : 1937.03.11popularis : 1.573
Mother Never Dies
The premature death of a young mother serves as inspiration for her husband and son.
release : 1942.09.24popularis : 2.754
The Poppy
1941 Toho adaptation of Natsume's novel.
release : 1941.06.18popularis : 0.877
The House of the Sleeping Virgins
About an establishment where old men pay to sleep besides young girls that had been narcotized and happen to be naked, the sleeping beauties. The old...
release : 1968.01.31popularis : 1.171
Those Who Make Tomorrow
Two sisters, one a dancer and the other a script supervisor at a big movie studio, become embroiled in union activities when a strike is called in...
release : 1946.05.02popularis : 4.169
Red Peony of Night
A romantic melodrama about the shifting relationship between Ryosuke and Miki as their precarious employment and social circumstances shift around...
release : 1950.12.08popularis : 2.607
Winter Inn
A film that begins with wit and comedy when a husband tries to hide and mask his drinking, which his Jesus freak and very Christian wife dislikes, by...
release : 1938.10.05popularis : 0.858
The Legend of Love & Sincerity: Continuation
Meet Saotome Ai, a high school girl from a well-to-do family. When she was a small child, she was in an accident that resulted in a young boy being...
release : 1975.03.15popularis : 1.176
Kaguya Hime
Toho's production of the classic Japanese fairytale.
release : 1935.11.11popularis : 0.529
Shanghai Landing Party
This film attempts to reconstruct the tension of the Battle of Shanghai through an episode in an understated way, introducting its story in a...
release : 1939.05.19popularis : 1.482
The Story of Pure Love
Junai Monogatari AKA Story of Pure Love is about two poor youths, Mitsuko and Kando, rebelling against society in various ways, who are desperately...
release : 1957.10.15popularis : 1.375
Actress
Sumako, a country girl, becomes a great actress with the help of Hogetsu,a scholar who brought some of European realism to the Japan's stage. The...
release : 1947.12.29popularis : 0.743
Let's Go, Grandma!
Let's Go, Grandma! plays like an exuberant, goofy update to Yasujiro Ozu's Tokyo Story. Kinuyo Tanaka plays the titular Grandma, who, after selling...
release : 1975.07.12popularis : 2.224
Lord for a Night
Lord for a Night is a 1946 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa.
release : 1946.07.11popularis : 1.803
Story of Leadership
In this semi-documentary, an older locomotive driver is tasked with training younger ones and is currently training two in particular. The old man is...
release : 1941.10.04popularis : 1.061
Japan's Longest Day
Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the...
release : 1967.08.03popularis : 8.066