Machiko Kitagawa Movies

The third of four "The Surprising Legend of Jirocho" films.

The first of four "Comic Storyteller' features.

Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She describes life's vicious cycle: acting cheerful...

After years on the road establishing his reputation as Japan's greatest fencer, Takezo returns to Kyoto. Otsu waits for him, yet he has come not for...

1956 japanese movie.

A woman and her daughter are in love with the same man, a chef at the restaurant that the mother manages. He is slightly crippled from frostbite in...

Historical drama about a sleepy-eyed ronin.

A young woman tries to raise money to open her own coffee shop. She arranges a loan when her rigid family won't help and then her husband becomes...

Based on the life and career of novelist Fumiko Hayashi, she bitterly struggles for literary recognition in the first half of the 20th-century...

1962 Japanese movie

The fourth an final film in the "Jirocho igaiden" series.

An ingratiating bride develops warm ties to her father-in-law while her cold husband blithely slights her for another woman.