Hiroko Machida Movies

The story of the silk industry and the young girls who worked as silk spinners in the early 1900s in Japan. The silk mills were located in Okaya...

Namiko is married, but has an infatuation with Ishizuka who runs a nightclub. The businessman is also planning on wrecking the company of Namiko's...

Tsunamune Date, the young lord of Sendai Domain, was ordered by the shogunate to stand down after being spotted in a brothel. Shortly after, four...

Hibari no komoriuta (ひばりの子守唄, literally "Hibari's Lullaby") is a 1951 black-and-white Japanese film...

The story of a young police officer who risks his career to save the soul of a woman who curses societal evils and chooses the path of...

Three stories about the relationship between men and women: "Playgirl" (Masumura/Shirasaka), "Company No. 2" (Yoshimura/Kasahara), and "San Nyotai"...

A film depicting a woman who gradually awakens to a new Japanese style of romance, moving away from the old Japanese style.

A young man who followed his father's wishes and became a travel actor causes a big commotion with his fellow members of the Gurentai group during...

A romantic musical film based on hit records of the time.

During a Soviet circus tour in Japan, a small street musician, Ken, meets a clown, Yuri Nikulin. Upon learning that his sick father is being treated...

The intense selfishness of a man brings him fame and fortune but not happiness.

Two sisters live with their family. The elder is reserved; the younger lively. Yet, the former is first engaged and all goes well until the young man...

A kind-hearted medical student, an ill-fated young woman, an innocent young lady in a school uniform, and a medical student whose rational beauty...

A desperate detective on the trail of criminals who are holding a baby hostage and demanding one million yen

A man operates a small real estate business near Osaka. A man from Tokyo asks for help in buying a large tract of land in order, he says, to build an...

A tale of wannabe yakuza youths. When not cooking up scams with his buddies, Zenkichi develops a crush on Taro's disgusted sister, Miki. But soon the...

As she takes a position as a gym teacher at a girls’ school as a form of “life training” before marriage, what awaits her...