Mitsuko Yoshikawa Movies

Domestic comedy involving a strong wife and a "henpecked" husband taking place in a family-run judo school.

1930. In splendid snowy settings, the trials and pain of a woman married to a man who maintains a relationship with their servant.

A reformatory in the remote countryside houses 200 delinquents and problem children. The teachers and caretakers face much trouble. The school is...

Machiko falls in love with a mysterious man, but her family wants something different for her.

Kinuyo is a daughter of rice cracker shop in downtown. She fell in love with her sister's boyfriend. It is a story whose theme is warm human...

Two childhood friends go their own ways but meet again some years later after they have both married. They get re-acquainted, meet each others’...

A samurai plots to reclaim his estranged wife after she leaves him over a murder scandal. When her sister falls victim to a scheme, he and his friend...

Graduate Okajima finds his old-fashioned beard makes life difficult in a comedy exploring the tension between tradition and modernity.

Based on the mystery novel of the same name by Seichō Matsumoto.

Directed by Mikio Naruse. It is presumed to be lost.

When a woman unfairly suspects her husband of flirting with a shop assistant, she decides to flirt with their landlord to get revenge. Considered to...

A middle-aged father has just married off his third daughter, but still has his nine year old son to raise whom he resents as he was unwanted.

Sheriff Goro goes undercover to investigate drug smugglers.

A young man rents an apartment in Tokyo and discover it was built by his father. He falls in love with the daughter of the mistress of the house and...

A melodrama by noted auteur and father of director Yoshitaro Nomura, Hotei Nomura. This is apparently the first adaptation of Izumi Kyoka's The...

The brothers of Children In The Wind deal with declining family fortunes: they must work when the father becomes sick, and eventually live with their...

The movie follows a young woman (Kinuyo Tanaka), a daughter of a high-ranking businessman and his neglected mistress, as she struggles to ease her...

Atsuko is an office secretary who is also her family's primary source of income and caretaker in postwar Japan.

A family story in the year of 1943 during the war. The director is Shunkai Mizuho, who worked on "Hibari no Circus Sad Kobato" starring Hibari Misora...