Hiroko Machida Movies

Even the beautiful international port of Yokohama has a seedy underbelly. An action thriller in which a newspaper reporter plunges into a den of vice...

A heartwarming story about Kenta, an unfortunate boy searching for his father, and Sensei, the town’s hero and black belt.

The inventor of a ground-breaking glue, Sanada, becomes rich thanks to his discovery a high executive in his company. Because of this promotion, his...

This story depicts the struggles of a man living in the cutthroat world of competition and the pure love of his wife.

A young engineer and a pure-hearted mountain girl take on the challenges of the Akan primeval forest, where lawlessness and violence run rampant.

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...

Two car manufacturers spy on each other to try to find out details and prices of a new sports car each is about to launch.

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...

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

A film adaptation of a novel that caused a stir among women for its incisive examination of romantic relationships between men and women.

A Yasuzō Masumura film about a love affair starring Ayako Wakao. The literal title is The Two Who Got Wet.

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...

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

The story follows Oshino, a geisha who is trying to start a new life with a lover who is a painter. However, her past filled with debts and pimps...

A film dealing with the trials and tribulations of a primary school before and after the Pacific War, set in Fukashima Prefecture.