Hiroko Machida Movies

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

1959 Japanese movie

One of Kinugasa's last films--based on the story by Tanizaki Jun'ichirō.

Comedy drama film

Detective Katahachi meets a young and beautiful pickpocket and doesn’t arrest her because she was not in the act. Instead, he listens to the...

Hayase, a schoolteacher, assists Sakai in editing a German-Japanese dictionary. Hayase owes much to Sakai, as Sakai raised him for 13 years after...

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...

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

A thriller of deduction and duels, in which a newspaper reporter bravely takes on a gang in the city’s skyscraper district over a mysterious...

Melodrama about a young woman who saves a young man from the world of evil after he has saved her from blindness.

Movie about biological mothers, foster mothers, and stepmothers.

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...

"Though still young, Natsuko gave up the life of a geisha to become the mistress of the president of a shipbuilding company. When he is about to...

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 biting portrait of the world of classical Japanese dance: an ambitious young woman (Wakao Ayako) shoves aside her mentor (Kyo Machiko) on her way...

A romance between a young koto prodigy and the head of a koto school’s daughter.

Two barbers have fallen for each other, but their fathers are both stubborn, and, on top of that, they’re old rivals from the past.