Hyo Kitazawa Movies

1941 Toho adaptation of Natsume's novel.

Following Flower Picking Diary (1939), Tamizo directed another film starring Hideko Takamine, based on a story by Nobuko Yoshiya. Takamine plays a...

Richness, severity and pureness of love is beautifully and sentimentally depicted.

This film attempts to reconstruct the tension of the Battle of Shanghai through an episode in an understated way, introducting its story in a...

In 1941, overpopulated Japan faces an economic boycott and its armed forces push further to the south. And despite negotiations between Japan and the...

A drama about relations between Japanese immigrants and the indigenous Ainu on Hokkaido, the most northerly island of Japan. From a novel by Taijun...

On February 4th of the 16th year of the Genroku era, Yatō Uemon no Shichi reminisces while waiting his turn for seppuku at the Mizuno residence....

The premature death of a young mother serves as inspiration for her husband and son.

"Karayuki-san offers a no-holds-barred depiction of the discrimination faced by a former prostitute who returns to Japan from Singapore with her...

Fourth installment of Nikkatsu's "Drifter" series, with Kobayashi Akira.

A romantic melodrama about the shifting relationship between Ryosuke and Miki as their precarious employment and social circumstances shift around...

This movie depicts poor yet kind and modest people, focusing on sibling love.

Let's Go, Grandma! plays like an exuberant, goofy update to Yasujiro Ozu's Tokyo Story. Kinuyo Tanaka plays the titular Grandma, who, after selling...

A romance with political overtones about the relationship of a sheltered bourgeois woman and a doctor who devotes himself to caring for the poor....

Toho's production of the classic Japanese fairytale.

Optimistic student Hideyoshi struggles to land a job at Japan Motors, facing setbacks and rivalry but winning his way in through...

One of three titles released the same year, with the same title based on the same story. This is the P.C.L. (Toho) Version