Kyôko Kagawa Movies

High and Low

84/100

An executive of a shoe company becomes a victim of extortion when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped and held for ransom.

Sansho the Bailiff

84/100

In medieval Japan, a compassionate governor is sent into exile. His wife and children try to join him, but are separated, and the children grow up amid suffering and oppression.

The Bad Sleep Well

81/100

A vengeful young man marries the daughter of a corrupt industrialist in order to seek justice for his father's suicide.

The Lower Depths

75/100

In a Japanese slum, various residents play out their lives, dreaming of better things or settling for their lot. Among them is a man who pines for a young woman but is stymied by her deceptive family.

A Story from Chikamatsu

81/100

Ishun is a wealthy, but unsympathetic, master printer who has wrongly accused his wife and best employee of being lovers. To escape punishment, the accused run away together, but Ishun is certain to be ruined if word gets out.

Mothra

66/100

A giant, ancient moth begins to attack Japan when coming to the rescue of it's two, foot-tall worshippers who were taken by shipwreck survivors.

Mother

78/100

A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.

Nippon tanjô

68/100

The legend of the birth of Shintoism. In Fourth Century Japan, the Emperor Keikoh's son Ouso expects to succeed his father on the throne, but Otomo, the Emperor's vassal, prefers Ouso's ... See full summary »

Yagyû bugeichô

67/100

In the Tokugawa Era, the clan of Lord Yagyu has hidden away three scrolls containing clan secrets which, if revealed, would cause revolution and disaster for the clan. The information is ... See full summary »

Daredevil in the Castle

68/100

Mohei is a wandering swordsman. He arrives in the city of Osaka, where the Toyotomi clan accepts him and comes to depend upon his courage and his battlefield skills. Those skills are sorely... See full summary »

Der Turm der Lilien

71/100

Shozo, a Cat and Two Women

70/100

A timid man who has spent much of his life attempting without success to get out from under the domination of his mother, finds that marriage is no answer. His first wife is boring and ... See full summary »

Hikage no musume

Summer leaf drop

Inazuma

77/100

Sudden Rain

72/100

The Shiinomi School

73/100

Tokyo no hi

12/100

An Osaka Story

72/100

Shikibu monogatari

50/100

Red Whale, White Snake

76/100

Death on the Mountain

70/100

Who Knows a Woman's Heart

68/100

Furanki no sannin mae

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