Kuniko Igawa Movies

A 28-year-old single woman is pressured to marry.

In 1928, schoolteacher Hisako Oishi takes a post on the island of Shodoshima teaching a group of twelve first grade students. In the following years,...

After the death of her husband, an elderly woman and her youngest, unmarried daughter are forced to sell their house to cover his debts and decide to...

A rural village elder plans an event on the return of a farmer's daughter from the city, unaware that she has become a Westernized burlesque artist.

The story of the trials and tribulations of a lighthouse keeper and his wife.

On March 11 in the seventh year of Tenpo (1836), a monk named Bennō, who fell in love with a geisha named Oshima, was publicly exposed at...

A wealthy family will not allow the military to grow crops on their fields due to their superstitious beliefs about their son's illness.

Representing a destitute mother in an infanticide trial, a female lawyer attempts to convince a conservative prosecutor of the benefits of Japan's...

After surviving the double suicide pact she made with her lover, a woman gives birth to their child.

A student at a woman's university takes a controversial action against the school's old-fashioned doctrines.

The few residents left on the streets in Tokyo share their individual stories and come to understand the melancholy of saying goodbye.

A sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love letters for other people.

1953 Japanese movie

In a time of continuous civil wars ravaging the fields of feudal Japan, the eldest son of a very poor peasant family, living alongside the bridge...

The Nakata family, father, mother, son Hideo, and daughters Taeko and Akiko live in the poorer section of modern Tokyo. Their troubles start when the...

In postwar Japan a young woman is unable to marry her sweetheart because her family's in difficult circumstances and needs her income to keep afloat.

The mistress of a crook real estate broker comes to terms with her soulless existence after an artist paints her portrait.

A young widow, made world weary by her abusive, neglectful husband, finds herself in a minor scandal when she's seen with her intense, no-nonsense...