Hatsuko Wakahara Movies

With his mother’s wishes and a young woman’s prayers in his heart, a spirited young man fights to uphold the honor of college judo.

A realistic film that sharply portrays a cross-section of postwar society.

A moving story depicting the spirit of a young marathon runner who set a new world record in Boston, encouraged by the love of his family, a young...

In this downbeat, emotionally gripping drama, a lone guardian of some small huts on one of the northernmost, small islands off Japan remembers his...

A young army surgeon, Kyoji Fujisaki, accidentally contracts syphilis during a WWII field operation. Back at his father’s clinic, he treats...

1967 Nikkatsu film.

Michiko is a spirited young woman who was invited by the delinquent Kuniko to a shady cabaret, where she was introduced to a pseudo-gentleman named...

Eiji Izutsu, a young architectural engineer, suddenly came into a massive inheritance on the condition that he marry a woman named Chigusa Takemura,...

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

1950 daiei movie.

1946 Japanese movie.

The female members of the family of the Minister of Health and Welfare, who has just proposed a program of birth control, become pregnant one after...

Shinjiro, the only son of Sakai Hospital, could not forget Mie, a geisha he had met at a munitions factory during the war. He refused to marry...

Movie about biological mothers, foster mothers, and stepmothers.