Acting
Kyoko Miyahara
Acting credits
NRA beautiful but sad romantic melodrama about three sisters who are uninhibited, pure and lovely, and who stand tall like the peaks of a place that has endured the winds and snow of love! Eisuke Taniguchi (Shimizu), president of Towa Electric Works, has three beautiful daughters. The eldest, Kozue (Todoroki), is an intelligent and dynamic modern girl, the second, Yoko (Otowa), is a modest girl with Japanese tastes, and the third, Hanayo (Wakayama), is a mischievous girl who has not yet lost her schoolgirl temperament. All three have feelings for Kiichiro Matsuzaki (Uehara), the president of a magazine company. He was married to Kozue, the eldest daughter, by agreement between their parents, but it was Yoko whom he loved, so he asked her to end her engagement to him.
Shojohou
1950
8.0Directed by Senkichi Taniguchi
Who Will Judge Me?
1951
7.0Minamimura, who had always wanted to be free, suddenly quits his job. His hardworking wife is surprised and angry, and throws him out of the house. Confused by his sudden freedom, Iosuke ends up living as a vagrant under a bridge. His wife, Komako, also finds herself freed and is unable to ignore her confusion.
Freedom School
1951
NRReleased on the same date as Shochiku's version.
Freedom School
1951
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Asakusa no hada
1950
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Saijoke no kyoen
1951
NRThe sincere, selfless love of a foolish mother for her daughter set against the backdrop of the circus.
Haha kōbai
1949
NRKamezo, a manzai comedian, had been taking a break from performing while his partner Tsuruko was giving birth, but Tsuruko announced that she was retiring from the stage. That child was, in fact, the son of Takashi Yashiro, a politician with a promising future. Believing that a relationship between a politician and a female manzai comedian would bring unhappiness to Yashiro and his wife, Tsuruko changed her address and was even preparing to leave the stage. Tsuruko’s alcoholic father, having caught wind of this, snatched the child, Yoko, and squandered the small sum of money he had received from Yashiro on drinking.
Haha tsubaki
1950
NRMovie about biological mothers, foster mothers, and stepmothers.
Three Mothers
1949
A former geisha marries a widowed farmer, but ends up running away to Tokyo after being unable to cope with the hardships of life in the countryside.
Full Moon
1949
NRSet against the backdrop of Nagasaki, a love story blossoms between an unfortunate circus girl and a shipbuilding engineer.
Koi no Oranda-zaka
1951
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Enoshima Elegy
1951
NRTomoraka Tasaka's first postwar work.
Doburoku no Tatsu
1949
NRIn Ginza Hachō, where violence and lust swirl, sparks fly from iron fists and passion against a backdrop of song and dance.
Bōya monogatari
1951
8.0The fall of an accountant enthralled by the sexual charms of a cabaret dancer.
The Bitch
1951