Acting

Kyoko Miyahara

Acting credits

Shojohou poster
NR

A 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

Who Will Judge Me? poster
8.0

Directed by Senkichi Taniguchi

Who Will Judge Me?

1951

Freedom School poster
7.0

Minamimura, 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

Freedom School poster
NR

Released on the same date as Shochiku's version.

Freedom School

1951

Asakusa no hada poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Asakusa no hada

1950

Saijoke no kyoen poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Saijoke no kyoen

1951

Haha kōbai poster
NR

The sincere, selfless love of a foolish mother for her daughter set against the backdrop of the circus.

Haha kōbai

1949

Haha tsubaki poster
NR

Kamezo, 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

Three Mothers poster
NR

Movie about biological mothers, foster mothers, and stepmothers.

Three Mothers

1949

No artwork available
NR

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

Koi no Oranda-zaka poster
NR

Set against the backdrop of Nagasaki, a love story blossoms between an unfortunate circus girl and a shipbuilding engineer.

Koi no Oranda-zaka

1951

Enoshima Elegy poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Enoshima Elegy

1951

Doburoku no Tatsu poster
NR

Tomoraka Tasaka's first postwar work.

Doburoku no Tatsu

1949

Bōya monogatari poster
NR

In Ginza Hachō, where violence and lust swirl, sparks fly from iron fists and passion against a backdrop of song and dance.

Bōya monogatari

1951

The Bitch poster
8.0

The fall of an accountant enthralled by the sexual charms of a cabaret dancer.

The Bitch

1951