Kiyoko Hirai Movies

A silk mill worker living through a dark and twisted youth… What is chastity? A powerful work that speaks to society through the anguished...

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

A young girl is rigorously trained in the feminine arts so that she can become a geisha. As she struggles through life, she learns to live not just...

Hikaru Genji, the haunted romantic hero of Lady Murasaki Shikibu’s “Genji Monogatari” (Tale of Genji) comes to life in this new...

In post-war Japan, Michiko, a disillusioned young woman trapped in a loveless marriage, confides in her younger cousin, Tsutomo, and the two become...

A film adaptation of Nobuko Yoshiya’s popular novel.

A drama about the sex industry.

A dispute over the estate of a wealthy family’s patriarch erupts between the son’s widow and her child on one side, and the...

Depicting a family during wartime.

The three Matsunami sisters navigate adulthood and the complex social pressures of finding a husband while living under their traditional...

Yamagami, who had been working as an engineer at an automobile factory in Manchuria, returns to postwar Tokyo for the first time in five years and is...

An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chief and the local gangster bosses.

The intense selfishness of a man brings him fame and fortune but not happiness.

Ren Yoshimura directed this Daiei melodrama that was based on the novel entitled "Pandora's Box" by Dazai Osamu.

Ichikawa's 1956 adaptation of Nihonbashi was the first to take the work of Kyoka Izumi— until then regarded as a writer of common tragic...