Sachiko Hidari Movies

This suspense drama set in the mid 1700's depicts the plan of the Tokugawa rulers to send a number of homeless men to a remote island Sado to perform...

Kingoro Yanagiya's 100th film.

Police beat a murder confession out of four innocent men who are then sentenced to death. Based on a true story.

In order to pay back Mrs. Kajiki for her good deed in the past, Hatsu moves from her village in Akita to Tokyo to start working as a maid for her...

Nobuo is a hot-headed hoodlum fresh out of reform school who struggles to make a clean break with his tearaway past.

A conscript from a poor background writes the Emperor asking if he can stay in the army when his service is up.

1962 Japanese movie

Set in the time of steam locomotives and covering a period of almost 30 years, this sensitive film tells the story of the wife of a railroad worker...

Three young women make a suicide pact, but they grow to have a better understanding of themselves.

Yoshinori sells plots of land in a cemetery, and is involved in a stale ten-year-old marriage with bored housewife Atsuko. When Atsuko makes a male...

A lifetime story of a woman who stubbornly lives in a poor mountain village in post-war Japan.

1962 Japanese movie

Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Dare yori mo kimi wo aisu" by Kazuko Matsuo.

1962 Japanese movie

The story of a selfless mother and her family throughout the decades, from the 1920's to the 1960's.

First live action adaptation of Keiji Nakazawa's manga.