Setsuko Hara Movies

A boy steals a knife from an old samurai, unaware of its value, setting off a strange chain of events.

A young lawyer falls in love with the daughter of his former professor, whom he's hired to tutor his children.

May Kawaguchi is a famous Japanese fashion designer. Returning to Tokyo from her home in New York, she travels incognito with a tour group, in hopes o...

Continuation of The Blue Mountains: Part I. Released a week later.

When Sentarô’s father is killed by a drunken samurai, Sentarô avenges him. His deed puts him on the run and leaves his sister behind. While running fr...

Ebihara is a budding novelist entangled in a complicated web of relationships with three women from three different generations: Kazue, a coquettish t...

A little girl who falls into a lake and is saved by a god who then takes her up to the clouds and shows her what the world was like before she was bor...

Story of a family torn apart when Teiji (Mori),the father, develops intimate feelings for a runaway (Kuga) the family has taken into their home.

Stalwart soldiers of the Japanese Empire – Japanese and Korean alike – stand in defense of a military outpost threatened by "bandits."

The story of an airport and its air traffic control crew in a remote and northern Japanese town. Three of the air traffic controllers are female with...

A skilled country doctor's talents are such that he can even perform operations as difficult and novel as removing a patient's kidney for the first ti...

Four unlucky pirates head to a weather tracking station set on a remote island with the intention of holding the weather trackers as hostages and assa...

Japanese adaptation of LES MISERABLES. The last film of director Itami took inspiration from Les Miserables. Transpiring during the Southwestern War...

It is 1921 and a town has a newspaper which prints urgent bulletins as required. The Washington-based CITES treaty, in which Japan participates, puts...

Following the Second World War, the lives of various people in a poverty-stricken area of Tokyo are entertwined. Pachinko parlor girls, shoeshine boys...

Twenty-year-old Yoshiko (Setsuko Hara) and her younger sister Asako (Yōko Yaguchi) struggle to accept changes in their home during the preparations of...

A film that begins with wit and comedy when a husband tries to hide and mask his drinking, which his Jesus freak and very Christian wife dislikes, by...

Part one of two.