Kikuko Hanaoka Movies

Thriller drama by Kon Ichikawa

An early film by Kon Ichikawa

This horror tale relates the consequences of a Japanese legend which tells of a man who has to betray his wife in order to achieve power.

An actress returns to Tokyo after a successful stint in Hollywood to reclaim—with the help of her gangster brother—the daughter she abandoned years be...

An exciting historical drama in which a beautiful woman secretly solves the family problems of the Owari clan. Hibari Misora plays two roles: a charmi...

The ambiguous relationship between a woman musician and her young student.

A group of bandits flee to the mountains after killing an evil moneylender. Remake of Hiroshi Inagaki's Jigoku no mushi (1938).

The three-hour Ai yo jinrui to tomo ni are / Love, Be with Humanity (1931) starts as a satire of alienation in the world of money, develops into a lum...

War-time jidaigeki by Eisuke Takizawa.

Early adaptation of the book "The Inugami Clan", featuring the detective Kōsuke Kindaichi.

In late 19th century Tokyo, Kikunosuke Onoue, the adopted son of a legendary actor, himself an actor specializing in female roles, discovers that he i...

A luckless geisha struggles to make a living for herself and her young son.

"The Dancing Girl of Izu" tells of the story between a young male student who is touring the Izu Peninsula and a family of traveling dancers he meets...

Police detective Heiji is assigned to catch the masked Maboroshi gang of robbers who have terrorized all of Edo leaving few clues as to who their lead...

Based on the play ”Mabuta no haha” by famed author Shin Hasegawa, this is the first major starring role for Tomisaburo Wakayama. This heartfelt story...

A bar girl tries to pass her three children, each from a different father, to rural relatives.

A sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love letters for other people.

Japanese comedy film.