Hiroko Machida Movies

Detective Katahachi meets a young and beautiful pickpocket and doesn’t arrest her because she was not in the act. Instead, he listens to the...

Hayase, a schoolteacher, assists Sakai in editing a German-Japanese dictionary. Hayase owes much to Sakai, as Sakai raised him for 13 years after...

Movie about biological mothers, foster mothers, and stepmothers.

TV film about the "Nishiyama Incident", a scandal surrounding the 1972 return of Okinawa to Japan. Produced to commemorate the 20th anniversary of TV...

A thriller of deduction and duels, in which a newspaper reporter bravely takes on a gang in the city’s skyscraper district over a mysterious...

When a hard-driving copywriter (Hiroyuki Sanada) discovers his comely wife (Keiko Saito) is involved in a scintillating game of strip...

As she takes a position as a gym teacher at a girls’ school as a form of “life training” before marriage, what awaits her...

Two car manufacturers spy on each other to try to find out details and prices of a new sports car each is about to launch.

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 desperate detective on the trail of criminals who are holding a baby hostage and demanding one million yen

Tatsuya Kakurai, a young mahjong player from Shinjuku; Satsuki, an office worker and player from Marunouchi; the veteran "Demon" Nagamasa; Awano, a...

A romantic musical film based on hit records of the time.

Namiko is married, but has an infatuation with Ishizuka who runs a nightclub. The businessman is also planning on wrecking the company of Namiko's...

Comedy drama film

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

A film depicting a woman who gradually awakens to a new Japanese style of romance, moving away from the old Japanese style.

Three stories about the relationship between men and women: "Playgirl" (Masumura/Shirasaka), "Company No. 2" (Yoshimura/Kasahara), and "San Nyotai"...

1959 Japanese movie