Hiroko Kawasaki Movies

Japanese film from 1934, based on a novel by Itsuma Maki (real name Kaitarō Hasegawa).

Sakura Ondo was a sound adaptation based on a popular 1934 song, produced at the Shochiku Kamata Studio as part of a five-studio competition to...

Japanese silent film from 1932.

Japanese film from 1934, based on a novel by Itsuma Maki (real name Kaitarō Hasegawa).

Part two of Shimizu's major silent Seven Seas, a family drama of the intertwining fates of the rich, decadent Yagibashis and the far less prosperous...

The eldest daughter of a noble family is in love with an aviator while being courted by a fellow aristocrat she thinks is a dullard. This part is...

This 1932 adaptation is the earliest sound version of the ever-popular and much-filmed Chushingura story of the loyal 47 retainers who avenged their...

The film is a lengthy work interweaving characters from different backgrounds and social strata in a narrative centered around the experiences of its...

Japanese drama from 1934. A major production of Shochiku Studio, directed by Hiroshi Shimizu.

A young girl gives up high school to help out family expenses and starts to work as a bus conductor.

Eiko is an innocent young lady born into a wealthy family with nothing to offer. She was good at singing, and lived her life playing around with her...

The story is centered around the devastating experiences of two villagers, Osaki Shuichi, and his cousin, Nishimiura Kinue, when they leave their...

Naomi Tazawa (Hiroko Kawasaki), who works at Isetan Department Store, was told by an executive at a film company (Ken Uehara), that he was going to...

A newlywed couple faces tension when the wife, after her husband leaves for work, becomes completely unmotivated to handle household chores and goes...

The Idiot, by Fyodor Dostoevsky.

Japanese silent film from 1930. The second chapter of "The Big City: Labor" (1929).