Hatsuko Wakahara Movies

1945 Japanese movie

Ken Uehara plays the role of a prominent figure in the red-light district and portrays his violent personality.

Movie about biological mothers, foster mothers, and stepmothers.

A dispute over the estate of a wealthy family’s patriarch erupts between the son’s widow and her child on one side, and the...

In this downbeat, emotionally gripping drama, a lone guardian of some small huts on one of the northernmost, small islands off Japan remembers his...

An envelope of obscene woodblock prints makes a perverse connection between a violent homeless boxer, a feckless husband and a wife with a past...

A crime film released in 1962

1962 Japanese movie

Chief editor Shiro Kamisaka (Hisaya Morishige) of Sankei Publishing Inc. is being tried for embezzlement and the staging of Chiyo Umehara's suicide....

1960 action film.

A blockbuster youth action film based on the serialized novel in Nikkan Sports by Yoshirō Akinaga, now adapted for the screen.

Deep down, a dark shadow always lingered in the heart of Ushio, a young prosecutor who had made a name for himself by cracking down on organized...

Young female teacher Kyoko Miyake relocates to a small seaside town with her runaway little sister, but their new life is complicated by hoodlum-like...

Based on the short story The Psychological Test by Edogawa Rampo.