Kikuko Hanaoka Movies

In late 19th century Tokyo, Kikunosuke Onoue, the adopted son of a legendary actor, himself an actor specializing in female roles, discovers that he is only praised for his acting due to his status as his father's heir. Devastated by this, he turns to Otoku, a servant of his family, for comfort,...

When a young man inherits his father's lucrative business, he cheats the system to set up three of his college friends with jobs.

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 before.

The Way of Drama unfolds in the world of kabuki in Osaka, but also addresses the politics of popular culture and the rivalry between theatrical styles like those used by amateur actors to dramatise contemporary events.

Japanese comedy film.

1961 Toei adaptation of Yokomizo's novel.

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

Japanese comedy film.

"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 there, including their youngest girl. The student finds the naïve girl attractive even though he eventually has to part with the family after...

The day to day life in an establishment for delinquent teenage girls.

Oiwa has been searching for the one who killed her father for a long time. She comes to Yedo and sees a man named Naosuke. The film is based on the kabuki classic: Toukaidou Yotsuya Kaidan (1826) written by Tsuruya Nanboku and is one of the most famous ghost stories throughout Japan.

Japanese comedy film released to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Shintoho's founding.

Scammer Horikawa Shinbei hopes to make a quick buck using Namie, a stripper under his control.

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

Japanese war film.

Japanese comedy film.

1952 Japanese film directed by Kunio Watanabe.

War-time jidaigeki by Eisuke Takizawa.

33-year-old poor writer Ogata was able to endure his miserable life cheerfully thanks to Yoshie, a 19-year-old innocent young wife. After graduating from a girls' school in Hokuriku, she immediately moved to Tokyo to meet and marry Ogata. After neatly writing Ogata's manuscript, he would buy...