Fumiko Okamura Movies

Hirano's wife Yasuko had grown weary of her life of poverty. Her feelings of dissatisfaction deepened when she met her elegantly dressed friend...

Bored in his marriage, a dentist flirts with a young woman on a train. However he soon finds himself embroiled in a series of misunderstandings with...

Two young women start their first jobs at a construction firm.

A businessman’s daughter falls in love with one of her father’s employees.

Inoue was something of a rarity in the sense, that he was a Shochiku house director who seems to have worked mostly in period films, often with big...

1948 Japanese movie

Melodrama about a talented singer who finally makes her debut

The logger Yamato has been raising his daughter alone since his wife died in childbirth. The baron who owns the forests where he works convinces him...

1961 Japanese movie

An older sister and brother (Mieko Takamine and Masayoshi Otsuka) come to visit their grandfather (Takeshi Sakamoto) who lives deep in the mountains....

1962 Japanese movie

A young man falls for one of the geisha working in the house where he lives. However, the romance doesn't find favour with his father or current...

Group of women escape Chinese controlled area for Japanese occupied lands during Pacific War.

Hana wa itsuwarazu (1941) is the second directorial work by Shochiku's Oba Hideo. Oba had previously worked as an assistant director to Shimizu...