Hiroko Machida Movies

1962 Japanese movie

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

This film begins with a teacher describing to his students how brave the crew was which died as result of Japan's first submarine accident. The film...

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

Two sisters live with their family. The elder is reserved; the younger lively. Yet, the former is first engaged and all goes well until the young man...

Japanese comedy directed by Noriaki Yuasa.

1959 youth comedy.

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...

A man operates a small real estate business near Osaka. A man from Tokyo asks for help in buying a large tract of land in order, he says, to build an...

One of Kinugasa's last films--based on the story by Tanizaki Jun'ichirō.

1961 Japanese movie

The romantic struggles of three close friends who came back from the war.

A beautiful but sad romantic melodrama about three sisters who are uninhibited, pure and lovely, and who stand tall like the peaks of a place that...