Kimie Hayashi Movies

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Gannosuke Ashiya

It was supposed to be about a love story, but it was and was not. An aircraft mechanic working for the government is matched by his boss with the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Setsuko Hara

Part 2 starts where the first film ended, with Iemon disposing of the bodies of his wife and Kohei, marrying upward, and being blackmailed by the...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

Iemon Tamiya is an impoverished masterless samurai who craves a better life, which he cannot have because of his marriage to Oiwa, who is completely...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

Kichigoro, a firefighter from the Maeda family of the Kaga Principality, rescues Oshimo, the younger sister of Jirokichi, a city firefighter from the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

Okoma, a witty young woman working as a conductor in an old, rickety bus in Kōfu, Yamanashi (rural Japan), has a creative idea that could avert...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Takamine

This film depicts a troupe of wandering kabuki players traveling through rural Japan.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kamatari Fujiwara

Following Flower Picking Diary (1939), Tamizo directed another film starring Hideko Takamine, based on a story by Nobuko Yoshiya. Takamine plays a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Takamine

Okiyo runs a restaurant in Asakusa. She struggles with the times and the relationships around her.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chieko Takehisa

In A Tale of Archery, young, timid bowmaster Kazuma (Akitake Kôno) seeks to beat the archery record set by Hoshino Kanzaemon, a mysterious...

Genre: War

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

Assassination begins with the events of 1853 when "four black ships" anchored at Edo Bay, sparking civil unrest and the major political manoeuvring...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tetsuro Tamba

When Kaoru's sister-in-law Miyoko arrives at the family home, tender feelings start to grow between the two. However, the initial happiness that...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Naomi Egawa

Machiko and Haruki’s drama continues. Two meet again in Hokkaido only to be separated again.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiji Sada

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroshi Akitsu

Based on the book Heaven and Maiko by Yoshiya Nobuko, it is the story of two girls of different family backgrounds in Osaka.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Takamine

Set against the backdrop of an imperial victory in the civil war leading up to the Meiji Restoration, Fallen Blossoms tells the story of the sorrows...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ranko Hanai

A continuation of the prior film (影法師).

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Cast: Tsumasaburō Bandō

1961 Japanese movie

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Cast: Kon Omura

On the night the shogunate's treasury was breached, the guard Utsugi had already been taken down. His colleague Ryunosuke felt responsible and...

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Cast: Tsumasaburō Bandō