Hiroko Machida Movies

A romance between a young koto prodigy and the head of a koto school’s daughter.

A heartwarming story about Kenta, an unfortunate boy searching for his father, and Sensei, the town’s hero and black belt.

Kenta, an orphan, heads to Tokyo to find his father.

A young man who is ostracized by society because his older brother has a criminal record—a situation that even threatens his marriage—is...

This story depicts the struggles of a man living in the cutthroat world of competition and the pure love of his wife.

A Yasuzō Masumura film about a love affair starring Ayako Wakao. The literal title is The Two Who Got Wet.

Follows five sex workers employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation debates the passage of an anti-prostitution law.

A college student falls in love with a notorious delinquent girl.

A story about a young woman who has been rehabilitated at a juvenile detention center for girls and released into society, but finds herself on the...

Melodrama about a young woman who saves a young man from the world of evil after he has saved her from blindness.

A young army surgeon, Kyoji Fujisaki, accidentally contracts syphilis during a WWII field operation. Back at his father’s clinic, he treats...

A melodrama centered on adolescent high school students that depicts the secrets and joys and sorrows known only to them.

Centered on a young college student who puts his youthful passion into developing true judo and the fiery mentor he admires and studies under.

Even the beautiful international port of Yokohama has a seedy underbelly. An action thriller in which a newspaper reporter plunges into a den of vice...

A kind-hearted medical student, an ill-fated young woman, an innocent young lady in a school uniform, and a medical student whose rational beauty...

Yuko is sent to the coastal regions to be raised away from the rest of her sophisticated family where she finds out from her ill grandmother that she...