Itoko Kōno Movies

Over more than a decade, the daughter of a Kyoto Imperial University professor comes of age as she witnesses her father fired for opposing the rise...

The stories of several young women who work in a 'precision optical instruments' factory during the second World War. Despite illness, injury, and...

Two sisters, one a dancer and the other a script supervisor at a big movie studio, become embroiled in union activities when a strike is called in...

Tadashi Imai 1946 movie

Slice of life film centered on a couple of years in the life of a rural high school girl.

What is marriage? Young couple in match-making wanted to know before they decide. They visited married couples of sisters and brothers. Love comedy...

1946 Toho film directed by Kiyoshi Saeki

A comedy about two salarymen who routinely degrade themselves for their boss.

After learning that he has accidentally killed a man in a fight, Unokichi must look after the man's pregnant widow.

A sixteen-year-old who had been living on her own since her mother died, frequently gets in trouble with the police. She gets sent to an "institute"...

1947 Toho film directed by Tadashi Imai

A "slice-of life" film about a group of high school girls in 1940s Japan.