Nijiko Kiyokawa Movies

1950 Japanese movie

An episodic film about life in and around a rural police station and the people it serves.

A study of uneasy relationships among the inhabitants of a tiny rural community.

Tokijiro has the unfortunate duty according to the code of the gamblers to join in the fighting when afforded a night’s stay and meals at the...

1968 Japanese movie

1950 drama film

A tanuki-themed musical.

Song of the White Orchid was a co-production of Toho and Mantetsu, the railway that served the colonial region of Manchuria, and the first film in...

Japanese comedy film.

The Wayside Pebble is an effective drama about the hardships of a childhood spent with a brusque, cold-hearted father and a submissive mother. The...

Kingoro Yanagiya's 100th film.

1949 Japanese film

When two sisters fall in love with the same man, one must decide to look elsewhere.

1962 Japanese movie

Based on the comic by Yutaka Asou

Hanjiro is a struggling painter that shares a tiny apartment in the back streets of Ginza with his jazz pianist friend who works at a bar. When he...

As suggested by the title, this film takes up the theme of the city, beginning with a series of traveling shots from Chiyo's point of view on a bus...

Based on an autobiographical story by Toyota Masako.