Shizue Natsukawa
Birthday: 1909-03-09
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
Biography: No biography available.
Movies
Kwaidan
Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four fol...
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The Burning Prison
In Nihonbashi, a fire broke out in the Kodenma-cho prison, and the prisoners were released. With the...
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The Tattered Wings
A young widow, made world weary by her abusive, neglectful husband, finds herself in a minor scandal...
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Song of Love
In postwar Japan, a new teacher, Miyamoto Yasuko, is discovered by her estranged daughter, Fukuoka S...
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Jihishincho
Shizuko hesitates between two suitors. While the one she marries commits suicide following a scandal...
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Yoshie Fujiwara's Hometown
While returning by boat to Japan, Yoshie Fujiwara meets a rich woman who suggests him to become a si...
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Next Door to Happiness
The Nakata family, father, mother, son Hideo, and daughters Taeko and Akiko live in the poorer secti...
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White Blaze
A masterpiece depicting the true feelings, grief and joy of a woman. An adaptation of the novel of t...
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Nutcracker Fantasy
Based off of the novel, "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" and the ballet, "The Nutcracker", Sanrio...
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Edo no yubae
In the fourth year of Keio (1868), defeated retainers sought to restore the Tokugawa shogunate with ...
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情艶一代女
Based on the serialized story "東京一代女" which appeared in Tokyo Shinbun. A geisha known for her danci...
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大当り男一代
Shinzō, the heir of the prominent Edo lumber dealer Yamashiroya, left home when his stubborn father,...
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Fountainhead
A botanist woos the secretary of an industrialist whose company threatens the local water supply....
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The King of Rowing
A pre-war sports movie by director Tomu Uchida. This story is set at the Waseda-Keio regatta. This w...
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Little Peach
Anzukko (Little Peach) is the daughter of a successful writer. She turns down each one of her suitor...
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A Carpenter and Children
A carpenter, Shigetsugu, learns a lesson of love and humanity from five orphaned children and an aff...
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Love Letter
A sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love letter...
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Hibari's Tale of Pathos
Hibari Misora plays a singing guide, who is secretly in love, her fortunes turn for the worse when a...
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Night Drum
Following a yearlong attendance upon his shogun in Edo, samurai Hikokuro makes a long-awaited return...
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Thus Another Day
A father curries favor with his bosses to further his career, but his wife has lost faith in him. Sh...
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Town of Love
Tomotaka Tasaka's earliest surviving surviving film is a powerful adaptation of Hector Malot's "Nobo...
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The Golden Demon
Tokyo, 1890. Through avarice, a series of misunderstandings, and failures of courage, the engagement...
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The Black Current
A reporter Takuo, who is sleeping in the newspaper room of the Maichō newspaper company, receives a ...
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Roughneck From Asama
When Boss Juzo's Shinmachi Yakuza family struck fear into the hearts of his adversaries, Boss Shohei...
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Portrait of Madame Yuki
A young woman takes up her new job as the servant of a noblewoman and soon discovers that underneath...
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Lord Mito: Struggle of Suke and Kaku
The story of two young men whose ambition is to become the personal bodyguards to the Shogun's uncle...
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In Search of Mother
Period piece about a young man who, because of his hard life alone in the world, has become a yakuza...
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Tattoo of Love
The great Okawa Hashizo, in one of his most powerful roles risks his life and limb to help save the ...
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Young People
Based on an original story by Yojiro Ishizaka, this well-made drama is set in a Christian school in ...
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Okoma, the Orphan Gambler
Taking place in Shinshu in the 1920s, Tsumakoi Okoma, while traveling to hone her gambling skills, t...
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No Time for Tears
Coach Shimamura of the hapless Sparrows baseball team is pleased to obtain a hot new pitcher named O...
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The Hidden Treasure
Shochiku's commemorative 3000th film production; a suspenseful period drama....
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Tokyo March
A classic melodramatic love tragedy addressing social inequality in Taishō-era Japan, The nostalgic ...
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Maria of the Ant Village
Alongside Tokyo's Sumida River is a ragpickers' settlement known as Ant Village. One night, a young ...
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Times of Joy and Sorrow
The story of the trials and tribulations of a lighthouse keeper and his wife....
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Spring on Leper's Island
A female doctor's story of her life in an isolated leper colony....
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City of Love
Aiko, a bar hostess, falls for the son of a company president who also keeps a mistress, and whose f...
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Good Luck to These Two
A young man and woman are determined to marry despite opposition from her parents....
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The Swan Elegy
One day, Reiko, who is engaged, meets a young man named Kondo, and she likes him, although she has a...
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Twenty-Four Eyes
From 1928 to 1946, the lives of 12 young people and their school teacher in a poor Japanese village ...
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The Boy Who Came Back
Nobuo is a hot-headed hoodlum fresh out of reform school who struggles to make a clean break with hi...
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Metropolitan Symphony
A young woman seduced by a rich man, takes revenge on him with the help of a young idealistic worker...
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Yakuza of Seki
A young yakuza, Yatappe, wanders around the country in search of his long-lost little sister, Oito. ...
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Unripe Fruit
A youth lyrical painting depicting a sensitive young man with rich poetic feelings focused on the co...
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Koi no rantō
"My mother is Japanese, a drifting diva of Tokyo" After the death of her father Reika goes to Japa...
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The Glow of Life
A country girl Teruko falls in love with the aristocrat Yanagisawa. When she once asks him what the ...
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Atarashii Sebiro
This movie depicts poor yet kind and modest people, focusing on sibling love....
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