Movies: Masae Yoshikawa

Considered one of the finest late Naruses and a model of film biography, A Wanderer’s Notebook features remarkable performances by Hideko Takamine – Phillip Lopate calls it “probably her greatest performance” – and Kinuyo Tanaka as mother and daughte...

Jiro Takimura, a painter, falls in love with Marie, a beautiful married woman who is studying painting abroad in France....

1962 Japanese movie...

Melodrama about a young factory girl who "chooses riches over chastity"....

1961 Japanese movie...

A story of the skilled brain surgeon, Todo, whose talent and ambition are put to test through a series of high risk surgical procedures....

A beautifully told story of a woman hardened by marriage to a man she doesn't love, after giving herself to another. She dedicates herself to her work, designing and creating plaited cords for kimono....

1962 Japanese movie...

A girl rebels against her mother, who runs a brothel in Yokohama, and attempts to find freedom on her own....

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Based on the comic by Shosuke Kurakane. Shown in two parts....

Based on the novel by Toyoko Yamazaki....