Ko Mihashi Movies

1949 drama film

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

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...

Japanese adaptation of LES MISERABLES. The last film of director Itami took inspiration from Les Miserables. Transpiring during the Southwestern War...

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

1936 P.C.L. adaptation of Natsume's novel.

A villager's family is ostracized after he makes an accusation of rigged elections

The main focus is on the 5 member band of a small circus as it runs into problems while touring rural Japan. It also pays lots of attention to the...

A priest in Hokkaido adopts a blind orphan girl, and as she grows up he finds himself falling in love with her.

Twenty-year-old Yoshiko (Setsuko Hara) and her younger sister Asako (Yōko Yaguchi) struggle to accept changes in their home during the...

A movie adaptation of Funayama Kaoru's novel of the same name, which depicts the story of a modern youth who is attracted to the evil path. Saburi...

This film is based on a real Meiji era performer -- and tells of Tochuken's partnership with his wife (played by Chikako Hosokawa) who played...

Focuses on the mutual antipathy of two groups of children in an Izu village.

On Wings of Love is a 1957 Japanese romantic musical film directed by Toshio Sugie. It was Toho's highest-grossing film of the year and the first...

An Edo appointed official Baba must ensure the safe delivery of shogunate funds to Kyoto.

Another adaptation of Tange Sazen.

Following Flower Picking Diary (1939), Tamizo directed another film starring Hideko Takamine, based on a story by Nobuko Yoshiya. Takamine plays a...

As a bid to win contacts, ship building companies wine and dine political leaders, inviting the geisha Hidekoma and Hidechiyo to entertain the...