Hiroko Machida Movies

Follows five sex workers employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation debates the passage of an anti-prostitution law.

A romance between a young koto prodigy and the head of a koto school’s daughter.

A young engineer and a pure-hearted mountain girl take on the challenges of the Akan primeval forest, where lawlessness and violence run rampant.

As she takes a position as a gym teacher at a girls’ school as a form of “life training” before marriage, what awaits her...

A pair of gangsters break into a lead factory, steal gold bars, and terrorize the factory owner’s family for three terrifying hours.

Movie about biological mothers, foster mothers, and stepmothers.

Kenta, an orphan, heads to Tokyo to find his father.

A young army surgeon, Kyoji Fujisaki, accidentally contracts syphilis during a WWII field operation. Back at his father’s clinic, he treats...

Tatsuya Kakurai, a young mahjong player from Shinjuku; Satsuki, an office worker and player from Marunouchi; the veteran "Demon" Nagamasa; Awano, a...

A kind-hearted medical student, an ill-fated young woman, an innocent young lady in a school uniform, and a medical student whose rational beauty...

Nishi is an advertising executive for a caramel company that is planning to launch a new product, in fierce competition with two other companies.

A college student falls in love with a notorious delinquent girl.

In Asakusa, Tokyo, a couple of a violinist Yamano and a revue dancer Hanae lives in poverty. One day Hanae’s little sister rolls into their...

A romantic musical film based on hit records of the time.