Kuniko Igawa Movies

From 1928 to 1946, the lives of 12 young people and their school teacher in a poor Japanese village are profoundly affected by historical events and...

In a time of continuous civil wars ravaging the fields of feudal Japan, the eldest son of a very poor peasant family, living alongside the bridge...

In postwar Tokyo, Noriko lives with her extended family. Although she enjoys her career and her social life, her more traditional family worries...

A wealthy family will not allow the military to grow crops on their fields due to their superstitious beliefs about their son's illness.

After the death of her husband, an elderly woman and her youngest, unmarried daughter are forced to sell their house to cover his debts and decide to...

Minoru delivered newspapers to earn money for high school, but when his mother came down with illness he decided to use this money for her doctor's...

A rural village elder plans an event on the return of a farmer's daughter from the city, unaware that she has become a Westernized burlesque artist.

Five years after the end of the Second World War, Reikichi, a repatriated veteran, translates love letters for Japanese women to American GIs, while...

A student at a woman's university takes a controversial action against the school's old-fashioned doctrines.

The few residents left on the streets in Tokyo share their individual stories and come to understand the melancholy of saying goodbye.

The story of the trials and tribulations of a lighthouse keeper and his wife.

The mistress of a crook real estate broker comes to terms with her soulless existence after an artist paints her portrait.

After surviving the double suicide pact she made with her lover, a woman gives birth to their child.

A boy, who is separated from his mother in an air raid, endures suffering and grief alongside his kind uncle.

A young man who is unable to tell his childhood friend how he feels makes a pledge with her to reveal all of their secrets during the upcoming...

In the 30th year, Nirasaki Den'emon established the Nirasaki Hokkaido Development Company with investment from Sonoi to build railway facilities....

A young widow, made world weary by her abusive, neglectful husband, finds herself in a minor scandal when she's seen with her intense, no-nonsense...

In postwar Japan a young woman is unable to marry her sweetheart because her family's in difficult circumstances and needs her income to keep afloat.