Kuniko Miyake Movies

The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Their elder...

Noriko is perfectly happy living at home with her widowed father, Shukichi, and has no plans to marry -- that is, until her aunt Masa convinces...

The arranged marriage between a capricious woman from Tokyo high society and a quiet rustic man is tested by a marital crisis.

This sensuously beautiful film chronicles the activities of four sisters who gather in Kyoto every year to view the cherry blossoms. It paints a...

In 1999, a woman's life is forever changed after she survives a car crash with two bank robbers, who enlist her help to take the money to a drop in...

Widower Shuhei Hirayama's caretaker is his 24-year-old daughter, Michiko. Gradually, he comes to realize that Michiko should not be obliged to look...

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

Two boys beg their parents for a television set, nagging them until all patience is lost. The parents order the boys to be quiet and the boys do...

A woman and her daughter are each forced to contend with an increasing pressure to marry, particularly from three men who knew her late husband.

Yuko is sent to the coastal regions to be raised away from the rest of her sophisticated family where she finds out from her ill grandmother that she...

A young salaryman and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship while he embarks on an extramarital affair.

In sixteenth-century Japan, Ogin, daughter of celebrated tea master Sen no Rikyū, falls in love with Ukon Takayama, a married Christian samurai....

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

A romantic comedy depicting the variant and whimsical daily lives of the Japanese mademoiselles in the Metropolis of Tokyo. How they react against...

During the peaceful Tokugawa period, handsome samurai Gonza becomes entangled in a tragic love triangle and a web of deceit while trying to advance...

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...

1950 Japanese film

A documentary which follows director Wim Wenders and Sean Naughton, the high-definition-video designer on UNTIL THE END OF THE WORLD, in Tokyo, and...