Hiroko Machida Movies

A Yasuzō Masumura film about a love affair starring Ayako Wakao. The literal title is The Two Who Got Wet.

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

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

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

A sweet and melancholy melodrama set against the backdrop of the beautiful Seto Inland Sea, in which a pair of twin sisters, one a young lady of high...

Centered on a young college student who puts his youthful passion into developing true judo and the fiery mentor he admires and studies under.

A melodrama centered on adolescent high school students that depicts the secrets and joys and sorrows known only to them.

Even the beautiful international port of Yokohama has a seedy underbelly. An action thriller in which a newspaper reporter plunges into a den of vice...

On the eve of the Russo-Japanese war at the beginning of the 20th century, small-town girl Okane has married an old wealthy man to escape a life of...

Detective Katahachi meets a young and beautiful pickpocket and doesn’t arrest her because she was not in the act. Instead, he listens to the...

Melodrama about a young woman who saves a young man from the world of evil after he has saved her from blindness.

A story about a young woman who has been rehabilitated at a juvenile detention center for girls and released into society, but finds herself on the...

The story of the silk industry and the young girls who worked as silk spinners in the early 1900s in Japan. The silk mills were located in Okaya...

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 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...