Aiko Mimasu Movies

During the bloody era of the Tokugawa Shogunate collapse, a man appeared capable of overthrowing a corrupt government and ending the feud between the...

Chōsokabe Kyutaro, notorious as a master swindler, abandons Tokyo and flees to Watakano Island near the Shima Peninsula. Upon hearing that the...

A home drama about a mother and her three daughters, based on the novel by Fumiko Hayashi.

In postwar Osaka’s bustling textile district, a tough and highly rational moneylender named Katsumi builds a successful lending business in a...

1956 Daiei movie

Based on a novel by Tei Fujiwara

Teacher Miyako Hanai, disillusioned by her sisters’ unhappy marriages, rejects love until family conflicts and her mother’s unexpected...

A love melodrama about five siblings and the daughter of a businessman.

The first in a series of 31 "mother films" produced by Daiei in the post-war period.

An early Tōhō salaryman musical.