Yoshiko Kuga Movies

A demobilized soldier becomes a day laborer with a road construction gang, and his wife goes to work to bolster their income. Their modest dream is...

Yosuke Machida of the Daito Shinpo hears from a boy named Toshi-bo, whom he found on the street, that Toshi-bo’s older sister, Toyo, was...

A yakuza man who dreads being released from prison, yet the day of his release arrives. Awaiting him are a woman’s burning gaze and the muzzle...

2000 live-action Japanese film.

The woman prison has a cast all with a story of their own and with no dull or routine day. There is an employee who is divorced after her husband had...

There are male and female students working part-time jobs in the city center while facing the harsh realities of society as they struggle to pay for...

After living a traumatic experience in Tokyo, Yukiko returns to Kyoto, where Hatsuko, her mother, runs a brothel, which upsets Yukiko very much.

A young woman takes up her new job as the servant of a noblewoman and soon discovers that underneath her facade of luxury lies great unhappiness.

In this downbeat, emotionally gripping drama, a lone guardian of some small huts on one of the northernmost, small islands off Japan remembers his...

A Japanese woman writes down three stories she has witnessed or heard of in her diary, each about the difficult situation a young woman finds herself...

A young woman (Kuga), recuperating at a sanitarium in Karuizawa, falls in love with a young student (Ishihama) but returns to Tokyo to be with her...

This is a biographical film about the late Yoko Araki, who was the wife of Japan's leading photographer, Nobuyoshi Araki.

During the raging war between the Toyotomi and Tokugawa clans, the swordsman Mohei (whose family has been completely decimated) is recruited by...

Japan, 1137. The Taira family, a samurai clan, becomes involved in the disputes between Emperor Toba and the monks of Mount Hiei.

Young and beautiful Matsuko lives alone with her father in old Kamakura. Matsuko experienced love once, with Munehiro, who married another girl. But...

​Reiko, a young woman with a physical disability, begins a clandestine affair with the married architect Katsuragi, but also becomes...

Sukezo, a former manga comic artist, takes up the art rock business by setting up a shop in a shed by the river. He tries hard to be successful, but...