Movies: Itoko Kōno

Over more than a decade, the daughter of a Kyoto Imperial University professor comes of age as she witnesses her father fired for opposing the rise of fascism in Japan and becomes involved with two of his students....

The stories of several young women who work in a 'precision optical instruments' factory during the second World War. Despite illness, injury, and tremendous personal hardship, the women persevere in their tasks, devoted to their work and their count...

A comedy about two salarymen who routinely degrade themselves for their boss....

Two sisters, one a dancer and the other a script supervisor at a big movie studio, become embroiled in union activities when a strike is called in sympathy with striking railroad workers, one of whom boards with the sisters and their parents. The gir...

A sixteen-year-old who had been living on her own since her mother died, frequently gets in trouble with the police. She gets sent to an "institute" for young girls in the countryside. There the residents grow their own food, cook and clean for them...

1945 Japanese movie...

Slice of life film centered on a couple of years in the life of a rural high school girl....

After learning that he has accidentally killed a man in a fight, Unokichi must look after the man's pregnant widow....

1946 Toho film directed by Kiyoshi Saeki...

Tadashi Imai 1946 movie...

What is marriage? Young couple in match-making wanted to know before they decide. They visited married couples of sisters and brothers. Love comedy in 1942....

A "slice-of life" film about a group of high school girls in 1940s Japan....

1947 Toho film directed by Tadashi Imai...