Misako Watanabe Movies

A beautiful and healthy young girl growing up in poverty overcomes hardships and grows into a woman in this deeply moving literary epic.

Yoshii and his wife Yoko are elementary school teachers in a mountainous village. One day, an elderly writer arrives with his granddaughter, Rika....

1962 Japanese movie

Version of Proof of the Man (1977).

Fierce struggle between brothers and sisters in a lawless land where violence is the norm.

The monologue and mysterious death of a man who survived and returned from Iwo Jima. A newspaper reporter writes an article about "The Man from Iwo...

Japanese drama film.

2001 Japanese film

Ayane is the daughter of a karaage (fried food) store owner, but she never liked karaage. Eventually, she left home, only to return 5 years later....

Two men perform a robbery on an airplane before parachuting to safety, and a newspaper reporter attempts to solve the crime.

A confessional article in a weekly magazine and the strange suspense between an ordinary housewife who sees it. A mother tries to kill her son's...