The best Teruko Mita’s movies
We present our ranking of the best Teruko Mita’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Teruko Mita.
Godzilla Raids Again
5.7/10
Two fishing scout pilots make a horrifying discovery when they encounter a second Godzilla alongside a new monster named Anguirus. Without the weapon that killed the original, authorities attempt to lure Godzilla away from the mainland. But Anguirus soon arrives and the two monsters make their way towards Osaka as Japan braces for tragedy.
Mothra
6.6/10
Shipwreck survivors found on the presumably uninhabited Infant Island leads to a scientific expedition that discovers a surviving native population along with the Shobijin, tiny twin fairy priestesses of the island's mythical deity called Mothra. After the fairies are kidnapped by an exploitative businessman named Clark Nelson, Mothra sets out to rescue them.
47 Ronin
7.6/10
The story tells of a group of samurai who were left leaderless (becoming ronin) after their daimyo (feudal lord) was forced to commit seppuku (ritual suicide) for assaulting a court official named Kira Yoshinaka, whose title was Kōzuke no suke. The ronin avenged their master's honor after patiently waiting and planning for over a year to kill Kira. In turn, the ronin were themselves forced to commit seppuku for committing the crime of murder.
Floating Clouds
7.6/10
A married Japanese forester during WWII is sent to Indochina to manage forests. He meets a young Japanese typist and promises to leave his wife. He doesn't and after the war, she turns up and the affair resumes.
Yagyu Secret Scrolls
6.4/10
In the Tokugawa Era, the clan of Lord Yagyu has hidden away three scrolls containing clan secrets which, if revealed, would cause revolution and disaster for the clan. The information is divided among the three scrolls, all of which must be possessed for the secrets to be understood. When Princess Yuhime steals the scrolls, Tasaburo, a samurai with magical powers, and his brother Senshiro are sent to retrieve them.
Sazae-san
7.9/10
An adaptation of the popular Sazae-san comic strip. The first entry in Toho's Sazae-san series.
Husband and Wife
7.3/10
A married couple looking for an apartment move in with the husband's co-worker, a widower. The husband becomes jealous of the widower and his wife.
The Approach of Autumn
7.5/10
A single mother from the country raising a 6th grade boy comes to Tokyo, leaves the boy to live with his uncle's family, runs a struggling grocery store, and works a local inn. The boy befriends a girl, the daughter of the innkeeper...
All About Marriage
7.4/10
Sudden Rain
7.2/10
A husband and wife's pet peeves and minor irritations escalate into major rifts and animosity.
Okuni and Gohei
7/10
A high-born woman named Okuni travels around the country with Gohei, a samurai retainer who is in service to her. They are in search of Tomonojo, who has killed the man who was Okuni’s husband and Gohei’s master, and they cannot return to their lord’s home until they have fulfilled their duty of hunting down and killing Tomonojo.
Summer Clouds
7.4/10
A war widow with a young boy manages a farm with her bossy mother-in-law. When a reporter comes to interview her, the two begin an affair. He turns out to be married and won't leave his wife. Her older brother tries to marry off his children and hang on to/ extend his farm through an advantageous marriage in the face of threatened land confiscation and the desire of his children to get comfortable urban jobs instead of the backbreaking work in the paddy fields under parental control.
Adolescence
Parent apathy to sexual education leads to various troubles for the young cast.
A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 1
An Ishiro Honda film. The first part of A Rainbow Plays in My Heart released the same day as the second film.
The Wiser Age
7.5/10
Drama about the lives of the five daughters and daughter-in-law of a store owner.
Forty-Eight Man
Jidai-geki by Kiyoshi Saeki
Romantic Daughters
A 1956 color Japanese film starring Hibari Misora, Eri Chiemi, and Izumi Yukimura. The film was the second part of the "three girl" series of films from Toho studios ("So Young, So Bright", "Romantic Daughters", and "On Wings of Love").
Tokyo no hito sayonara
7.5/10
A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 2
An Ishiro Honda film. The second part of A Rainbow Plays in My Heart released the same day as the first film.
