Shizuko Hoshi Movies

In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house.

In 1960s China, French diplomat Rene Gallimard falls in love with an opera singer, Song Liling – but Song is not at all who Gallimard thinks.

In this drama from director Alan Parker, on-the-lam Jack McGurn flees to Los Angeles and takes a job as a projectionist at a movie theater owned by a...

Sultry college dropout Annie Burroughs moves in with her older sister Marsha and proceeds to break up the relationship between Marsha and her live-in...

A young wife journeys to North Vietnam in an effort to find her husband, an American flier reported missing in action, and is joined by a cynical...

The movie follows the perspective of several characters (such as Japanese victims, soldiers, American prisoners of war and others) and how they lived...

The true story of Ray Johnson, a convict who spent most of his life in and out of prison until he finally decided to turn his life around.

The film looks back at the life of a man named Oda and other Japanese Americans through the decades as they face great challenges and joys living in...

Mako is a neglectful husband. Not the most loving man. His wife gradually encounters a widower who is a kind, gentle figure. She eventually makes the...

Michael, a young mechanic, is forced to choose between a daring tryst with an alluring stranger and the habitual comfort of his bittersweet...

Europe, 1940. For thousands of Jews, a Japanese diplomat and his wife defy Tokyo and the Nazis, and offer visas, for life.

This important tribute to the issei (first generation Japanese Americans) integrates the stories of three people who describe a collective history...