Hisako Takihana Movies

Shikiko Oba is nimble with her fingers and teaches dressmaking and designing. Among her pupils are Rinko, Katsumi and Tomie. Ginshiro, who is as...

Once an average and seemingly ordinary Tokyo girl, she suddenly finds herself as a TV star owing to her discovery by a casting company, which noticed...

The story of two sisters in post-war Japan. One is a geisha and the other works for the tourist board.

Yuko is sent to the coastal regions to be raised away from the rest of her sophisticated family where she finds out from her ill grandmother that she...

Adaptation of a novel by Yojiro Ishizaka, originally released in two parts.

A girl marries her elderly employer but in reality is in love with his son.

1962 Japanese movie

A beautiful older sister and her younger brother, both designers who paint the dreams of young hope, are paired with an innocent young artist and the...

A wife is diagnosed with an incurable disease at a young age. Her husband loves her, supports her, and tries to stay with her. However, the wife is...

Tradition and modernity clash when a young woman inherits a sweet-making firm in Kyoto.

Atsuko is an office secretary who is also her family's primary source of income and caretaker in postwar Japan.

A young woman decides to leave school in order to help her sister.

1956 Japanese movie

One of Uchida’s early sound films, Unending Advance is based on a curious story by Yasujiro Ozu, in which an examination of the quotidian...

A journalist decides to do his own investigation after a series of strange murders are committed during a local election campaign.

1956 Japanese movie

This film begins with a teacher describing to his students how brave the crew was which died as result of Japan's first submarine accident. The film...

Depicts four cheerful, young former college students with promising futures who die tragic deaths as pilots in the Kamikaze Special Attack Corps.