Hisako Takihana Movies

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...

Yukiko Shiba, a doctor, and Akira Sakai, a composer and musician, are lovers. Their love is a forbidden one. He is married, with children. She is a...

Melodrama by Kiyoshi Saeki

Obscure Masumura film shot in 1961.

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...

1956 Japanese movie

Directed by Senkichi Taniguchi

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

Father, son Kentaro and daughter Ochiyo, who live on the banks of the Sumida River, regain their love for each other after family discord and...

A classic melodramatic love tragedy addressing social inequality in Taishō-era Japan, The nostalgic scenes of 1920s Tokyo provides a valuable...

Based on the novel by Junichiro Tanizaki. Story of the beautiful blind daughter of a wealthy businessman who falls in love with a servant.

The Stormy Era of Twenty Years

The film centers a compassionate teacher (Setsuko Hara) who teaches at a Tokyo grade school where students curse and gamble. The school has a pond...

Set in Tsukuda Island, Tokyo, this drama SP depicts a misunderstanding between an old man with old-fashioned spirit and a young tenant.

A youth lyrical story of pure love of a girl who grew up in the Kyoto Gion quarter, with a geisha mother and sisters Maiko and a college student.

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

1962 Japanese movie