Hisako Takihana Movies

Shinkichi, a peasant employed as a cloth-dyer, has a dream: in the midst of the civil war which ravages Japan, he hopes to revive the long-banned...

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

Based on a 1956 television feature on Japan’s national network, NHK, this is one of Uchida’s rarest films. A socially conscious drama...

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...

1962 Japanese movie

1958 Theater of Life adaptation.

Film directed by Eichi Koishi and starring Wakao Ayako

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

Obscure Masumura film shot in 1961.

Based on a story by Akiyuki Nosaka.

Melodrama by Kiyoshi Saeki

The southern tip of Shikoku. This village, surrounded by a bay, where, according to legend, the former warriors of the Heike clan settled, is famous...

A young female president of a company who hates men and a new male employee who hates women: a one-on-one fight in which sparks fly! A cheerful youth...

In Meiji era Japan a sixth grade boy is smart, likable and confident and owing to his academic success liked by his teacher. Things are not going...

The movie depicts the youth of kamikaze pilots who scattered young lives in the sky.

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...

Two brothers run a factory canning crabs. The elder brother Kotaro is righteous and insists on honesty. The younger brother is fixated on money. They...