Eiko Takamatsu Movies

Shigeo is an aspiring writer living with his girl friend Minako and hoping for success and a better tomorrow every day. Both live on what Minako earns...

Hiroo Ikeda movie

Directed by Mikio Naruse. It is presumed to be lost.

Pretty Oshige is deceived by her first love. After this, she lives a hard lifestyle, working at a number of jobs. Her only pleasure is her nephew, who...

Directed by Mikio Naruse. It is presumed to be lost.

"The Dancing Girl of Izu" tells of the story between a young male student who is touring the Izu Peninsula and a family of traveling dancers he meets...

This pair of gentle yet witty and inventive comedies from the director of The Neighbour's Wife and Mine typify both the formal experimentation of earl...

A Japanese war widow recalls her love affair with her deceased husband.

Two childhood friends go their own ways but meet again some years later after they have both married. They get re-acquainted, meet each others’ famili...

A Japanese short film, the earliest extant film of the great director Hiroshi Shimizu.

A Japanese film

Japanese silent film.

After Japan's defeat in the war, the Anjo family lose their peerage and wealth. Since their mansion is due to pass into the hands of a creditor, the f...

A coming-of-age story portrayed as the loss of all youthful illusions. Sixteen-year-old Yoichi dreams of becoming a sailor. His parents are fishmonger...

Part two of Shimizu's major silent Seven Seas, a family drama of the intertwining fates of the rich, decadent Yagibashis and the far less prosperous S...

A spirited young teacher challenges the conservative school employing her with liberal thinking and teaching methods.

Strip dancer Carmen falls in love with Hajime, who is engaged to the daughter of a right-wing politician.

When a family has to relocate due to the war, they are ostracized by their new community.

An onnagata (female impersonator) of a Kabuki troupe avenges his parents' deaths. Remade in 1963 as Yukinojô Henge.