Hisako Takihana Movies

A poor peasant, after years of scraping, becomes a rich and powerful Osaka merchant. Mizoguchi Kenji's final project; he died before completing it and...

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

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 well...

The story contrasts the life of two doctors, former classmates and now both assistant professors at Naniwa University Hospital in Osaka. The brilliant...

Directed by Senkichi Taniguchi

1958 Theater of Life adaptation.

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

Film directed by Eichi Koishi and starring Wakao Ayako

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

The Stormy Era of Twenty Years

Film about poet Ishikawa Takuboku

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

Obscure Masumura film shot in 1961.