Hisako Takihana Movies

1958 Theater of Life adaptation.

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.

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

Based on a story by Akiyuki Nosaka.

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...

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...

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

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

When a corrupt magistrate rapes Oshima, Masa (Raizō Ichikawa) avenges her by killing the officer, becoming thereby a fugitive, haunted and...

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

Based on the play ”Mabuta no haha” by famed author Shin Hasegawa, this is the first major starring role for Tomisaburo Wakayama. This...

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...

Jidai-geki about the life of Yasubei Nakayama, a famous ronin who did participate in the revenge against Lord Kira Yoshinaka as detailed in Japan's...