Hisako Takihana Movies

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

One of Japan's most popular stories is the tale of Kutsukake Tokijiro, a traveling gambler who finds that he must take care of the wife and child of...

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...

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.

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

Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi. Considered a lost 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...

Adaptation of the Yukio Mishima novel.

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...

Melodrama by Kiyoshi Saeki

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...

A young woman decides to leave school in order to help her sister.

Japanese war film.