Hisako Takihana Movies

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

Film directed by Eichi Koishi and starring Wakao Ayako

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...

1956 Japanese movie

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

Directed by Tomotaka Tasaka.

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 bright and cheerful story about a young girl who comes to Tokyo from the countryside, relying on her aunt to become a maid, and willingly aspires...

1956 Japanese movie

1947 Japanese movie

The Stormy Era of Twenty Years

One of Uchida’s early sound films, Unending Advance is based on a curious story by Yasujiro Ozu, in which an examination of the quotidian...

Based on the comic by Kaoru Akiyoshi

1962 Japanese movie

Melodrama by Kiyoshi Saeki

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...

Film about poet Ishikawa Takuboku