Hisako Takihana Movies

Obscure Masumura film shot in 1961.

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...

Yukiko Shiba, a doctor, and Akira Sakai, a composer and musician, are lovers. Their love is a forbidden one. He is married, with children. She is a...

A beautiful older sister and her younger brother, both designers who paint the dreams of young hope, are paired with an innocent young artist and the...

Atsuko is an office secretary who is also her family's primary source of income and caretaker in postwar Japan.

1958 Theater of Life adaptation.

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...

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

A wife is diagnosed with an incurable disease at a young age. Her husband loves her, supports her, and tries to stay with her. However, the wife is...

The first story concerns an attractive young woman who works in a Tokyo nightclub. Her plan for a solid financial future has a double whammy. In the...

Adaptation of the Yukio Mishima novel.

Japanese war film.

Tradition and modernity clash when a young woman inherits a sweet-making firm in Kyoto.

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

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

1956 Japanese movie

Film directed by Eichi Koishi and starring Wakao Ayako

The Stormy Era of Twenty Years