Mieko Takamine Movies

A pair of blind masseurs, an enigmatic city woman, a lonely man and his ill-behaved nephew—The Masseurs and a Woman is made up of crisscrossing...

1956 Drama by Toshio Sugie

Soichiro Ishizuka, the head of a prestigious Tokyo textile company, lives a comfortable life with his wife and three daughters. Their current family...

An anthology of thirteen patriotic stories about Japanese citizens contributing to the war effort.

A student at a woman's university takes a controversial action against the school's old-fashioned doctrines.

​Reiko, a young woman with a physical disability, begins a clandestine affair with the married architect Katsuragi, but also becomes...

Hiromasa Nomura World War II era film

1957 Japanese movie

The troubled relationship between a writer and his ballet teacher wife, who has for years loved another man, finally leads to the breakup of the...

Episode in the life of a composer of a popular Japanese song.

Melodrama by Kiyoshi Saeki

Adaptation of a 1956 novel by Yukio Mishima.

In 17th century Japan, Young Lord Masato returns after years abroad to find everything changed: his peace-loving father has died in what he soon...

Adaptation of the novel by Bunroku Shishi.

Minamimura, who had always wanted to be free, suddenly quits his job. His hardworking wife is surprised and angry, and throws him out of the house....

A resolute young man searching for his mother, whom he was separated from as a child, defies a family who mistreat the poor and homeless.