Hisako Takihana Movies

1958 Theater of Life adaptation.

The story contrasts the life of two doctors, former classmates and now both assistant professors at Naniwa University Hospital in Osaka. The...

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

The Stormy Era of Twenty Years

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...

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...

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

Shikiko Oba is nimble with her fingers and teaches dressmaking and designing. Among her pupils are Rinko, Katsumi and Tomie. Ginshiro, who is as...

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

Once an average and seemingly ordinary Tokyo girl, she suddenly finds herself as a TV star owing to her discovery by a casting company, which noticed...

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...

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

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

Film directed by Eichi Koishi and starring Wakao Ayako

A man is found dead of an apparent suicide but there is speculation that he was murdered. An investigation reveals that he and his wife were at odds...

The middle of the Meiji period. Tororo Goro, a Nanjing expedition hit the first time to join the white thread at the water entertainer waterfall,...

1959 adaptation of Junichiro Tanizaki's novel.