Eiko Takamatsu Movies

A Japanese short film, the earliest extant film of the great director Hiroshi Shimizu.

A coming-of-age story portrayed as the loss of all youthful illusions. Sixteen-year-old Yoichi dreams of becoming a sailor. His parents are...

An errant salaryman's son gets lost until a man from the Tokyo tenements brings him to vendor Tane, who's reluctant to let the kid board.

Japanese war movie.

A jewelry store president begins to fall for the doctor treating her husband's illness.

Strip dancer Carmen falls in love with Hajime, who is engaged to the daughter of a right-wing politician.

Lost silent film

Heinosuke Gosho evokes in this film the family conflicts engendered by the eternal problem of a father who projects his professional desires on the...

When a family has to relocate due to the war, they are ostracized by their new community.

A group of rank-and-file Japanese soldiers are jailed for crimes against humanity, themselves victims of a nation refusing to bear its burdens as a...

A man who seemed to have found happiness with a wife and child loses his wife and his daughter gets married... A man's life, full of joy and sorrow,...

A Japanese war widow recalls her love affair with her deceased husband.

Two friends accidentally run into a young, homeless woman, so they take her in.

Two childhood friends go their own ways but meet again some years later after they have both married. They get re-acquainted, meet each others’...

A period piece about the love of a wealthy blind woman, a teacher of koto and shamisen, and her devoted manservant. Based on a novella by Tanizaki...

Part two of Shimizu's major silent Seven Seas, a family drama of the intertwining fates of the rich, decadent Yagibashis and the far less prosperous...

The movie follows a young woman (Kinuyo Tanaka), a daughter of a high-ranking businessman and his neglected mistress, as she struggles to ease her...

A young student falls into a hopeless romantic attraction to a sick girl, whom he can only see from afar.

Weed with Flowers

A rural village elder plans an event on the return of a farmer's daughter from the city, unaware that she has become a Westernized burlesque artist.