Eiko Takamatsu Movies

After Japan's defeat in the war, the Anjo family lose their peerage and wealth. Since their mansion is due to pass into the hands of a creditor, the...

Hiroo Ikeda movie

A newlywed couple faces tension when the wife, after her husband leaves for work, becomes completely unmotivated to handle household chores and goes...

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...

A Japanese family weathers much hardship after their military uncle comes to live with them during WWII.

A reformatory in the remote countryside houses 200 delinquents and problem children. The teachers and caretakers face much trouble. The school is...

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

Japanese silent film from 1928. Kinema Junpo ranked it among the ten best Japanese movies of the year.

Lost silent film

Pretty Oshige is deceived by her first love. After this, she lives a hard lifestyle, working at a number of jobs. Her only pleasure is her nephew,...

Shigeo is an aspiring writer living with his girl friend Minako and hoping for success and a better tomorrow every day. Both live on what Minako...

An onnagata (female impersonator) of a Kabuki troupe avenges his parents' deaths. Remade in 1963 as Yukinojô Henge.

Japanese silent film from 1928, ranked as Kinema Junpo's second-best Japanese movie of the year.

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

A young lawyer falls in love with the daughter of his former professor, whom he's hired to tutor his children.

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

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

A blacksmith is chased out of the village by the sinister village chief and forced to move to the forest with his wife and two sons. The...

Mariko studies at a missionary school in Shinshu. She drops out of school and joins her father on a circus tour when she discovers that her father,...