Toshio Takahara Movies

Based on the novel by proletarian writer Sunao Tokunaga. The story is about a long strike by workers at a large printing house and the strikers'...

This film is strongly anti-war film. The film is based on the collection of writings by Japanese student soldiers who died during World War II. The...

1961 Japanese movie

Just before the end of the war, Japanese soldier Kitani is released from prison, having served his term for theft. Told in flashback, viewers learn...

Saheji, a man-about-town, gets stuck at a high-class brothel when he can’t pay the bill. He makes the best of his situation by performing...

A young, struggling couple are making every sacrifice so they will one day in the not-too-distant-future, have enough money to get married. As they...

Set during Japan's Bakumatsu period, the film follows Fukuzawa Yukichi, a poor samurai's son who defies societal norms to study Dutch and English....

A skilled country doctor's talents are such that he can even perform operations as difficult and novel as removing a patient's kidney for the first...

A series of murders at Fukagawa lumberyard is tied to a grudge letter from the deceased Kansuke Tsukunamiya. Officer Kasajiro Sakane investigates the...

When Magman makes a blunder that finally makes him lose the Black Cross Furher's trust, he begins a rampage against EAGLE with Navarone Fortress, the...

1962 Japanese movie

A mission to take down a Black Cross fortress becomes hampered when a Masked Monster, under the direction of a returned general, takes Variblune from...

Suzuko, a woman in her twenties who has a brother with political problems (due to communist reprisals), lives for over five years in a love affair...

An unprecedented, extravagant, passionate film set in Spain and Southern Europe. It depicts the passionate Yujiro who risks his life to invite...

It is the Taisho era in Japan. A man has quit the Yakuza after five years and returned to Shikoku in order to begin his life anew as a ferryman. His...