Osamu Takizawa Movies

Christian converts face persecution in the feudal society of 17th century Japan.

A colourful study of theatrical life. Two acting troupes vie for the Kyoto market during the Genroku Era. Tojuro, an extremely popular actor, feels...

At about the same time as lwami, president of a Tokyo company is murdered by an unknown assailant, it happens that an urgent call has been received...

Historical and political detective. The main characters are drawn into court intrigues, and the investigation of corruption in the administration of...

An early contemporary yakuza action drama.

1962 Japanese movie

A father and son are both heavy drinkers. However, the son dies in an accident at a bar, leaving behind a fiance…. A unique social satire that...

Kiku and her brother Isamu are social outcasts, children of a prostitute mother and black GI father, in postwar Japan.

A story of a passionate teacher and his great effort for the children in a poor village.

Group of women escape Chinese controlled area for Japanese occupied lands during Pacific War.

The East Asian Acrobatic circus enjoys popularity after welcoming the Asuka brothers, two prestigious trapeze acrobats. One day, one of the brothers...

A young scriptwriter with a yakuza upbringing, an iron-fire dancer, a young painter, and a pure-hearted downtown girl fall in love in Asakusa in this...

1964 Nikkatsu Theater of Life adaptation.

Chief editor Shirou Kanzaka (Hisaya Morishige) of Sankei Publishing Inc. is being tried for embezzlement and the staging of Chiyo Umehara's suicide....

A Buddhist monk becomes ensnared by a seductive woman who, according to legend, transforms her lovers into beasts.

Masako, the daughter of an impoverished itinerant tinsmith, wins a grammar school composition contest with an essay about her neighborhood. The much...

Japanese drama film, originally released in two parts.