Mieko Takamine Movies

A spirited young teacher challenges the conservative school employing her with liberal thinking and teaching methods.

This period film is inspired by one of the most notorious scandals to have taken place in Edo-period Japan. The heroine, Ejima, was a lady of the...

Set in Japan's Tenpyou era (729-749 CE), four young monks are sent to China to study Buddhism and bring a high priest back to Japan with them. The...

Kitagawa is an engineer charged with construction of a gigantic tunnel through the Japan Alps for the transportation of equipment in the building of...

Based on Matsumoto Seicho's classic mystery novel of the same name, the story centers around a group of detectives who are determined to find the...

A tea master and his daughter Ogin are both Christians in feudal Japan. Ogin falls in love with a married feudal prince who shares her faith. When...

The university professor Ozeki Hitoshi (Ryu Chishu) is regarded as an eccentric by people in his surroundings. When his daughter Tokiko is asked to...

A pair of blind masseurs, an enigmatic city woman, a lonely man and his ill-behaved nephew—The Masseurs and a Woman is made up of crisscrossing...

During the 17th Century roving bands of hatamoto were causing trouble in the new capital city of Edo and constantly fought with the townspeople at...

A film about the struggle of an officer from Edo, Toyama Saemon, with a lightning-fast gang of thieves.

A melodrama about a talented singer who finally makes her debut. A remake of the 1939 film of the same name.

A sensitive young woman aged 22 fell in love with a middle aged man who was troubled by his unfaithful wife.

Pre-war Asakusa was a riotous district of cabarets, dance-halls and brothels - a striking backdrop for Shimazu's story of innocence and experience....

1962 Japanese movie

Comedy-drama about university tennis players.

Japanese mystery film.

In the movies of those times, you can see young boys in the company scene often. Those boys were called kyuji (給仕), which means...

A student at a woman's university takes a controversial action against the school's old-fashioned doctrines.

The troubled relationship between a writer and his ballet teacher wife, who has for years loved another man, finally leads to the breakup of the...