Hideko Takamine Movies

This drama of middle-class life in postwar Japan tells the story lower-middle-class workers in the city of Kawasaki, and their troubles and travails.

The seventh film in the popular series starring the Yotamono trio (Mitsui, Abe and Isono). Summer came and the three of them decided to open a store...

Japanese adaptation of Marcel Pagnol's play "Marius", set in early XXth century Japan.

The Ueki family may not be wealthy, but smiles are never in short supply. The father is awarded prize money for 25 years of service to his workplace,...

Young widow Ine is suffering under the harsh treatment of her mother in law. As a former Geisha, Ine had struggled to be accepted into the...

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

Jidai-geki by Ryo Hagiwara

A young man rents an apartment in Tokyo and discover it was built by his father. He falls in love with the daughter of the mistress of the house and...

The movie depicts the youth of kamikaze pilots who scattered young lives in the sky.

1942 adaptation of Izumi Kyoka's novel.

The film is a lengthy work interweaving characters from different backgrounds and social strata in a narrative centered around the experiences of its...

In 1887, two businessmen, Echigo-ya and Kitahara, compete for railroad construction authorization from the government. The minister states that a...

A musical film made for the inauguration of Shochiku's Ofuna Studio, with an all-star cast of the era.

Hideko, a young Baseball fan, determined to cheer for her favourite baseball team by creating a new song for them.

An Invention laboratory is working on the creation of a performance 'bomb' in the shape of a rocket that could be delivered to the front in order to...

Director Hiroshi Inagaki's early version of the life and death of famed swordsman Sasaki Kojiro. Otani Tomoemon gives a brilliant performance as...

A half brother and sister work at a hotel in Hakone respectively as a porter and a souvenir shop clerk. They are close. One day a woman named...

9th directorial work by Yamamoto Satsuo.

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...