Hisako Takihana Movies

The Stormy Era of Twenty Years

A young woman decides to leave school in order to help her sister.

1956 Japanese movie

A young woman seduced by a rich man, takes revenge on him with the help of a young idealistic worker. Considered a lost film.

Based on a 1956 television feature on Japan’s national network, NHK, this is one of Uchida’s rarest films. A socially conscious drama...

Adaptation of the Yukio Mishima novel.

Tomotaka Tasaka's A Pebble by the Wayside (Robo no Ishi), made in 1938 and taken from a Yuzo Yamamoto novel, takes place around 1902, was about a...

Depicts four cheerful, young former college students with promising futures who die tragic deaths as pilots in the Kamikaze Special Attack Corps.

Film about poet Ishikawa Takuboku

Based on the comic by Kaoru Akiyoshi

Directed by Senkichi Taniguchi

This film begins with a teacher describing to his students how brave the crew was which died as result of Japan's first submarine accident. The film...

Based on a story by Akiyuki Nosaka.

1962 Japanese movie

One of Uchida’s early sound films, Unending Advance is based on a curious story by Yasujiro Ozu, in which an examination of the quotidian...