Mieko Takamine Movies

Part one of Shin Saburi's Theater of Life adaptation.

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

1945 Japanese movie

1962 Japanese movie

After killing the deceiver, the Masa gambler comes to Ina. There is a horse market in Ina, and the landowner Tamegoro, plans to steal the proceeds...

A man is found dead of an apparent suicide but there is speculation that he was murdered. An investigation reveals that he and his wife were at odds...

Melodrama by Kiyoshi Saeki

Hisshoka is a 1945 Drama film directed by four Japanese directors.

Melodrama about a talented singer who finally makes her debut

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...

Kotobuki-za is a story of the Naniwa-bushi singer Baichuken Tsurumaru.

A hospital melodrama where the conflict between love and friendship rules the faith of the protagonists.

A romance with political overtones about the relationship of a sheltered bourgeois woman and a doctor who devotes himself to caring for the poor....

Aboard a ship connecting Kyoto and Osaka, Osan was pickpocketed by a sham blind biwa player. A man who looked like a merchant retrieved the wallet...

Japanese war movie.

A resolute young man searching for his mother, whom he was separated from as a child, defies a family who mistreat the poor and homeless.

Every year, at the festival, familiar merchants such as Toraemon, a magic trick, Tokubei, a blowgun, Kaji, acrobatics, and Unsaibo, a ritual, gather...

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

Melodrama based on a hit song of the same title.