Hisako Takihana Movies

A classic melodramatic love tragedy addressing social inequality in Taishō-era Japan, The nostalgic scenes of 1920s Tokyo provides a valuable...

The Stormy Era of Twenty Years

1962 Japanese movie

A married couple looking for an apartment move in with the husband's co-worker, a widower. The husband becomes jealous of the widower and his wife.

A youth lyrical story of pure love of a girl who grew up in the Kyoto Gion quarter, with a geisha mother and sisters Maiko and a college student.

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

Japanese war film.

1959 adaptation of Junichiro Tanizaki's novel.

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...

Set in Tsukuda Island, Tokyo, this drama SP depicts a misunderstanding between an old man with old-fashioned spirit and a young tenant.

The story of two sisters in post-war Japan. One is a geisha and the other works for the tourist board.

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...

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...

Based on a story by Akiyuki Nosaka.

Tradition and modernity clash when a young woman inherits a sweet-making firm in Kyoto.

Based on the novel by Junichiro Tanizaki. Story of the beautiful blind daughter of a wealthy businessman who falls in love with a servant.