Hideko Takamine Movies

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...

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...

1946 Toho film directed by Kiyoshi Saeki

The Opium War is a 1943 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Masahiro Makino. "Ahen senso" in Japan refers to the First Opium War. The story of...

A Japanese businessman is sent to Sri Lanka and meets a beautiful Japanese woman with a past. They befriend an old Japanese-Indian widow who has an...

Jidai-geki by Ryo Hagiwara

1942 adaptation of Izumi Kyoka's novel.

Japanese film based on the life of writer Ichiyo Higuchi (1872-1896).

Reputedly based on Frank Capra’s 1939 film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, A Descendant of Tarô Urashima is about a repatriated soldier who...

Atsuko is an office secretary who is also her family's primary source of income and caretaker in postwar Japan.

Three couples connected to rival business and theatrical families navigate complicated romances, workplace disputes, and family opposition.

Another adaptation of Tange Sazen.

The eldest daughter of a noble family is in love with an aviator while being courted by a fellow aristocrat she thinks is a dullard. Told from the...

Chocolate and Soldiers (チョコレートと兵隊, Chokorēto to Heitai) is a 1938 Japanese war...

What is marriage? Young couple in match-making wanted to know before they decide. They visited married couples of sisters and brothers. Love comedy...

Machiko falls in love with a mysterious man, but her family wants something different for her.

In 1919, a group of Japanese immigrants arrives in Hawaii. Among them Yoshio Inoue and his wife Kishimo and Sumi, a young woman ready to get married...

My Daughter's Only Wish tells the story of a poorly paid and clumsy office clerk, played with much comedic talent by Atsushi Watanabe. His biggest...

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

The plans of a trio of burglars are continually thwarted by the arrival of visitors to the house they plan to rob.