Mieko Takamine Movies

This extraordinarily complex film is not only a send-up of every samurai film ever made, it is also an extrapolation of the value of life. The...

Comedy-drama about university tennis players.

Based on the loosely autobiographical novel of the same name by Toko Kon. Ken Yamanouchi stars as Togo Konno, the titular bastard.

The film tells about drug trafficking from Vietnam to Tokyo and Okinawa. Tetsuya Watari plays a photographer who uses his camera as a blackmail...

The university professor Ozeki Hitoshi (Ryu Chishu) is regarded as an eccentric by people in his surroundings. When his daughter Tokiko is asked to...

In the 30th year, Nirasaki Den'emon established the Nirasaki Hokkaido Development Company with investment from Sonoi to build railway facilities....

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...

Bored Hatamoto film #17

1962 Japanese movie

Melodrama by Kiyoshi Saeki

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

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...

The story tells of Tsuchiya, a university professor and a widower who is in love with a widow who runs a small restaurant, and his son is in love...

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

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

Kitamori Yuki was particular about her promise to her mother-in-law Hana. The promise is that, as the daughter-in-law of Koichi, the eldest son of...

1945 Japanese movie

Adaptation of a 1956 novel by Yukio Mishima.

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.