Hisako Takihana Movies

Directed by Senkichi Taniguchi

Shinkichi, a peasant employed as a cloth-dyer, has a dream: in the midst of the civil war which ravages Japan, he hopes to revive the long-banned...

Film directed by Eichi Koishi and starring Wakao Ayako

Film about poet Ishikawa Takuboku

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...

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

1956 Japanese movie

The southern tip of Shikoku. This village, surrounded by a bay, where, according to legend, the former warriors of the Heike clan settled, is famous...

The movie depicts the youth of kamikaze pilots who scattered young lives in the sky.

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

Sweat (1929) is a slapstick riff on tendency-film themes, as a bored young millionaire has his clothes stolen by a tramp; dressed in the...

Directed by Tomotaka Tasaka.

Soichi Ataka is the eldest son of Ataka family. Although mentally challenged, he's a person with a gentle heart. Soichi's wife, Kuniko is devoted to...

A biting portrait of the world of classical Japanese dance: an ambitious young woman (Wakao Ayako) shoves aside her mentor (Kyo Machiko) on her way...