Mieko Takamine Movies

Shunji Mitamura's wife died very early and left him a young son. Shunji's sister Hideko decided to fulfill her sisterly duty and moved to the main...

A penniless orphan loses the woman he loves, when her family arranges a marriage to a wealthy playboy. He believes she was blinded by greed, and...

Melodrama by Kiyoshi Saeki

The three Matsunami sisters navigate adulthood and the complex social pressures of finding a husband while living under their traditional...

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

1962 Japanese movie

An uplifting drama about the bond between a group of high school seniors and their kind-hearted teacher, Mr. Yabuki. Faced with the rigors of growing...

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

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

Bored Hatamoto film #17

Based on the famous novel by Yamagami Itaro, this is the story of a group of ronin living in abject poverty in the latter days of the Edo period....

Episode in the life of a composer of a popular Japanese song.

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.

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

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

An Ishiro Honda film. The first part of A Rainbow Plays in My Heart released the same day as the second film.

Moriya Tomoko, a young girl working for a publishing company, is told by a woman art dealer that her real father did not die, as everyone believes,...