Hideko Takamine Movies

The seventh film in the popular series starring the Yotamono trio (Mitsui, Abe and Isono). Summer came and the three of them decided to open a store...

Tozai Electric president Minamoto (Yanagi) is about to be pursued by the public prosecutor's office and tries to bribe Manabe (Saburi), the man in...

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

The debut film of Shin Toho Productions

A musical film made for the inauguration of Shochiku's Ofuna Studio, with an all-star cast of the era.

A man whose son has been murdered pushes to create laws to financially protect victims' families.

1942 adaptation of Izumi Kyoka's novel.

Hanakosan (1943, TOHO, MAKINO Masahiro), a thoroughly light and joyful musical comedy, influenced by Busby Berkeley films, against the national...

Based on an autobiographical story by Toyota Masako.

A student at a woman's university takes a controversial action against the school's old-fashioned doctrines.

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

Based on a story written by actress and author Hideko Takamine. Kimizuru Kawamoto is a popular geisha in Shitaya, Tokyo in 1926. Kimizuru is pregnant...

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

A forceful indictment of the devastating effects of war and nationalistic fanaticism on the average man, who, in the face of the absurdity of...

A woman remember's her own marriage when dealing with the love life of her son.

A "slice-of life" film about a group of high school girls in 1940s Japan.

Okoma, a witty young woman working as a conductor in an old, rickety bus in Kōfu, Yamanashi (rural Japan), has a creative idea that could avert...

Jidai-geki by Ryo Hagiwara

An abandoned temple in the mountains outside of the old capital city of Kyoto is the scene of a fated meeting between a traveling priest, two women,...

A colourful study of theatrical life. Two acting troupes vie for the Kyoto market during the Genroku Era. Tojuro, an extremely popular actor, feels...