Hideko Takamine Movies

The story of an airport and its air traffic control crew in a remote and northern Japanese town. Three of the air traffic controllers are female with...

A young woman, who must support her father as a middle-aged man's mistress, finds herself falling in love with a student closer to her age.

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

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...

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...

Akiko Hojo, a nurse at Aisei Catholic Hospital, is spending another public holiday at Kotaro Hidaka's house. Hidaka, who is a poor musician suffers...

1942 adaptation of Izumi Kyoka's novel.

Kayo and Kuniko graduated from girls' school together and are as close as sisters. Kuniko's fiancé, Minakami, feels something that attracts...

Based on a short story by Dazai Osamu, produced under the national film law. The film's hero falls in love with the youngest daughter of a family he...

Lord for a Night is a 1946 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa.

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...

1946 Toho film directed by Kiyoshi Saeki

A sixteen-year-old who had been living on her own since her mother died, frequently gets in trouble with the police. She gets sent to an "institute"...

Another adaptation of Tange Sazen.

The story of the trials and tribulations of a lighthouse keeper and his wife.

The disturbing story of a physician who conducted the first operation with general anaesthetic, and the women in his life who are both so determined...

The debut film of Shin Toho Productions

A young widow, made world weary by her abusive, neglectful husband, finds herself in a minor scandal when she's seen with her intense, no-nonsense...

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...