Eiko Takamatsu

The Ball at the Anjo House

After Japan's defeat in the war, the Anjo family lose their peerage and wealth. Since their mansion is due to p...

The Thick-Walled Room

A group of rank-and-file soldiers are jailed for crimes against humanity, themselves victims of a nation refusi...

A Hen in the Wind

Tokiko patiently awaits her husband's return from WWII when her four-year old son falls ill. She takes him to t...

Carmen Comes Home

A rural village elder plans an event on the return of a farmer's daughter from the city, unaware that she has b...

Mr. Thank You

In Depression-era Japan, a courteous bus driver carries an eclectic group of passengers from the mountainous Iz...

Carmen's Innocent Love

Strip dancer Carmen falls in love with Hajime, who is engaged to the daughter of a right-wing politician.

The Only Son

A rural widow sends her only son to Tokyo to receive a better education. Years later, she visits him and finds...

Love

Heinosuke Gosho evokes in this film the family conflicts engendered by the eternal problem of a father who proj...

Morning for the Osone Family

A Japanese family weathers much hardship after their military uncle comes to live with them during WWII.

Air Raid of the Enemy Plane

Japanese war movie.

Introspection Tower

A reformatory in the remote countryside houses 200 delinquents and problem children. The teachers and caretaker...

Mother and Child

The movie follows a young woman (Kinuyo Tanaka), a daughter of a high-ranking businessman and his neglected mis...

Seven Seas: Chastity Chapter

Part two of Shimizu's major silent Seven Seas, a family drama of the intertwining fates of the rich, decadent Y...

Morishige, where are you going?

A man who seemed to have found happiness with a wife and child loses his wife and his daughter gets married......

King of the Land

Japanese silent film from 1928, ranked as Kinema Junpo's second-best Japanese movie of the year.

Record of a Tenement Gentleman

A hard-hearted old woman in a bombed-out Tokyo neighborhood reluctantly takes in an abandoned boy, leading to a...

Wedding Ring

A jewelry store president begins to fall for the doctor treating her husband's illness.

Farewell to Dream

A coming-of-age story portrayed as the loss of all youthful illusions. Sixteen-year-old Yoichi dreams of becomi...

The Blacksmith of the Forest

A blacksmith is chased out of the village by the sinister village chief and forced to move to the forest with h...

Boyhood

When a family has to relocate due to the war, they are ostracized by their new community.

Spring Thunder

Eiko is an innocent young lady born into a wealthy family with nothing to offer. She was good at singing, and l...

Weeds with flowers

Weed with Flowers

Hotaru no hikari

Approaching their graduation ceremony, Saegusa, Sanae, and their classmates go on an overnight trip to Hakone w...

Okoto and Sasuke

A period piece about the love of a wealthy blind woman, a teacher of koto and shamisen, and her devoted manserv...

So Goes My Love

Shigeo is an aspiring writer living with his girl friend Minako and hoping for success and a better tomorrow ev...

Sincere Heart

A young student falls for an invalid girl whom he can only see from afar.

Utsukushiki Rinjin

Hibari's Circus: The Sad Little Dove

Mariko studies at a missionary school in Shinshu. She drops out of school and joins her father on a circus tour...

The Dancing Girl of Izu

"The Dancing Girl of Izu" tells of the story between a young male student who is touring the Izu Peninsula and...

Love and Power

Directed by Mikio Naruse. It is presumed to be lost.

Yukinojō henge, Kanketsu-hen

An Actor's Revenge

An onnagata (female impersonator) of a Kabuki troupe avenges his parents' deaths. Remade in 1963 as Yukinojô He...

Our Planes Fly South

The Groom Talks in His Sleep

A newlywed couple faces tension when the wife, after her husband leaves for work, becomes completely unmotivate...

Temptation

A young lawyer falls in love with the daughter of his former professor, whom he's hired to tutor his children.

Phoenix

A Japanese war widow recalls her love affair with her deceased husband.