Hisako Takihana Movies

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

1947 Japanese movie

1959 adaptation of Junichiro Tanizaki's novel.

Directed by Tomotaka Tasaka.

Yukiko Shiba, a doctor, and Akira Sakai, a composer and musician, are lovers. Their love is a forbidden one. He is married, with children. She is a...

The middle of the Meiji period. Tororo Goro, a Nanjing expedition hit the first time to join the white thread at the water entertainer waterfall,...

1962 Japanese movie

A young woman decides to leave school in order to help her sister.

The Stormy Era of Twenty Years

Obscure Masumura film shot in 1961.

A beautiful older sister and her younger brother, both designers who paint the dreams of young hope, are paired with an innocent young artist and the...

One of Uchida’s early sound films, Unending Advance is based on a curious story by Yasujiro Ozu, in which an examination of the quotidian...

Father, son Kentaro and daughter Ochiyo, who live on the banks of the Sumida River, regain their love for each other after family discord and...

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...

A young woman seduced by a rich man, takes revenge on him with the help of a young idealistic worker. Considered a lost film.

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...