Mieko Takamine Movies

An older sister and brother (Mieko Takamine and Masayoshi Otsuka) come to visit their grandfather (Takeshi Sakamoto) who lives deep in the mountains....

In 17th century Japan, Young Lord Masato returns after years abroad to find everything changed: his peace-loving father has died in what he soon...

To solve the mystery of a murder of an old governess which takes place at a wealthy Daidoji family's country estate, family secrets and lies dating...

Adaptation of a 1956 novel by Yukio Mishima.

Kitagawa is an engineer charged with construction of a gigantic tunnel through the Japan Alps for the transportation of equipment in the building of...

​Reiko, a young woman with a physical disability, begins a clandestine affair with the married architect Katsuragi, but also becomes...

A melodrama about a talented singer who finally makes her debut. A remake of the 1939 film of the same name.

A platonic love story, the protagonist continues to love the woman he fell in love with when he was a boy for the rest of his life.

This period film is inspired by one of the most notorious scandals to have taken place in Edo-period Japan. The heroine, Ejima, was a lady of the...

After the death of her husband, an elderly woman and her youngest, unmarried daughter are forced to sell their house to cover his debts and decide to...

Comedy-drama about university tennis players.

Kotobuki-za is a story of the Naniwa-bushi singer Baichuken Tsurumaru.

This is a film about a real person. Sanada Yukimura fought a war against Tokugawa Ieyasu.

This extraordinarily complex film is not only a send-up of every samurai film ever made, it is also an extrapolation of the value of life. The...

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

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

Hiromasa Nomura World War II era film

A mother discovers that her 14-year-old daughter Yumi has leukemia and only six months to live. She decides to keep the information secret and pushes...