Mieko Takamine Movies

During the 17th Century roving bands of hatamoto were causing trouble in the new capital city of Edo and constantly fought with the townspeople at...

An Ishiro Honda film. The first part of A Rainbow Plays in My Heart released the same day as the second film.

Ten years into a marriage, the wife is disappointed by the husband's lack of financial success, meaning she has to work and can't treat herself and...

A Japanese drama featuring the one-eyed, one-armed swordsman

In the movies of those times, you can see young boys in the company scene often. Those boys were called kyuji (給仕), which means...

Melodrama about a talented singer who finally makes her debut

A spirited young teacher challenges the conservative school employing her with liberal thinking and teaching methods.

A romance with political overtones about the relationship of a sheltered bourgeois woman and a doctor who devotes himself to caring for the poor....

Drama directed by Yasushi Sasaki.

An anthology of thirteen patriotic stories about Japanese citizens contributing to the war effort.

In the early 18th-century, Lord Takumi-no-kami Asano, feuding with Lord Kira, tries to kill his opponent in the corridors of the Shogun's palace. The...

A penniless orphan loses the woman he loves, when her family arranges a marriage to a wealthy playboy. He believes she was blinded by greed, and...

Set in a rural town in Yamaguchi Prefecture, this comedy centers on a young couple determined to pursue their love against all opposition, while also...

This story is based on the novel "Jo no mai" by Tomiko Miyao which is based on the life of painter Shōen Uemura (1875–1949), the first...