Takako Irie Filmes

Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifully composed "Sanjuro." In this companion piece and...

Yoshiyama Kazuko is a third-year junior high school student. One day while cleaning the lab, she smells lavender and faints. From then on, she has...

This most celebrated all-star movie version of the popular series features Tsukigata Ryunosuke as Mito Komon, the sage who wanders the countryside...

The stories of several young women who work in a 'precision optical instruments' factory during the second World War. Despite illness, injury, and...

In 39 interviews with actors and actresses, writers, producers and staff members, interspersed with film excerpts and stills, Shindō recounts...

A sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love letters for other people.

Part 2 of a 2-part romance (fist part - Kafuku zempen) based on a story by noted author Kikuchi Kan. In the second half, we discover that Toyomi is...

1949 Japanese film

What is marriage? Young couple in match-making wanted to know before they decide. They visited married couples of sisters and brothers. Love comedy...

After noticing in the news there was a fire in an old canal town, Eguchi recalls visiting there a decade ago as a university student.

On the night the shogunate's treasury was breached, the guard Utsugi had already been taken down. His colleague Ryunosuke felt responsible and...

Taki no Shiraito is a very independent young woman with a famous water juggling act in a travelling carnival troupe. She falls in love with an...

1950 drama film

The premature death of a young mother serves as inspiration for her husband and son.

After learning that he has accidentally killed a man in a fight, Unokichi must look after the man's pregnant widow.

The first part of a fascinating melodrama based on Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, the action of which is transferred to the era of the Meiji...

Japanese domestic drama.