Eiko Takamatsu Movies

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

This pair of gentle yet witty and inventive comedies from the director of The Neighbour's Wife and Mine typify both the formal experimentation of...

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

Heinosuke Gosho evokes in this film the family conflicts engendered by the eternal problem of a father who projects his professional desires on the...

Hiroo Ikeda movie

A reformatory in the remote countryside houses 200 delinquents and problem children. The teachers and caretakers face much trouble. The school is...

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

Kodakara Sodo (The Treasure That Is Children) is a 1935 black and white Japanese silent film with benshi accompaniment directed by Torajiro Saito....

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

Weed with Flowers

Part two of Shimizu's major silent Seven Seas, a family drama of the intertwining fates of the rich, decadent Yagibashis and the far less prosperous...

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

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

Eiko is an innocent young lady born into a wealthy family with nothing to offer. She was good at singing, and lived her life playing around with her...

Lost silent film

A Japanese short film, the earliest extant film of the great director Hiroshi Shimizu.

Two childhood friends go their own ways but meet again some years later after they have both married. They get re-acquainted, meet each others’...

Pretty Oshige is deceived by her first love. After this, she lives a hard lifestyle, working at a number of jobs. Her only pleasure is her nephew,...