Hisako Takihana Movies

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

1962 Japanese movie

1962 Japanese movie

Based on a story by Akiyuki Nosaka.

1962 Japanese movie

Adaptation of a novel by Yojiro Ishizaka, originally released in two parts.

Atsuko is an office secretary who is also her family's primary source of income and caretaker in postwar Japan.

This film begins with a teacher describing to his students how brave the crew was which died as result of Japan's first submarine accident. The film...

A wife is diagnosed with an incurable disease at a young age. Her husband loves her, supports her, and tries to stay with her. However, the wife is...

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...

Shikiko Oba is nimble with her fingers and teaches dressmaking and designing. Among her pupils are Rinko, Katsumi and Tomie. Ginshiro, who is as...

Once an average and seemingly ordinary Tokyo girl, she suddenly finds herself as a TV star owing to her discovery by a casting company, which noticed...

Directed by Senkichi Taniguchi

A dead beauty is found in the trunk. Kubota (Miaki), Okayama (Kawazu) and Tsuji (Funakoshi) begin investigating this mysterious crime at 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...

A girl marries her elderly employer but in reality is in love with his son.

1956 Japanese movie

A youth lyrical story of pure love of a girl who grew up in the Kyoto Gion quarter, with a geisha mother and sisters Maiko and a college student.

The story of two sisters in post-war Japan. One is a geisha and the other works for the tourist board.