Eiko Takamatsu Movies

"The Dancing Girl of Izu" tells of the story between a young male student who is touring the Izu Peninsula and a family of traveling dancers he meets...

A period piece about the love of a wealthy blind woman, a teacher of koto and shamisen, and her devoted manservant. Based on a novella by Tanizaki...

A blacksmith is chased out of the village by the sinister village chief and forced to move to the forest with his wife and two sons. The...

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

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

Two friends accidentally run into a young, homeless woman, so they take her in.

When a family has to relocate due to the war, they are ostracized by their new community.

Japanese silent film from 1928, ranked as Kinema Junpo's second-best Japanese movie of the year.

A matchmaker looks to unite a young woman from a wealthy Tokyo family with the humble owner of an auto garage.

Shigeo is an aspiring writer living with his girl friend Minako and hoping for success and a better tomorrow every day. Both live on what Minako...

A coming-of-age story portrayed as the loss of all youthful illusions. Sixteen-year-old Yoichi dreams of becoming a sailor. His parents are...

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

The movie follows a young woman (Kinuyo Tanaka), a daughter of a high-ranking businessman and his neglected mistress, as she struggles to ease her...

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...

Weed with Flowers

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

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