Hideko Takamine Filmes

The story of an airport and its air traffic control crew in a remote and northern Japanese town. Three of the air traffic controllers are female with...

When an only child is struck by a car and dies, the child's mother seeks vengeance against the driver in this thrilling drama. The car was driven by...

A young widow, made world weary by her abusive, neglectful husband, finds herself in a minor scandal when she's seen with her intense, no-nonsense...

The disturbing story of a physician who conducted the first operation with general anaesthetic, and the women in his life who are both so determined...

Where Chimneys Are Seen focuses primarily on the interconnected lives of two couples in a lower-middle-class neighborhood in Senju, a poor industrial...

Strip dancer Carmen falls in love with Hajime, who is engaged to the daughter of a right-wing politician.

A forceful indictment of the devastating effects of war and nationalistic fanaticism on the average man, who, in the face of the absurdity of...

In "The Other Woman" the children of a distinguished professor find that the woman they have come to regard as their racy and slightly disreputable...

A student at a woman's university takes a controversial action against the school's old-fashioned doctrines.

Drama about the lives of the five daughters and daughter-in-law of a store owner.

In a time of continuous civil wars ravaging the fields of feudal Japan, the eldest son of a very poor peasant family, living alongside the bridge...

A young woman, who must support her father as a middle-aged man's mistress, finds herself falling in love with a student closer to her age.

The story of the trials and tribulations of a lighthouse keeper and his wife.

The plans of a trio of burglars are continually thwarted by the arrival of visitors to the house they plan to rob.

Japanese film based on the life of writer Ichiyo Higuchi (1872-1896).

Based on a children's book. Two children encounter a wooden chair that moves and speaks. The chair awaits their return, unaware the sister died in...

Ine Onoda, the eldest daughter of a poor family of farmers, raises a colt from birth and comes to love the horse dearly. When the horse is grown, the...

Okoma, a witty young woman working as a conductor in an old, rickety bus in Kōfu, Yamanashi (rural Japan), has a creative idea that could avert...

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

This drama of middle-class life in postwar Japan tells the story lower-middle-class workers in the city of Kawasaki, and their troubles and travails.