Shizuko Takizawa Movies

Once a wealthy local land owner, Toranosuke has long since fallen on hard times. Social ostracism befalls those who neglect communal duties and...

A boatman's relationships with his mother and fiancee are disrupted when he is conscripted to fight in China.

A geisha in the Gion district of Kyoto feels obliged to help her lover when he asks to stay with her after going bankrupt and leaving his wife....

When a civil war threatens to break out, two geishas flee from their village with aristocrats. During the long journey, the socially inferior women...

Ayako becomes the mistress of her boss in order to pay her father's debt and prevent him from going to prison for embezzlement.

Matsugoro is a poor rickshaw driver whose animated spirit and optimistic demeanor make him a favorite of the town. Matsu helps an injured boy,...

A samurai is ordered by his lord to go to Edo and investigate the truth behind the rumor of a rebellion against him.

In Tokyo, Osen is the servant girl of an unscrupulous antiques dealer, Kumazawa, who takes in the penniless Sokichi Hata. Kumazawa mistreats Sokichi...

Jesuit priests in Japan during the 17th century are persecuted by the shogunate to for trying to spread Christianity.

Okichi, a woman trapped in a criminal scheme by two con men, finds her life of deception threatened when she unexpectedly falls in love with the son...

Second part of director Hiroshi Inagaki's 1940 adaptation of the story of Musashi Miyamoto.

This film tells the story of a ronin's search for his parents, but primarily is a group portrait of life in a Tokugawa-era tenement. Considered a...

1945 Japanese movie

Directed by Mansaku Itami.

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