Mieko Takamine Movies

A mother discovers that her 14-year-old daughter Yumi has leukemia and only six months to live. She decides to keep the information secret and pushes...

A high school boy and girl in the midst of their youth try to get their parents to remarry.

An Ishiro Honda film. The first part of A Rainbow Plays in My Heart released the same day as the second film.

A pair of blind masseurs, an enigmatic city woman, a lonely man and his ill-behaved nephew—The Masseurs and a Woman is made up of crisscrossing...

In the 30th year, Nirasaki Den'emon established the Nirasaki Hokkaido Development Company with investment from Sonoi to build railway facilities....

Part two of Shin Saburi's Theater of Life adaptation.

The three Matsunami sisters navigate adulthood and the complex social pressures of finding a husband while living under their traditional...

Comedy-drama about university tennis players.

After her mother's funeral, Yuriko, dressed in mourning clothes, sees off her lover Shintaro as he leaves in the powdery snow, and resolves to part...

Melodrama by Kiyoshi Saeki

1957 Japanese movie

The university professor Ozeki Hitoshi (Ryu Chishu) is regarded as an eccentric by people in his surroundings. When his daughter Tokiko is asked to...

​Reiko, a young woman with a physical disability, begins a clandestine affair with the married architect Katsuragi, but also becomes...

Kitamori Yuki was particular about her promise to her mother-in-law Hana. The promise is that, as the daughter-in-law of Koichi, the eldest son of...

Adaptation of a 1956 novel by Yukio Mishima.

The story tells of Tsuchiya, a university professor and a widower who is in love with a widow who runs a small restaurant, and his son is in love...

The troubled relationship between a writer and his ballet teacher wife, who has for years loved another man, finally leads to the breakup of the...

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

Part one of Shin Saburi's Theater of Life adaptation.