Yûsuke Takita

1962 Japanese movie

Successful and married with children, paper-mill owner Jihei knows better than to contradict the strict social and moral codes of 18th-century Japan....

1962 Japanese movie

Comedy of manners set on the "Kodama" train between Tokyo and Osaka, before the opening of the Shinkansen. In the leading role, Frankie Sakai plays a...

A mountain man beheads his many wives to prove his love to an alluring woman he meets in an enchanted forest.

When a married man begins an affair with a woman from his past, he comes to suspect her young son intends to murder him.

Set against the background of a giant newspaper company. A girl reporter on the staff of the newspaper witnesses the accidental killing of one of the...

To satisfy her lover's fetish for tattooed women, Akane agrees to have her body covered in eloborate tattoos by Kyogoro, an old craftsman. Kyogoro...

Akira leaves for the Mt. Gassan foothills before winter's onset, visiting the local temple and interacting with the residents all while falling for...

The upstart Godai family conglomerate plans to strengthen ties with the hardliners in the Kwantung Army as they plan military expansion into...

A daughter of Hatamoto (high-ranked soldier) Otsuyu (Akiko Kana) and a Ronin living in Choya (cheap apartment) Shinzaburo Hagihara (Yoichi Hayashi)...

Two soon-to-be kamikaze pilots stop by a local school near their base to play the piano one last time, leaving a deep impression on a teacher. Years...

Film adaptation of the stage version of Samuil Marshak's "Twelve Months"

A tribute to proletarian author Takiji Kobayashi (1903-1933)

During World War II, a teenage Jewish girl named Anne Frank and her family are forced into hiding in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands.

The Saika clan, that had succeeded in battle against the large armies of Nobunaga and Hideyoshi, had in the Tokugawa era of Ieyasu, been driven into...

An industrialist is diagnosed with terminal cancer. He is on a trip to Europe at the time, and a glimpse of a Japanese woman in that setting causes...

Executive management of a major Tokyo construction company are getting bumped off one after another. It seems obvious that it is a former partner of...

Two Jesuit priests encounter persecution when they travel to Japan in the 17th century to spread Christianity and search for their mentor.

Ken Ogata plays Shiro Miyagi, a sprinter with Olympic aspirations whose dreams were shattered by WWII. A broken man, he leads the dissolute life of a...

The ghost of a samurai's wife takes revenge on her husband.

After a passenger ship sinks in 1954, Go Akutsu devises a life-saving project in the form of a tunnel under the Tsugaru Strait. While working on this...

TV film about the "Nishiyama Incident", a scandal surrounding the 1972 return of Okinawa to Japan. Produced to commemorate the 20th anniversary of TV...

The mysterious death of a trading company employee on an overseas business trip triggers a corruption and bribery case. A bizarre mystery surrounding...

Japanese drama.

Fourth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.

Sixth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.

In late 1940 the Japanese were anxious to conclude peace in China and to that end sent Colonel Hidaka to inaugurate negotiations. He was mysteriously...

A story full of youthful vigor and spirit as high school students try to work out their problems, realize the awakening of love and growing maturity...

The clerk of a trading company happens to have a large sum of money from his company in his possession. His girlfriend pressures him into fleeing...

A Violent School Revolution

A run-in with the police once again puts three former reformatory inmates on the wrong side of the law. Their situation becomes increasingly...

Based on a novel by Ayako Miura.

In Meiji era Japan a sixth grade boy is smart, likable and confident and owing to his academic success liked by his teacher. Things are not going...

A team of geophysicists investigating seismic activity on the seafloor discover that the islands of Japan, after suffering from massive volcanic...

A young Japanese-American man arrives at his grandmother's old hometown in Yamaguchi, begins to stay at her family's elite but dysfunctional...

The president of the Japanese National Railways is found dead during a period in which train service is plagued by numerous layoffs, strikes and...

A ronin desperately seeks a way out of financial straits; he allies with the Tosa clan under the ruthless leader Takechi, who quickly takes advantage.

A promising post-graduate literature student is transformed into a psychotic killer following the suicide of his father and a sleazy affair by his...