Mieko Takamine

Flower Season (1990)

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 the Kitamori family, Hana entrusts everything to Yuki, but wants her entire family to come see her on her bir ...

Four Days of Snow and Blood (1989)

Based on the "2.26 Incident", an attempted coup d'état in Japan 1936, launched by radical ultra-nationalist parts of the military. Several leading politicians were killed and the center of Tokyo was briefly held by the insurgents before the coup was suppr ...

Memories of You (1988)

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 her past tutor Akira, now a university student, to reconnect with her. ...

Appassionata (1984)

This story is based on the novel "Jo no mai" by Tomiko Miyao which is based on the life of painter Shōen Uemura (1875–1949), the first woman to be awarded the Order of Culture. The title refers to the masterpiece bijinga ("picture of a beautiful woman") ...

The S.S. Happiness Sets Sail (1980)

Adaptation of a 1956 novel by Yukio Mishima. ...

An Ocean to Cross (1980)

Set in Japan's Tenpyou era (729-749 CE), four young monks are sent to China to study Buddhism and bring a high priest back to Japan with them. The film tells the tale of the four monks' youth and the life and times of the high priest Ganjin. ...

The Shogun Assassins (1979)

This is a film about a real person. Sanada Yukimura fought a war against Tokugawa Ieyasu. ...

The Phoenix (1978)

This extraordinarily complex film is not only a send-up of every samurai film ever made, it is also an extrapolation of the value of life. The Yamatai, represented by Prince Susano-O and elderly advisor Sumuke, hire Yumihiko of Matsuro to hunt the phoenix ...

Queen Bee (1978)

To solve the mystery of a murder of an old governess which takes place at a wealthy Daidoji family's country estate, family secrets and lies dating back several generations must be sorted out once and for all. ...

Aspiration (1977)

The Inugami Family (1976)

When a tycoon passes away, he unexpectedly leaves the family fortune to outsider Tamayo on the condition that she marries one of the grandsons, pitting blood against blood. ...

Rebellion Reward (1973)

The film tells about drug trafficking from Vietnam to Tokyo and Okinawa. Tetsuya Watari plays a photographer who uses his camera as a blackmail weapon. He is on the trail of a narcotics smuggler (Mikio Narita) and his beautiful contact (Haruko Wanibuchi). ...

Futari no Koibito (1969)

The Sands of Kurobe (1968)

Kitagawa is an engineer charged with construction of a gigantic tunnel through the Japan Alps for the transportation of equipment in the building of the massive Kurobe Dam. The tunnel crosses an earthquake fault and Kitagawa is beleaguered not only by cave ...

Aruhi watashi wa (1967)

The four kinds of love that Yuriko experiences, namely, a childhood longing love, a dream of marriage, a maternal love, and a destined love between parents and children over two generations, as well as the sisterly love between Yuriko and her sister Kaori. ...

Lover's Duet (1967)

A melodrama about a talented singer who finally makes her debut. A remake of the 1939 film of the same name. ...

Pomegranate Time (1967)

Comedy-drama about university tennis players. ...

Let Us Love (1967)

Melodrama based on a hit song of the same title. ...

Song of Farewell (1965)

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 ways with him forever. However, in Yuriko's heart... Pure love duo Yoshinaga and Hamada rigorously pursue a ...

Homecoming (1964)

Moriya Tomoko, a young girl working for a publishing company, is told by a woman art dealer that her real father did not die, as everyone believes, during the revolution in Cuba, but is now living in Japan. Tomoko's mother has remarried a strict, narrow-mi ...

Here Because of You (1964)

An uplifting drama about the bond between a group of high school seniors and their kind-hearted teacher, Mr. Yabuki. Faced with the rigors of growing up in modern times, students often look to Mr. Yabuki for advice and guidance. But when Mr. Yabuki's caree ...

Bright Sea (1963)

On the day of college graduation, Mieko (Sayuri Yoshinaga) stood on stage as the valedictorian for the Department of English. During her university years she made sure that she would always come out on top, and she did. With a victorious graduation behind ...

The Image of Mother (1963)

A resolute young man searching for his mother, whom he was separated from as a child, defies a family who mistreat the poor and homeless. ...

The Incorrigible (1963)

Based on the loosely autobiographical novel of the same name by Toko Kon. Ken Yamanouchi stars as Togo Konno, the titular bastard. ...

Naite waratta hanayome (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

At the Side of the Bridge 2 (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

San'nin musume kanpai! (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

Red Bud and White Flower (1962)

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

Love Under the Crucifix (1962)

A tea master and his daughter Ogin are both Christians in feudal Japan. Ogin falls in love with a married feudal prince who shares her faith. When the Shogun bans Christianity, the situation worsens. ...

Kono ni uruwashi (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

Yume de aritai (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

Love's Family Tree (1961)

A Good Man, A Good Day (1961)

The university professor Ozeki Hitoshi (Ryu Chishu) is regarded as an eccentric by people in his surroundings. When his daughter Tokiko is asked to marry a colleague, she and her mother are overjoyed, but Hitoshi is not satisfied with the situation. ...

Marriageable Age (1961)

The three Matsunami sisters navigate adulthood and the complex social pressures of finding a husband while living under their traditional father's roof. As they balance their personal desires against the family's obsession with status, their search for "ma ...

Castle of Flames (1960)

In 17th century Japan, Young Lord Masato returns after years abroad to find everything changed: his peace-loving father has died in what he soon finds to be mysterious circumstances, and his mother's married to his uncle, whose ruthless ambition is causing ...

Tokyo Omnibus (1959)

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 with a runaway girl who turns out to be the leader of a religious sect. Kusano is the henpecked proprietor of ...

Points and Lines (1958)

Based on Matsumoto Seicho's classic mystery novel of the same name, the story centers around a group of detectives who are determined to find the truth behind an apparent double suicide. ...

Man of Thirteen Eyes (1958)

Japanese mystery film. ...

Denshichi Torimonocho: Mad Skullwoman (1958)

Detective Denshichi is called to investigate the mysterious disappearance of the Kishu family's daughter Teruhime and the activities of a dangerous group dressed as skulls and their female leader. ...

Elegy of the North (1957)

​Reiko, a young woman with a physical disability, begins a clandestine affair with the married architect Katsuragi, but also becomes dangerously obsessed with his unfaithful wife, Akiko. ...

A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 2 (1957)

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

A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 1 (1957)

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

Street of Ronin (1957)

Based on the famous novel by Yamagami Itaro, this is the story of a group of ronin living in abject poverty in the latter days of the Edo period. Starring the great Konoe Jushiro, Ronin Gai is populated by an ensemble of colorful characters, social outcast ...

The Wanderer (1957)

After killing the deceiver, the Masa gambler comes to Ina. There is a horse market in Ina, and the landowner Tamegoro, plans to steal the proceeds from the sale. Tamegoro steals money and blames the Masa for this crime. Masa has to go on the run, because n ...

Utau yajikita kogane dōchū (1957)

1957 Japanese movie ...

A Samurai's Honor at Pawn (1956)

A film about the struggle of an officer from Edo, Toyama Saemon, with a lightning-fast gang of thieves. ...

Eyes of Children (1956)

Shunji Mitamura's wife died very early and left him a young son. Shunji's sister Hideko decided to fulfill her sisterly duty and moved to the main character to take care of the boy and the house. Time passes and Shunji marries Mieko Takamine. But since her ...

Ejima and Ikushima (1955)

This period film is inspired by one of the most notorious scandals to have taken place in Edo-period Japan. The heroine, Ejima, was a lady of the Ooku, the harem of Edo Castle in which the Shogun's mother, wife and concubines resided, forbidden from contac ...

Fantasy of Youth (1955)

Adaptation of the novel by Bunroku Shishi. ...

Bored Hatamoto: The Mysterious Phantom Mansion (1954)

Bored Hatamoto film #17 ...

Sazen Tange: The Monkey Pot (1954)

A Japanese drama featuring the one-eyed, one-armed swordsman ...

Ippon-Gatana Dohyô Iri (1954)

The Garden of Women (1954)

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

Omatsuri hanjiro (1953)

Every year, at the festival, familiar merchants such as Toraemon, a magic trick, Tokubei, a blowgun, Kaji, acrobatics, and Unsaibo, a ritual, gather toward the port town. ...

Dreaming People (1953)

Shinya Ban (Masao Wakahara) returns from the south and is deeply disappointed when he learns that his mutual friend Yuriko (Mieko Takamine) is marrying Toshio (Toshio Hosokawa), the son of Zenpei Hamaguchi (Yoshito Yamaji), for her obligation. He encourage ...

Wife (1953)

Ten years into a marriage, the wife is disappointed by the husband's lack of financial success, meaning she has to work and can't treat herself and the husband finds the wife slovenly and mean-spirited: she neither cooks not cleans particularly well and is ...

Jinsei Gekijo: dai ni bu (1953)

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

Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu (1952)

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

Kare o korosu na (1952)

Who Knows a Woman's Heart (1951)

Ikeuchi was captain of the K - University ice hockey team. The daughter Shikotsuko of Ginza 's western restaurant "Piccolo" was also a female student at K University and was a figure player. They had a dream of being dispatched to Oslo in the Olympic Games ...

Five Men of Edo (1951)

During the 17th Century roving bands of hatamoto were causing trouble in the new capital city of Edo and constantly fought with the townspeople at every turn. The leader of these ruthless samruai was Mizuno Jirozaemon, who despite his high rank was in deep ...

Minami kaze (1951)

1951 Japanese movie ...

Dancing Girl (1951)

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 family. ...

Ah, Youth (1951)

Aa seishun 1951 ...

Freedom School (1951)

Minamimura, who had always wanted to be free, suddenly quits his job. His hardworking wife is surprised and angry, and throws him out of the house. Confused by his sudden freedom, Iosuke ends up living as a vagrant under a bridge. His wife, Komako, also fi ...

Elegy (1951)

Wataru Naohiko who has the prosecutor general as his father became a young composer and its symphony "saint" invoked the world echoed. But his disciple Uchiyama and his best friend prosecutor Daisuke Toki accused his music as a sesame of pause-only techniq ...

Rumba of Passion (1950)

Drama directed by Yasushi Sasaki. ...

When We Came Back (1950)

Melodrama by Kiyoshi Saeki ...

Omoide no borero (1950)

Drama directed by Yasushi Sasaki. ...

Escape from Prison (1950)

The Beauty of the Evening Sky (1948)

A platonic love story, the protagonist continues to love the woman he fell in love with when he was a boy for the rest of his life. ...

Rira no hana wasureji (1947)

In the 30th year, Nirasaki Den'emon established the Nirasaki Hokkaido Development Company with investment from Sonoi to build railway facilities. However, the endeavor faced criticism for attempting to buy Ainu land at low prices. Tokyo Nippo reporter Tosh ...

Once More (1947)

A romance with political overtones about the relationship of a sheltered bourgeois woman and a doctor who devotes himself to caring for the poor. Over a ten-year period - from 1936 through the war - they find each other and are separated again by the event ...

Koyoi Tsuma to Narinu (1947)

A hospital melodrama where the conflict between love and friendship rules the faith of the protagonists. ...

Waiting Woman (1946)

Waiting woman ...

A New Breeze (1945)

1945 Japanese movie ...

Theater (1945)

Kotobuki-za is a story of the Naniwa-bushi singer Baichuken Tsurumaru. ...

Ikeru isu (1945)

1945 Japanese movie ...

Gekimetsu no uta (1945)

Three daughters have graduated from the music school and have gone their separate ways. On the day of the outbreak of war, the three girls meet again for the first time since their graduation ceremony. This film was made at the end of the war to promote th ...

Victory Song (1945)

An anthology of thirteen patriotic stories about Japanese citizens contributing to the war effort. ...

Air Raid of the Enemy Plane (1943)

Japanese war movie. ...

Dance of the Capital (1942)

Hiromasa Nomura World War II era film ...

South Wind 2 (1942)

In this comic sequel to Yoshimura Kozaburo's original, Minami no Kaze, ex-baron (Saburi Shin) is in Singapore where he meets an old friend who proposes a scam to make some quick cash. It involved inventing the story that Saigo Takamori didn't actually die ...

South Wind (1942)

Amusing masterpiece from director Yoshimura Kazusabu divided in two parts taken from the newspaper serial novel of Shishiko Shishi. Like in "Warm Current", Shin Saburi, Mieko Takamine and Mitsuko Mito are appearing, but this is a fresh comedy very unusual ...

Moon of the Plateau (1942)

An older sister and brother (Mieko Takamine and Masayoshi Otsuka) come to visit their grandfather (Takeshi Sakamoto) who lives deep in the mountains. As for their parents, father was serving in the South Seas and mother died of illness on her way home. So, ...

The 47 Ronin (1941)

In the early 18th-century, Lord Takumi-no-kami Asano, feuding with Lord Kira, tries to kill his opponent in the corridors of the Shogun's palace. The Shogun sentences Asano to seppuku and deprives the palace and lands from his clan, but does not punish Kir ...

Let's Go in Good Spirits (1941)

In the movies of those times, you can see young boys in the company scene often. Those boys were called kyuji (給仕), which means "waiter" literally. They are doing odd jobs in the company including serving tea, ushering visitors, buying tobacco, etc. O ...

The Flower is not False (1941)

Hana wa itsuwarazu (1941) is the second directorial work by Shochiku's Oba Hideo. Oba had previously worked as an assistant director to Shimizu Hiroshi and penned films for Shimazu Yasujiro. In this early effort, he is not stylistically very far from eithe ...

Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family (1941)

After the death of her husband, an elderly woman and her youngest, unmarried daughter are forced to sell their house to cover his debts and decide to move in with one of the former's children, each of whom is scarcely happy to accommodate. ...

Nobuko (1940)

A spirited young teacher challenges the conservative school employing her with liberal thinking and teaching methods. ...

Warm Current (1939)

Adaptation of Kishida Kunio's novel. Set against the backdrop of a power struggle within a hospital, depicts the love lives of the director's daughter, the administrative director, a doctor, and a nurse. ...

Lovers' Duet (1939)

Melodrama about a talented singer who finally makes her debut ...

The Masseurs and a Woman (1938)

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 miniature studies of love and family at a remote resort in the mountains. With delicate and surprising humor, ...

Hotaru no hikari (1938)

Approaching their graduation ceremony, Saegusa, Sanae, and their classmates go on an overnight trip to Hakone with their teacher Ms. Kawahara, who will soon leave school. They thank her doing so and go on their respective paths, ending soon their student l ...

So Goes My Love (1938)

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 earns from working in a café. Shigeo is not happy with the situation and neither is his family who do not appr ...

The Lights of Asakusa (1937)

Pre-war Asakusa was a riotous district of cabarets, dance-halls and brothels - a striking backdrop for Shimazu's story of innocence and experience. Pretty, young Reiko is the new dancer in an infamous theatre troupe, and her fellow performers try to protec ...

The Trio's Engagements (1937)

Three men vying for the same job end up chasing the same girl in this comedy-drama from noted Japanese director Yasujiro Shimazu. ...

The Golden Demon (1937)

A penniless orphan loses the woman he loves, when her family arranges a marriage to a wealthy playboy. He believes she was blinded by greed, and becomes a miser. ...

Vermilion and Green (1937)

A businessman's daughter falls in love with one of her father's employees. ...

Renai muteki kantai (1937)

A 1937 Japanese film. ...

Moon Over the Ruins (1937)

Episode in the life of a composer of a popular Japanese song. ...