Toyo Takahashi

Gokudo of Kamagasaki (1973)

Ninth installment in the "Gokudo" series. Depicts the activities of Shimamura Seikichi and his henchmen. ...

The Viper Brothers: Prison Gang 13 (1972)

Part 3 in a long running (8+1 films) action/comedy/melodrama series about a pair of short tempered, amoral, but not evil chinpira (Bunta Sugawara and Tamio Kawachi) thinking too big of themselves. ...

The Domain: Flower and Dragon (1969)

In Broad Daylight (1968)

After his company goes bankrupt, Katsuji Watanabe resorts to pickpocketing again with his old swindler buddies. However, one by one, his friends start getting caught. Katsuji decides to play a high stakes game of robbing the proceeds of a department store. ...

Age of Japanese Guerrillas (1968)

Kinta (Nabe Osami) is Japanese by birth, but raised by a Chinese man. He stowsaway to Japan to see his girlfriend Yukiko but gets picked up for vagrancy in Shinjuku and thrown in jail. Helped by a yakuza and a prostitute, he goes on a search for Yukiko but ...

Code Between Brothers: Three Brothers of Kanto, Part II (1967)

The fourth part in the series "Code Between Brothers". The story takes place in Fukagawa, Tokyo, at the beginning of the Showa era, where five players following the harsh path of a knight defeat a despicable Yakuza gang. ...

Warm Current (1966)

Women Doing Time (1966)

Part 2 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series ...

Sword: Flower-Strewn Path of Courage (1966)

After serving his sentence, Yakuza family member Toshin-gumi Umebayashi is released from prison. Toshin-gumi was already headed by the boss in the second generation of Shotaro, but Shotaro fell into a trap, he is manipulated by his sworn enemy Kanzaki-gumi ...

The Betrayers Out! (1966)

Shochiku's popular series of gang films, this one has the hero returning from prison bent on revenge. He runs into Chinese hoodlums, blackmailers and gold-smugglers. But he also aids and abets young lovers yet, despite his help, their love ends in tragedy ...

The Scarlet Camellia (1964)

A young woman begins murdering all those responsible for her ailing father's condition. Because the girl is so outwardly sweet and innocent, the detective looking into the deaths does not suspect her. ...

Women's Doctor (1964)

Life of a bachelor gynecologist in a hospital for women. ...

Kaze to Ki to Sora to (1964)

A nanny, played by Sayuri Yoshinaga, who lives and works in a Tokyo family, causes all kinds of waves with her outspoken personality and behavior in this charming coming-of-age blockbuster. ...

The Sound of Waves (1964)

On a small island, inhabited by only fourteen hundred people, a young fisherman's son, Shinji falls in love with Hatsue, the daughter of the richest and most difficult man on the island. Despite their differences in class, they begin to meet and rumors spr ...

Samurai from Nowhere (1964)

Misawa Ihei (Nagato) is traveling with his wife Tae (Iwashita Shima) who abhors the practice of sword fighting for prize money. Tae is the daughter of the clan's chief counselor who married the low-ranking Ihei to avoid becoming the clan lord's mistress. I ...

The Honest Fool (1964)

Yasugoro, goes to live in a quiet town where he falls in love with the priest's daughter-in-law. His does not declare his love because she is married, but he goes on a mission to please her, and is blinded. Then her husband dies and she remarries before Ya ...

To Your Majesty, The Emperor 2 (1964)

Based on Muneta Hiroshi's military novel. The main character, Yamaguchi Zensuke, is a military dog soldier. He joins the army and winds up sent overseas to China as a part of the military dog unit. He's ridiculed by others due to his inability to advance. ...

Duel of Blood and Sand (1963)

Frustrated with the bad behavior of his lord, Inaba Yajuro (Otomo) declares that he is leaving the clan and sets off on a journey that leads him into a small town besieged by a violent group of brigands. In a kind of homage to Kurosawa's 7 Samurai, the ...

Jolly Barbers (1963)

Kyu-chan, Draw Your Sword (1963)

A laid-back man tries to become a member of the yakuza. ...

Onna yajikita-tatchi ryokō (1963)

1963 Japanese movie ...

To Your Majesty, The Emperor (1963)

A conscript from a poor background writes the Emperor asking if he can stay in the army when his service is up. ...

Beyond the Green Hills (1963)

Shinko Terasawa was always considered to be the odd ball of the bunch. At a time when romance was against school regulations, Shinko was the first to take a bite out of the forbidden fruit. Expelled from her former school, she finds herself in an all-girls ...

A Man With Dragon Tattoos (1962)

In the late 1890s, coal is a precious new natural resource. During an era of rapid economic growth, dreams are instilled into the lives of many across Japan. A vigorous young man with a look of fearless determination, sets foot on the northern part of Kyus ...

An Autumn Afternoon (1962)

Widower Shuhei Hirayama's caretaker is his 24-year-old daughter, Michiko. Gradually, he comes to realize that Michiko should not be obliged to look after him for the rest of his life, so he arranges a marriage for her. ...

Hadashi no hanayome (1962)

Japanese comedy film. ...

Get Married, Mother (1962)

Akitsu Hot Springs (1962)

Just after WW2, a romance between an innkeeper and a man with tuberculosis unravels near a thermal spring. ...

Tokyo Bay (1962)

An investigation into a drug smuggler who is assassinated in front of an insurance building sets two detectives, Sumikawa and Akine, into a sprawling investigation through Tokyo's underworld. ...

Kureji no Hanayome to Shichinin no Nakama (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

Kono ni uruwashi (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

Koshū (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

The Strangers Upstairs (1961)

After moving in to their dream home, newlyweds decide to rent out their second floor to save money. They soon discover the woe of being landlords. ...

The Happy-Go-Lucky Guy (1961)

A group of four chorus singers leave their hometown in Kyushu and go to Tokyo to become stars. It's a musical comedy that shows Segawa's talent. ...

Love's Family Tree (1961)

Tough Guy (1961)

Asakichi beats a ganster, Sada, in a physical fight, leading to recognition by Sada's clan boss. When Kotoito, the geisha Asakichi is in love with, is kidnapped by a rival clan and sold to a a house of pleasure, Asakichi and Sada set out to rescue her. ...

Zoku sararīman yajikita dōchū (1961)

1961 Japanese movie ...

Hikkoshi yatsure (1961)

Manao Horiuchi movie ...

Door of Flowers (1961)

Goto Tamiko starred in TV commercials and her father, Keisuke, was a powerful financier who is now fallen on hard times. Tamiko wants to marry her boyfriend Sanpei, an aspiring composer, but her father wants her to marry a young company president. ...

Love and the Shop Curtain (1961)

Otami and daughter Yuri run the Matsuoka, a 150-year-old Japanese-style inn in Tokyo which they plan to renovate into a modern hotel before the '64 Tokyo Olympics. Maki, the son of the owner of the Benten Hotel, likes Yuri and wants to get closer to her. S ...

Zero Focus (1961)

One week into newlywed Teiko Uhara's marriage, her husband, Kenichi, leaves on a short business trip and never returns. Teiko travels across Japan to search for him, and along the way discovers some surprising facts about her husband's past. With only a pa ...

The Shrikes (1961)

Late Autumn (1960)

A woman and her daughter are each forced to contend with an increasing pressure to marry, particularly from three men who knew her late husband. ...

Towering Waves (1960)

A young prosecutor named Takao falls in love with Yoriko, only to discover that her husband is the target of his investigation into a major corruption scandal. Torn between professional duty and their forbidden affair, the couple finds themselves trapped b ...

Hero of the Red Light District (1960)

A successful textile industrialist from the provinces, who is beloved by his employees for his kindness, cannot find a wife because of a disfiguring birthmark on his face. Even the courtesans in Yoshiwara refuse to entertain him, until an indentured peasan ...

The World's Most Noble Guy: Taro's Rush (1960)

An upstanding young man's racy adventure filled with conspiracies and love. ...

When a Woman Loves (1960)

Story of a romance between a middle-aged journalist and a young woman. ...

Pineapple Butai (1959)

The story of the role played by Japanese-American soldiers from Hawaii in the Korean War of the 1950s. ...

The Bride from Japan (1959)

A young Japanese-American comes from California looking for a bride, going on blind dates with three candidates from Osaka, Hiroshima and Nagoya. ...

Floating Weeds (1959)

A theater troupe master's visit with his old flame unintentionally sets off a chain of unexpected events with devastating consequences. ...

The Human Wall (1959)

Drama which shows the struggle of Fumiko, a female teacher, at work and at home. ...

Good Morning (1959)

A lighthearted take on director Yasujiro Ozu's perennial theme of the challenges of inter­generational relationships, Good Morning tells the story of two young boys who stop speaking in protest after their parents refuse to buy a television set. Ozu weave ...

Hahakogusa (1959)

Based on the Nobu Koito story ...

The Tokyo Dame (1959)

A young woman tries to keep her family together after her father disowns her sister. ...

Police Precinct: The Woman Without A Face (1959)

A tragic drama - a dismembered torso of a woman rises up on the banks of the Arakawa River. The body is only the torso. Her legs were discovered on the opposite bank. The only clue, a man was trying to throw something in from a car with a license plate num ...

Young Breasts (1958)

A delinquent young man (Kobayashi Akira) from a wealthy family decides to get in on a blackmailing scheme targeting his young stepmother (Watanabe Misako). However, he doesn't realize that his fellow blackmailers have their eyes on his girlfriend next. ...

Equinox Flower (1958)

Wataru's outwardly liberal views on marriage are severely tested when his daughter declares her love for a coworker and is adamant to live her own way, instead of agreeing to an arranged marriage. Outwitted by his female relatives, Hirayama stubbornly refu ...

The Man Who Wagers Tomorrow (1958)

Former boxer Daishiro lost his wife, and his only son, Kaoru, went missing, it was a heavy blow for Daishiro. One day, Daishiro got a call from his relative Morihiko. He said he forgot the winning lottery ticket of 2 million yen at the hotel, so he wants D ...

Black River (1957)

A love triangle develops between a benevolent student, his innocent girlfriend, and a cruel petty criminal, all as a point of diagnosis of a social disease that had Japan slowly succumbing to lawlessness during the post-War era. ...

When It Rains, It Pours (1957)

Tane, the lady proprietor of an inn for amorous couples, lives there with her three children. When her eldest daughter loses her fiancé due to the fact her mother is a mistress, her despair drives her to become a cabaret hostess. ...

A Case of Honor (1957)

The obstinate black market trader Okyo lives together with her son Seitaro, who works as a mechanic for a bus company. She also looks after her son's colleague, the bus driver Fujita. When he causes an accident one day, Seitaro testifies against him due to ...

Girl's Reform School (1956)

The day to day life in an establishment for delinquent teenage girls. ...

Three Women Around Yoshinaka (1956)

The story of Yoshinaka during the tumultuous period of warring related to us in the Heike Monogatari. Close in setting to Kinugasa's famous Gate of Hell (1953). ...

If Indeed One Loves (1955)

The film consists of three short stories. Tomiko, the heroine of the first story, "The Flower Girl" (dir. Kozaburo Yoshimura), is a little girl who bears the unbearable burden of caring for her family. Tomiko's father has been unable to find work for a lon ...

A Billionaire (1954)

An ethical, young tax collector new to his area encounters increasingly absurd individuals and groups coping with their post-war woes. ...

Twenty-Four Eyes (1954)

From 1928 to 1946, the lives of 12 young people and their school teacher in a poor Japanese village are profoundly affected by historical events and personal circumstances. ...

Geisha Hidekoma (1954)

As a bid to win contacts, ship building companies wine and dine political leaders, inviting the geisha Hidekoma and Hidechiyo to entertain the politicians. ...

Sunny house (1954)

On the outskirts of Tokyo, a family of Mitsu Nakahara lives in one of the small huts surrounded by barracks and tin pens. Mitsu's husband died in the war, and she was left alone with four children and works as a day laborer. The eldest daughter Haruko, who ...

Kyūkon sannin musume (1954)

1954 Japanese movie ...

Tokyo Story (1953)

The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Their elder son, Koichi, a doctor, and their daughter, Shige, a hairdresser, don't have much time to spend with their ag ...

Shishun no izumi (1953)

The long-awaited haymaking season has arrived on the island of Honshu. Work is in full swing in the fields, with young and old alike toiling away. For the young woman Moyoko and the young man Tokizo, it is more fun than work. Both are young, cheerful, exci ...

Yassamossa (1953)

Bengawan Solo (1951)

War film by Kon Ichikawa ...

Early Summer (1951)

In postwar Tokyo, Noriko lives with her extended family. Although she enjoys her career and her social life, her more traditional family worries about her single marital status at the advanced age of 28. 40-year-old business associate Takako proposes, Nori ...

Pure White Nights (1951)

"Pure White Nights" - A romantic tale that depicts love between married people and the psychology of their marriage with elegant and a controversial touch. Love, art and suffering until the tragic and absurd ending. ...

Haha machi gusa (1951)

Asako works in a hostel for troubled young women. When a beautiful young girl is brought in one day after committing theft, Asako finds out from the older widow she works with that the new girl is undoubtedly her half-sister. When the younger sister sudden ...

First Love Questions and Answers (1950)

Late Spring (1949)

Noriko is perfectly happy living at home with her widowed father, Shukichi, and has no plans to marry -- that is, until her aunt Masa convinces Shukichi that unless he marries off his 27-year-old daughter soon, she will likely remain alone for the rest of ...

Shachō to onna tenin (1948)

Phoenix (1947)

A Japanese war widow recalls her love affair with her deceased husband. ...

Twenty-Year-Old Youth (1946)

The film features the first scene with kissing in a Japanese film. Kiss scenes were encouraged by the American occupiers of Japan following World War II as it encouraged westernization and contrasted with the traditional bow prevalent in that country. ...

Victory of Women (1946)

Representing a destitute mother in an infanticide trial, a female lawyer attempts to convince a conservative prosecutor of the benefits of Japan's democratized post-war legal system. ...

Drifting (1935)

Adaptation of Fumiko Hayashi's novel. ...