Yumi Takano

Adventure With Him (1965)

Mitsuo Hayama, who is preparing for his entrance examinations, secretly plans to take a trip with his classmate Akira, alone and undisturbed. Noriko learns of the trip by chance and tells Mitsuo and his friends that she will join them, and they reluctantly ...

Seishun zenki: Aoi kajitsu (1965)

1965 Nikkatsu youth film. ...

Seishun no Sabaki (1965)

University karate club member Kikuo is actually the son of a yakuza boss. However, he disliked his father's business and never spoke about his family at school. One day, his father, Tatsuzo, becomes the guardian of the Yamanaka-gumi. ...

Four Young Sisters (1964)

Three girls come to Tokyo to stay with their elder sister. Actually they are running away from home because their father has married again to a very young woman. They have many romantic adventures and one finally decides against the boy she thought she lov ...

Jinsei Gekijo (1964)

1964 Nikkatsu Theater of Life adaptation. ...

Whirlwind Call the Storm - Ginza Hoodlum's Diary (1963)

A kidnapping occurred over a seven-million-dollar diamond that was sewn into his stomach. Takuya Nikaido, the hero of Kamideki, challenges the underground organization of fear. The final work of Asahi Kobayashi's "Ginza Whirlpool Child (Mitsugai)" series. ...

Acacia no Ame ga Yamu Toki (1963)

Hideo Ishizaki, who was painting on the shore of the lake, saves a woman named Keiko. ...

Ai to shi no katami (1962)

Children of Izu (1962)

Song of a Traveller (1962)

A crime film released in 1962 ...

Ningen Gari (1962)

A detective sets out on a manhunt to catch a murderer before the crime's statue of limitations runs out. ...

Wind and waves of the South (1961)

Little dark-eyed boy Kazuo. Yes, he dreamed of the sea. However, like everyone here in the village. Kazuo only wanted to study first, to finish school... But he failed. Mother died. The woman who replaced her brought with her affection, comfort, and warmth ...

That Guy and I (1961)

Asada Keiko and Kurokawa Saburo are two young college students. When Keiko visits Saburo's house, she meets his father Kokichi and his mother Motoko. Motoko is a famous hair dresser, who openly flaunts her lover. When Kokichi and Motoko fight, which they d ...

Dawn of a Canvas (1961)

A masterpiece depicting the lives of a father his daughter, he is an isolated artist and she's a model. ...

Maiko's Visit to Tokyo (1961)

A youth drama about a sincere and pretty young maiko who comes to Tokyo for the first time in her life and fills her little heart with the joys and sorrows she experiences there. ...

Wait for Tomorrow (1960)

Kohei Misugi works in a vegetable market, but his ambition is to be a photographer. He is given his first opportunity to demonstrate his talent by the Sakura Film Company which offers him an assignment to "Cover Tokyo" with a camera. But he is disillusione ...

Bet on a Seaside Romance (1960)

1960 action film. ...

Jungle Block (1960)

A young doctor falls into a despair of developments. He plans to revenge the disgrace inflicted upon his sister, whose engagement was broken as a result. ...

Tatsumaki kozō (1960)

Tommy, a tornado boy who arrived at Arima Onsen in search of his father, whom he separated from when he was young, meets a girl named Eiko after driving away a group of thugs causing trouble at a variety show venue. Additionally, a drifter named Nanajo, im ...

Farewell to Southern Tosa (1959)

Story of an ex-con trying to go straight, but of course the old ways die hard. ...

Break Down that Wall (1959)

A man is wrongfully accused of murder. ...

Umi wa kurutte iru (1959)

I Will Challenge (1959)

Akira, a student who is professionally engaged in boxing, aspires to follow in the footsteps of his late father and become a champion when, during training, he becomes embroiled in a murder case. His school friend is involved in the case, and Akira also be ...

The Stream of Youth (1959)

The Perfect Game (1958)

College students come up with a scam to rob a gambling house. When it comes time to collect, the money isn't there, leading the young men into even more serious crime. ...

The Night is Mine (1958)

Four criminals break into the home of a jewelry merchant, Sanpodo, rob the diamonds, and escape. However, one of them receives a bullet during a skirmish between bandits, and the second is wounded by the police. To help their wounded comrades, criminals lo ...

Ashita wa Ashita no Kaze ga Fuku (1958)

"Tomorrow is Another Day" tells the story of three brothers who struggle to shake free of the father's ties to the yakuza underworld. A star vehicle for the popular singer/actor Yūjirō Ishihara. ...

Skinny and Fatty (1958)

Two young Japanese schoolboys, one skinny and poor, one fat and well-to-do, become unlikely friends. ...

Man Who Causes a Storm (1957)

Shoichi Kokubun is a roughneck street musician, who has a brother that is determined to propel him into stardom. In attempt to catch the attention of a popular jazz band, his brother appeals to their manager who has the power to make him a star. In a graph ...

Who's the Real Killer (1957)

Film about a car dealer who gets into financial trouble. ...

This Day's Life (1957)

Muhō Ichidai (1957)

The movie is about a man who started a brothel to make money out of his poor circumstances in the late Meiji period. ...

Lunar Eclipse (1956)

A unique and controversial film directed by Umeji Inoue, based on the original story by Shintaro Ishihara, which depicts the image of a group of young people in the agony of mistrust, love and hate with a powerful touch. ...

Hungry Soul, Part II (1956)

A continuation of Hungry Soul, from the same year. Reiko, who tolerates abuse in her marriage to a man 23 years her senior, is friends with Mayumi, a beautiful widow. Reiko meets her husband's business rival, a young, capable businessman, and falls for him ...

Hungry Soul (1956)

Reiko, who tolerates abuse in her marriage to a man 23 years her senior, is friends with Mayumi, a beautiful widow. Reiko meets her husband's business rival, a young, capable businessman, and falls for him. Meanwhile, Mayumi enters into a relationship with ...

Saigo no sentō-ki (1956)

The first postwar war movie depicting the tragedy of a special force that shook the world at the end of the Pacific War, with thrill and speed ...

Gyakukōsen (1956)

Reiko, a free-spirited college girl not bound by social conventions, ends up having an affair with an older, married man even though she already has a boyfriend. ...

The Balloon (1956)

Haruki Murakami is a successful family man and the head of a camera company. Unbeknownst to Murakami, his arrogant son oscillates between a mistress and a new lover who sings at a nightclub. When Murakami's daughter befriends the mistress, the affair throw ...

The Wolves (1955)

A group of five rookie insurance salespersons, driven to desperation by the impossibility of their work in Japan's failing postwar economy, form a plan to rob a cash delivery truck in order to provide for their families. ...

Ditch (1954)

Postwar Tokyo. Pin and Toku live in the squatter area of Kappanuma. Pin and Toku are avid gamblers. They take in Tsuru, a slightly demented woman who has run away from a geisha house. ...

Love Letter (1953)

Five years after the end of the Second World War, Reikichi, a repatriated veteran, translates love letters for Japanese women to American GIs, while searching for his lost love, Michiko. ...

Miniature (1953)

Ginko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one geisha house to the next, trying to find love and hope in the process. No matter how hard she tries, she just can't escape her sad fate. ...

Haha no nai ko to ko no nai haha to (1952)

Japanese film. ...

Modern People (1952)

A section chief at the Bureau of Construction is in a shady relationship with a construction company. Then a new, young and honest subordinate is assigned to work under the section chief. Once he learns about the shady relationship, however, the new subord ...

Children of Hiroshima (1952)

Shows the devastation caused by the atomic bomb, and by use of a fictional storyline, portrays the struggle of the ordinary Japanese people in dealing with the aftermath. ...

Actress (1947)

During the late Meiji period, at the beginning of the twentieth century, Sumako, a country girl, becomes a great actress with the help of Hogetsu, a scholar who brought European realism to the Japanese stage. The relationship leads to the end of his marria ...