Mitsuko Takao Movies

Directed by Mikio Naruse. It is presumed to be lost.

A Japanese short film, the earliest extant film of the great director Hiroshi Shimizu.

The otherwise promising young man Asaji (Heihachirô Ôkawa) and his younger brother Yuji (Hideo Saeki) face blighted lives because of...

Toshie, a young, conservative secretary-typist has fallen in love with Shozo Narita, a young man she has met through her work.

Directed by Mikio Naruse. It is presumed to be lost.

Enoken plays a frog-oil-hawking conman whose claims to martial prowess land him in hot water with the local samurai gentry - but not before he falls...

The Idiot, by Fyodor Dostoevsky.

Enoken plays both Kondo Isami and his deadly enemy Sakamoto Ryoma in this comedic, song-filled vision of the Meiji Restoration.

A melodrama about an orphan and her mother who are separated and lose contact, but are later reunited.

Forced on the road by yakuza obligations, a man sets out on a reckless journey to Tsumagoi. Movie posters for local cinemas were often displayed at...