Eiko Takamatsu Filmes

Japanese silent film from 1926. (Obo-chan meaning "Young Master.") Written by Ayame Mizushima, the first female screenwriter in Japan.

Kodakara Sodo (The Treasure That Is Children) is a 1935 black and white Japanese silent film with benshi accompaniment directed by Torajiro Saito....

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

An onnagata (female impersonator) of a Kabuki troupe avenges his parents' deaths. Remade in 1963 as Yukinojô Henge.

Japanese silent film from 1928. Kinema Junpo ranked it among the ten best Japanese movies of the year.

A Japanese family weathers much hardship after their military uncle comes to live with them during WWII.

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

Japanese silent film.

A blacksmith is chased out of the village by the sinister village chief and forced to move to the forest with his wife and two sons. The...

A newlywed couple faces tension when the wife, after her husband leaves for work, becomes completely unmotivated to handle household chores and goes...

"The Dancing Girl of Izu" tells of the story between a young male student who is touring the Izu Peninsula and a family of traveling dancers he meets...

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

A period piece about the love of a wealthy blind woman, a teacher of koto and shamisen, and her devoted manservant. Based on a novella by Tanizaki...

Two friends accidentally run into a young, homeless woman, so they take her in.

A silk factory worker is persuaded to support her son's education up to a college level despite their poverty. Many years later, she travels to Tokyo...

A jewelry store president begins to fall for the doctor treating her husband's illness.

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