Mitsuko Takao Movies

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

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...

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.

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...

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

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

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