Eiko Takamatsu Movies

In Depression-era Japan, a courteous bus driver carries an eclectic group of passengers from the mountainous Izu to Tokyo.

Tokiko is a mother patiently waiting for her husband's return from the war when her 4-year old son becomes ill. She takes him to the doctor for...

An errant salaryman's son gets lost until a man from the Tokyo tenements brings him to vendor Tane, who's reluctant to let the kid board.

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

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...

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

Strip dancer Carmen falls in love with Hajime, who is engaged to the daughter of a right-wing politician.

Approaching their graduation ceremony, Saegusa, Sanae, and their classmates go on an overnight trip to Hakone with their teacher Ms. Kawahara, who...

A rural village elder plans an event on the return of a farmer's daughter from the city, unaware that she has become a Westernized burlesque artist.

When a family has to relocate due to the war, they are ostracized by their new community.

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

A young student falls into a hopeless romantic attraction to a sick girl, whom he can only see from afar.

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

A young lawyer falls in love with the daughter of his former professor, whom he's hired to tutor his children.

A reformatory in the remote countryside houses 200 delinquents and problem children. The teachers and caretakers face much trouble. The school is...

"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...

Two childhood friends go their own ways but meet again some years later after they have both married. They get re-acquainted, meet each others’...