Takako Irie Movies

Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifully composed "Sanjuro." In this companion piece and...

The masked avenger Kurama Tengu is linked to a plot to bring down the Tokugawa shogunate, but is it really our hero, or an imposter?

A sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love letters for other people.

The stories of several young women who work in a 'precision optical instruments' factory during the second World War. Despite illness, injury, and...

Yoshiyama Kazuko is a third-year junior high school student. One day while cleaning the lab, she smells lavender and faints. From then on, she has...

A Japanese version of the musical comedy "Yes, Mr. Brown"

1947 Japanese movie

This most celebrated all-star movie version of the popular series features Tsukigata Ryunosuke as Mito Komon, the sage who wanders the countryside...

What is marriage? Young couple in match-making wanted to know before they decide. They visited married couples of sisters and brothers. Love comedy...

On the night the shogunate's treasury was breached, the guard Utsugi had already been taken down. His colleague Ryunosuke felt responsible and...

Second in the Nage Utasamon series

A continuation of the prior film (影法師).

After noticing in the news there was a fire in an old canal town, Eguchi recalls visiting there a decade ago as a university student.

1950 drama film

Prewar jidaigeki starring Denjiro Okochi

1949 Japanese film

Directed by Tomotaka Tasaka.