Hisao Toake Movies

A Toho comedy film staring the Crazy Cats.

An Ishiro Honda film.

The story of a group of young people who organise their own travelling symphony orchestra to provide music for people living in remote villages...

1962 Japanese movie

Daughter of a lumber shop in Edo strives to protect her family business from the competitor.

Story about a poor Japanese woman living near an American army base who resorts to prostitution.

The woman prison has a cast all with a story of their own and with no dull or routine day. There is an employee who is divorced after her husband had...

A group of four chorus singers leave their hometown in Kyushu and go to Tokyo to become stars. It’s a musical comedy that shows Segawa’s...

Japanese comedy film.

Detective Tarao goes undercover to battle an evil gun smuggling business.

Can a sinful man change and find peace? It's unlikely in gang-plagued Japan. Jokichi of Mikogami, a drifter (and hired sword), goes straight after...

This subversive period film features a hotheaded young samurai, Kurodo, who threatens to commit harakiri in response to the humiliation meted out to...

Shigeki Kachi, Tosuke Satomura, and Nanako, who belong to the theater company Vuanbert around Dosa, withdrew at the indignation of the chairman...

A story of unhappy youths and the perils of lack of sex education.

A poor peasant, after years of scraping, becomes a rich and powerful Osaka merchant. Mizoguchi Kenji's final project; he died before completing it...

The life of a toilet-seller during the Japanese Economic Miracle.