Takako Irie Movies

A 1942 film.

A colourful study of theatrical life. Two acting troupes vie for the Kyoto market during the Genroku Era. Tojuro, an extremely popular actor, feels...

Kôfuku eno shôtai - Invitation to happiness

The premature death of a young mother serves as inspiration for her husband and son.

When Sentarô’s father is killed by a drunken samurai, Sentarô avenges him. His deed puts him on the run and leaves his sister...

A man rises in society by cheating, but the institutions in turn take their revenge.

Adaptation of Nobuko Yoshiya’s story.

A remake of Kaidan Saga yashiki (1953).

The Great White Tiger Platoon was part of the Aizu clan's last ditch efforts to stop the advance of Imperial troops after the fall of the Tokugawa...

The second part of the melodrama based on the novel Les Misérables by Victor Hugo, the action of which is transferred to the era of the Meiji...

A power struggle in the fief of Okazaki causes the death of Namiji, a nobleman's daughter. As her fiancé seeks revenge, he finds Namiji's cat...

Second in the Nage Utasamon series

Directed by Tomotaka Tasaka.

Propaganda film, presumed lost.

Based on a short story by Dazai Osamu, produced under the national film law. The film's hero falls in love with the youngest daughter of a family he...