Cast: Mieko Takamine

Direction Kinuyo Tanaka

Cast Ineko Arima · Ganjiro Nakamura · Mieko Takamine · Tatsuya Nakadai

Direction Heinosuke Gosho

Cast Yoshiko Kuga · Masayuki Mori · Tatsuo Saito · Mieko Takamine

Direction Kenji Mizoguchi

Cast Yoshizaburo Arashi · Utaemon Ichikawa · Chojuro Kawarasaki · Tokusaburo Arashi

Synopsis Lord Asano resists a bribery attempt by a member of the Shogun's court. His honesty, however, is useless against the corruption of the administration, and he is forced to commit harakiri. His samurai retinue are dispersed as masterless ronin. The...

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Sô Yamamura · Mieko Takamine · Mariko Okada · Akihiko Katayama

Synopsis Dancing Girl is an important transitional film, as Naruse deploys some of the flamboyant melodramatic devices that he used in the 1930s in the context of a story that is very much a postwar narrative. Elaborate, distinctive camera movements at...

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Mieko Takamine · Ken Uehara · Rentarô Mikuni · Michiyo Aratama

Synopsis Tsuma concerns the struggles of a woman who finds out that her husband is cheating on her; to avoid the stigma of a broken marriage, she decides she'll do whatever it takes to keep him with her.

Direction Hiroshi Shimizu

Cast Mieko Takamine · Shin Tokudaiji · Shotaro Akagi · Bakudankozo

Synopsis A pair of blind masseurs, an enigmatic city woman, a lonely man and his ill-behaved nephew—The Masseurs and a Woman is made up of crisscrossing miniature studies of love and family at a remote resort in the mountains.

Direction Hiroshi Shimizu

Cast Mieko Takamine · Shinobu Aoki · Mitsuko Yoshikawa · Choko Iida

Synopsis Released in 1940, Nobuko stars renowned actress/singer Takamine Mieko as titular heroine Nobuko, a spirited young teacher working in a conservative school. Based on a novel by Shishi Bunroku, the film follows her experiences as she challenges the school with...

Direction Yasujirō Ozu

Cast Mieko Takamine · Shin Saburi · Hideo Fujino · Ayako Katsuragi

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Koji Ishizaka · Yôko Shimada · Teruhiko Aoi · Mieko Takamine

Synopsis A strange will left by a wealthy man reveals a peculiarly twisted set of relationships and triggers four deaths and several other murder attempts.

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Tomisaburô Wakayama · Mieko Takamine · Masao Kusakari · Kaoru Yumi

Direction Heinosuke Gosho

Cast Ichirô Ryûzaki · Mieko Takamine · Haruo Tanaka · Chieko Nakakita

Synopsis Before the war, Nogami, a doctor who devotes himself to the caring of the poor, meets Akiko during a theatrical representation. She's a sheltered girl from a wealthy bourgeois family who finds herself drawn to him and his humanitarian ideals.

Direction Yasujirô Shimazu

Cast Hideo Fujino · Hideko Higashi · Reikichi Kawamura · Ryotaro Mizushima

Synopsis A film about a businessman’s daughter who falls in love with one of her father’s employees.

Direction Ishirô Honda

Cast Akira Takarada · Momoko Kôchi · Ken Uehara · Tatsuyoshi Ehara

Direction Kenkichi Hara

Cast Kyoko Asagiri · Torazo Hirosawa · Makoto Kobori · Isamu Kosugi

Direction Yasushi Sasaki

Cast Mieko Takamine · Chiezô Kataoka · Chie Ueki · Izumi Shiraishi

Direction Keisuke Sasaki

Cast Kiyoshi Aono · Jun Arai · Kaoru Futaba · Masao Hayama

Synopsis A Composer tours ruins of castles searching for inspiration for a composition....

Direction Yasushi Sasaki

Cast Mieko Takamine · Toyo Takahashi · Eijirô Tono · Shinichi Himori

Direction Sadao Nakajima

Cast Mariko Okada · Yûko Natori · Morio Kazama · Kei Sato

Synopsis Tsuya Shimamura, is born in Kyoto as the second daughter of a tea trader who dies before her birth. Tsuya, who loves painting more than anything and is hopeless at housework, attends art school.

Direction Hiroshi Inagaki

Cast Kazuo Hasegawa · Rentarô Mikuni · Mieko Takamine · Chieko Nakakita

Direction Keigo Kimura

Cast Hiroshi Akutagawa · Kakuko Chino · Natsuko Kahara · Kyôko Kishida

Synopsis A woman's husband died that summer. She is well off and lives in a villa with her servant. The two reminisce about their younger years. The woman's older brother died in the war. Many of her brother's friends wanted to...