Chieko Takehisa Movies

A typically modern take on the well-known Naniwabushi character (and real life 19th-century gangster) Mori no Ishimatsu, whose proverbial stupidity...

Part one of two.

War-time jidaigeki by Eisuke Takizawa.

Okiyo runs a restaurant in Asakusa. She struggles with the times and the relationships around her.

1935 P.C.L. adaptation of Natsume's novel.

Government-sponsored film set during the Pacific War, depicting the lives of people working as stevedores.

1945 Japanese movie