Yūsuke Takita Movies

Two Jesuit priests encounter persecution when they travel to Japan in the 17th century to spread Christianity and search for their mentor.

The Shogun gets engaged to a princess who rebels against the prospect, because she wasn't consulted.

Ken Ogata plays Shiro Miyagi, a sprinter with Olympic aspirations whose dreams were shattered by WWII. A broken man, he leads the dissolute life of a...

In Meiji era Japan a sixth grade boy is smart, likable and confident and owing to his academic success liked by his teacher. Things are not going...

Fourth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.

A tribute to proletarian author Takiji Kobayashi (1903-1933)

A story full of youthful vigor and spirit as high school students try to work out their problems, realize the awakening of love and growing maturity...

Film adaptation of the stage version of Samuil Marshak's "Twelve Months"

In late 1940 the Japanese were anxious to conclude peace in China and to that end sent Colonel Hidaka to inaugurate negotiations. He was mysteriously...

1962 Japanese movie

A run-in with the police once again puts three former reformatory inmates on the wrong side of the law. Their situation becomes increasingly...

A mountain man beheads his many wives to prove his love to an alluring woman he meets in an enchanted forest.

Based on a novel by Ayako Miura.

Japanese drama.

After a passenger ship sinks in 1954, Go Akutsu devises a life-saving project in the form of a tunnel under the Tsugaru Strait. While working on this...