Hisao Toake Movies

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

A traditional bar mistress in Kyoto clashes with her Tokyo rival.

Comedy of high school where students and teachers run wild, based on a popular comic strip.

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

Ushinosuke returns to his hometown to become a farmer. Part three (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku Shishi’s novel, Oban.

Writer Jippensha Ikku hears Tsutaya Juzaburo, a wholesaler of picture books, mutter on his deathbed, "Where has Sharaku gone?" He begins to figure...

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

Chiba Sōsaku, whose childhood name was Otome, was raised by his father Yukiuemon, the successor of the Hokushin Ittō-ryū style, and...

An Ishiro Honda film.

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...

Story of girls in a Japanese reform school.

Helping her mother manage a nightclub, young Emiko quickly realizes how difficult life is.

Tells of the feelings and sufferings of a young girl with an incurable paralytic disease.

Based on the original novel by Tokuda Shusei, adapted by frequent Masumura scribe Kaneto Shindo, this downbeat melodrama features a battle of women...

A gang plans to steal twenty billion yen by safecracking tactics; however, they discover that one of the gang members is an infiltrating cop.

Following the Second World War, the lives of various people in a poverty-stricken area of Tokyo are entertwined. Pachinko parlor girls, shoeshine...