Eisuke Takizawa

Directing

Eisuke Takizawa

Born 1902-09-06 · Tokyo, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan

Eisuke Takizawa (滝沢英輔, Takizawa Eisuke, 6 September 1902 – 29 November 1965) (alternate name: Kinpachi Kajiwara) was a Japanese film director. Born in Tokyo, Takizawa worked at Tōa Cinema and Makino Film Productions before debuting as a director in 1929 with Aru onna to gaka. He later directed primarily jidaigeki at Toho and Nikkatsu.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

The Praying Man poster
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A woman's happiness is gained through marriage. Yet marriage does not necessarily bring happiness... Director Takizawa Eisuke adapts Tamiya Torahiko's serialised novel. A grand tale of pure love, depicting the path of a woman's happiness with a fluid touch.

The Praying Man

1959

Saga of the Vagabonds, Part Two: Forward at Dawn poster
10.0

Story of a bandit king part 2.

Saga of the Vagabonds, Part Two: Forward at Dawn

1937

The Flower and the Sword poster
NR

A dangerous mobster threatens the life of a businessman's mother in this thriller. As Ryuji oversees the building of a bridge in Japan, a powerful gangster plans to stop the project. By any means necessary.

The Flower and the Sword

1964

Kawakami Tetsuji, No. 16 poster
NR

A biopic about Japanese baseball player, Tetsuharu Kawakami.

Kawakami Tetsuji, No. 16

1957

Facing to the Clouds poster
NR

A rookie newspaper journalist, Takema Sakaki, has a strong sense of justice. In the Diet Building he gets acquainted with a library worker, Reiko Nakafuji. Reiko's father was a member of the Diet who was assassinated six years ago. Through Reiko, Takema joins Tsūkai-kai, a group of young people who respect her late father's political ideas. With the assistance of Tsukai-kai, Takema eventually uncovers the political scandal related to postwar compensation which led to the murder of Reiko's father.

Facing to the Clouds

1962

A Love that Wagers the World poster
NR

The first time that up-and-coming architect Yuji Muraoka (Yujiro Ishihara) met Natsuko (Ruriko Asaoka) was at a contemporary art exhibition at the Ueno Museum of Art. At the time, he didn't feel anything special about her, other than being impressed that she was the younger sister of the respected Nonomura-san. Later, at Nonomura's birthday party, some people who were jealous of Yuji's talent tried to embarrass him by forcing him to perform a hidden talent show, and Natsuko quickly came to his rescue. This incident caused the two of them to become much closer...

A Love that Wagers the World

1959

Forever, My Love poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Forever, My Love

1958

The Temptress and the Monk poster
8.0

A Buddhist monk becomes ensnared by a seductive woman who, according to legend, transforms her lovers into beasts.

The Temptress and the Monk

1957

Shutsugeki poster
NR

An original warrior directed by Toshio Takagi, directed by Eisuke Takizawa of “Kiriko's Tango” by Toshio Yasumi, a comedy, cheerful widow. The photo was taken by Minoru Yokoyama from “Asakusa no Toko Odoriko Monogatari”

Shutsugeki

1964

Zesshou poster
NR

The story of the tender love between Junki, the son of a wealthy landowner, and Kayuki, the daughter of a forester, who decided to unite their destinies against their parents' wishes. Neither war nor years of separation could kill this love. It was only cut short by Kayuki's tragic death.

Zesshou

1958

The Song of the Season poster
NR

A touching love story about a heroine who loses her parents in the war and tries to keep her pure love alive despite the many difficulties she faces.

The Song of the Season

1961

死の壁の脱出 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

死の壁の脱出

1958

Children of Izu poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Children of Izu

1962

Ryuji's Journey: The Crest of Man poster
NR

The new head of a powerful family faces danger from an evil rival out for blood.

Ryuji's Journey: The Crest of Man

1965

Six Assassins poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Six Assassins

1955

The Scarred Crest poster
NR

A war veteran clashes with a mob boss in this crime saga. When Ryuji returns from the war, he finds himself torn by the death of an old friend - the son of crime kingpin Kiyomiya. A death Ryuji feels responsible for.

The Scarred Crest

1964

Fighting Yasubei poster
NR

Yasube Nakayama left the clan and lives in Edo. One day, Yasubei visits his uncle Rokuroemon Kanno to borrow money from a moneylender in the amount of 13 ryo in order to save Oteru, the daughter of a merchant. However, the next day, Rokuroemon was killed in a fight by the Murakami brothers. Yasubei rushed to the scene, took revenge and became the husband of Miya, the daughter of Horibe Yahei.

Fighting Yasubei

1952

Muhō Ichidai poster
NR

The movie is about a man who started a brothel to make money out of his poor circumstances in the late Meiji period.

Muhō Ichidai

1957

The Rule for a Vagabond poster
NR

A brave warrior fights to restore peace to a town riddled by crime, one sword at a time, in this historical action saga.

The Rule for a Vagabond

1965

Season of Farewell poster
NR

A touching story of a girl who sails away from her love to keep her family together.

Season of Farewell

1962

Sixteen years old poster
NR

Senko Tamagawa is a third-year junior high school student, and she is the captain of the badminton club. Her father, Kinzo, remodeled her barn and lent it to her only Mikayo. Senko was somehow envious of her flashy life... In a tragedy with a girl living in the base as the main character, Katsumi Miki of "Life like a weed" adapted the original story of Muraji Uchiki and directed by Eisuke Takizawa of "Ajisai no Uta".

Sixteen years old

1960

Subterranean Heat poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Subterranean Heat

1938

Subterranean Heat poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Subterranean Heat

1938

Ajisai no uta poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Ajisai no uta

1960