Seiichi Katô

Movies

その夜の妻
Hiroo Ikeda movie
The Ball at the Anjo House
After Japan's loss in the war, the wealthy, cultured, liberal Anjo family have to give up their mansion and their way of life. They hold one last ball at the house before leaving. The seemingly cold, cynical son secretly grieves for his defeated father and the values that the war destroyed, while the daughter tries to prevent father from taking his life and to find her own place in the new Japan.
Dancing with a Mask
Japanese propaganda film about the Normanton Incident.
The 47 Ronin
Jûnai Onodera
In 1701, Lord Takuminokami Asano has a feud with Lord Kira and he tries to kill Kira in the corridors of the Shogun's palace. The Shogun sentences Lord Asano to commit suppuku and deprives the palace and lands from his clan, but does not punish Lord Kira. Lord Asano's vassals leave the land and his samurais become ronin and want to seek revenge against the dishonor of their Lord. But their leader Kuranosuke Oishi asks the Shogun to restore the Asano clan with his brother Daigaku Asano. One year later, the Shogun refuses his request and Oishi and forty-six ronin revenge their Lord.
The Story of Tank Commander Nishizumi
Kimura, Private 2nd Class
Following a young man through his childhood ambition to follow his father into the military to losing his life in combat in China.
Ah, My Hometown
A village romantic drama. (Now lost.)
The Straits of Love and Hate
A story of a servant girl whose life is upturned by her doomed love for a spineless young man.
The Only Son
Kinjo no ko
A silk factory worker is persuaded to support her son's education up to a college level despite their poverty. Many years later, she travels to Tokyo to visit her son.
A Mother Should Be Loved
Sono shounen-jidai (Childhood Sadao)
The film tells of the strained relationship between a mother and her two sons after the death of the family patriarch.
Passing Fancy
Tomio's classmate
Two Tokyo co-workers come across a destitute young lady in search of a place to live.
I Was Born, But...
Kodomo
Two young brothers become the leaders of a gang of kids in their neighborhood. Ozu's charming film is a social satire that draws from the antics of childhood as well as the tragedy of maturity.
Flunky, Work Hard!
A short concerning an impoverished insurance salesman and his scrappy son, whose fisticuffs with the other boys of their village put his father’s livelihood in jeopardy.
The Life of an Office Worker
Second son
When Sakamoto is made redundant he cannot bring himself to tell his wife. Instead he investigates other employment opportunities. Considered to be a lost film.
Modan kaidan: 100,000,000 yen
Ghost of Kantaro
A young couple flee their disapproving parents, get lost of Mt. Akagi and find a cache of gold protected by the ghost of a gangster.