Yoshiro Kawazu

Birth : 1926-04-28, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan

Death : 1972-12-30

Movies

Aoimoku no yome-han
Director
The Hidden Profile
Director
Based on the novel of the same name by Seichō Matsumoto.
The Izu Dancer
Director
Love story between a student and girl whose parents are itinerant entertainers. Set in Japan in the 1920's.
Kaze no naka no hitomi
Director
Aozora yoitsu mademo
Director
Tokyo 1958
Producer
Eight filmmakers collaborate with Teshigahara to create a "frantic, non-stop pop newsreel". Mixing cutout animation with color and black & white photography, this snapshot documents Tokyo in 1957-58, when it had eight and ½ million people and was the largest city in the world. Pollution, bridal fashion, rites, rituals, partying-- Nearly every angle of Tokyo life is compacted into a mere 24 minutes.
Tokyo 1958
Editor
Eight filmmakers collaborate with Teshigahara to create a "frantic, non-stop pop newsreel". Mixing cutout animation with color and black & white photography, this snapshot documents Tokyo in 1957-58, when it had eight and ½ million people and was the largest city in the world. Pollution, bridal fashion, rites, rituals, partying-- Nearly every angle of Tokyo life is compacted into a mere 24 minutes.
Tokyo 1958
Screenplay
Eight filmmakers collaborate with Teshigahara to create a "frantic, non-stop pop newsreel". Mixing cutout animation with color and black & white photography, this snapshot documents Tokyo in 1957-58, when it had eight and ½ million people and was the largest city in the world. Pollution, bridal fashion, rites, rituals, partying-- Nearly every angle of Tokyo life is compacted into a mere 24 minutes.
Tokyo 1958
Director
Eight filmmakers collaborate with Teshigahara to create a "frantic, non-stop pop newsreel". Mixing cutout animation with color and black & white photography, this snapshot documents Tokyo in 1957-58, when it had eight and ½ million people and was the largest city in the world. Pollution, bridal fashion, rites, rituals, partying-- Nearly every angle of Tokyo life is compacted into a mere 24 minutes.
Tears
Director
A young woman marries someone else, but cannot forget her first lover.
Ai to chie no wa
Director
Eyes of Children
Director
Directed by Yoshiro Kawazu
Twenty-Four Eyes
Assistant Director
Schoolteacher Hisako Oishi struggles to imbue her students with a positive view of the world despite the fact that war is looming.
The Garden of Women
Assistant Director
A student at a woman's university takes a controversial action against the school's old-fashioned doctrines.
A Japanese Tragedy
Assistant Director
At the close of the war in Japan, a widowed mother makes every possible sacrifice to bring up her ungrateful son and daughter who are unimpressed with their poor standard of living at home. They gradually reject her in search of the material comforts that working as a maid cannot provide. The mother's despair becomes interminable.
Carmen Comes Home
Assistant Director
A girl who'd left her hometown for the exciting adventure of the big city returns home years later for a visit, soon somehow causing scandal.
Phoenix
Original Story
A Japanese war widow recalls her love affair with her deceased husband.