Eiji Oshimoto

Eiji Oshimoto

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Eiji Oshimoto

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The Tiger of Malaya
A band of guerrillas fight against occupying British forces in Malaya.
The General, Staff and Soldiers
Submarine Number One
This film begins with a teacher describing to his students how brave the crew was which died as result of Japan's first submarine accident. The film then follows two of the pupils, one becomes a submarine captain and the other designs submarines.
Nightingale
Village Council Member
An episodic film about life in and around a rural police station and the people it serves.
Love
Heinosuke Gosho evokes in this film the family conflicts engendered by the eternal problem of a father who projects his professional desires on the life of his son. The sister Machiko is the essential link that will allow everyone to apologize to each other and achieve reconciliation
Chûshingura - Zempen: Akahokyô no maki
The Loyal 47 Ronin
Chotaro Kasahara
This 1932 adaptation is the earliest sound version of the ever-popular and much-filmed Chushingura story of the loyal 47 retainers who avenged their feudal lord after he was obliged to commit hara-kiri due to the machinations of a villainous courtier. As the first sound version of the classic narrative, the film was something of an event, and employed a stellar cast, who give a roster of memorable performances. Director Teinosuke Kinugasa was primarily a specialist in jidai-geki (period films), such as the internationally celebrated Gate of Hell (Jigokumon, 1953), and although he is now most famous as the maker of the avant-garde silent films A Page of Madness (Kurutta ichipeji, 1926) and Crossroads (Jujiro, 1928), Chushingura is in fact more typical of his output than those experimental works. The film ranked third in that year’s Kinema Junpo critics’ poll, and Joseph Anderson and Donald Richie noted that 'not only the sound but the quick cutting was admired by many critics.
The Blacksmith of the Forest
Ichiro Ikeda
Umi mo yusha
Beyond The Pass
Debut film by Hiroshi Shimizu.