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Jidaigeki de corte biográfico sobre Hokusai (1760-1849), pintor famoso por sus ukiyo-e (grabados a color japoneses que estuvieron de moda entre los siglos XVII y XIX). La película muestra la rivalidad de Hokusai con Utamaro, otro de los grandes artistas de la época, el esfuerzo de Hokusai para realizar las "36 visiones del monte Fuji", una de sus obras más conocidas, y su obsesión por pasar a la posteridad no por su obra paisajística, sino por ser capaz de plasmar en el papel la pasión femenina, para lo cual, y de la mano de su modelo favorita Onao, emprende la ejecución de su obra maestra: "El sueño de la mujer del pescador".
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A former retainer to a noble family kills his wife's father when he tries to expose his past crimes. When he begins an affair with the daughter of another clan's retainer, her father tries to poison him but the substance instead claims an innocent victim...
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Adaptation of a 1956 novel by Yukio Mishima.
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A man whose son has been murdered pushes to create laws to financially protect victims' families.
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Taking the Chilean coup as an example, a group of young officers plan to overthrow the Japanese government on V-J Day. They aim to abolish the post-war constitution, restore the national army and revive the traditional spirit of Japan. As the conspiracy is exposed, the coup squadrons are wiped out one by one. The remaining squadron takes over a night train bound for Tokyo.
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A wealthy Japanese sugar factory manager in Hawaii finds his wife sinking into depression and madness.
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Romance film
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Japanese film based on the song by Harumi Miyako.
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Japanese crime film.
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A young doctor starts working at a mental hospital in the Yokohama region and falls in love with one of the patients there.
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Ken's older sister Yoko, who has raised Ken like a mother, decides to move to Brazil with an older man.
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The film follows the story of Sugi Toranosuke, a ronin, who returns to his home town of Edo many years after his attempted suicide as a sickly child. Rescued and adopted by a master swordsman, he has grown into a master swordsman and a very kind gentleman. The time is around 1868 the year that the nails were finally put into the coffin containing the feudal system that nurtured and sustained the samurai. Sugi is confused and unsure about what is happening but his teacher wants him out of the chaos of the multiple power struggles between the various clans.
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Japanese crime film.
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A sentimental drama about aspiring artist, Eiji, who rescues a blind girl. His friends Goro and Minoru and the blind girl's sister Kazue are a happy group until Goro steals money from Kazue's purse. Goro is arrested and his friends start bothering Eiji. To escape their harassment he changes jobs. But then he becomes the victim of an unexpected accident.
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When his pistol is stolen, police detective Murakami is humiliated, especially when the gun is later implicated in a crime. Working with his superior, Chief Detective Sato, Murakami works feverishly to trace the location of his pistol, ultimately clashing with a gang of youthful Okinawans.
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Teenage film
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About a girl who marries in the middle of the Pacific War, is widowed at 18, and her unflagging struggle to survive during and after the war with her son.
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The story of the desperate struggle between the police and a large crime syndicate.
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Comedy of a phony doctor.
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Comedy of an entertainment agent and strip-teasers.
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It was five years ago when Minako spent a night with Sozo, younger brother of her ex-husband. She now lives in a local town with a rich old man who owns a dry goods store. Minako travels to Tokyo on business every three months, during which time she continues to meet Sozo, who has married the daughter of his respected teacher.
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La historia se desarrolla durante el período de Mizuno Tadakuni (1793-1851). El Señor Mizuno era un moralista extremo y trató de proscribir cualquier cosa más o menos placentera. Su razonamiento era que cosas como obras teatrales, novelas populares, comidas caras, pinturas, etc ... contribuían a la decadencia de la moral nacional.
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Tora-san regresa a su ciudad natal a instancias de su tío y su tía, pero una vez más causa caos y problemas para su gran boca. En un intento por hacer que se quede en casa y termine con su vida como vagabundo, la pareja de ancianos decide arreglar el matrimonio de Tora-san. Pero la reunión matrimonial nuevamente termina en vergüenza y la pareja de ancianos tiene que pagar la cuenta nuevamente. Después de una gran pelea, Tora-san está en el camino una vez más...
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During the early days of the war a young student, Makito (Kazuo Funaki), falls in love with Yuko (Mayumi Ozora), the widow of a naval officer. She, however, is living with the memories of her husband and it is her younger sister, Yumiko (Nana Ozaki), who grows fond of the student. Then, one day, a young naval officer, Tadayuki (Ken Ogata), a friend of her late husband, comes to see the widow and she becomes attracted to him. Though Makito is inspired to study for the navy, he is much upset when he learns that Yuko and Tadayuki are to marry.
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A su regreso del planeta Marte, una astronave es portadora de un virus que al contacto con nuestro planeta engendra al monstruo Gilala, un ser gigante que pesa 15.000 toneladas y pretende destrozar todas las ciudades que se le pongan en su camino.
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Taka, the daughter of Naniwa-ya, a longtime Osaka store owner, married Kichisaburo Kawashima-ya, the son of a kimono wholesaler. Her husband just tried to play with her like a sweet candy, but Taka fell in love with him. One day, the father-in-law suddenly dies, and the Kawashima-ya family fortune is rapidly changing. However, the depravity of Kichisaburo does not subside...
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Convencido de que el alma reside en la piel, de que su propio ser se ha desvanecido junto con los rasgos de su cara desfigurada a raíz de un accidente, un científico se obsesiona con la idea de cubrirse con una máscara, otro yo que, esperanzadamente, concibe como un nexo con el mundo.
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Los años de guerra llegan a su fin en un Japón unificado bajo el Shogunato Tokugawa. El espía Sasuke Sarutobi, cansado del conflicto, desea la paz pero otro importante espía llamado Tatewaki Koriyama planea abandonar al shogun por un clan rival, convulsionando el oscuro mundo de los espías.
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This movie is based on an immortal literary work "The Snow Country," a story about a life of geisha Komako who lives in a region with heavy snowfalls.
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Tiempo atras, Ôki, que está entrando en la mediana edad, tuvo una aventura con Otoko, una chica de 16 años. Se quedó embarazada, pero el niño murió al nacer, y la relación se detuvo en ese instante. Tiempo después, Ôki se convirtió en un famoso escritor, debido a una novela sobre esta historia de amor. Otoko, por su parte, se hizo famosa como pintora. Pero nunca olvidó el doble trauma y se hizo lesbiana. Su estudiante favorita y amada es la bella Keiko. Veinticuatro años después de su historia de amor, Ôki viaja de Tokyo a Kyoto para encontrarse con Otoko. La reunión es educada, escondiendo las sombras emocionales. Keiko tiene un plan: seducir a Ôki, quedarse embarazada, tener el bebé y dárselo a Otoko.
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Shinichi is not only poor, he is also deaf, and leads a joyless life with his sick mother. His one happiness is his friendship with a girl who works in a bar nearby. Then, one day, his mother dies after drinking the medicine that Shinichi himself gave her. It is discovered that the pills contained poison. He is apprehended on suspicion of murder and taken away for interrogation, unable to defend himself - being deaf and dumb - or even to proclaim his innocence.
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One day a company executive learns that his younger brother, whom he recommended, embezzled company funds. To save the situation he withdraws his life savings and gives money to his younger brother. He then suddenly disappears…
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As Japan is preparing to host the Olympics, a gang member wanting to go to America is sought after by the police after helping his friend conduct a robbery.
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After her mother runs away from home, Tomoko is raised to be a geisha. One day Tomoko meets her mother in a red-light district in Tokyo and her life deeply gets in trouble.
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Muraki es un yakuza recién salido de la cárcel. Hastiado con el rumbo que ha tomado su organización, conoce a Saeko, una enigmática joven interesada en el juego y las sensaciones fuertes.
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A Tokyo family escaping the war relocates to a Hokkaido village; their daughter is set to marry the local leader's son, but her siblings disapprove.
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A story about four best friends and their lives inside and outside college. Then suddenly one of them receives a surprising offer to be a movie star.
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A demobilized soldier becomes a day laborer with a road construction gang, and his wife goes to work to bolster their income. Their modest dream is to see their son grow and to be happy as a family.
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A treasury official passed over for promotion and obsessed with careerism interferes in the lives of his three sons, who seek escape from his relentless pressure in the mortal danger of mountain climbing.
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Una joven que trabaja en unas aguas termales salva a un estudiante que quería suicidarse. Éste se enamora de la chica, encontrando un motivo para vivir.
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Keiko y Saeko son una pareja de hermanas que ayudan económicamente a sus padres trabajando en una fábrica local. Además, tienen que aguantar la carga de un padre chapado a la antigua, que presiona a Keiko para que se case con un buen partido y así salve el negocio familiar. Ella se siente atraída por un compañero de trabajo pobre, pero también desea seguridad económica.
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A father and son are both heavy drinkers. However, the son dies in an accident at a bar, leaving behind a fiance…. A unique social satire that focuses on why people drink alcohol.
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Una joven que estaba prometida a un hombre al que amaba, se ve obligada a abandonar su aldea para ir a la guerra. Durante la contienda, fue violada y se vio obligada a casarse con su agresor. Aunque permanece a su lado, no ha conseguido perdonarlo. (FILMAFFINITY)
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The university professor Ozeki Hitoshi (Ryu Chishu) is regarded as an eccentric by people in his surroundings. When his daughter Tokiko is asked to marry a colleague, she and her mother are overjoyed, but Hitoshi is not satisfied with the situation.
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A promising dancer asks her professor to write a libretto for a Nō play. He then introduces her to a student of classical literature, but also a classical theatre student in the hope that the latter will marry Senya..
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Un empresario de la construcción contrata a un grupo de asesinos profesionales para que liquiden a una periodista que está investigando los negocios turbios que se trae entre manos.
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An opportunistic department store clerk gets involved with three women and attempts to manipulate them so he can move up the social ladder.
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In a time of continuous civil wars ravaging the fields of feudal Japan, the eldest son of a very poor peasant family, living alongside the bridge over the Fuefuki river, decides to serve a warlord to escape his miserable condition, being soon followed by his younger brothers. Although not all the men of the family take this tragic path of death, women of the family will be doomed to endure the pain of loss during the next five generations.
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An employee in an assurance company threatens to commit suicide when management announces a massive layoff, the company uses this threat to its own advantage by turning the incident into an advertising campaign. With the success of the campaign, however, he is no longer a desperate man pointing a gun to his head, but a potential leader who wishes to take advantage of his failed suicide.
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Love story between a student and girl whose parents are itinerant entertainers. Set in Japan in the 1920's.
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When a wealthy, selfish family decides to take care of an elderly hobo who collapsed near their home, they are beset by visits from his numerous friends.
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El título original de este film era "El chico que vendía palomas", pero los productores lo cambiaron por "Calle de amor y esperanza", contra los deseos del director. Un joven llamado Masao, huérfano de padre, vive con su madre enferma y su pequeña hermana. Para mantener a su familia, Masao trabaja como limpiabotas y como vendedor de palomas. Como son palomas mensajeras, vuelven con él una y otra vez de modo que puede revenderlas.
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A mother and her daughter who run a quiet mountain hotel, and guests who visit the hotel. A girl who does not know what a broken heart is, the attractive joy of first love, and separation is like parting with life. The mother-daughter duet with Isuzu Yamada attracted a lot of attention at that time. Haruko Wanibuchi, demonstrated rare attractiveness and pure charm by playing a heroine living in a beautiful and pure first love.
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A father curries favor with his bosses to further his career, but his wife has lost faith in him. She returns to her family home while they rent out their house during the summer to pay off their mortgage, and there she meets a lonely old man...
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A woman diver in great peril is rescued by Shinji, a fisherman. But his deed is belittled by Takiko, another diver, as a rash act. Her attitude, however, is nothing but a cloak to hide her affection for him. Shinji, hard working and manly, becomes the focus of many yearning eyes and Seikichi, the boss' son, picks a quarrel with him and violent fight ensues in which Shinji kills a man in self-defense.
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Five longtime friends get back together, but are disappointed to find that their bonds are not as strong as they once were.
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After surviving the double suicide pact she made with her lover, a woman gives birth to their child.
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Two men at an ironworks encounter roadblocks: the first does not have the grades to get a job, while the other finds himself falling for a co-worker.
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Esta es la historia de un remoto lugar situado al pie de una imponente montaña, cuyos habitante de manera inexplicable no consiguen superar los 70 años de vida. Granny, a punto de cumplir esa edad, espera contenta que llegue el momento de su muerte. Sólo su hijo Tatsuehi luchará para que pueda superar ese cumpleaños con vida. En 1983, Shohei Imamura dirigió un remake en color, que ganó entre otros premios la Palma de Oro en el festival de Cannes.
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The plans of a trio of burglars are continually thwarted by the arrival of visitors to the house they plan to rob.
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Ignoring the protests of his working-class mother, a young man becomes wrapped up in the world of delinquents and yakuza.
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A young woman marries someone else, but cannot forget her first lover.
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A coming-of-age story portrayed as the loss of all youthful illusions. Sixteen-year-old Yoichi dreams of becoming a sailor. His parents are fishmongers, and Yoichi lives together with them and his four siblings in cramped living conditions. His beloved younger sister is given to a wealthy, childless uncle; his best friend moves away; the girl he fell in love with from afar is with someone else: little by little, Yoichi loses all the people that are important to him.
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Now an old man, Masao returns to his childhood home and begins to recall his upbringing in this abandoned sector of Japan.
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A young widow, made world weary by her abusive, neglectful husband, finds herself in a minor scandal when she's seen with her intense, no-nonsense childhood sweetheart.
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Masaki Kobayashi directs this romantic drama concerning a family of florists.
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In this four part mystery-adventure, detective Kogoro Akechi and the members of the Boy Detectives Club must capture the Bronze Monster, a giant metal monster that steals valuable clocks.
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This drama of middle-class life in postwar Japan tells the story lower-middle-class workers in the city of Kawasaki, and their troubles and travails.
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1928. En la idílica isla rural de Shodoshima, la joven, brillante y motivada maestra Hisaki Oishi empieza por primera vez su tarea de profesora a cargo de doce niños de primaria, los inocentes y entrañables veinticuatro ojos que la mirarán en su primer año formativo de escuela. Al principio, los métodos de enseñanza poco ortodoxos de la nueva maestra y su moderna visión de chica de ciudad provocan cierto recelo en la comunidad pero pronto niños y adultos caen bajo su irresistible encanto. Al cabo de los años, la inminente guerra cambiará sus vidas para siempre.
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Machiko and Haruki’s drama continues. Machiko is not allowed to see Haruki. They finally meet again, but Haruki departs to Europe.
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A student at a woman's university takes a controversial action against the school's old-fashioned doctrines.
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Machiko and Haruki’s drama continues. Two meet again in Hokkaido only to be separated again.
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Machiko Ujiie and Haruki Atomiya first meet and fall in love on Ginza’s Sukiyabashi Bridge during the Great Tokyo Air Raid in March 1945. Machiko and Haruki pledge to meet again at the bridge in six months but part without asking each other’s names.
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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.
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A young student falls into a hopeless romantic attraction to a sick girl, whom he can only see from afar.
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Carmen falls in love with an artist in this sequel to Carmen Comes Home. The film is noted for being entirely shot with canted (Dutch) camera angles.
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A fishing union depends on two brothers to make up the losses caused by the dishonest captains they replaced.
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When a family has to relocate due to the war, they are ostracized by their new community.
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Una chica que había dejado su ciudad natal por la emocionante aventura de la gran ciudad regresa a casa años más tarde para una visita, lo que pronto de alguna manera causará escándalo.
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Two journalists and their lovers share an uncertain future.
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A jewelry store president begins to fall for the doctor treating her husband's illness.
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Miyako, una famosa cantante de ópera, es fotografiada junto al pintor Aoe, en un balneario de Izu. La foto es publicada algunas semanas después en el periódico sensacionalista Amor, con un texto totalmente falso. El pintor decide demandar a la publicación y contrata a un ambicioso abogado.
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Ambientada en la postguerra japonesa tras la II Guerra Mundial (1939-1945). Con la estructura del thriller americano y los convencionalismos japoneses, narra la historia de un joven detective al que roban su pistola. Agobiado por un sentimiento de deshonor más que de pérdida, emprende, con un veterano compañero, una frenética e incansable búsqueda que lo lleva a los bajos fondos de Tokyo.
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A matchmaker looks to unite a young woman from a wealthy Tokyo family with the humble owner of an auto garage.
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Life and love in corrupt postwar Tokyo, as a young couple struggles against both the law and the mob.
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Un hombre maduro y su joven amante se trasladan a un edificio comprado por el primero. Su intención inicial es echar a los inquilinos (un pintor y su familia) para revender la propiedad, pero el surgimiento de lazos de simpatía alargará la cohabitación. Por el camino, la joven Midori comenzará a cuestionar su modo de vida, conmovida por el descubrimiento de una cotidianidad más sencilla y, quizá, más feliz.
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Like many women after the war, Toshiko works as a chorus girl; her boyfriend Tadashi wishes she'd join him more frequently, but she detests his criminal involvement.
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A Japanese war widow recalls her love affair with her deceased husband.
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Tras la Segunda Guerra Mundial y la derrota de Japón, la aristocrática familia Anjo se encuentra arruinada. Para saldar sus deudas deben vender su mansión y deciden celebrar una última fiesta... Uno de los clásicos del cine japonés filmado durante la ocupación americana. Película de tintes sociales realizado por el izquierdista Yoshimura con guión de su cuñado, el luego célebre cineasta Kaneto Shindô. Protagoniza la mítica Setsuko Hara.
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En el Japón de la postguerra, un hombre encuentra en la calle a un niño perdido y lo lleva a su casa, pero nadie quiere acogerlo, ni siquiera por una noche. Finalmente, lo hace una viuda de agrio carácter. Al día siguiente, la mujer lleva al niño a su barrio y averigua que el padre se ha marchado a Tokyo y lo ha abandonando. (FILMAFFINITY)
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In postwar Japan a young woman is unable to marry her sweetheart because her family's in difficult circumstances and needs her income to keep afloat.
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A young man who is unable to tell his childhood friend how he feels makes a pledge with her to reveal all of their secrets during the upcoming festival.
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A Japanese family weathers much hardship after their military uncle comes to live with them during WWII.
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The sweet but naive denizens of a charming port town are hoodwinked by a couple of con men at the outset of World War II. But the hustlers’ plan backfires when they come down with severe cases of conscience. Keisuke Kinoshita’s directorial debut is a breezy, warmhearted, and often very funny crowd-pleaser that’s a testament to the filmmaker’s faith in people.
