Toshio Ubukata

Japanese comedy film.

Japanese comedy film.

The story tells of Tsuchiya, a university professor and a widower who is in love with a widow who runs a small restaurant, and his son is in love with a runaway girl who turns out to be the leader of a religious sect. Kusano is the henpecked proprietor of a rice biscuit shop who dreams of owning a bird and dog shop and his daughter is in love with a boarder, employed by the private detective agency searching for the runaway girl. The agency head has his own dream of arranging thirty marriages and has already accomplished twenty-seven. Tatsumi is a newspaper reporter who dreams of a big scoop to enable him to marry a girl TV producer and his friend a mountain climbing enthusiast who dreams of joining a Himalayan expedition but is opposed by his wife. His love of the mountains is shared by a boarder in their home and by a fishmonger's son.

1958 Shochiku adaptation of Natsume's novel.

The story of a young couple deeply in love with each other but, because of complications and misunderstandings created by the people surrounding them, they find it very difficult to achieve happiness.

Nami (波 Nami) is a Japanese film directed by Noboru Nakamura. It was entered into the 1952 Cannes Film Festival.

"Pure white nights" - A romantic tale that depicts love between married people and the psychology of their marriage with elegant and a controversial touch. Love, art and suffering until the tragic and absurd ending.

Adaptación de la novela homónima de Dostoievski. Kameda, condenado a muerte por crímenes de guerra, en el último momento se salva de ser fusilado. La conmoción le provoca durante cierto tiempo fuertes ataques epilépticos; pero, al mismo tiempo, también se produce en él una profunda transformación, que algunos llaman "idiotez", pero que no es más que sencillez, bondad y una gran capacidad de amar.

Drama directed by Yasushi Sasaki.

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.

The tale of a feudal swordsman who cynically takes no responsibility for anything, relegating it to others, and then taking the credit.

Life and love in corrupt postwar Tokyo, as a young couple struggles against both the law and the mob.

A 1948 Japanese film.

A young lawyer falls in love with the daughter of his former professor, whom he's hired to tutor his children.

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.

A lawyer fights doggedly for a more just legal system to rid Japan of its draconian penal system.

Kiyoshi, un joven oficial de clase acomodada, es enviado a la Península de Izu, cerca de Tokio. No hay lugar dónde vivir y el templo local permanece lleno de gente que ha debido alejarse de sus hogares como consecuencia de la guerra. Unos lugareños le indican a Kiyoshi que el dueño de un restaurante cercano y padre de dos hijas solteras tiene una habitación libre en su casa. Las relaciones entre los miembros de la familia no volverán a ser las mismas luego de la llegada del nuevo inquilino. Estrenada el 30 de agosto de 1945, apenas dos semanas después de la rendición nipona, Las jóvenes de Izu fue el primer estreno cinematográfico japonés luego del fin de la Segunda Guerra. Gosho había realizado apenas cuatro películas durante esos años y ninguna de ellas puede ser considerada artículo de propaganda.

Following a young man through his childhood ambition to follow his father into the military to losing his life in combat in China.

Adaptation of Kishida Kunio's novel. Set against the backdrop of a power struggle within a hospital, depicts the love lives of the director's daughter, the administrative director, a doctor, and a nurse.

A man who works late hours at a deadening job lives together with his wife and his younger sister. The younger sister's a modern girl who's starting to receive romantic attention from one of her co-workers.

A young student of traditional dance falls in love with a handsome young man who visits the dance school in order to take photographs.

Shigeo is an aspiring writer living with his girl friend Minako and hoping for success and a better tomorrow every day. Both live on what Minako earns from working in a café. Shigeo is not happy with the situation and neither is his family who do not approve of Minako. Especially his uncle tries to convince him to leave Minako, even using his influence behind the scenes. Things start to change when Shigeo's sister pays the young couple a visit, being the first member of Shigeo's family to actually get to know Minako in person.

Pre-war Asakusa was a riotous district of cabarets, dance-halls and brothels - a striking backdrop for Shimazu's story of innocence and experience. Pretty, young Reiko is the new dancer in an infamous theatre troupe, and her fellow performers try to protect her virtue in a land of vice. Meanwhile, an ageing actor wants to be a hero off stage as well as on, and the troupe matriarch Marie has to keep them all together.

A businessman’s daughter falls in love with one of her father’s employees.