Hideo Shigehara

El profesor Komiya está casado con Tokiko, una mujer muy estricta y dominante. El matrimonio tiene que hacerse cargo de la custodia de su sobrina Setsuko que, aunque menor de edad, ya es una mujer liberada, que fuma y sale de noche. Un sábado Komiya va a un bar, donde encuentra accidentalmente a Setsuko. Cuando Tokiko ve que la chica llega a casa con uno de los estudiantes de su marido y, además, se entera de que éste no ha dormido en casa, empieza a alimentar toda clase de sospechas.

The lion dance in traditional Japanese theatre.

In a Tokyo boarding house a group of students and recent graduates struggle to complete their studies and find jobs. Considered a lost film.

Kihachi, an unemployed worker, wanders around the industrial flatlands of Tokyo's Koto district with his two young sons, Zenko and Masako. He is unable to find a job and has to rely on his sons catching stray dogs to earn reward money for their meals. As days go by, Kihachi and the boys no longer have enough money to stay at an inn for the night. Luckily for him, he encounters an old friend, Otsune, who finds him a job and allows them to stay at her eatery house.

In a back alley of the Shitamachi district of Tokyo, Kihachi bears witness to a series of romantic complications involving the inhabitants of the neighborhood. Considered to be a lost film.

In a back alley of the Shitamachi district of Tokyo, Kihachi bears witness to a series of romantic complications involving the inhabitants of the neighborhood. Considered to be a lost film.

Un anciano y veterano actor que dirige un grupo de teatro Kabuki regresa a un pueblo remoto, donde vive su antigua novia y el hijo de ambos, que ya tiene 19 años. El chico, que desconoce su verdadera identidad, le llama "tío". En 1959, Ozu hizo un remake de este film: "Las hierbas flotantes". (FILMAFFINITY)

Un anciano y veterano actor que dirige un grupo de teatro Kabuki regresa a un pueblo remoto, donde vive su antigua novia y el hijo de ambos, que ya tiene 19 años. El chico, que desconoce su verdadera identidad, le llama "tío". En 1959, Ozu hizo un remake de este film: "Las hierbas flotantes". (FILMAFFINITY)

Two Tokyo co-workers come across a destitute young lady in search of a place to live.

Ambientada en Yokohama, ciudad portuaria donde el crimen y la prostitución dominan las calles. narra la turbulenta relación entre un gángster y su novia Tokiko, que de día trabaja como mecanógrafa en una empresa. Su rival, trabaja en una tienda de discos y está muy preocupada porque su hermano pequeño empieza a deslizarse por la pendiente del crimen.

Ryoichi and Chikako, brother and sister, live together. Chikako toils during the day and, at night, prostitutes herself to fund his college tuition.

A young man falls in love with a prostitute and is disowned by his family. He is then drafted, and heads off to war. Script exists - considered to be a lost film.

A young man falls in love with a prostitute and is disowned by his family. He is then drafted, and heads off to war. Script exists - considered to be a lost film.

When a young man inherits his father's lucrative business, he cheats the system to set up three of his college friends with jobs.

When a young man inherits his father's lucrative business, he cheats the system to set up three of his college friends with jobs.

La familia Yoshii se traslada a vivir a un suburbio de Tokio para que el padre esté más cerca de su trabajo. Los dos hijos deben adaptarse a la nueva escuela, pero se encuentran con la hostilidad de un grupo de chicos entre los que está Taro, el hijo del señor Iwasaki, jefe de su padre. Reacios a ir a la escuela, consiguen vencer en una pelea a la banda enemiga con la ayuda de un vendedor de licores. Al final se hacen amigos de Taro, y éste les enseña un vídeo en que su padre hace payasadas para complacer a su jefe, el padre de Taro. Los niños se enfadan con su padre y emprenden una original huelga infantil.

La familia Yoshii se traslada a vivir a un suburbio de Tokio para que el padre esté más cerca de su trabajo. Los dos hijos deben adaptarse a la nueva escuela, pero se encuentran con la hostilidad de un grupo de chicos entre los que está Taro, el hijo del señor Iwasaki, jefe de su padre. Reacios a ir a la escuela, consiguen vencer en una pelea a la banda enemiga con la ayuda de un vendedor de licores. Al final se hacen amigos de Taro, y éste les enseña un vídeo en que su padre hace payasadas para complacer a su jefe, el padre de Taro. Los niños se enfadan con su padre y emprenden una original huelga infantil.

A student comes up with various schemes to avoid paying a tailor the money he owes him. Considered to be a lost film.

A student comes up with various schemes to avoid paying a tailor the money he owes him. Considered to be a lost film.

Mr. Omura, a teacher, leads a group of male students in an outdoor drill. One slight, comic young man, Shinji Okajima, has no shirt under his jacket; he scratches at fleas and makes faces behind Omura's back. Jump ahead several years, Shinji is married with three children. He sells insurance, and on the company's annual bonus day, he protests when an older worker is fired. Shinji loses his own job as a result, and he and his wife must find ways to cope. Lassitude, pride, the demands and needs of young children, and relationships from bygone school days all play a part in the outcome of their struggle.

Mr. Omura, a teacher, leads a group of male students in an outdoor drill. One slight, comic young man, Shinji Okajima, has no shirt under his jacket; he scratches at fleas and makes faces behind Omura's back. Jump ahead several years, Shinji is married with three children. He sells insurance, and on the company's annual bonus day, he protests when an older worker is fired. Shinji loses his own job as a result, and he and his wife must find ways to cope. Lassitude, pride, the demands and needs of young children, and relationships from bygone school days all play a part in the outcome of their struggle.

Two people are fascinated by a sculptor's statue. The film is lost.

La Señora y la Barba comienza como una comedia bulliciosa, vulgar, que poco a poco se adentra en la melancolía y el patetismo. "La barba" del título pertenece a Okajima, un maestro de espada kendo que no puede encontrar un trabajo en la época de la depresión en Japón. La barba se la afeita cuando “la bella" - una mecanógrafo que ha salvado de un atraco- le convence de que es un obstáculo para encontrar un trabajo. Incluso bien afeitado, él no puede huir de los problemas: la nueva mujer de su vida resulta ser un ladrón de joyas. La Señora y la Barba es fascinante por su "audacia sexual" y por su crítica total a la occidentalización y el nacionalismo japonés estrecho de miras-

La Señora y la Barba comienza como una comedia bulliciosa, vulgar, que poco a poco se adentra en la melancolía y el patetismo. "La barba" del título pertenece a Okajima, un maestro de espada kendo que no puede encontrar un trabajo en la época de la depresión en Japón. La barba se la afeita cuando “la bella" - una mecanógrafo que ha salvado de un atraco- le convence de que es un obstáculo para encontrar un trabajo. Incluso bien afeitado, él no puede huir de los problemas: la nueva mujer de su vida resulta ser un ladrón de joyas. La Señora y la Barba es fascinante por su "audacia sexual" y por su crítica total a la occidentalización y el nacionalismo japonés estrecho de miras-

Two reporters find that they are repeatedly beaten to the scoop by a new female journaist, 'young miss'. They decide to team up with her to investigate a secret club for wealthy voyeurs. Considered to be a lost film.

Two reporters find that they are repeatedly beaten to the scoop by a new female journaist, 'young miss'. They decide to team up with her to investigate a secret club for wealthy voyeurs. Considered to be a lost film.

A salaryman finds some money in the street and gets a reward for returning it to its rightful owner. However his colleagues immediately start borrowing money and selling him things he doesn't need, much to his wife's annoyance. Considered to be a lost film.

A young couple jump into the sea as part of a suicide pact. The man is rescued and subsequently discovers that his lover is also alive and working in a dance hall. Considered to be a lost film.

The film revolves around a desperate man who commits a crime in order to support his family, and the moral dilemma the policeman who tracks him down finds himself in.

This bittersweet comedy tells the tale of a group of college roommates attempting to cheat their way through their exams. As the title goes, things don't work out for our roguish main character, but his classmates soon find themselves in a similarly sorry state...

This bittersweet comedy tells the tale of a group of college roommates attempting to cheat their way through their exams. As the title goes, things don't work out for our roguish main character, but his classmates soon find themselves in a similarly sorry state...

Kenji is a small-time thief who likes drinking and fighting. When he falls in love with sweet and simple Yazue, and she finds out what kind of guy he really is, she leaves him "until he becomes an honest person." Kenji soon finds it's not easy to get rid of one's past.

Bored in his marriage, a dentist flirts with a young woman on a train. However he soon finds himself embroiled in a series of misunderstandings with his wife, the young woman and her husband. Considered to be a lost film.

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.

Tetsuo Nomoto, un joven licenciado, intenta en vano encontrar un trabajo digno de sus méritos. Poco después se casa con su novia, Machiko, a quien oculta que no tiene empleo. Las penurias económicas no tardan en hacer mella, lo que fuerza a Machiko a buscar trabajo en un bar. "Me gradué, pero..." duraba originalmente 77 minutos, de los cuales (a fecha de 2013) se conservan exclusivamente entre 11-15. Éstos fueron incluidos en el DVD "The Student Comedies (The Ozu Collection)". (FILMAFFINITY)

The remaining fragments of an early Ozu film. It is the simple story of two friends who live together in a poor tenement and who share about everything in life (food, hopes, work...). Everything goes well until they gallantly rescue a young (and pretty) woman injured in a road accident. Since the lady has nowhere to go, the two good-hearted friends invite her to their home. She soon becomes their housemaid and they soon begin to seek her favors. Alas, she falls for a young student she has met in the neighborhood, much to the two friends' dismay.

Students Watanabe and Yamamoto unknowingly compete for the same girl.

Students Watanabe and Yamamoto unknowingly compete for the same girl.

A young man falls for one of the geisha working in the house where he lives. However, the romance doesn't find favour with his father or current girlfriend. Considered to be a lost film.

A hen-pecked man works as his artist wife's model and a house-husband. When her patron flirts with her and humiliates him, he decides to get revenge by trying his own hand as a painter. Considered to be a lost film.

When a woman unfairly suspects her husband of flirting with a shop assistant, she decides to flirt with their landlord to get revenge. Considered to be a lost film.

Comedy about a young man juggling several girlfriends. Considered to be a lost film.

A married man falls for a dancer and his wife's uncle hires a private detective to spy on him. Considered to be a lost film.

Lost silent film