A group of rank-and-file Japanese soldiers are jailed for crimes against humanity, themselves victims of a nation refusing to bear its burdens as a whole.
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.
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.
Tomuhiko es un niño de 10 años que pasa su infancia bajo la sombra de una guerra civil japonesa, en 1896. Su único objetivo será alistarse en el ejército y cumplir la promesa que le hizo a su padre....
A wealthy family will not allow the military to grow crops on their fields due to their superstitious beliefs about their son's illness.
Taro
Emi Ota and her friend Okiku stay briefly at a mountain inn and then return to Tokyo. Later, Nanmura, a soldier on leave, steps on an ornamental hairpin in the public bath at the inn. Emi writes to the inn saying she has lost a hairpin and, when she discovers that it injured Nanmura, returns to apologize. The longer term visitors at the inn meet together to discuss the hairpin incident. These include a grumpy Professor, a young couple Mr and Mrs Hiroyasu, and an old man staying with his two grandsons. They hope to see a romance blossom between Nanmura and Emi, after Nanmura declares that there is something almost poetic in finding a hairpin in the bath.
A city boy moves to the countryside and the kids there pick on him.
Eiko's younger brother, Tadao
Melodrama about a talented singer who finally makes her debut
Weed with Flowers
Sampei
A follow-up to Children in the Wind, Four Seasons of Children(a.k.a. Kodomo no Shiki) is also based on a Tsubota Joji novel. The film is divided into two chapters, following the young protagonists' minor adventures and real-world awakenings over spring and summer, then autumn and winter.
Dos invidentes se ganan la vida trabajando como masajistas en varios balnearios. En uno de ellos coinciden con una misteriosa mujer de Tokio, de la que muchos sospechan que es la culpable de los robos que se están produciendo en las posadas de ese balneario. Uno de los dos masajistas se enamora de la mujer...
Haruo
Yuki is a young, single mother supporting herself and her son, Haru, with a job as a bar hostess.
During college military training exercises, the bond between two friends and athletic rivals is tested when one of them becomes involved with a woman who may be a prostitute.
Un carismático conductor de autobús es apodado "Arigatô-san (Sr. Gracias)" debido a las constantes palabras de agradecimiento que dirige a los peatones que le dejan paso en el camino. En uno de sus viajes desde el pueblo de Izu hasta la ciudad de Tokyo llevará en su autobús, entre otros variopintos personajes, a una madre que se ha visto obligada por la penuria económica a mandar a su hija a trabajar en un burdel.
Family drama. A middle-aged father has just married off his third daughter, but still has his nine year old son to raise whom he resents as he was unwanted. (British Film Institute)
Tokochibi
A Japanese film
The story focuses on the widower Nemoto, ostensibly a businessman, who has one son, Kanichi, the hero of the title. Nemoto remarries; his new wife is a widow with a son and daughter of her own. However, Nemoto’s business turns out to be out a shady scam, and he disappears, leaving his wife to raise the three children alone. In order to support the family, she is obliged to become a bar hostess. She conceals this shameful employment from the children, but the truth comes out years later, after her daughter is rejected by her husband’s family when they investigate her background.
Hideo as a boy
The story focuses on the widower Nemoto, ostensibly a businessman, who has one son, Kanichi, the hero of the title. Nemoto remarries; his new wife is a widow with a son and daughter of her own. However, Nemoto’s business turns out to be out a shady scam, and he disappears, leaving his wife to raise the three children alone. In order to support the family, she is obliged to become a bar hostess. She conceals this shameful employment from the children, but the truth comes out years later, after her daughter is rejected by her husband’s family when they investigate her background.
