Minoru Esaka

Películas

Hiroshima, mon amour
Production Design
Después de rodar una película en Hiroshima, una joven actriz francesa pasa su última noche en un hotel, en compañía de un japonés. Son dos desconocidos, pero lo que podría ser la fugaz aventura de una noche se convierte en un intenso idilio que hace que ella rememore un amor imposible vivido en Nevers (Francia) unos años antes. La relación amorosa se convierte entonces en un proceso introspectivo a través del cual la mujer reconstruye su pasado y revela sus sentimientos más íntimos a su compañero.
The Stand in Hakone
Production Design
A period film about a peasant revolt in the region near Mount Fuji, occasioned by high officials' depriving the farmers of their water rights.
The Angry Street
Art Direction
The Angry Street includes a great deal of location shooting in the rebuilt city, including downtown streets, residential neighborhoods, the campus of the University of Tokyo, and the high life of jazzy dance halls. Sudo (Hara Yasumi) and Mori (Uno Jukichi) are two university students who make money by picking up rich girls in dance clubs and conning them into giving them cash. Mori is the brains of the operation, and Sudo is the suave dancer who picks up the girls. Over the course of the film, Sudo becomes involved with three different girls and is drawn into the gangster milieu, which he seems unable to resist even though he is responsible for his mother, grandmother, and sister, Masako (Wakayama Setsuko). In this world of bad boys and girls, Masako is the pillar of strength and moral virtue who finally enables Mori to straighten out.
Sayon's Bell
Art Direction
Based on the true story of a 17-year old Atayal girl called Sayun Hayun from Nan'oku village, Giran district, Taihoku Prefecture (in current Taiwan) who went missing and was thought to have drowned whilst helping carry the luggage of her teacher Masaki Takita during a storm in 1938.
Flowers of Patriotism
Art Direction
A nurse's tale of self-sacrifice during wartime. The title is borrowed from a patriotic song made popular by singer Hamako Watanabe during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
Dawn Chorus
Art Direction
Donguri and Shinomi
Art Direction
A city boy moves to the countryside and the kids there pick on him.
Notes of an Itinerant Performer
Art Direction
Uta’s mother died when she was six years old; her father she never met. She was forced to adopt a traveller’s life when her grandmother died, and now she is a dancer and part of a family of actors who travel from town to town, setting up street performances. A way of escape from this marginal existence arises when she gets the chance to move to tea merchant Hiramatsu’s place, where she is asked to teach his daughter to dance.
Nobuko
Production Design
A spirited young teacher challenges the conservative school employing her with liberal thinking and teaching methods.
Family Diary
Art Direction
Two childhood friends go their own ways but meet again some years later after they have both married. They get re-acquainted, meet each others’ families, and all is well. Then the disagreements start...
Los masajistas y una mujer
Production Design
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...
Children in the Wind
Production Design
On vacation's eve, a boy is sent to the countryside to live with his uncle after his father is imprisoned and accused of embezzlement.
A Star Athlete
Set Decoration
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.