Kisao Tobita
Nacimiento : 1926-03-24, Asakusa, Tokyo, Japan
Driver
Cuando llega el malvado alienígena Zanon para esclavizar a la Tierra, toda esperanza parece perdida. Un joven tiene una conexión especial con la tortuga gigante Gamera. Ya ha batallado contra monstruos como Barugon, Gyaos, Viras, Guiron, Jiger, Zigra, y en esta batalla final Gamera deberá sacrificarse para destruir la nave espacial pirata y matar a Zanon.
Erotic drama.
Tatematsu Minoru, a yakuza belonging to the Ishikawa group that runs the Shinjuku area, has a beautiful sister named Akane. He dreams of sending her to college and turning her into a perfect young lady. He's extremely fond of Akane. His fondness for her goes beyond how he feels about his mistress, Kanae. And yet, Akane feels alone. Now, a new tutor comes into her life that seems to have taken a liking to her...
Relative
This Japanese melodrama chronicles the exploits of a geisha's beautiful daughter. The daughter is the geisha's pride and she spares nothing to insure that she has a bright future. But the hard-working young woman's dreams of becoming a dressmaker are shattered.... She then becomes a nightclub hostess who plays cards with male patrons using her body as the prize.
15th in the 17 film Daiei "Woman Gambler" series
Twelfth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.
Third film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.
Sakura Nishi es una joven enfermera enviada en 1939 a un hospital de campaña en China durante la guerra chino-japonesa. Impactada por la inhumana violencia de la guerra en su tarea sanitaria, trata de entender, ayudar y, en la medida de sus posibilidades, humanizar a quienes se hallan inmersos en esa guerra, incluido el doctor Okabe, cirujano del que depende.
Adaptation of Seicho Matsumoto's novel of the same name.
Japanese comedy directed by Noriaki Yuasa.
Camera shop clerk
A comedy directed by Yasuzo Masumura starring Yunosuke Ito.
Forensics Section
El presidente de la compañía alimenticia Fujiyama Foods ha sido asesinado en su domicilio pero el motivo no es nada esclarecedor. El investigador Akira Kido deberá desentrañar la verdad, sin embargo se cruzará cada vez con más sospechosos que se acusan entre ellos y una complicada conspiración.
One of many adaptations of "Onna no isshō", this time by Yasuzo Masumura as a starring vehicle for famed actress Machiko Kyo.
Ayako Takigawa tiene que defender su inocencia ante un tribunal, acusada de la muerte de su marido en extrañas circunstancias. Los indicios sugieren un oscuro triángulo amoroso.
Set in 1926 when Japanese tradition was much stronger, this drama looks at the inner workings of a small family, especially the relationship between a sister and brother.
Photographer
A youth drama set in a Japanese university which is home to a group of active, leftist students.
Kenji
On his release from prison a young yakuza, along with his brother, decides to turn his back on criminal life instead of taking over the position of his recently deceased father, boss of the Asahina clan. But their exit proves more difficult than planned when their rival clan steps in to exact revenge.
A journalist decides to do his own investigation after a series of strange murders are committed during a local election campaign.
Remake de un film mudo dirigido por el propio Ozu en el año 1934. Narra la historia de un grupo de actores ambulantes que van a parar a una pequeña población de provincias. Allí el actor principal se reencuentra con una antigua amante y con un hijo ilegítimo.
Duro relato antibélico que narra la desesperada situación, abocada a la derrota, que sufrió el ejército japonés en Filipinas, en 1945, durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. (FILMAFFINITY)
The inventor of a ground-breaking glue, Sanada, becomes rich thanks to his discovery a high executive in his company. Because of this promotion, his world is changing completely : his wife behaves like never before, considering she's now rich and has the right to do whatever she wants, even having an affair. (Also occasionally known in English as “Overflow”)
Nishi es un ejecutivo de publicidad de una empresa de caramelos que planea lanzar un nuevo producto, en feroz competencia con otras dos empresas.
Kosaka drops to death while ice climbing with his friend Uozu to see the sunrise on the New Year’s Day. The investigators try to find the cause of the death, then discover that the cut rope was made in the factory for which Uozu’s brother works.
Dr. Fujita
The story revolves around a young man appointed to rescue a troubled hospital who must choose between two women, a dedicated nurse or a spoiled rich girl.
A traditional bar mistress in Kyoto clashes with her Tokyo rival.
A handsome and pure-hearted employee who thought he was single actually has a secret child. His girlfriend, a beautiful secretary, and the high-maintenance female manager suddenly panic, and the whole company is in an uproar.
Shimada is a student of U College. When the college's baseball team wins the day, he and his friend Ito drug two girls they met at the game.
A young woman, who must support her father as a middle-aged man's mistress, finds herself falling in love with a student closer to her age.
Boy with typhoid
Kyoji Fujisaki (Mifune), un joven cirujano militar, contrae la sífilis mientras cura a un herido durante la guerra. Acabada la contienda, la enfermedad será motivo de discusión entre el médico y su prometida. Finalmente, él no tendrá más remedio que enfrentarse a un grave dilema: aceptar, en su estado, las responsabilidades de la vida familiar o dedicarse en cuerpo y alma a la medicina.
Based on the short story The Psychological Test by Edogawa Rampo.
Family of Love
Saki Yamada
Tomotaka Tasaka's A Pebble by the Wayside (Robo no Ishi), made in 1938 and taken from a Yuzo Yamamoto novel, takes place around 1902, was about a young boy brought up entirely by his mother since his drunken father is never home. An intelligent teacher wants to send him to middle school, but instead the father apprentices him to a clothing store to which he is in debt. The mother dies and the boy is forced to quit work when his father insults the store owner. Later the boy goes to Tokyo, but only to continue his hardships. First he is forced to do a maid's job at a boarding house and later is used by an old woman to steal at funerals. Finally he is rescued by the teacher, whom he meets in Tokyo.
One of Uchida’s early sound films, Unending Advance is based on a curious story by Yasujiro Ozu, in which an examination of the quotidian problems of a middle-aged salaryman and his family segues into an idyllic dream of an implausible future. The surviving print, although incomplete, offers an essential glimpse into Uchida’s prewar period, when he was associated more with realist dramas than with the period films that dominated his work after the war.