Toshiko Yabuki

Nacimiento : 1931-01-07, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

Muerte : 1990-10-12

Películas

Have You Seen the Barefoot God?
Hatsuko Suzuki
2 almost inseparable friends. The talented painter recognized by all decided to leave the town where they live and become an artist and the shy poet who only sees his future in his mother's business.
Taro, el niño dragón
(voice)
Taro es un niño perezoso que no hace nada aparte de comer y dormir durante todo el día. Es un buen luchador y por ello un mago le da una poción que le da la fuerza de cien hombres, pero solamente funcionará cuando utilice esta fuerza para ayudar a la gente. Un día recibe una mala noticia: su abuela le cuenta que han convertido a su madre en un dragón y Taro decide encontrarla pase lo que pase. A lo largo de su viaje tiene que derrotar demonios o ayudar a la gente que se encuentra a su paso de igual manera.
The Class of the Sewage Canal
The struggle of a young man and boys who try to create the environment where they can speak their minds freely.
If You Were Young: Rage
If You Were Young: Rage highlights the other side of post-war Japanese prosperity, focusing on the throngs of young people who missed out on the boom. We follow a group of young men that can't seem to get ahead, despite their willingness to try. Then one hits upon a plane - to work together to save for a dump truck and thus become independent contractors and be their own bosses at last. Ultimately life presents obstacles: jail for one, violence at the hands of the police for another and a girlfriend and subsequent children for the third. An early Kinji Fukasaku gem that imports the freewheeling style of the French New Wave and the hip detachment of American noir.
Tormento
Reiko es viuda, su esposo Morita ha muerto en la guerra, dejándola al cargo del negocio familiar, que cada vez pierde más clientes a manos de los grandes supermercados. Koji, hermano de Morita, regresa de Tokio, aparentemetne dispuesto a echar una mano pero complicará más las cosas.
A Wanderer's Notebook
Considered one of the finest late Naruses and a model of film biography, A Wanderer’s Notebook features remarkable performances by Hideko Takamine – Phillip Lopate calls it “probably her greatest performance” – and Kinuyo Tanaka as mother and daughter living from hand to mouth in Twenties Tokyo. Based on the life and career of Fumiko Hayashi, the novelist whose work Naruse adapted to the screen several times, A Wanderer’s Notebook traces her bitter struggle for literary recognition in the first half of the twentieth century – her affairs with feckless men, the jobs she took to survive (peddler, waitress, bar maid), and her arduous, often humiliating attempts to get published in a male-dominated culture.
Hunting Rifle
Sadayo
Story of a woman, Saiko, who divorces her doctor husband when she is given a baby by a stranger who claims it is the husband's child. Saiko embarks on an affair with her cousin's husband, but a crisis threatens when she discovers that her ex-husband is about to remarry.
The River Fuefuki
In a time of continuous civil wars ravaging the fields of feudal Japan, the eldest son of a very poor peasant family, living alongside the bridge over the Fuefuki river, decides to serve a warlord to escape his miserable condition, being soon followed by his younger brothers. Although not all the men of the family take this tragic path of death, women of the family will be doomed to endure the pain of loss during the next five generations.
A Japanese Tragedy
At the close of the war in Japan, a widowed mother makes every possible sacrifice to bring up her ungrateful son and daughter who are unimpressed with their poor standard of living at home. They gradually reject her in search of the material comforts that working as a maid cannot provide. The mother's despair becomes interminable.