A narrative feature made from a collage of clips from various films around the world.
Prof. Yunaka
When Tora-san returns to visit his family, he is surprised to find an arrogant professor occupying his room. The professor and Tora-san become rivals for the affection of Chiyo.
Ichihara
Japanese crime movie.
Toyokura
A crime story (with strong elements of comedy) that pits a determined detective against a gang of pickpockets in Osaka. The detective (played by Keiju Kobayashi) and the leader of the gang (played by Norihei Miki) have an interesting wartime backstory together that fuels much of the story.
Sakaki
Yoji Kitami, a fisherman's son, is a student in Tokyo. His father had died at sea and Taichiro, his brother, is sending him to the university. But the outbreak of violence by radical students and blockade of classrooms make studying impossible and Yoji goes home. Fortunately, he meets Katsuyuki Shinoda, a childhood friend, who works on a whaling vessel. Yoji decides to join him and rediscover a meaning in life. But finding sidework on a whaler is not so easy and Ogaki, a veteran harpooner, curtly turns him down. But finally, deeply touched by Yoji's earnestness, Ogaki reluctantly agrees to take him with them. Rules are very strict, for even one slight slip-up may jeopardize the safety of the entire ship. For a long time, it seems like a living hell, but with patience and courage, he begins to learn the ropes. And the day they sight their first whale, Yoji comes into his own and finds the real meaning of life.
Nomi-gumi, who plans to control Tama City, has begun to hurt Takase-gumi. Muraki, an executive, was entrusted with the destruction, but he was a brother of Takase-gumi's substitute, Tsukada. Muraki, who missed Tsukada and the old days at Tsukada's wife Shizue's shop, took the future of turning to the enemy painfully.
Follows the struggles of a yakuza wife after his husband gets hurt in a knife fight.
Kansuke Yamamoto is a samurai who dreams of a country united, peaceful from sea to sea. He enters the service of Takeda, the lord of Kai domain. He convinces Takeda to kill the lord of neighboring Suwa and take his wife as a concubine. He then convinces the widow, Princess Yu, to accept this arrangement and to bear Takeda a son. He pledges them his life. He then spends years using treachery, poetic sensibility, military and political strategy to expand Takeda's realm, advance the claim of Yu's son as the heir, and prepare for an ultimate battle with the forces of Echigo. Has Kansuke overreached? Are his dreams, blinded by love, too big?
A professional hunter, Tetsuya, returns from Alaska to find that his hometown had become a lawless slum. He is shocked to learn that his younger sister had committed suicide after being raped by unknown men. One day, he rescues a girl from being attacked by some gang, and discovers that the same gang had driven his sister to death. Using his lethal hunting skills, Tetsuya begins to take revenge…
Kurita
Mientras Japón cierra un pacto político con la Alemania nazi y la Italia fascista, el almirante Isoroku Yamamoto es nombrado comandante supremo de la flota japonesa. Con Japón abocado inexorablemente a la guerra, Yamamoto, a pesar de sus dudas, cree que la única posibilidad de victoria reside en destruir la flota americana por sorpresa en Pearl Harbor. El ataque es un éxito, pero no consiguen destruir la flota de portaviones americanos. Por eso Yamamoto se ve obligado a llevar a la flota japonesa al combate, con muy pocas esperanzas de victoria...
Jiun
A master sculptor and his apprentice are trapped in a bad snow storm after finding a special tree for carving a statue for the local temple. Finding refuge in an abandoned hut they celebrate their luck in finding the tree but soon they are visited by the Snow Witch who freezes the sculptor to death but takes pity on the apprentice. He must promise to never speak of this or she'll return and kill him.
The last film in the series brings the tale to the doorstep of Pacific War, with the planning of the bombing of Pearl Harbor dominant in Nakano Spy School.
Shintaro Sakamoto
Comedy-drama about university tennis players.
Film from 1967.
Sasaki Kojiro tells the story of the genius who staked his love, glory, and life on a duel with the supreme master of the sword, Miyamoto Musashi (Tatsuya Nakadai). Oscar winning Hiroshi Inagaki directs this epic motion picture based on Genzo Murakami’s fascinating story. Despite his humble birth, the orphan Sasaki Kojiro (Onoe Kikunosuke) is determined to become the foremost swordsman in all Japan, a title that traditionally belongs to a nobleman. At fencing school, young Kojiro receives the contempt of his classmates because of his superior swordsmanship. When rumors of the upcoming civil war between Toyotomi and Tokugawa clans spread, Kojiro leaves the school and sets out, seizing every opportunity to realize his dream.
Koichiro Kobayashi
A girl is in love with two men.
The story contrasts the life of two doctors, former classmates and now both assistant professors at Naniwa University Hospital in Osaka. The brilliant and ambitious surgeon Goro Zaizen stops at nothing to rise to a position of eminence and authority, while the friendly Shuji Satomi busies himself with his patients and research.
Shojiro Nozawa
Three girls come to Tokyo to stay with their elder sister. Actually they are running away from home because their father has married again to a very young woman. They have many romantic adventures and one finally decides against the boy she thought she loved because he, just like her father is always away from home. But directly after her marriage to another young man, her sister runs after the former boy-friend.
Lighthouse Chief
On a small island, inhabited by only fourteen hundred people, a young fisherman's son, Shinji falls in love with Hatsue, the daughter of the richest and most difficult man on the island. Despite their differences in class, they begin to meet and rumors spread of them having an illicit affair. Soon after, Shinji jumps into a stormy sea to help a ship in distress. The vessel turns out to be owned by Hatsue's arrogant father, who now becomes an understanding and sympathetic parent and allows the two lovers to marry.
Udagawa
Two friends, both members of a Japanese cargo boat, return to Japan after a three-month voyage and have just 24 hours shore leave. In those hectic hours, they vie for the affections of a hotel owner's daughter but wind up with separate girl friends and attempt to bring together the parents of a baby who have separated.
A group of pirates sail the treacherous Pacific ocean in search for wealth.
Shimamura Juzaemon
This Japanese action-adventure is set in the 17th century when all forms of swordplay were banned. One fighter, an excellent swordsman believes the law is unfair. His brother keeps his opinions about the law to himself. The swordsman vents his frustration by cutting off the thumbs of an enemy. The fighter is then banished. To live, he becomes a thief. To restore the family's lost honor, the other brother is forced to challenge the fighter to a duel.
Yôsuke Ishiyama
Cuando un misterioso extraño se mete por medio de dos grupos yakuza rivales, la violencia explota en los bajos fondos de Tokyo.
Prison Warden
En un momento crucial de su vida financiera, Gondo, un hombre de negocios, recibe la noticia de que su hijo ha sido secuestrado, y el rescate exigido es una cantidad de dinero similar a la que necesita para cerrar una importante negociación. Gondo está dispuesto a pagar el rescate hasta que comprende que los secuestradores se han equivocado y se han llevado al hijo del chófer. Ahora deberá decidir si el dinero es más importante que la vida del niño.
Oyama
Jiro, a young yakuza, and Mami, a diplomat’s daughter, are two young lovers from different worlds. Having met by accident, they soon discover a new life together. But their love is ill-fated. Mami's family will not accept her choice, while leading an honest life seems like an unattainable goal for Jiro. Can there be anything else but a tragic ending?
Shinko Terasawa was always considered to be the odd ball of the bunch. At a time when romance was against school regulations, Shinko was the first to take a bite out of the forbidden fruit. Expelled from her former school, she finds herself in an all-girls school in Jokamachi, where rumors fly. One day, Shinko delivers an anonymous love letter addressed to her English teacher, Ms. Shimazaki. Convinced that the students are playing a prank, Ms. Shimazaki is adamant about getting to the bottom of this "problem”.
Dr. Daisaku Yoshie
One of many adaptations of "Onna no isshō", this time by Yasuzo Masumura as a starring vehicle for famed actress Machiko Kyo.
Not too long ago, Soichiro was considered one of the most powerful men in business. But his business had failed, his granddaughter had committed suicide. There was nothing in his life anymore that he could look forward to. Sochiro was ready to put an to it end to all. As he drives down the Usui Pass, headed toward his summer house in Karuizawa, a girl in red heels, wearing nothing else but a coat jumps in front of the car.
Misa's father
A treasury official passed over for promotion and obsessed with careerism interferes in the lives of his three sons, who seek escape from his relentless pressure in the mortal danger of mountain climbing.
In 1919, a group of Japanese immigrants arrives in Hawaii. Among them Yoshio Inoue and his wife Kishimo and Sumi, a young woman ready to get married soon. With the soil that is hard to work and the subtroipical climate, the immigrants have to cope with a hard life. But after years of hard work, Yoshio finds work as a teacher while his wife manages to open a small grocery store. But with the war around the corner, life becomes more and more complicated for the Japanese immigrants in a foreign country.
Hanjiro is a struggling painter that shares a tiny apartment in the back streets of Ginza with his jazz pianist friend who works at a bar. When he and his sweet heart, Hisako decide to get married, Hanjiro is faced with a tough decision. Needing to buy a ticket back home to tell his mother the good news, he compromises his creative principles for love and sells his portrait of Hisako. Hisako heads to the station to see him off, but gets hit by a car...
Shôichirô
Kawanishi Kyu and Tomoda Ryoji, two waifs, are inmates of a Reform School. One night, the boys succeed in a mass escape and split up. Kyu and Ryoji hear the sirens shrieking behind them and panic. Kyu pretends he has been hit by a small truck and Ryoji demands that they be taken to a hospital, little dreaming that Nagai, the driver, is the official guardian of juveniles. The next morning the two boys hear a light knock, and Nagai's daughter, Noriko enters, but surprise is changed to fear as they see her father approaching with Kume, the Juvenile Officer. Their one thought is escape but Kyu discovers his leg is stiff and it pains him to move. In the excitement, he had not realized he had really been hit by the truck. He sends Ryoji away while he waits alone for Officer Kume. Nagai takes Kyu under his wing, while Ryoji finds himself again in the hard-boiled world.
Kanzo Nagata
Japanese mystery film directed by Michiyoshi Doi.
Kikui
En el Japón de la era Tokugawa, un grupo de nueve jóvenes samuráis está decidido a acabar con la corrupción reinante y a acabar con todos los que están relacionados con ella. Consiguen el apoyo del inspector de policía Kikui y se preparan para llevar a cabo su plan. Poco después, aparece Sajuro, un personaje salido de entre las sombras, que empezará a actuar y a poner orden en medio del caos.
Asada Keiko and Kurokawa Saburo are two young college students. When Keiko visits Saburo's house, she meets his father Kokichi and his mother Motoko. Motoko is a famous hair dresser, who openly flaunts her lover. When Kokichi and Motoko fight, which they do a lot, he routinely threatens to leave but never quite does. A relationship develops between Saburo and Keiko, but Saburo is shaken when his mother tells Keiko the truth about Saburo's past and the secret of his birth.
In the nine part Wataridori series (1959-1962), Kobayashi played a wanderer on Japan’s back roads with most of the accoutrements of a Western hero, from a horse to fringes, guitar and even a trusty bullwhip.
Omnibus picture, consisting of three stories.
Rambler Shinji arrives in town armed with nothing but a guitar. With assistance from an old gun-for-hire friend, he sets about to stop the mob from turning an honest ranch into a gambling resort.
Seven years ago, Ishimatsu Toshio, a talented radio producer at Zen Nihon Hōsō, witnessed a crazed drug addict murder his wife and then commit suicide, though Toshio was able to save the lives of their two children. Just transferred from Shimizu to Tokyo, Toshio hopes to produce a program that will expose the drug trade in Tokyo. One day, Toshio stops into a noodle shop where he is mistaken for a drug dealer and passed a bagful of drugs. The real dealer arrives in time to follow Toshio home. That night Toshio is attacked by the dealer, who turns out to be Kenji, one of the children Toshio had saved. Kenji can't bring himself to kill Toshio, so he runs away and goes into hiding from the mafia. While continuing to investigate the drug trade, Toshio searches for Kenji to get Kenji's testimony for his program.
A man is wrongfully accused of murder.
Dr. Tadokoro
The altered American release of Godzilla Raids Again. Originally meant to be known as the The Volcano Monsters, the film was eventually released as "Gigantis."
Anzai
Japanese crime film.
Kōki Hirota
In 1941, overpopulated Japan faces an economic boycott and its armed forces push further to the south. And despite negotiations between Japan and the U. S. A. war is declared with the attack on Pearl Harbour. Victories follow for Japan on land and sea and her forces push forward to the borders of India. But gradually the tide turns in favour of the Allies and after the atom bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan is compelled to accept the Potsdam Declaration and by the order of the Emperor agrees to unconditional surrender. Under the supervision of the occupation forces the International Military Tribunal opens in Tokyo to try the Japanese war leaders. Established in the cause of justice, and to prevent future aggressive wars the trials drag on for two and a half years. And on December 23, 1948, General Tojo and six other war leaders mount the thirteen steps to the gallows at Tokyo's Sugamo prison.
Ryozo Kada
At about the same time as lwami, president of a Tokyo company is murdered by an unknown assailant, it happens that an urgent call has been received from an airline company's office on remote Hachijo Island for a special serum. A Cessna aircraft which has been chartered by a man named Ohashi takes off for the island with the serum piloted by Ishida. But when airborne, Ohashi, who is the murderer of lwami, holds up Ishida at gunpoint and orders him to land on a small island west of Hachijo where a ship is waiting to take him to Hong Kong...
Kuki
Japanese suspense film.
Shingo Mano
Udaka is a new, post-war city where corruption has already taken hold. A persistent district attorney wants to arrest and convict Katsumata, a laughing, self-confident thug. The D.A. gets an anonymous letter about the suicide five years' before of a city council member. Evidence about the case leads the D.A. to Tachibana, struggling to go straight after involvement with the mob and a prison sentence for killing the man responsible for the rape and suicide of his fiancée. One of Tachibana's friends is Keiko, the daughter of the dead councilman and the ward of another powerful official. How do these stories connect?
Mr. Yokokawa
Basándose en una novela del ex periodista de sucesos Seicho Matsumoto, el film describe la operación de vigilancia de un sospechoso por parte de dos policías.
A youth lyrical story of pure love of a girl who grew up in the Kyoto Gion quarter, with a geisha mother and sisters Maiko and a college student.
Uta-no-kami Sakai
Harada Kai, the Date clan's Chamberlain attempts to take power from the lord himself.
Tatsuzo, Wakako's dad
1957 drama from director Kôzaburô Yoshimura
From the pen of Yoshikawa Eiji comes this exciting story. The Naruto Strait separates Tokushima from the islands of Awaji and Honshu. On Tokushima the mad lord dreams of conquest and forges a bloody revolt against the Tokugawa shogunate. A mysterious swordsman named Noriyuki Gennojo has crossed Naruto’s waters to uncover the Awa clan’s secrets. He puts his life on the line after finding a testament of Awa’s secrets, written in blood by a dying man. Joining Noriyuki are a female ninja who loves him, and the beautiful daughter of an enemy who’s sworn to kill him. Awa’s defenders willl stop at nothing to prevent the blood-soaked letter from reaching the shogun.
Harsh film about a car dealer who gets into financial trouble.
Keisuke Miyagawa
Eikichi Yamashiro, who is a former contender for the boxing title, works as a manager at a Club Champion owned by his fiancé Natsuko’s father. He lost a title match five years ago as he was besotted by Natsuko, but Eikichi actually cannot give up the dream of the championship. One day, he meets Shuntaro Fuma, who is a punk kid but a promising boxer, and realizes the dream that he himself could never fulfill. Then, they together start to train with the aim of the title. Mari Shiraki is an up-and-coming ballerina under the patronage of Eikichi as well. Eikichi forbids Shuntaro and Mari to be romantically involved with someone during their training, however, they start to go on a date. (source: Nikkatsu International)
Japanese drama film.
The story of a novelist whose wife is confined in a mental hospital. His love for her drives him to write about her, though he runs into trouble when her parents accuse him of cashing in on her misfortune.
Shibata
The film tells the story of a group of high school boxing team members who spend their days drinking, sailing and chasing girls, and who more often than not spend their nights getting into brawls. In particular, it focuses upon Tatsuya, a sullen young man, who falls in love with Eiko, a proud upper-class girl.
Yamazaki, Yoshi's husband
Poco después de terminada la Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945) Kiiji Nakajima, un anciano atemorizado por las consecuencias del bombardeo de Hiroshima y Nagasaki, vive obsesionado con la idea de construir un refugio antiatómico. Sin embargo, cuando algún tiempo después se plantea emigrar con su familia a Brasil para evitar la amenaza nuclear, su decisión tropieza con la incomprensión de todos los que lo rodean.
Nobuko is a widow who lives with her daughter-in-law Tamiko and her brother Junjiro. The family's gatekeeper, Komatsu, is attracted to Tamiko, but she is encouraged to marry a doctor and he is afraid to tell her his feelings.
Una compañía de seguros contratará a 22 trabajadores como aprendices de venta de seguros. Ante la imposibilidad de cubrir las metas marcadas por la empresa, 5 aprendices se alían para perpetrar el robo a un furgón de reparto.
Seitaro Tani
An Ishiro Honda film.
Zoologist Dr. Tadokoro
Godzilla, resucitada por arte de magia tras su muerte al final del primer título, se enfrenta esta vez a un nuevo monstruo, Anguilas, un extraño gigante cuadrúpedo acorazado, y tras destruir parcialmente la ciudad de Osaka, acaba enterrada en el hielo de una pequeña isla a causa de los bombardeos de los aviones del ejército japonés. Segunda película de la saga Godzilla.
Yasuichiro Isa, who works in the labor section of Sone Mining Tokyo Headquarters, paid a monthly fee for his younger brother, Reiji, who was in trouble because he had a bonus of 10,000 yen more.
Tosuke Kawase
Private eye Bannai Tarao (Chiezo Kataoka) and his assistant Masako (Chizuru Kitagawa) investigate the mysterious murder of a baseball player who was killed in the middle of a game.
Shigeki Kachi, Tosuke Satomura, and Nanako, who belong to the theater company Vuanbert around Dosa, withdrew at the indignation of the chairman Hayashi and seeked their own careers in the film industry.
President Okawa
Masauji Taira
A finales de la Era Heian en el siglo XII, el gobernador de un pueblo es enviado al exilio. A pesar de que su familia quiere ir con él, ninguno podrá acompañarle, pues, engañados por una vieja que se hace pasar por sacerdotisa, son vendidos como esclavos por separado: la madre por un lado y los hijos por otro.
Nobuyori
Japón, 1159. Moritō, un valiente samurái, realiza un acto heroico rescatando a la encantadora Kesa durante un violento levantamiento. Moritō se enamora de ella, pero se angustia cuando se entera de que está casada.
Commander Kashima
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician, is a loyal subject of the emperor, despite his grave misgivings about leading Japan's navy into war with the United States. He opposes the attack on Pearl Harbor, but, overruled, he leads his forces to the best of his ability.
Juheiji
Ten years into a marriage, the wife is disappointed by the husband's lack of financial success, meaning she has to work and can't treat herself and the husband finds the wife slovenly and mean-spirited: she neither cooks not cleans particularly well and is generally disagreeable. In turn, he alternately ignores her and treats her as a servant. Neither is particularly happy, not helped by their unsatisfactory lodgers. The husband is easily seduced by an ex-colleague, a widow with a small child who needs some security, and considers leaving his wife.
Nagase
Ginko será vendida como geisha para que su familia consiga subsistir.
Setsuko's father
Young Setsuko Fujino begins a new job at Tokyo Chemical Company. She likes her boss, Ippei Hitachi, and enjoys serving him tea, despite the fact that her fellow workers think the women employees should not have to act in such a servile manner. When the women go on strike over the issue, Setsuko finds herself caught in the middle. When the heir to the company, Ryosuke Tanabe, proposes marriage to Setsuko, she is honored, but realizes that her real affection is for Hitachi.
Kazuo Miyagawa’s prizewinning black-and-white cinematography draws out the moral shadings of Nobel laureate Yasunari Kawabata’s 1952 novel Thousand Cranes, a quietly devastating story of a young man, orphaned during the war, who stumbles into a passionate yet tragic relationship with his late father’s mistress and her daughter.
Principal
Japanese film.
Doctor
Kanji Watanabe es un viejo funcionario público que arrastra una vida monótona y gris; sin embargo, no es consciente del vacío de su existencia hasta que le diagnostican un cáncer incurable. Con la certeza de que el fin de sus días se acerca, surge en él la necesidad de buscarle un sentido a la vida. Y cuando lo consigue se produce un cambio radical en su actitud respecto a los demás.
Nobuyuki, Kyoko's father
Parent apathy to sexual education leads to various troubles for the young cast.
Toshiaki
Cuatro años después de la masacre de Hiroshima, una joven vuelve a su lugar de nacimiento. Takako deberá hacer frente a los efectos de la bomba-A, mientras explora la ciudad en busca de sus viejos amigos.
President Mukai
Atsuko is an office secretary who is also her family's primary source of income and caretaker in postwar Japan.
Kikuoji
Narra la dura vida de Oharu, una mujer sometida a los convencionalismos de la sociedad feudal en el Japón del siglo XVII.
Takurô Shinzeki
Bittersweet shomin-geki drama by Keigo Kimura
Shunsuke Washimi, a member of the karate club, misunderstands the affections of Chiyo, a lodging house girl who is in love with him and in the midst of a confusion challenges Yamauchi Tatsuhiko to a fight, forgetting the true core of martial arts, that should only be used as a selfdefense.
Ikeuchi was captain of the K - University ice hockey team. The daughter Shikotsuko of Ginza 's western restaurant "Piccolo" was also a female student at K University and was a figure player. They had a dream of being dispatched to Oslo in the Olympic Games and were struggling in each way. Mizuno who runs a sports equipment store in Ginza, showed the geisha by guiding the junior's Ikeuchi and others to the shop of Shimbashi one day.
Tras el estallido de la Guerra del Pacífico, la industria del cine japonés sufre notables recortes. Numazaki, un guionista mediocre, está expuesto a un despido inminente. Su esposa Takako le anima a buscar trabajo en Kyoto. Pero Numazaki falla en su prueba de aptitud, en la que se le pedía escribir un guión para el famoso, pero exigente, director Sakaguchi (una referencia velada a Kenji Mizoguchi). Takako, durante un año, anima y apoya a su marido para que pueda perfeccionar sus capacidades a partir de ese fracaso...
Yoshizaki Art Dealer
Romantic melodrama
A Japanese adaptation of Guy de Maupassant's short story Boule de Suif, directed by Kimura Keigo
Takenaka
Ebihara is a budding novelist entangled in a complicated web of relationships with three women from three different generations: Kazue, a coquettish teenage war orphan who tries to offer herself for money but is instead taken in by Ebihara, Koyabu, a middle-aged woman who has spent much of her life as the kept woman of a wealthy man, and Teruko, the modest daughter of Ebihara's former teacher who comes to rely on him after the death of her father.
The critical establishment was clearly not prepared to accept a woman's prison film featuring former prostitutes recovering from venereal diseases, unwanted pregnancies, and estranged lovers. With its cat fights, hysterical tantrums, film noir lighting, and dramatic music, White Beast is indicative of the new influences of the Hollywood psychological thriller on Naruse. Caged (John Cromwell, 1950) initiated a cycle of women's prison movies in the United States that may or may not have been shown in Japan, but the stylistics of White Beast draw on the same paranoid woman's films and film noir conventions that preceded the American cycle.
Judge
Miyako, una famosa cantante de ópera, es fotografiada junto al pintor Aoe, en un balneario de Izu. La foto es publicada algunas semanas después en el periódico sensacionalista Amor, con un texto totalmente falso. El pintor decide demandar a la publicación y contrata a un ambicioso abogado.
Mr. Nakano
A film by Kiyoshi Saeki
Okano
An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chief and the local gangster bosses.
Nakamura
Ambientada en la postguerra japonesa tras la II Guerra Mundial (1939-1945). Con la estructura del thriller americano y los convencionalismos japoneses, narra la historia de un joven detective al que roban su pistola. Agobiado por un sentimiento de deshonor más que de pérdida, emprende, con un veterano compañero, una frenética e incansable búsqueda que lo lleva a los bajos fondos de Tokyo.
Yoshioka
A woman's struggle for equality in Japan in the 1880s. Eiko Hirayama leaves Okayama for Tokyo, where she helps the fledgling Liberal Party and falls in love with its leader Kentaro Omoi, just as the party is being disbanded by the government.
It was the first time in six years that I was able to step on the land of my homeland, the land of my nostalgia. It was Tokyo that had turned to burnt earth. A Tokyo with no one to rely on.
Segawa, maestro en una pequeña aldea, decide romper con su cobardía tras descubrirse su origen paria.
Life and love in corrupt postwar Tokyo, as a young couple struggles against both the law and the mob.
Oyabun
Después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945). Crónica sobre la relación entre un gángster de la mafia japonesa ("yakuza"), enfermo de tuberculosis y el médico alcohólico que lo atiende.
Ryûzaburô Shinkawa
Tras la Segunda Guerra Mundial y la derrota de Japón, la aristocrática familia Anjo se encuentra arruinada. Para saldar sus deudas deben vender su mansión y deciden celebrar una última fiesta... Uno de los clásicos del cine japonés filmado durante la ocupación americana. Película de tintes sociales realizado por el izquierdista Yoshimura con guión de su cuñado, el luego célebre cineasta Kaneto Shindô. Protagoniza la mítica Setsuko Hara.
Dance Hall Manager
En tiempos de postguerra, dos enamorados pasan juntos un domingo, esperando que sea un día inolvidable. Están llenos de sueños e ilusiones e intentan ser felices. Pese a sus problemas y contratiempos, pese a las preocupaciones derivadas de los bombardeos atómicos de Hiroshima y Nagasaki, su amor les permite concebir ilusiones sobre un futuro mejor.
Policeman
A romance with political overtones about the relationship of a sheltered bourgeois woman and a doctor who devotes himself to caring for the poor. Over a ten-year period - from 1936 through the war - they find each other and are separated again by the events of those tumultuous days.
Professor Hakozaki
Yukie, hija de un profesor universitario, se queda conmocionada cuando su padre es expulsado de su cátedra por sus enseñanzas políticas, pero mucho más aún cuando su novio es arrestado y ejecutado bajo la acusación de espionaje.
Lord for a Night is a 1946 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa.
After learning that he has accidentally killed a man in a fight, Unokichi must look after the man's pregnant widow.
Section chief (uncredited)
Dos hermanas, una bailarina y la otra supervisora de guiones de un gran estudio de cine, se ven envueltas en una huelga de trabajadores del ferrocarril.
A small community in wartime Japan learn how to make do with less.
Police Officer Sugiyama
Stalwart soldiers of the Japanese Empire – Japanese and Korean alike – stand in defense of a military outpost threatened by "bandits."
The premature death of a young mother serves as inspiration for her husband and son.
Saijô, pilot
Ecchûmori Katô
El 14 de Marzo de 1701, en la real capital de Edo, el señor feudal Asano ataca al señor Kiru mientras se encuentra en tierra sagrada. A causa de esta grave ofensa, Asano es obligado a hacerse el harakiri. Sin embargo, 47 de sus samuráis juran vengar a su amo. Estrenada en dos partes en Japón, la primera de 112 minutos el 1 de diciembre de 1941 y la segunda de 111 minutos el 11 de febrero de 1942. (FILMAFFINITY)
Kazuo Sakamoto
A village romantic drama. (Now lost.)
Kenkichi, Owner of Inn
A story of a servant girl whose life is upturned by her doomed love for a spineless young man.
