Sumie Tanaka

It is 1922 and Fumiko is a high school student. Her family is poor but she loves to study literature. Her father, a peddler, does not return home and Fumiko finds herself in financial trouble, not being able to pay for her schooling and her school excursion trip. Still, she gets a temporary job at a factory and tries to make ends meet. A film about bright side of youth adapted from the television serial of the same name.

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.

A fines de la década de 1950 se prohibió la prostitución en Japón y si se encontraba a una mujer ejerciendo esta profesión, se la enviaba a un reformatorio. Esta es la historia de una de estas valientes mujeres Kuniko que sale del reformatorio y trata de construir una nueva vida.

Un ambicioso oficial que desea destruir a un honesto gobernador, ordena a sus secuaces que lo capturen junto a toda su familia. A pesar de sus intentos de huída, el gobernador es capturado y muere en prisión. La madre también muere, pero se transforma en grulla. Robin y su hermana tienen algo más de suerte: son vendidos como esclavos al intendente Sansho. Robin trata de escapar de la crueldad a que son sometidos, pero su hermana cae en un río donde se convierte en sirena. Robin con la ayuda de sus amigos animales, un perro, un oso y un ratón, tratará de recuperar las posesiones arrebatadas y poner fin al tráfico de esclavos de Sansho. Estilizada adaptación del cuento clásico "El intendente Sansho", que ya había filmado Kenji Mizoguchi en 1954.

Love story between a student and girl whose parents are itinerant entertainers. Set in Japan in the 1920's.

In a rural district of Tokyo, the owner of a farm is abandoned by his two daughters who are attracted to the life of the big city.

Anzukko (Little Peach) is the daughter of a successful writer. She turns down each one of her suitors, until she marries a beginning writer named Ryokichi. Their life quickly sinks into despair.

Story of a family torn apart when Teiji (Mori), the father, develops intimate feelings for a runaway (Kuga) the family has taken into their home.

A traditional bar mistress in Kyoto clashes with her Tokyo rival.

In Asakusa, Tokyo, a couple of a violinist Yamano and a revue dancer Hanae lives in poverty. One day Hanae’s little sister rolls into their apartment and begins to stir things up with her riotousness.

Rika acaba de enviudar y está buscando trabajo. Su agencia de empleo la envía a una casa de geishas en la que necesitan a alguien que se ocupe de la limpieza y de la cocina. Conoce a Tsutayako, la patrona, quien acepta contratarla, pero se entera que la casa de geishas está retrasándose en el pago de sus facturas y que podría ponerse a la venta. (FILMAFFINITY)

In Kyoto a young kimono maker with traditional ideas gets involved with a married professor.

The woman prison has a cast all with a story of their own and with no dull or routine day. There is an employee who is divorced after her husband had an affair. She loves the jailed criminals and almost sees them as family. One day at a workshop someone faints while working hard to make money because she has a poor boyfriend. Another inmate is knocked up Another is a mother and has her child with her.

Basado en la vida de la poetisa tanka Fumiko Nakajo, la película cuenta la historia de una mujer de mentalidad moderna aquejada de un cáncer de mama.

¿Cómo es la vida de una Geisha una vez su belleza se ha desvanecido y se ha retirado? Kin ha ahorrado dinero y se ha convertido en una rica prestamista, pasando sus días cobrando deudas. Incluso sus mejores amigas, Tomi, Nobu y Tamae, que eran sus compañeras Geishas, están ahora en deuda con ella. Para todas ellas, el glamour de sus jóvenes vidas ha pasado; Tomi y Tamae tienen hijos, pero sus hijos las han decepcionado. Kin tiene dos antiguos amantes que aún la persiguen; a uno lo quiere ver, y al otro no. Pero incluso el que recuerda con cariño, cuando aparece, resulta ser una decepción.

This film stars Tanaka Kinuyo as the mother of the heir to the Hosho name, a famous lineage of Noh actors. The heir, Hosho Yagoro, is played by Hasegawa Kuzuo who went on to become familiar among Ichikawa Kon fans as Yukinojo in An Actor's Revenge, which was also co-written by Ito, adding to the relatedness of An Heir's Place.

Motoko Fujikawa works in the Seisen Church as an assistant to pastor Maki Inokichi. Motoko falls in love with Inokichi's virtuous character and devotes herself to the rehabilitation of a delinquent girl, gradually finding her job at the institution more worthwhile than the marriage recommended by her parents. Meanwhile, inside Inokichi's heart a flame of unknowing love for the single-minded Motoko begins to burn...

Kiyoko y su familia viven en el distrito central de Tokio. Tiene 23 años, es cobradora de autobús, pero anhela llegar a algo más en la vida. Su modelo es Katsuura, una inquilina que vive en su casa y que lee, pinta y escucha sus propios discos. Harta de las constantes rencillas de sus familiares por motivos económicos, se traslada a los suburbios y alquila una habitación a una anciana viuda.

Five women classmates from a college in Tokyo are on the first stretch of a walking tour when one of them, Masako, falls ill at a railway station. Osen, a middle-aged maid from a nearby inn, takes her in and nurses her, assisted by Dr. Minami, a young physician who diagnoses her illness as a mild case of pneumonia. With Masako in good hands and needing a few days to recuperate, her classmates continue their tour. Masako’s recovery, however, is hampered by her spoiled and immature nature and her determination to punish the world for the loss of her mother.

Situada poco después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, El almuerzo cuenta las dificultades matrimoniales entre el salaryman Hatsunosuke y su mujer Michiyo. Se centra en la crisis emocional de una ama de casa aburrida. El tedio de su vida doméstica -consumida por la repetición de labores como cocinar y limpiar- aumenta con la visita de la sobrina de su marido, Satoko. Su llegada y la excesiva atención que le presta su marido, provocan el aumento de la infelicidad de Michiyo, forzada a enfrentarse con su futuro

When a family has to relocate due to the war, they are ostracized by their new community.

The Ueki family may not be wealthy, but smiles are never in short supply. The father is awarded prize money for 25 years of service to his workplace, but has it stolen on the way home from the ceremony...

The Ueki family may not be wealthy, but smiles are never in short supply. The father is awarded prize money for 25 years of service to his workplace, but has it stolen on the way home from the ceremony...