Una joven que trabaja en unas aguas termales salva a un estudiante que quería suicidarse. Éste se enamora de la chica, encontrando un motivo para vivir.
Hisako
Ésta es una de las dos películas de Oshima sobre la Segunda Guerra Mundial. La presa muestra las enormes diferencias que existían entre los japoneses durante el conflicto bélico. Un piloto de raza negra es abatido y encerrado en un almacén de un pueblo japonés, donde los niños que lo encontraron lo tratan con una gran crueldad. Su raza se convierte en foco de interés para los vecinos, que apenas han tenido contactos con las gentes del mundo occidental.
Hiroko
A prisoner escapes from prison to find the real criminal.
Japanese family drama.
Yasuko Amaki
Yoshiko finds new life and love interests when she takes a new job as an office worker.
Sayuri, a young woman born to a simple life on a farm, moves to Tokyo to pursue a life long dream of becoming a singer. Through dance, music, and songs, this story shows how a girl raised on a farm was able to make her dream a reality, with the love of those around her.
Japanese mystery film.
Michi Kogen
Based on a 1956 television feature on Japan’s national network, NHK, this is one of Uchida’s rarest films. A socially conscious drama with a contemporary backdrop, Dotanba focuses on the attempts to rescue a group of trapped miners. The title is a figure of speech — (essentially “last minute” or “eleventh hour”) — that refers to a situation of peril. The film boasts a script co-written by Uchida and Akira Kurosawa’s frequent screenwriter, Shinobu Hashimoto, and stars Kurosawa’s frequent star Takashi Shimura.
Roar and Earth
Hayata and his best friend Ushijima came to Tokyo to become champions. Hayata repeatedly sought to join Tamura's boxing club, but Tamura fell in love with Ushijima's punch. Then Hayata decides to become Ushijima's manager and make good money on his friend's talent. Ushijima himself is a peaceful, kind guy who doesn't really like boxing, but under the wise guidance of Hayata, he starts to defeat one opponent after another...
Mariko Kishi
Sixth film in the Boy Detectives Club series.
Mariko Kishi
Fifth film in the Boy Detectives Club series.
Mariko
Fourth film in the Boy Detectives Club series.
Mariko
A man with many disguises uses robotic beetles, man-made monsters and other devices to try and steal atomic power.
A touching story depicting the harsh lives of farmers in Kasumigaura. An attempt to start a fishery business to revive an ailing farming community creates friction amongst the proud residents.
The day to day life in an establishment for delinquent teenage girls.
This is the only surviving “Mito Komon Manyu-ki” film. This release also known as "Adrift Tour Memoir" or literally "Mito Komon's Pleasure Trip" is an 80-minute compilation of the first (東海道の巻 or "Tokaido no maki") and second (日本晴れの巻 or "Japan's Fine Weather Reel") parts (147 minutes), which were re-edited and screened at a time when presentable films were dried up immediately after the defeat of the war.
