Self (archival footage)
A tribute to the legendary Japanese film director featuring the reflections of filmmakers Lindsay Anderson, Claire Denis, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Aki Kaurismäki, Stanley Kwan, Paul Schrader, and Wim Wenders
Tora-san Makes Excuses is a 1992 Japanese comedy film directed by Yoji Yamada. It stars Kiyoshi Atsumi as Torajirō Kuruma (Tora-san), and Kumiko Goto as his love interest or "Madonna".
Judge
A headmaster and a novelist, looking for inspiration, regard a strange natural phenomenon before sharing stories of their own.
When Izumi can't stand seeing her mother flirt with other men, she leaves home. She sends a letter to Mitsuo and Mitsuo goes looking for her. But Izumi unexpectedly meets Tora-san.
Mr. Mori
1999. Mientras conduce, una mujer (Dommartin) choca con el coche de unos delincuentes que acaban de atracar un banco y que la obligan a colaborar con ellos en el traslado del dinero a un lugar de París. En el trayecto, conoce a Sam (Hurt), un fugitivo perseguido por la CIA, que le explica que los delitos que le imputan son falsos y que lo que, en realidad, quieren es arrebatarle un invento de su padre que permite revisar los sueños.
Self
A documentary which follows director Wim Wenders and Sean Naughton, the high-definition-video designer on UNTIL THE END OF THE WORLD, in Tokyo, and details the creation of the film’s groundbreaking high-definition sequences.
Mitsuo goes to Nagoya to visit Izumi, whose father left Izumi’s sad, bar hostess mother for another woman, so together they decide to confront him in Oita. Meanwhile, Izumi’s mother befriends Tora-san and together they travel to Oita to meet them, with Tora-san quickly falling for her en route.
Old Man
Película compuesta de ocho cortometrajes de veinte minutos cada uno. Son ensoñaciones dispersas, independientes, pero engarzadas entre sí por deseos, angustias y añoranzas. La historia de Yo, desde su infancia hasta su vejez, sirve para mostrar las relaciones del hombre con el mundo, el arte, la espiritualidad, la muerte. Los ocho relatos (extraídos de sueños de Kurosawa) reflejan lo cambios experimentados por Japón a lo largo de un siglo.
Gozen-sama
Tora-san's nephew Mitsuo is exchanging letters with Izumi, a former classmate whose parents divorced and took her out of Tokyo.
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During his wandering throughout Japan, Tora-san meets a suicidal man. He travels with the man to Vienna, but winds up homesick for Japan.
Gozen-sama
In his travels through Japan, Tora-san meets and falls in love with a female doctor, however he is afraid of committing to a relationship.
Ryoko sigue cosechando éxitos en la oficina de impuestos donde trata con políticos corruptos, evasión de impuestos y el hampa...
Self
Documentary about the life and career of Japanese actor Chishu Ryu.
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A playboy-gambler friend of Tora-san’s dies and, abandoned by his mother, his little boy suddenly turns up in Shibamata. Searching for the boy’s mother, Tora-san meets a cosmetics saleslady and the three become a surrogate family, with Tora-san as “daddy”.
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When his travels take him to rural Hokkaido, Tora-san helps a cantankerous old veterinarian (Mifune) in his relationships with his estranged daughter, and a woman in whom he is secretly interested.
Chiaki Onoda a young assisstant sound mixer is unhappy with his job, but otherwise he is enjoying life. He loves his cat, his friends, hunting for girls and breakdancing in discos. A funeral forces him to return home and meet his familiy, which (espicially his father) disapprove of his lifestyle.
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During his travels, Tora-san comes across a traditional theater he used to visit, and discovers that one of his old friends has died. Tora-san and his family help the friend's daughter, who becomes romantically involved with an aspiring artist.
Hermit
Remake of classic samurai film of 1932
The environment and the movie stars at a Japanese film studio in the early 1930s are recreated in this drama that looks back on a distinctive period in cinematic history. Using celebrated director Yasujiro Ozu as a model, fictional director Ogata discovers a new female star quite by accident. Koharu Tanaka works selling candy at a studio theater when she is given a part as a bit player. After the studio's top leading lady is embroiled in a scandal, Koharu is suddenly thrust into the limelight when she replaces her in a film and gains instant fame and fortune. But the going is not always easy, and she soon seeks help from unexpected quarters.
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Tora-san's family's neighbor, Akemi, who had been married in Marriage Counselor Tora-san (1984), runs away from her husband, who is only interested in work. Tora-san follows her to Shikinejima, and attempts to bring her back to her home. In doing so he encounters a school-reunion group who are traveling to meet their elementary school teacher, which is a reference to the film Twenty-Four Eyes by Keisuke Kinoshita. Tora-san joins them and falls in love with the teacher.
Daisuke is supposed to be out looking for a respectable job and equally respectable wife. He is 30 years old and devotes his attention to music and literature; his family is wealthy and can support his interests. When his friend Hiraoka returns with his wife Michiyo, problems arise.
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In Nagasaki, Tora-san and an acquaintance help an old woman who has fallen and injured herself. She invites them to her home where the three share a night of eating and drinking. The old woman's health deteriorates and she dies. At her funeral, Tora-san falls in love with the old woman's daughter, but winds up acting as a go-between for her and a young law student.
A monk (uncredited)
Producida por Coppola y Lucas, "Mishima" es un retrato biográfico del consagrado autor japonés Yukio Mishima. La película investiga la inquietud interior y las contradicciones de un hombre que trató de alcanzar una imposible armonía entre sí mismo, el arte y la sociedad. La trama se centra en el día en que Mishima conmocionó al mundo, al hacerse en público el seppuku o harakiri (25 de noviembre de 1970), en el Cuartel General del Ejército. El relato está salpicado de flashbacks para contar diversos episodios de su infancia, sus comienzos como escritor, el posterior triunfo profesional, su tranformación en estrella mediática, sus obsesiones por la belleza física y sus ambiguos gustos sexuales, así como la creación de la "Sociedad del Escudo". (FILMAFFINITY)
Self
German director Wim Wenders made this documentary in which he tries to explore the Tokyo that was depicted in the films of Yasujiro Ozu. When Wenders visits Tokyo for the first time, he finds a very different city, one with a booming fascination with technology that often clashes with the traditional elements of Japanese culture. Wenders also interviews Ozu's cinematographer, Yuharu Atsuta, and Chishu Ryu, an actor who frequently collaborated with Ozu.
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Tora-san spends several days at the home of a hard-working salaryman ("salaried worker"), who abruptly disappears. When the man's wife asks Tora-san to help find him, he falls in love with her, and secretly hopes the husband will not be found.
The priest
When Wabisuke's father-in-law unexpectedly dies, the family goes through a series of random events and occurrences as the funeral unfolds over three days in their home.
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In Shibamata, Tokyo, Tora-san's family prepares for a wedding. Meanwhile, the traveling Tora-san meets an old acqaintance in Iwate Province. Tora-san refuses to drink with him, afraid that the acquaintance, now settled and married, will again become attracted to Tora-san's wandering existence. Tora-san becomes attracted to a female barber, but must break off their relationship so that she too can live a secure life. She instead gets into an abusive relationship with a motorcyclist.
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Tora-san visits brother-in-law Hiroshi's hometown to attend a memorial service for his late father. When the local temple priest becomes intoxicated, Tora-san wearing the priest's robe delivers the memorial speech, much to his family's surprise. Thinking he's found his true calling, Tora-san decides to join the order, and falls for the priest's divorced daughter.
The story of a Japanese man who as a 16-year-old went to Maui to work in the sugar cane fields in order to support his family back in Japan. Now 89 and still living in Hawaii he is visited by his granddaughter who brings him a letter from his disinherited and recently dead son. This brings back memories of his life with his wife and family following the attack on Pearl Harbor, in particular of his son who had gone off to join the war for the Americans.
Self
Documental realizado por Kazuo Inoue acerca de la vida y carrera de Yasujirô Ozu, en el cual participa su asistente Shohei Imamura (director de The Pornographers y The Eel), los críticos Donald Richie y Tadao Sato, y los actores estrellas de sus películas Chishu Ryu, Mariko Okada y Haruko Sugimura, entre otros. Un infaltable para los fanáticos de la belleza del cine de este gran maestro.
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Tora-san returns to his family home to learn that his brother-in-law cannot go to Mitsuo's (Tora-san's nephew) athletic event. Tora-san volunteers to take his place, but gets into an argument with his brother-in-law's boss and returns to the road. He meets a young woman in Niigata who, unbeknownst to him, is a popular enka singer.
Gozen-sama
Tora-san gets into an argument with his uncle and sets out on the road again. In Kyushu he meets a young woman named Keiko and the shy zoologist Saburō, and attempts to play matchmaker between the two when they all return to Tokyo.
Saiji Akutsu
After a passenger ship sinks in 1954, Go Akutsu devises a life-saving project in the form of a tunnel under the Tsugaru Strait. While working on this project Akutsu becomes involved with Tae Makimura leading to his estrangement from his wife.
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During his travels, Tora-san gets drunk with an old man in Kyoto. Though Tora-san never fully comprehends his importance, the old man is a Living National Treasure ceramist. At his home, Tora-san makes a good impression on the old man's maid, who apparently falls in love with Tora-san.
Gozen-sama
Tora-san returns to his family's home to attend an elementary school class reunion. After he embarrasses himself by getting drunk and insulting all his ex-classmates, he resumes his travels. In Kyushu he meets an outspoken 18-year-old girl who becomes enamored of Tora-san and follows him around. One of Tora-san's old friends is terminally ill and makes Tora-san promise him to marry his wife once he is gone.
Gozen-sama
When his travels bring him to Osaka, Tora-san falls in love with a local geisha. He helps her to track down her estranged brother, and informs his family that he plans to marry her. His plans are foiled when the geisha informs Tora-san that she is engaged.
Gozen-sama
After a friend and business colleague dies, Tora-san visits the man's daughter, then takes her to Tokyo so she can study for a night school exam.
Priest
When cabaret singer Lily writes Toraya about her illness, Tora-san rushes to Okinawa to be by her side.
Tora-san's opinions about Americans get challenged when another wandering peddler Michael Jordan stops by Shibamata.
Gozen-sama
Tora-san helps out a runaway bride.
Gozen-sama
After a chance encounter with Hiroshi's father on a bus, Tora decides to get serious and reflect on the mortality of man. His plans are derailed when a beautiful lady starts working at Toraya.
Gozen-sama
Tora-san leaves Shibamata once again after an argument with his family and finds himself at an inn where he meets Tomekichi, a young man who looks up to Tora-san.
Priest
Tora-san becomes friends with Toraya's newest tenant, a pachinko-playing electrician that goes by the nickname Watt. Tora attempts to match Watt with a young waitress.
Gozensama
Tora-san befriends the descendant of a feudal lord. The man asks Tora to locate his deceased son's wife who resides somewhere in Tokyo.
Gozen-sama
When Tora-san's infatuation with his nephew's school teacher causes family turmoil, he leaves on his travels again. When he returns, he falls in love with the teacher's mother.
Japanese youth film.
Priest
Tora-san arrives in Shibamata on Mitsuo's first day of school only to find that on his account, Mitsuo was embarrassed. After a fight with his family, he goes to a bar to drink, then brings home a surly old man with a sad story, whose identity will surprise everyone. Later, Tora meets Botan, a geisha.
Gozen-sama
Tora-san is inspired to pursue an education after a visit to the grave of a woman he met years ago. When he returns to Shibamata with the intent to study, he falls for Toraya's new tenant instead.
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Tora-san visits Hokkaido and is reunited with Lily. Now divorced, she plans to resume her singing career and renews her unusual relationship with Tora-san.
Gozen-sama
After Hiroshi is injured in a workplace accident, Torajiro gives Sakura the money he has saved and leaves to work as a traveling salesman once again. During his travels, Torajiro meets a father who shares a drink with him. In the morning, Torajiro is shocked to learn that the man has left his baby behind and a note asking Tora to take care of the child.
Kojuro Kirihara
Dos detectives son asignados a la investigación del asesinato de un viejo ex-policía en la estación de ferrocarril de Tokio sin ninguna motivación aparente. Poco a poco, la investigación acabará conduciendo al descubrimiento del pasado oculto de un joven y prometedor músico...
Gozen-sama
After Torajiro's latest attempt to find a bride goes awry, he starts traveling again and runs into Utako (last seen in Tora-san's Dear Old Home), now a widow.
Takushoku
La hermana menor de Tora-san, Sakura, invita a su tía y tío a un viaje de spa en el derecho de Kyushu cuando Tora-san vuelve a casa! Durante su estancia solitaria en su casa, determina para el tratamiento de su familia más agradable cuando regresen. Un día, Tora-san se encuentra con uno de sus antiguos compañeros de clase, y presenta a su hermana menor Ritsuko a Tora-san. Ritsuko provenía de una familia rica, pero ella insiste en ser un pintora y tiene que sufrir de la pobreza. Tora-san se siente atraído por ella, pero ella ya está enamorada de otro hombre.
Takuan
In Part I we see the young would-be swordsman setting out to achieve greatness in war, achieving nothing because fighting on the losing side, & then beginning his long period of wandering & training, with the goal always in mind of his duel with Kojiro. Part II builds toward that great duel on Ganryu Island, with considerable focus on Musashi's planning & forethought as to how to gain an advantage.
Kingoro Tamai moves with his wife and son to the port city of Wakamatsu. He organizes the Tamai-gumi, a stevedore group, to vie for work with two other powerful groups. Gingo is Tamai's chief rival who falls in love with the latter's wife and tries to kill Tamai.
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On the road again, Torajiro meets a kindred spirit in Lily, a lounge singer.
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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.
Ishizaki Senzo
En una apacible isla, Seichi y Minko viven transportando rocas a zonas de construcción. Pronto se verán afectados con la llegada de la revolución industrial...
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While Sakura and Hiroshi struggle to save funds to build a house, Torajiro befriends three young women on vacation during his travels.
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Taking a message from Hiroshi's father to heart, Torajiro attempts to give up his wandering ways.
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Tora-san regresa a su ciudad natal y se reconcilia con su madre Kiku, y comienza su vida como un errante nuevamente, hasta que conoce a Hanako, una joven inocente no muy inteligente que trabaja en una fábrica textil. Tora-san tiene la intención de ayudarla a regresar a su ciudad natal, pero Hanako termina trabajando en la tienda del tío de Tora-san.
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Una joven que ha escapado de una institución se enamora de Tora-san. Él decide casarse con ella, pero su familia y la maestra de la joven se oponen al romance.
Instructor Takeyama
Tsutomu (Kensaku Morita), an orphan who once stabbed a man, is released from a reformatory and goes to Tottori, on the Japan Sea coast, to enter a high school. On the beach, he meets a young fisherman, Yusuke (Norihiko Yamamoto) also a student of the same school. They become friends and Tsutomu is offered free board at Yusuke's home.
With World War II is coming to its end and Japan nearing defeat, Japanese military leaders step up suicide attacks on Allied ships. Toei legend Koji Tsuruta stars as a Kamikaze squad leader who has second thoughts about suicide runs. He becomes torn between his own morality and his duty to his country when he must deal with a pilot under his command who refuses to complete his mission.
Genzo, So's father
The story is set in 1970 during the time of the first EXPO in Japan. The film’s main figure is a miner who suddenly becomes unemployed because the mine he worked in was shut down. He decides to resettle with his whole family to Hokkaido in northern Japan and start a new life as a farmer.
High Priest
After an encounter with a dying yakuza's son and at his sister Sakura's urging, Torajiro attempts to change his vagrant lifestyle and become an honest worker with a steady job.
Priest
After winning big at the races, Torajiro Kuruma wants to take his aunt and uncle on a trip to Hawaii to partly pay the great filial debt he feels he owes them, but the plan hits a snag. Also, a pretty kindergarten teacher rents a room at Toraya.
High Priest
Tora-san regresa a su ciudad natal a instancias de su tío y su tía, pero una vez más causa caos y problemas para su gran boca. En un intento por hacer que se quede en casa y termine con su vida como vagabundo, la pareja de ancianos decide arreglar el matrimonio de Tora-san. Pero la reunión matrimonial nuevamente termina en vergüenza y la pareja de ancianos tiene que pagar la cuenta nuevamente. Después de una gran pelea, Tora-san está en el camino una vez más...
Coming of age/high school sports drama.
Gozensama
Se descubre a Kuruma Torajiro buscando en Kioto a alguien especial para él.
Gozen-sama
Tora-san, un vendedor ambulante, vuelve a casa después de veinte años para encontrar que sus padres fallecieron y su única hermana, Sakura, trabajando en una tienda de dulces locales y vive con su tía y su tío. Tora de mala gana está de acuerdo con el matrimonio previsto de Sakura con un pintor, pero sólo consigue arruinar el matrimonio cuando se comporta de forma escandalosa en la fiesta pre-boda. Sin darse cuenta se enamora de la hija de un sacerdote budista. Al enterarse de que ella ya se está preparando para su propio matrimonio, decide salir de su casa de nuevo para ocultar su disgusto.
General Maresuke Nogi
Japón y Rusia chocan en lo que se conoció como la Guerra Ruso Japonesa. Un intento de flota y el ejército japonés para tomar el puerto de Arthur falla, y una flota rusa surca en el mar de Japón. El almirante Heihachiro Togo envía su flota a combatir a los rusos, con resultados que merman a las 2 naciones. Mientras tanto, el mayor Genjiro Akashi negocia secretamente con los revolucionarios bolcheviques, negociaciones que tienen repercusiones mas allá del conflicto en sí.
Based on a story by Akiyuki Nosaka.
Bookstore Man
Sátira anti-belicista que sigue la historia de un soldado que se da cuenta de que es un títere en manos de sus superiores, mostrando sus ridículas aventuras mientras se le entrena para convertirse en torpedo humano
A comedy about Hikoichi, a mediocre train conductor who falls in love with a beautiful widow Sayuri.
Prime Minister Baron Kantaro Suzuki
Después de la detonación de las bombas atómicas de Hiroshima y Nagasaki, el ejército japonés y el gobierno se enfrentan por la demanda de los aliados de la rendición incondicional. El Ministro de Defensa Anami defiende el continuar luchando, hasta la muerte del último japonés si hace falta. El Emperador Hirohito se reune con sus ministros para solicitar la impensable rendición pacífica del Japón. Cuando el ejército planea un golpe para derrocar al gobierno civil del Emperador, Anani debe decidir entre sus deseos o su lealtad al Emperador.
Japanese drama film.
Tamotsu's Grandfather
Masako is a humble waitress who has a chance encounter with playboy Tamotsu. With the aid of his sister, Tamotsu seeks to win Masako's affection despite the disapproval of his wealthy parents and Masako's own feelings towards the working-class cabbie Noro.
Yasuhide Shima
Heitarô Misawa
A father gives his four daughters his substantial retirement allowance on the stipulation that they leave him alone, as he wants some freedom. Each of the daughters has a romantic interest and it's noticeable that the father, too, has someone in mind.
Mr. Yasumoto
El joven doctor Yasuoto regresa a su pueblo después de estudiar en Nagasaki, pero, en cuanto llega, sufre una gran desilusión: en lugar de ser nombrado médico del shogun lo envían a una clínica que cuenta con muy pocos recursos y está dirigida por un médico apodado "Barbarroja".
Tateno
Shinichi is not only poor, he is also deaf, and leads a joyless life with his sick mother. His one happiness is his friendship with a girl who works in a bar nearby. Then, one day, his mother dies after drinking the medicine that Shinichi himself gave her. It is discovered that the pills contained poison. He is apprehended on suspicion of murder and taken away for interrogation, unable to defend himself - being deaf and dumb - or even to proclaim his innocence.
One day a company executive learns that his younger brother, whom he recommended, embezzled company funds. To save the situation he withdraws his life savings and gives money to his younger brother. He then suddenly disappears…
A young girl knows that she is going to die and in this she is supported by the devotion of the boy who loves her. They originally met at the hospital. There it transpired that the only way to save her life was to sacrifice an eye and part of her face. The operation seems a success. Later, however, her other eye becomes affected. She feels she must let the boy go, and yet she depends so much upon his devotion.
Gôzô Tôyama
A young man longs to travel to Hawaii, the birthplace of his deceased father, against the wishes of his family, who are estranged from those relatives in Waikiki.
Maruhashi Gotaro
In 1730, the Tokugawa Shogunate orders the Yagyu Clan to repair a huge shrine. Since it cannot refuse the Shogunate's request, the impoverished Yagyu Clan tries to raise funds by obtaining a sword which holds the key to a wondrous, hidden treasure. After learning the sword's secret, Tange Sazen sides with the Yagyu Clan, but his motive seems to be more than just pure interest in the treasure...
Noriko's Father
Futari dake no toride
Japanese comedy film.
Shuhei Hirayama
Shubei Hirayama es un viudo que vive con su hija de veinticuatro años. Sintiéndose viejo y acabado, el hombre se da cuenta de que ella debería vivir su vida y no tener la obligación de cuidarle permanentemente, así que decide casarla. Aunque su hija se resiste a abandonar a su progenitor, finalmente acabará haciéndolo. Shubei buscará en el licor del sake el refugio de la soledad, el consuelo de la angustia.
A story about the lives of four sisters and their manipulative mother who must come to terms with each of their decisions in life.
Sôkei Nambô
La historia básica de "Amor bajo el crucifijo" es sobre Ogin, hija de un maestro del té, ambos cristianos en el Japón feudal. Ogin se enamora de un príncipe feudal, también cristiano que ya está casado, y eso crea problemas. Además, cuando el Shogun prohíbe el cristianismo, la situación empeora.
A father and son are both heavy drinkers. However, the son dies in an accident at a bar, leaving behind a fiance…. A unique social satire that focuses on why people drink alcohol.
Kinjiro Ishikawa
Drama sobre la vida de cinco hijas y la hijastra del dueño de una tienda.
Farmer
La familia Kohayagawa se prepara para casar a la joven Noriko, la hija pequeña, mientras que su hermana Akiko, viuda y con dos hijos, recibe una propuesta de matrimonio de un hombre con una buena posición económica. El viejo patriarca Banpei se comporta, sin embargo, de forma curiosa: decide ir a visitar a su antigua amante, Tsune, actitud que su hija Fumiko le reprocha. El viudo Banpei sufre un repentino ataque pero recobra la salud y su hija renuncia a juzgarle.
Ehara
This Japanese film speculates on the events which lead the U.S. and the Soviet Union into a nuclear Armageddon.
Gen is a lonely orphan boy. His sole sense of companionship comes from an imaginary friend, the god Prince Fudo-Myo. Prince Fudo-Myo comes to the boy's rescue in times of difficulty.
The university professor Ozeki Hitoshi (Ryu Chishu) is regarded as an eccentric by people in his surroundings. When his daughter Tokiko is asked to marry a colleague, she and her mother are overjoyed, but Hitoshi is not satisfied with the situation.
Hinanmin no Chôrô
Tras ser derrotados por los rusos, Kaji y los pocos hombres de su unidad que han sobrevivido emprenden una larga marcha en un intento desesperado de llegar a territorio amigo. Tras sortear no pocas dificultades, Kaji se ve obligado a rendirse y es enviado a un campo de prisioneros en Siberia.
Shukichi Miwa
Tras la muerte de Miwa, sus mejores amigos deciden hacerse cargo del futuro de su viuda Akiko y de su hija Ayako. Todos creen que la mejor solución es casar a la joven, pero ésta rechaza uno tras otro a todos los candidatos que le presentan; así que deciden casar primero a la viuda.
Tsukue
Basada en la novela THE GREAT BUDDHA PASS (la fuente de SWORD OF DOOM), esta versión de la clásica historia va más acorde con la novela original.
La historia de un asesino a sangre fría, Tsuke Ryunosuke y sus desventuras en Japón durante la década de 1860. Como telón de fondo de la agitación política de la época.
Esta es la primera de la trilogía.
A historical drama that depicts the touching beauty of world obsession and human love in the style of light comedy, in the center of which is a young man who has a master license menkyo kaiden in the art of swordsmanship, but weak against lies and women. A remake of Bungaku no Issue, shot by Sadao Yamanaka in 1933.
Vice-Admiral Shibata
In the autumn of 1945, Petty Officer Tadashi Yamaji is among the numerous war crimes suspects facing death on the gallows for maltreatment of Allied women and children interned in camp Kampili. Kampili is located some ten kilometers outside Macassar on the island of Celebes. Eighteen-hundred Allied women and children were interned for the duration of the war. Yamaji's iron rule for camp administration is : No violence; hands off internees; He also endeavors to establish self-administration by internees while aiming at a self-supporting camp economy within six months. His ingenuity gains the camp numerous pigs to enrich their diet, and sewing machines with to make fatigue uniforms for the military. The internees are grateful for what little aid he can give them. As the tides of war changes, Allied planes bomb the camp in error. But the surrender of Japan changes everything, and the internees join forces to save their former camp commander from the gallows.
Public Prosecutor Nonaka
La hija del presidente de una importante empresa inmobiliaria se casa con Nishi, el secretario de su padre. Durante la boda, ciertos rumores y comentarios circulan entre los invitados: cinco años antes, cuando un hombre murió, tras caer por la ventana del último piso del edificio de la compañía, mucha gente dudó de la versión oficial, según la cual se había tratado de un suicidio.
Old man in the park
En una familia de clase media de Tokio, una de las hijas (Setsuko Hara) ha enviudado joven, y todos los miembros desean que vuelva a casarse. La madre es una anciana viuda que vive en una casa grande del centro de Tokio. Los hijos están deseando vender la casa, pero no saben qué hacer con su madre.
Monk
A young woman is attacked by a serial rapist and murderer whom her detective father is investigating. Though she survives, the impact of the event creates increasing discord and agony for her and her loved ones.
Kinoshita
Una joven japonesa de origen aristocrático recibe una propuesta de matrimonio por parte del hermano del emperador títere de Manchuria, ocupada por fuerzas militares niponas. A pesar de sus iniciales reticencias, tras conocer a su pretendiente accede a casarse.
Shinichirô Atsumi
When a wealthy, selfish family decides to take care of an elderly hobo who collapsed near their home, they are beset by visits from his numerous friends.
Theatre Owner
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.
A mother and her daughter who run a quiet mountain hotel, and guests who visit the hotel. A girl who does not know what a broken heart is, the attractive joy of first love, and separation is like parting with life. The mother-daughter duet with Isuzu Yamada attracted a lot of attention at that time. Haruko Wanibuchi, demonstrated rare attractiveness and pure charm by playing a heroine living in a beautiful and pure first love.
Keitarô Hayashi
Japón, años 50. Como todos los días, los miembros de una familia se disponen a afrontar sus problemas, sueños y realidades. El padre, con los altibajos de su trabajo y las exigencias que impone la educación de los hijos. La madre, administrando los ingresos familiares y atendiendo a las múltiples complicaciones de la vida doméstica. Y los hijos obsesionados por tener televisión en casa, y uno de ellos enfrascado en sus estudios y angustiado por un defecto físico.
Kôzô's father
Five longtime friends get back together, but are disappointed to find that their bonds are not as strong as they once were.
Komiya
On a post-war peaceful day in Japan, Toyomatsu Shimizu, a barber as well as a good father and husband, is suddenly arrested by the Prefectural Police as a war criminal and sued for murder.
After surviving the double suicide pact she made with her lover, a woman gives birth to their child.
Naoji Kageyama
Two men at an ironworks encounter roadblocks: the first does not have the grades to get a job, while the other finds himself falling for a co-worker.
Shukichi Mikami
A un hombre de negocios sus amigos le piden constantemente consejos sobre el matrimonio, la vida conyugal y la vida familiar. Su serenidad y sus agudos análisis le permiten encontrar el consejo oportuno para cada situación. Sin embargo, cuando él mismo tiene que afrontar una delicada situación que afecta a su hija mayor, tropezará con grandes dificultades para encontrar una solución al conflicto.
Shigezo Yuki
Matsugoro, un pobre conductor de carro en el Japón del periodo Meiji, devuelve a un niño perdido, Toshio, a su casa. Sus padres se muestran con él muy agradecidos. Tras la muerte del padre, la madre, Yoshiko, muy preocupada por su hijo, le pide a Matsugoro que le ayude a educarlo. Él acepta encantado. Con el paso del tiempo le coge mucho cariño, al niño y a la madre. Pero Toshio crece, y se marcha a estudiar a la universidad de Tokio, y Matsugoro se siente abandonado y triste...
A masterpiece depicting the true feelings, grief and joy of a woman. An adaptation of the novel of the same name by Yasushi Inoue.
Shingo Wakasugi
Shukichi Sugiyama
Dos hermanas viven con su padre: la más joven ha tenido una aventura y se ha quedado embarazada, la mayor ha abandonado a su marido y se ha refugiado con su hijo en la casa paterna. Cuando, de repente, reaparece su madre, a la que creían muerta, su estupor no tendrá límites. (FILMAFFINITY)
Genroku, the father
Tamio Moroi, a young university graduate, works at a large brewery where he is taught to do nothing but look busy. When his father goes insane, he is told to send money for medical research into the condition. This prompts him to pay his father a visit, leading to a series of mishaps that leaves him at the bottom of the heap in what he once expected to be a promising lifetime career.
Det. Hasegawa
A notorious abortion doctor fell down from a night train and he was dead. A man who knows the truth of this accident starts to chase a up-and-coming model.
With one of the busiest film industries in the world, Japan was able to submit several films into competition at the 1957 Berlin Film Festival. One of the best of these was Arashi, directed by Hiroshi Inagaki of Rickshaw Man fame. Anticipating Hollywood's Table for Five by nearly a quarter of a century, the film concerns the efforts by a recently widowed high-school teacher to raise his four children alone. Chihu Ryu is terrific as the central character, while Izumi Yukimura is even better as Ryu's eldest daughter. For reasons unknown, Arashi is often omitted from "official" lists of Inagaki's films.
Kiichi Onodera
Un hombre casado de mediana edad, aburrido de la rutina cotidiana tanto en el trabajo como en su matrimonio, tiene una aventura amorosa con la hija de un colega suyo. Cuando su mujer descubre su infidelidad, tanto su vida como la de su familia quedarán completamente trastornadas.
Directed by Yoshiro Kawazu
Masao - Age 73
Now an old man, Masao returns to his childhood home and begins to recall his upbringing in this abandoned sector of Japan.
Hasegawa
Portmanteau film about young lovers.
Professor Hirota
1955 Toho adaptation of Natsume's novel.
A Chinese medical student named Gan Shosho finds himself cut off from his homeland as he is studying in Japan during the outbreak of the war. Despite his difficult circumstances, he finds love in the form of Sachiko and the two marry. They later travel to Nanjing to live a new life together where Sachiko and Shaochang cooperate with the Japanese-backed government. Their ultimate hope is to secure peace but their idealism is not enough to keep them together through brutal times and with the end of the war the two find themselves facing a divorce... --Osaka Asian Film Festival
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.
Asai Mokichi
Mokichi es el padre viudo de tres hijas, con las que vive en las instalaciones de un templo desde la guerra. En la película, las tres hijas se involucran en una especie de relación complicada. Las hermanas y sus Hombres adjuntos están diseñados deliberadamente como figuras alegóricas sobre las cambiantes condiciones sociales. Una comedia maravillosamente divertida, a veces graciosa, entre Nara y Tokio, Adagio y Allegro, Ayer y Hoy, en busca de una mañana.
Otoko Sensei
1928. En la idílica isla rural de Shodoshima, la joven, brillante y motivada maestra Hisaki Oishi empieza por primera vez su tarea de profesora a cargo de doce niños de primaria, los inocentes y entrañables veinticuatro ojos que la mirarán en su primer año formativo de escuela. Al principio, los métodos de enseñanza poco ortodoxos de la nueva maestra y su moderna visión de chica de ciudad provocan cierto recelo en la comunidad pero pronto niños y adultos caen bajo su irresistible encanto. Al cabo de los años, la inminente guerra cambiará sus vidas para siempre.
Machiko and Haruki’s drama continues. Machiko is not allowed to see Haruki. They finally meet again, but Haruki departs to Europe.
Un hombre triste y preocupado, Reikichi Mayumi (Masayuki Mori), encuentra un nuevo trabajo cinco años después del final de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Él escribirá cartas de amor de otras personas. Sus ideas sobre el amor y sus principios personales serán probados cuando se reencuentra con su ex novia, Michiko (Yoshigo Kuga), una mujer con un pasado oscuro marcado por la guerra.
Machiko and Haruki’s drama continues. Two meet again in Hokkaido only to be separated again.
Shukishi Hirayama
Una pareja de ancianos viaja a Tokio para visitar a sus hijos, pero ninguno de ellos tiene tiempo para atenderlos, por lo que deciden enviarlos a un balneario. Cuando regresan, la madre pasa una noche en la casa de una nuera, viuda de uno de sus hijos. A diferencia de sus cuñados, Noriko muestra afecto por sus suegros y conforta a la anciana.
Machiko Ujiie and Haruki Atomiya first meet and fall in love on Ginza’s Sukiyabashi Bridge during the Great Tokyo Air Raid in March 1945. Machiko and Haruki pledge to meet again at the bridge in six months but part without asking each other’s names.
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...
Sadao Hirayama
Takeo, una mujer caprichosa de la alta sociedad de Tokio, se aburre con su marido, un hombre tranquilo, que se ha educado en el campo, aunque ahora es ejecutivo de una empresa.
Mr. Uemura
The story of a father and two teenaged sons, and the rivalry between the two siblings as they begin to discover the attraction of girls.
Nami (波 Nami) is a Japanese film directed by Noboru Nakamura. It was entered into the 1952 Cannes Film Festival.
Inochi uruwashi
Tarobei Kamiya
A fishing union depends on two brothers to make up the losses caused by the dishonest captains they replaced.
Koichi Mamiya
En el Tokio de la posguerra, los miembros de una familia convencional llevan una vida tranquila y serena. Su única preocupación es la soltería de Noriko, la hija mayor, que ya tiene 28 años. Pero la sociedad está cambiando, y Noriko, que trabaja y se divierte con sus amigas, no siente la menor necesidad de tener un marido. Sin embargo, su hermano considera muy imprudente la actitud independiente de la chica. (FILMAFFINITY)
Father
When a family has to relocate due to the war, they are ostracized by their new community.
Kosaku Uemura
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...
Principal
Una chica que había dejado su ciudad natal por la emocionante aventura de la gran ciudad regresa a casa años más tarde para una visita, lo que pronto de alguna manera causará escándalo.
Ryôen Toba
Two journalists and their lovers share an uncertain future.
Tadachika Munekata
Setsuko se siente desgraciada al lado de su marido, un ingeniero alcohólico y sin trabajo. Ella estuvo siempre enamorada de Hiroshi, aunque nunca llegaron a prometerse, porque él emigró a Francia. Ahora, que ha regresado a Japón, la hermana de Setsuko intenta unirlos de nuevo. El único problema es que ella también está secretamente enamorada de él. (FILMAFFINITY)
The Forgotten Children
Shukichi Somiya
Somiya era un viudo viejo con una hija, Noriko, madura para el matrimonio, pero curiosamente sigue viviendo con su padre. Para hacerla cambiar de manera de pensar, Somiya finje tomar una esposa joven e intentar que su hija se de cuenta de su situación...
The tale of a feudal swordsman who cynically takes no responsibility for anything, relegating it to others, and then taking the credit.
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.
A film dealing with the comings and goings of individuals in the immediate postwar period.
Kazuichiro Satake
Tokiko is a mother patiently waiting for her husband's return from the war when her 4-year old son becomes ill. She takes him to the doctor for treatment but has no way of paying. She resorts to prostitution. One month later her husband returns from WWII to find his desperate wife, who tells him the truth. Together they must deal with the consequences.
Chief of police
A 1948 Japanese film.
During his summer holiday, Kawasaki Ryuichi (Ryuzaki Ichiro), a handsome engineer in his late twenties, visits his teacher and mentor, Professor Inagaki (Sugai Ichiro), at his seaside home. There he meets the professor's lovely young wife, Sachiko (Hamada Yuriko), and is unsettled by the striking resemblance she bears to his wife, who died three years earlier. Attracted to Sachiko, he does his best to hide his feelings. The couple, however, senses a deep-seated melancholy in him. Attributing it to the loss of his wife, they urge him to marry their niece, Kaoru, but he is not interested. Shortly after, Fumiko , Sachiko's older sister, realizes that Sachiko and Kawasaki have feelings for each other, but she keeps her counsel. One day Kawasaki, Sachiko, and Kaoru go boating when a storm forces them to stay overnight at a hotel. Unable to sleep, Kawasaki takes a walk along the beach where he finds Sachiko, also unable to sleep. He declares his love for her.
Mr. Matsumura
A small-town boy with a learning disability attempts to fit in with his classmates.
Tashiro
En el Japón de la postguerra, un hombre encuentra en la calle a un niño perdido y lo lleva a su casa, pero nadie quiere acogerlo, ni siquiera por una noche. Finalmente, lo hace una viuda de agrio carácter. Al día siguiente, la mujer lleva al niño a su barrio y averigua que el padre se ha marchado a Tokyo y lo ha abandonando. (FILMAFFINITY)
The film is set during the days of the scarcity of food after World War II, during which five men ate an elephant that died in a zoo. The elephant's corpse however, was infested with deadly bacteria and the men have only 30 hours left to live...
Kiyoshi, un joven oficial de clase acomodada, es enviado a la Península de Izu, cerca de Tokio. No hay lugar dónde vivir y el templo local permanece lleno de gente que ha debido alejarse de sus hogares como consecuencia de la guerra. Unos lugareños le indican a Kiyoshi que el dueño de un restaurante cercano y padre de dos hijas solteras tiene una habitación libre en su casa. Las relaciones entre los miembros de la familia no volverán a ser las mismas luego de la llegada del nuevo inquilino.
Estrenada el 30 de agosto de 1945, apenas dos semanas después de la rendición nipona, Las jóvenes de Izu fue el primer estreno cinematográfico japonés luego del fin de la Segunda Guerra. Gosho había realizado apenas cuatro películas durante esos años y ninguna de ellas puede ser considerada artículo de propaganda.
Japanese war movie.
Tomosuke Takagi
Tomuhiko es un niño de 10 años que pasa su infancia bajo la sombra de una guerra civil japonesa, en 1896. Su único objetivo será alistarse en el ejército y cumplir la promesa que le hizo a su padre....
Nobadama
The sweet but naive denizens of a charming port town are hoodwinked by a couple of con men at the outset of World War II. But the hustlers’ plan backfires when they come down with severe cases of conscience. Keisuke Kinoshita’s directorial debut is a breezy, warmhearted, and often very funny crowd-pleaser that’s a testament to the filmmaker’s faith in people.
A family story in the year of 1943 during the war. The director is Shunkai Mizuho, who worked on "Hibari no Circus Sad Kobato" starring Hibari Misora after the war. Previously, there is only a 6-minute short version in the National Film Archive, therefore, the full version is this movie is very valuable. This is considered a masterpiece that depicts a happy family of 7 (a father, a mother, 3 sons and 2 daughters).They care about each other, and also trust each other. Father started to ask all the children "what do you want to be in the future?" since an early age. Boys said they want to go to college, they want to be painters, and when it comes to the girls, although they wanted to be generals, their answer was "become a bride, a wife, and a good mother." Brothers and sisters get along well and occasionally fight, but they all discuss the cause, and would apologize to each other. The story was so gentle that it is hard to believe it was during the war.
Kempeitai fights American spies in Japan
Amusing masterpiece from director Yoshimura Kazusabu divided in two parts taken from the newspaper serial novel of Shishiko Shishi. Like in "Warm Current", Shin Saburi, Mieko Takamine and Mitsuko Mito are appearing, but this is a fresh comedy very unusual for wartime.
Shuhei Horikawa, the father
En una ciudad provinciana, un profesor viudo lleva una vida modesta en compañía de su único hijo. Cuando en un viaje escolar, un alumno se ahoga en un lago, él asume la responsabilidad del accidente y dimite. Decide entonces abandonar la ciudad y trasladarse a su pueblo natal. Durante el viaje, padre e hijo discuten sobre el futuro y entre ellos se establece una relación al mismo tiempo cercana y distante. Un día el padre le anuncia que tiene la intención de mandarlo a estudiar a un internado. Años más tarde, el padre trabaja en Tokio y el hijo es maestro. En un encuentro el hijo le anuncia al padre que se va a la guerra.
Nanmura
Emi Ota and her friend Okiku stay briefly at a mountain inn and then return to Tokyo. Later, Nanmura, a soldier on leave, steps on an ornamental hairpin in the public bath at the inn. Emi writes to the inn saying she has lost a hairpin and, when she discovers that it injured Nanmura, returns to apologize. The longer term visitors at the inn meet together to discuss the hairpin incident. These include a grumpy Professor, a young couple Mr and Mrs Hiroyasu, and an old man staying with his two grandsons. They hope to see a romance blossom between Nanmura and Emi, after Nanmura declares that there is something almost poetic in finding a hairpin in the bath.
Most of the students studying Ikebana with Kozoe Iemoto are daughters of rich Tokyo families. Kozoe meets and grows close to a doctor who proposes marriage but whose mother harbours ill feeling towards her because of an incident in the mountains where a child got into difficulties. Kozoe rejects the proposal but falls ill and when she recovers, decides to devote herself entirely to the world of flower arranging.
The Boss
In the movies of those times, you can see young boys in the company scene often. Those boys were called kyuji (給仕), which means “waiter” literally. They are doing odd jobs in the company including serving tea, ushering visitors, buying tobacco, etc. Ordering lunch for the individual requests was also an important job. Those boys were hired often as soon as they graduated from elementary school.
Friend
Después de la muerte del patriarca, los Toda, una familia de clase alta, está posando para una foto. Al mismo tiempo que todos lamentan la muerte del padre, se enteran de que éste les ha dejado una deuda considerable.
A reformatory in the remote countryside houses 200 delinquents and problem children. The teachers and caretakers face much trouble. The school is often short on water, and one day, the well runs dry.
Jie (Michiko Kuwano) attended a women's university with the financial support of her geisha sister Oha (Hiroko Kawasaki) and became a lawyer. The aim. Michiko (Kuniko Miyake), one of the seven best friends from the same women's college, is getting married. The man she's marrying is her sister's lover.
Eiko is an innocent young lady born into a wealthy family with nothing to offer. She was good at singing, and lived her life playing around with her cronies, organizing music concerts and so on. However, things change when her father's business fails and she was suddenly thrown out into the world without any foundation. Eiko has no one to support her after she loses her social status, and her only tutor, Shinnosuke (Natsukawa Daijiro) was the only one who was sincere. Eiko is a stickler for using everything she can get her hands on, and she quickly moves into Shinnosuke's house.
Seizaburō Utsumi
A man who works late hours at a deadening job lives together with his wife and his younger sister. The younger sister's a modern girl who's starting to receive romantic attention from one of her co-workers.
Based on the original work by Fumiko Hayashi, this is a story about a woman and two men. The lust is restrained and indifferent. The story even has an elegance to it, which is the charm of the 30 year old Kinuyo Tanaka. There was a time when Tanaka was adorable... Shin Saburi was young and Chishu Ryu was young too. It is a promise of melodrama that the rival or friend is prettier than the heroine Kinyo.
A man and his girlfriend work for a cosmetics company, but would like to open their own store. The company is planning to send someone to Paris for special training and the man tries to get the general manager to send his girlfriend since this training would help them to start their own business. The general manager selects another woman and the trouble begins.
Shin'ichi Katori
Pre-war Asakusa was a riotous district of cabarets, dance-halls and brothels - a striking backdrop for Shimazu's story of innocence and experience. Pretty, young Reiko is the new dancer in an infamous theatre troupe, and her fellow performers try to protect her virtue in a land of vice. Meanwhile, an ageing actor wants to be a hero off stage as well as on, and the troupe matriarch Marie has to keep them all together.
Policeman
On vacation's eve, a boy is sent to the countryside to live with his uncle after his father is imprisoned and accused of embezzlement.
A 1937 Japanese film.
Kuranosuke Kazahaya
A penniless orphan loses the woman he loves, when her family arranges a marriage to a wealthy playboy. He believes she was blinded by greed, and becomes a miser.
George
A Japanese screwball comedy about the battle between the sexes: two timid men, egged on by their wives, end up in a bitter duel over an expensive lace handkerchief.
Tani
During college military training exercises, the bond between two friends and athletic rivals is tested when one of them becomes involved with a woman who may be a prostitute.
Nenkai Hotta
Three men fall in love with the same young girl who works in a tonkatsu restaurant in the Shitamachi district of Tokyo.
Conductor
Episode in the life of a composer of a popular Japanese song.
The eldest daughter of a noble family is in love with an aviator while being courted by a fellow aristocrat she thinks is a dullard. This part is told from the perspective of Akemi.
The narrative is about a woman who faces hard times, when her husband is arrested for a crime committed by his boss. The woman also has a child to look after, and they end up meeting several colorful personalities.
Professor Ookubo
Una campesina se esfuerza al máximo para que su hijo pueda recibir en Tokio una buena educación. Algunos años después, lo va a visitar, dando por supuesto que será feliz y tendrá una buena posición social. Pero, nada más llegar, se encuentra con la triste realidad: su hijo, que está casado, es profesor de la escuela nocturna y vive sumido en la miseria.
Story of two close friends who long to become pilots in the air corps. Only one succeeds in entering the service, while the other finds a job in civilian aviation through his instructor's good offices.
Amano
In a Tokyo boarding house a group of students and recent graduates struggle to complete their studies and find jobs. Considered a lost film.
Police man
Kihachi, an unemployed worker, wanders around the industrial flatlands of Tokyo's Koto district with his two young sons, Zenko and Masako. He is unable to find a job and has to rely on his sons catching stray dogs to earn reward money for their meals. As days go by, Kihachi and the boys no longer have enough money to stay at an inn for the night. Luckily for him, he encounters an old friend, Otsune, who finds him a job and allows them to stay at her eatery house.
Shouting audience member
Un anciano y veterano actor que dirige un grupo de teatro Kabuki regresa a un pueblo remoto, donde vive su antigua novia y el hijo de ambos, que ya tiene 19 años. El chico, que desconoce su verdadera identidad, le llama "tío". En 1959, Ozu hizo un remake de este film: "Las hierbas flotantes". (FILMAFFINITY)
Hattori
The film tells of the strained relationship between a mother and her two sons after the death of the family patriarch.
Yukihiko Chiba
El último film mudo de Naruse cuenta la vida de una camarera, Sugiko, cuya vida toma un brusco giro tras ser atropellada por un rico hombre de negocios.
Heinosuke Gosho evokes in this film the family conflicts engendered by the eternal problem of a father who projects his professional desires on the life of his son. The sister Machiko is the essential link that will allow everyone to apologize to each other and achieve reconciliation
Man on boat
Two Tokyo co-workers come across a destitute young lady in search of a place to live.
Policeman
Ambientada en Yokohama, ciudad portuaria donde el crimen y la prostitución dominan las calles. narra la turbulenta relación entre un gángster y su novia Tokiko, que de día trabaja como mecanógrafa en una empresa. Su rival, trabaja en una tienda de discos y está muy preocupada porque su hermano pequeño empieza a deslizarse por la pendiente del crimen.
Reporter
Ryoichi and Chikako, brother and sister, live together. Chikako toils during the day and, at night, prostitutes herself to fund his college tuition.
Shimazaki
When a young man inherits his father's lucrative business, he cheats the system to set up three of his college friends with jobs.
(uncredited)
La Señora y la Barba comienza como una comedia bulliciosa, vulgar, que poco a poco se adentra en la melancolía y el patetismo. "La barba" del título pertenece a Okajima, un maestro de espada kendo que no puede encontrar un trabajo en la época de la depresión en Japón. La barba se la afeita cuando “la bella" - una mecanógrafo que ha salvado de un atraco- le convence de que es un obstáculo para encontrar un trabajo. Incluso bien afeitado, él no puede huir de los problemas: la nueva mujer de su vida resulta ser un ladrón de joyas. La Señora y la Barba es fascinante por su "audacia sexual" y por su crítica total a la occidentalización y el nacionalismo japonés estrecho de miras-
Policeman
The film revolves around a desperate man who commits a crime in order to support his family, and the moral dilemma the policeman who tracks him down finds himself in.
Class mate
This bittersweet comedy tells the tale of a group of college roommates attempting to cheat their way through their exams. As the title goes, things don't work out for our roguish main character, but his classmates soon find themselves in a similarly sorry state...
student
Students Watanabe and Yamamoto unknowingly compete for the same girl.
A hen-pecked man works as his artist wife's model and a house-husband. When her patron flirts with her and humiliates him, he decides to get revenge by trying his own hand as a painter. Considered to be a lost film.
When a woman unfairly suspects her husband of flirting with a shop assistant, she decides to flirt with their landlord to get revenge. Considered to be a lost film.
Comedy about a young man juggling several girlfriends. Considered to be a lost film.
A married man falls for a dancer and his wife's uncle hires a private detective to spy on him. Considered to be a lost film.
Lost silent film
