Okaji
Biopic sobre Taiji Tonoyama, actor japonés que interpretó más de 250 personajes a lo largo de su carrera, muchos de ellos en películas dirigidas por el propio Kaneto Shindo. Tonoyama empezó su carrera como actor en los años 50, siendo su primer papel protagonista dentro de una de las películas más aclamadas de Kaneto Shindo, "La Isla Desnuda", rodada íntegramente sin diálogos. Pero más allá de sus películas, el actor era más conocido por su vida privada; se le acusaba de mujeriego y alcohólico.
Toyoko Yanagawa
Yoko es una famosa actriz que decide ir a un chalet situado en la montaña para tomarse unos días de descanso. Allí, descubrirá un secreto sobre su compañero Toyoko...
Densuke's mother
Hama-chan shows up to work with his son on his back when his wife goes to her class reunion and his mother throws her back out.
Masa
Película de corte biográfico sobre el escritor Nagai Kafu (1879-1959), un hombre que fue conocido en su tiempo por su condición de Don Juan y frecuentador de prostíbulos, que fueron los principales escenarios de sus novelas, hasta el punto de hacerse fotógrafo pornográfico para poder estar más introducido en aquel mundillo y conocerlo mejor. En una de esas visitas al distrito rojo de Tokio, Nagai Kafu conoce a Oyuki, una prostituta de quien se enamorará.
Tomi Izeki
A comedy about the lives of people living in the shopping district of Osaka.
A documentary about the lives of actors in the Sakura-tai theatrical troupe, which had arrived in the island of Hiroshima to begin preparations for the staging of a play just before the atomic bombing.
Mother
Historia en la que el protagonista, ya de avanzada edad, empieza a recordar su niñez, particularmente la relación con su ya difunta madre.
Namie Yasui
El cadáver del joven estudiante Takeshi Yasui es encontrado en un río. Todos los indicios apuntan a que ha sido una venganza por acoso escolar. Mientras la policía investiga a dos compañeros de clase, el director y los profesores intentan limpiar la imagen del colegio y evitar más situaciones de acoso.
Yasuko Moto
The life and travels of adventurer Naomi Uemura, who disappeared in Alaska in 1984. A member of the first Japanese expedition to reach the summit of Mt Everest in 1970, Uemura also accomplished several "firsts". He was the first man to reach the North Pole solo, climb Denali solo, and float down the Amazon river solo. In the film, Uemura returns to Tokyo after a stint in Siorapaluk in Northern Greenland. In Tokyo, he reconnects with an old friend and, over coffee, shares his life story - from his days as a college dropout to his successful expedition to the top of Everest.
Ume
Shuji was once a feared member of the Yakuza crime syndicate, but he's reformed his ways, abandoned his old life and left the city for a small coastal fishing town where he's become an honest fisherman.
Tei Ishikawa
A high school girl travels to the island of New Caledonia and has magical adventures.
Katsue
The melodramatic story of a pink crew’s tragi-comedic adventures on location. A fictionalized adaptation of set photographer Ichiro Tsuda's 1980 book The Location (Za Rokēshon), an illustrated 229-page document about the cameraman’s experiences with pink cast and crew on the sets of several films produced in the late 1970's.
Hideyo, after age 40
Internationally acclaimed for his cinematic realism and social commitment, Kaneto Shindo based the story of THE HORIZON on his sister's experiences. The film concerns Hideo, a young girl who leaves Japan in 1920 to settle her family's debt by being sold in marriage to a Japanese farmer in San Francisco. Over the next 20 years the couple works hard and raises 4 children. After Pearl Harbor is attacked they are interned with other Japanese immigrants in a camp, losing both their land and their assets. Hideo has now been uprooted twice and has to adjust to her son's going to war and her daughters' post-war assimilation and marriage to Americans despite her protests. But Hideo is a survivor and she awaits a new immigrant from Japan with hope.
Keiko
Can a woman love two men at the same time? Set against the backdrop of Kyoto's rich history, this story depicts a woman's difficult choice for love. Ayako, played by Yukiyo Toake, is an international conference coordinator. Torn between her childhood sweetheart (played by Kenji Sawada) and her English professor (played by Noboru Nakaya), Ayako will seek answers to love, marriage, and choice.
The final part takes Shingo into a confrontation with his friend Yagyu Katsunoshin’s uncle in a duel that could change the destiny of Japan.
Omomo
Jidaigeki de corte biográfico sobre Hokusai (1760-1849), pintor famoso por sus ukiyo-e (grabados a color japoneses que estuvieron de moda entre los siglos XVII y XIX). La película muestra la rivalidad de Hokusai con Utamaro, otro de los grandes artistas de la época, el esfuerzo de Hokusai para realizar las "36 visiones del monte Fuji", una de sus obras más conocidas, y su obsesión por pasar a la posteridad no por su obra paisajística, sino por ser capaz de plasmar en el papel la pasión femenina, para lo cual, y de la mano de su modelo favorita Onao, emprende la ejecución de su obra maestra: "El sueño de la mujer del pescador".
1980 Japanese film.
“Quit working as a nurse!” “All right, I will!” thus began the married life of Yasuo and Keiko. But the reality is harsh. Keiko even had to work on the first night after her marriage. Ten years later, the married couple is still at it. Yauso tends to the house and their children, while Keiko sacrifices family life for life as an overworked nurse. One day, after Keiko comes home utterly exhausted and dejected from her work, Yasuo makes up his mind and writes a letter of resignation in her place. Upon learning of this, Keiko angrily declares that nursing is what she lives for and she will keep on working. Realising that that is one battle he will never win, Yasuo sends a letter to a newspaper -- “Nurses’ husbands, aren’t you having a hard time? Get together nurses’ husbands. Contact me.” There is a tremendous response. This leads to the formation of many unions of nurses’ husbands throughout the country.
Sumie
Noriko had been engaged to marry Toshiyuki Fujimura, who worked at her father’s bank. One day however, Fujimura mysteriously disappears. From that day, Noriko keeps herself locked up in her room. After three years of Noriko shutting herself up like a doll without a soul, Fujimura suddenly returns. Noriko’s family’s first reaction was strong rejection, but Noriko asks no questions and embraces him warmly. One day, as Noriko is cleaning her husband’s room, three envelopes accidentally fall from the pages of one of the books she had picked up. The first letter is dated August 11th, saying that his wife had suddenly taken ill. The second, dated August 20th, says that his wife is now critically sick, and the third letter, dated September 1st, is an announcement of his wife’s death. The wife is obviously Noriko, but she is alive and well. Do the letters then mean a preliminary notice of Noriko’s death?
Ryoko Kariba
Yasuzo entra en la habitación de su hijo, Tsutomu, y le estrangula. Ryoko, la madre del chico, llora horrorizada pero no parece protestar por la acción de su marido. ¿Qué puede llevar a un padre ha hacer algo así a su propio hijo?
The body of Sakai Hatsuko, a woman of 23 who has been slain with a knife, has been found in a forest. Some days later, Ueda Hiroshi, a 19-year-old shipyard worker, is arrested and charged with the murder. At Ueda's trial, a complex story unfolds.
Toyo, Mother
Después de 50 años recorriendo Japón, por fin en los 70 el músico ciego Chikuzan se convirtió en la sensación del país. Este drama biográfico explora su vida y explica cómo llegó a lograrlo.
Película que repasa la vida y obra del realizador japonés Kenji Mizoguchi, utilizando para ello fragmentos de sus películas, entrevistas y otro tipo de información.
Mino Kawamura
Drama basado en una historia real que gira en torno a una mujer que pasa nueve meses tratando de recuperar el cadáver de su marido, luchando sin desfallecer contra la burocracia y la indiferencia gubernamental a lo largo de todo el proceso.
Historia de la conmovedora amistad entre un joven y un anciano, que arrastra dentro de sí trágicos secretos que le han venido atormentando a lo largo de su vida. El anciano los va contando poco a poco a su joven discípulo, empezando por sus días de estudiante, con el sentimiento/sensación de culpabilidad que han provocado y la consiguiente angustia moral a lo largo del profundo cambio cultural que caracterizó a Japón.
Kyoko (Shigezo's daughter)
A woman looks after her father in law.
Teru Kamozawa
Shunkin es una maestra ciega de shamisen y koto (instrumentos musicales japoneses). Ella atormenta y tortura a sus estudiantes, incluyendo a su siempre fiel aprendiz/servidor/amante, Sasuke. Cuando uno de sus enemigos vierte agua hirviendo sobre su cara, dejándole cicatrices para toda la vida, Sasuke adopta todo tipo de medidas para asegurarse de no volver ya a ver la cara de ella. La historia es contada por su antigua criada, en un asilo de ancianos, a un investigador, personaje interpretado por el propio director sin acreditar.
Middle aged woman
Una mujer quiere vengarse de su marido, vendedor de coches, porque la deja por una mujer más joven, mecanógrafa. Lleva a cabo su venganza acosando a la pareja por medio de llamadas telefónicas durante las noches.
Sakurada Shizu
Un estudio fascinante sobre la época de la Segunda Guerra Mundial y de la postguerra en Japón, a través de los ojos de un joven perteneciente a una familia poderosa. Es quizá el trabajo más autobiográfico del director. En efecto, Oshima creció durante esa época, en circunstancias similares, y era descendiente de una importante familia de samuráis.
Take Yamada
Michio Yamada, reciente graduado escolar, es enviado a Tokio para trabajar como empaquetador de fruta en unos grandes almacenes, como parte de un programa gubernamental. Incapaz de asentarse y echar raíces, y tras haber cogido una pistola de una casa en una base naval estadounidense, su vida va dando tumbos hacia la delincuencia. Paralelamente se muestra su dura infancia en un hogar pobre y desestructurado del Japón rural.
Tamiko / Prostitute Yuki
Otoyo
Otowa is a former Seto Inland Sea island farmer who has moved to the mainland in order to find work, but instead ends up dead. The film begins with the discovery of her corpse, which leads to an investigation that uncovers the narcotics, prostitution, and murder in which many poor farmers had found themselves trapped after World War II.
Oharu
En la época de decadencia del shogunato de los Tokugawa, el emperador enviaba tropas a los pueblos para liberar a los siervos del Shogun. Gonzo, un soldado que formaba parte de esas tropas, tras llegar a las cercanías de su pueblo, decide adelantarse y hacerse pasar por el capitán para difundir un mensaje. Pero en el pueblo tendrá que lidiar con los comerciantes corruptos y el actual administrador jefe
Hatsu Yonamine
In 1943, critical developments in the Pacific War have placed Japan at a disadvantage, although the fiery breaths of war hadn't yet reached Okinawa Normal School for women. Nothing seemed the least bit out of the ordinary, as Kazuko and her friends enjoyed a day of sports. A year later the war takes a devastating turn, as US forces plan an amphibious attack known as "Operation Iceberg" on the Ryukyu island.
Yone
Una mujer y su nuera son atacadas y violadas por un grupo de samurais, que las asesinan cuando prenden fuego a la cabaña en que ellas viven. Poco después 2 mujeres muy parecidas a las muertas entran en escena atrayendo a samurais solitarios hasta su casa con oscuras y vengativas intenciones.
aka Libido.
Osasa
Farmer Abare Goemon is confronted by brigand-like samurai. He raises an army of farmers to fight them and does so brilliantly. When Lord Asakura sees the success Goemon has achieved, he attempts to recruit him to fight in a conflict between Asakura and another clan. Goemon refuses, and Lord Asakura sets out to destroy him.
Former playmates (Naito and Tamura), both long ago abandoned by their parents, recall their youth and fall in love.
The Housemaid
A well-respected drama teacher confesses to his housekeeper that the atomic bombing of Hiroshima has left him impotent. With the coming of spring, the sympathetic housekeeper suggests that the Master observe the Yobai , a custom in which the young men of a village steal into the bedrooms of susceptible women to have sex.
Jiju
Moronao desea obsesivamente a Kanze, sin importarle el hecho de que esté casada con Rokuro. Para conseguir su objetivo, Moronao despliega una espiral de violencia contra el entorno de Kanze, para así tenerla solamente para él.
Ayako Wakao won the Blue Ribbon and the Kinema Jumpo for this film.
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…
Woman
Mientras su hijo, Kichi, está en guerra, una mujer y su nuera sobreviven matando a samuráis que se pierden en su pantano y luego vendiendo los objetos de valor que encuentran. Ambos quedan devastados cuando se enteran de que Kichi ha muerto, pero su esposa pronto comienza una aventura con un vecino que sobrevivió a la guerra, Hachi. La madre lo desaprueba y, cuando no puede robarse a Hachi, intenta asustar a su nuera con una misteriosa máscara de un samurái muerto.
Ikuyo
After her mother runs away from home, Tomoko is raised to be a geisha. One day Tomoko meets her mother in a red-light district in Tokyo and her life deeply gets in trouble.
Tamiko
Tamiko es una madre divorciada de su segundo marido, después de haber enviudado del primero durante la II Guerra Mundial. Su hijo Toshio se está quedando ciego; le han diagnosticado un tumor cerebral. Ella no tiene dinero para la cirugía y se lo pide a Yoshie, su madre. Yoshie se niega pero acuerda un matrimonio con otro pariente soltero, Tajima, a condición de que él se haga cargo del pago de la operación.
Nine maids serve the household of a writer and his wife. The couple treat their maids like daughters and marry them off to eligible men. So, they are forever looking for new maids. As the years go by maid servants become hired help and more bossy and independent, so Chikura and his wife find themselves adjusting their lives to keep up with changing times.
Japanese comedy film.
A dark family secret sends a 21-year-old French student (Hoshi) on a journey of self-discovery.
Gorosuke
Un capitán de barco y su sobrino se disponen a zarpar hacia una isla para realizar un trabajo con el que ganar algo de dinero para el próximo festival del pueblo. Les acompañan Hachi, un peón amigo de Sankichi, y Gorosuke, una buceadora que quiere aprovechar el viaje para vender parte de su pesca. Pero antes de llegar a su destino, una gran tormenta les deja a la deriva..
Kimino
Japanese drama film.
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.
Tomoko, Takashi's wife
Una joven que estaba prometida a un hombre al que amaba, se ve obligada a abandonar su aldea para ir a la guerra. Durante la contienda, fue violada y se vio obligada a casarse con su agresor. Aunque permanece a su lado, no ha conseguido perdonarlo. (FILMAFFINITY)
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.
Hama
Story of a woman, Saiko, who divorces her doctor husband when she is given a baby by a stranger who claims it is the husband's child. Saiko embarks on an affair with her cousin's husband, but a crisis threatens when she discovers that her ex-husband is about to remarry.
Toyo, the mother
Al este de Japón, en la zona que posee el paisaje más bello del país, en un pequeño islote vive una familia: los padres y sus dos hijos. Llevan una vida sencilla y austera debido a la escasez de agua y víveres. A pesar de ello son felices. Pero, un día, la desgracia llega a la isla y afecta duramente a la familia, que luchará silenciosa y resignadamente contra los elementos de la naturaleza. Un drama sin diálogos, en el que la imagen adopta el papel de narrador absoluto.
Shigeko Fukatani
Una madre soltera de campo que cría a un niño de 6º grado llega a Tokio, deja al niño para vivir con la familia de su tío, dirige una tienda de comestibles en dificultades y trabaja en una posada local. El chico se hace amigo de una chica, que resulta ser la hija del posadero...
In this Japanese drama, a village girl goes to Tokyo and becomes a hooker to support her ailing mother. While there she meets an unmarried teacher (at least he says he's unmarried) and falls in love. When she learns that he lied and is married to a woman whose child was fathered by another man, she is crushed. He returns to his wife. The woman becomes more distraught when she learns her uncle has misused the money she has sent. As the final straw, her mother dies, and the girl becomes sick.
Heinosuke Gosho movie
Goddess of Anenouzume
The legend of the birth of Shintoism. In Fourth Century Japan, the Emperor's son Ouso expects to succeed his father on the throne, but Otomo, the Emperor's vassal, prefers Ouso's stepbrother, and conspires to have Ouso die on a dangerous mission he has contrived. But Ouso prevails in the mission and returns to his father's castle under a new name, Prince Yamato Takeru. Otomo plots to have the Prince sent into even greater danger, but Otomo is unaware that the gods have favored the Prince and the outcome is far from what any of them expected.
Hideya
Story of a romance between a middle-aged journalist and a young woman.
Shizu Kuboyama
En el mes de febrero de 1954, con una tripulación de veintitrés hombres, un bote pesquero, el "Dragón de la suerte nº 5", partió del puerto de Yaizu, prefectura de Shizuoka. En busca de atún, el destino final del viaje eran las Islas Bikini, en el Pacífico Sur. El primero de marzo a las 3:42 de la mañana los hombres ven una nube amarillenta ascendiendo hacia el cielo. Cubiertos de cenizas, nadie en la tripulación es consciente del peligro que los acecha. Sin saberlo en ese momento, serán víctimas de la lluvia radioactiva luego de la prueba de la bomba de hidrógeno realizada por el ejército americano en el atolón Bikini.
O-Chiyo
When Yumiko Tsuyama, a potter by profession, comes inquiring about a room for rent in an old mansion overlooking Osaka, she finds a bizarre collection of characters already living there. The unlikely leader of this menagerie is Yoda Goro, who speaks four languages fluently, is an expert in cabbage rolls, and has written how-to books encompassing every aspect of human existence.
Aunt
Based on the novel by Toyoko Yamazaki.
Ofutsu / maid
Two residents of Edo city Yaji and Kita make a journey to the temple of Ise, as part of a religious pilgrimage, but actually to get away from their wives for a little while. As they travel, they are constantly beset by complications involving women, mistaken identity, and misunderstood events. Another film adaptation of the famous novel Ikku Jippensha Footing It Along the Tokaido (Tokaidochu Hizakurige)
Comedy based on the writings of Ango Sakaguchi.
The Princess
Continuación de la historia de "Ninjitsu", realizada un año antes por el propio Hiroshi Inagaki
Floating Vessel (源氏物語 浮舟 , Ukifune) is a 1957 color Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa. Drawn from parts of the famous Genji monogatari by Lady Murasaki.
Kakuko Mori
Based on Kakuko Mori's autobiography, about her life and retirement from acting due to her increasing blindness.
Tamaki Minowa
20th film adaptation of the novel Ono ga tsumi (published 1900-1901).
Ryûri no kishi
Akiko
Poor social conditions badly affect the relationship between a married couple, when the husband, who is desperately searching for work, fails to notice the terrible sacrifices made by his wife when she accepts a job at a local inn.
Sakie / Umeko
Based on the novel by Torahiko Tamiya.
Kabuki adaptation: A princess, a figure from the literary past who anticipates a modern woman, tempts a self righteous priest.
Michie (segment 1)
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.
At Shizumoto, a geisha shop not far from Ginza, a group of geisha are going about their day, putting up a modest resistance to the tragedies of life. The proprietress, Ikuyo, is a ridiculously good-natured woman who gives money to a poor but brilliant young man, Eisaku Yanoguchi, to attend college on the condition that he will take care of her in the future.
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.
Tsuru
Tsuru, una mujer con problemas mentales, es protegida por Toku y Pinchan, dos hombres que viven en una villa de emergencia, en una zanja al costado de las vías del ferrocarril. La fábrica en la cual trabajaban ha sido cerrada por una huelga, por lo que ambos hombres gastan tiempo y dinero apostando en las carreras de bicicletas. Tsuru trabajaba en una fábrica textil, pero un grupo de jóvenes robó todo el dinero de su indemnización. La particular comunidad de la zanja incluye a Chu, un actor que también está un poco loco, y Hiromi, quien viste siempre un traje elegante y de quien se dice es la amante de un hombre poderoso.
An Inn at Osaka, rarely seen outside Japan, follows the story of an insurance company executive from Tokyo, Mr. Mito, who is demoted to the Osaka office. He takes a room at a small inn and tries to rebuild his life. Notable for its exquisite framing and cinematography, An Inn at Osaka allows its complicated plotlines to disappear behind the minutiae of penury and humiliation that Mito and others suffer during the post-war economic and social reconstruction.
Fujiko Shirakawa
Nobuko Otowa won the Blue Ribbon Award for the Best Actress for this among other films.
Okume
Shizue Kitami
Nobuko Otowa won the Blue Ribbon for the Best Actress for this movie among others.
Ginko
Ginko será vendida como geisha para que su familia consiga subsistir.
Fumiko Ota
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.
Takako Ishikawa
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.
Masako Ataka
Soichi Ataka is the eldest son of Ataka family. Although mentally challenged, he's a person with a gentle heart. Soichi's wife, Kuniko is devoted to her husband and together the couple runs the family farm. Their happy family life comes to an abrupt halt when Soichi's half-brother, Joji returns with his wife Masako after failing in a business.
Maki Ayukawa
Takako
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...
Shizu
Shinnosuke acepta casarse con Shizu con tal de poder estar cerca de su hermana Oyu, viuda y madre de un hijo. Las costumbres japonesas prohíben que Oyu se case porque su deber es educar a su hijo para que llegue a ser el jefe de la familia de su marido. Entre los tres se creará un extraño vínculo. (FILMAFFINITY)
Murasaki no ue
Genji, the illegitimate offspring of a Japanese potentate, goes by the philosophy of "love 'em and leave 'em" as a matter of course. Only when his heart is broken by Awaji does Genji realizes how much pain he himself has caused.
Directed by Senkichi Taniguchi
A jewelry store president begins to fall for the doctor treating her husband's illness.
