Seiji Nishimura

A young lawyer falls in love with the daughter of his former professor, whom he's hired to tutor his children.

After Japan's loss in the war, the wealthy, cultured, liberal Anjo family have to give up their mansion and their way of life. They hold one last ball at the house before leaving. The seemingly cold, cynical son secretly grieves for his defeated father and the values that the war destroyed, while the daughter tries to prevent father from taking his life and to find her own place in the new Japan.

An errant salaryman's son gets lost until a man from the Tokyo tenements brings him to vendor Tane, who's reluctant to let the kid board.

芙美は瀬川の独り息子と出征直前、叔父・喜一に無理に結婚をさせられた。夫は子供が出来たことも知らずに出征し戦死をした。瀬川夫妻は、芙美が貧しいことを理由に子供のみを引き取り、芙美を強制的に別居させてしまう…。

Waiting woman

A Japanese family weathers much hardship after their military uncle comes to live with them during WWII.

Japanese Warmovie

Japanese propaganda film about the Normanton Incident.

Inoue was something of a rarity in the sense, that he was a Shochiku house director who seems to have worked mostly in period films, often with big stars like Hasegawa or Bando. "Sumidagawa", named after the river that runs through Tokyo, is also a period film, but thematically a modern one. All the themes that you associate with the normal Shochiku women's films set in the present day are in this film, just in a different context: love, the planning of a marriage, career, family relations and societal melancholy. There is no action or swordplay.

金沢の中学教師である堀川周平は、妻を失い、小学生の良平と二人で暮らしていた。しかし修学旅行先で教え子を溺死させてしまい、責任を感じた周平は学校を退職。出身地の信州に帰るが、中学生になった良平を寄宿舎に預け、一人で東京の工場に勤めることにする。帝大を卒業し教師となった良平は、久々に父親と温泉宿で再会し、教師を辞めて一緒に暮らしたいと告げた。しかし周平は「今の仕事を投げ出してはいけない」と息子を諭すのだった。

After the death of her husband, Mrs Toda and her youngest daughter receive a frosty welcome from the extended family.

Weed with Flowers

A follow-up to Children in the Wind, Four Seasons of Children(a.k.a. Kodomo no Shiki) is also based on a Tsubota Joji novel. The film is divided into two chapters, following the young protagonists' minor adventures and real-world awakenings over spring and summer, then autumn and winter.

Approaching their graduation ceremony, Saegusa, Sanae, and their classmates go on an overnight trip to Hakone with their teacher Ms. Kawahara, who will soon leave school. They thank her doing so and go on their respective paths, ending soon their student life.

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.

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 musical film made for the inauguration of Shochiku's Ofuna Studio, with an all-star cast of the era.

坂本武演じる喜八を主人公とした「喜八シリーズ」の第一弾。長屋で息子の富夫と二人で暮らす喜八は、日雇い労働者として工場に勤めている。同僚で隣に住む次郎と一緒に演芸場へ出かけた喜八親子は、その帰り道で春江という女性と出会う。彼女は工場をクビになり、行く当てがないという。喜八は、行きつけの食堂の店主である“かあやん”に、春江を泊めてほしいと頼み込んだ。春江は食堂に住み込みで働かせてもらうことになった。富夫は年甲斐もなく春江に熱を上げるが、彼女は次郎に興味を持っていた。

In the formally ravishing Every-Night Dreams, set in the dockside neighborhoods of Tokyo, a single mother works tirelessly as a Ginza bar hostess to ensure a better life for her young son—until her long-lost husband returns.

A gangster tries to find redemption with the inadvertent help of an innocent shop girl and his jealous girlfriend will do anything to keep him.

小津安二郎監督のサイレント期を代表する作品。子供の素直な視点から、肩書きに振り回されるサラリーマン社会の悲哀をユーモアを織り交ぜ描く。