Kaoru Yachigusa

In 150 years, twice marked by total destruction —a terrible earthquake in 1923 and incendiary bombings in 1945— followed by a spectacular rebirth, Tokyo, the old city of Edo, has become the largest and most futuristic capital in the world in a transformation process fueled by the exceptional resilience of its inhabitants, and nourished by a unique phenomenon of cultural hybridization.

日本映画黄金期を代表する伝説的俳優、三船敏郎（1920-97）の生涯と作品について解説する。

A sequel to "The Pierrot Prays to the Moon", which won the "Gold Medal Prize" at the Chicago International Film Festival Television Awards. A beautiful village in the mountains. Mayu is a wife, a mother and a daughter-in-law. While taking care of her husband and son, she is faced with despair every day as she visits her mother-in-law with a long-term illness. Amidst all this, she meets a man from Tokyo by coincidence and falls in love with him. A secret and illicit love where they understood each other's hearts. For Mayu, this love was captivating, a love that is one of a kind. In the midst of this love, time passes and after several years, it had brought her a whole new meaning to life. This is even more so being the forbidden kind of love. When the man invited Mayu to return to Tokyo with him, she must decide whether to stay in her hometown or abandon her home and follow him.

An elderly woman sets out to see in person a painting by a famous artist.She believes she was the inspiration for the painting.

父・辰夫、祖父・源三と一緒に、北方四島の一つである色丹島に暮らしている10歳の淳平と7歳の寛太の兄弟。1945年に太平洋戦争が終わり、日本がポツダム宣言を受諾することに。その直後、ソ連軍が、択捉島、国後島、歯舞群島、色丹島に上陸して進駐し、淳平と寛太が通う学校にも兵士がなだれ込んでくる。やがて、二人はロシア人少女と心を通わせるようになるが……。

Depicts the life of best-selling Japanese poet Toyo Shibata. Toyo Shibata first began writing poems at the age of 92 and published her first collection of poems "Kujikenaide" (″Don't lose heart″) in 2009, which sold over 1.5 million copies.

Shizuru Tamai (Takako Tokiwa) lives in a small mountain town in rural Japan with her mother and grandmother. Her grandmother is partially unable to move, and Shizuru has to care for her with her mother, who tries to keep Shizuru shackled at every opportunity. Shizuru’s days are filled with endless monotony. She works as a receptionist at her former classmate’s hospital, and one day goes to buy picture books for the waiting room. It’s then that she recalls a book from her childhood ‘The Pierrot Prays to the Moon’. Wanting to read the book again, Shizuru finds it on an online auction site. Once it finally arrives and she begins to read it, a small slip of paper gently falls from its pages. On the paper are what appear to be instructions for a recipe. The recipe prompts Shizuru to contact Tobuse (Shosuke Tanihara), the man who sent her the book.

1995年。とある出版社の営業部に勤めていた真面目で風変わりな青年・馬締は、その独特の言葉のセンスを買われて辞書編集部に異動し、定年間近のベテラン編集者・荒木の指導の下、新しい辞書の編纂作業に取り組むことに。一つ一つの言葉にぴたりと合う絶妙の定義をひねり出す一方で、馬締は、下宿先で出会って一目惚れした美しい女性の香具矢に、自分の胸の内をなかなか伝えることができず、苦悩と焦燥の色を深めていく。

たったひとりと一度だけ、死者との再会を叶えてくれる案内人“使者（ツナグ）”。そんな噂にすがって、がんで亡くなった母親との再会を願う中年男性・畠田は“使者”に依頼するが、彼の前に現われたのはごく普通の高校生の歩美。彼のもとには、ケンカ別れをしたまま事故死してしまった親友・奈津に会いたいという女子高生の美砂、7年前に失踪してしまった恋人・キラリの消息を知りたいサラリーマンの土谷も依頼を持ち込んでくる。

A radio DJ, Mai starts a new program called, "Love Letters from the Drawer" to assist people who need an extra push to send out their simple yet very important message for their loved ones. The show was inspired by her own experience after reading a letter from her father after he died. Through her radio show, various characters come to light as everyone awaits for a miracle to happen. A miracle which can occur only by them expressing their true feelings... The movie is full of emotions and music plays an important part of it. It has a great cast that represent the many faces of love. Parents, sons, lovers, and friends. The movie takes you to several locations within Japan, you can get a look at the beautiful coast and shrine, as well as the city sights

八月下旬。山あいの小さな村から村の唯一の医師・伊野（笑福亭鶴瓶）が失踪した。伊野は数年前、長く無医村だったこの地に着任し、様々な病を一手に引き受けて村人たちから絶大な信頼を受けていた。すぐにベテラン刑事二人が捜査を進めるが、伊野の生い立ちを知る者は村の中に一人もいなかった……。遡ること約2ヶ月前。東京の医大を出たばかりの相馬（瑛太）が研修医として赴任してくる。看護師の大竹（余貴美子）と一緒に診療所を切り回しているのは伊野という中年医師。最初は慣れない僻地医療のやり方に困惑していた相馬だったが、伊野と共に働くうち次第に都会では味わったことのない充実感を覚え始める。そんなある日、鳥飼かづ子（八千草薫）という未亡人が倒れ、伊野が診療する。胃痛持ちの彼女は長らく診療所を避けてきたが、都会で医師として勤務する末娘・りつ子（井川遥）の手を煩わせたくないがため、次第に伊野に心を開いていった。八月中旬。伊野は夜になると診療所を抜け出し、点滴を持ってかづ子の家を訪れるようになっていた。ある晩、玄関で伊野を見送ったかづ子はひどい吐き気でうずくまってしまう。駆け戻って背中をさする伊野に、かづ子は娘が来るので何とかしてほしいと必死に訴えた。八月下旬。帰省しているりつ子が診療所を訪ねてきた。胃潰瘍にしては症状が長引きすぎではないか、と問い質すりつ子に伊野は懸命な説明を試みる。やがて自分なりに納得した彼女は非礼を詫び、来年の今頃まで帰ってこられないので、母をお願いしますと頭を下げた。すると伊野は突然、原付バイクに飛び乗って診療所を後にし、そのまま彼は二度と戻らなかった……。九月初旬。刑事たちは、まだ伊野の消息を追っている。診療所は閉鎖、相馬も次の赴任先へと去っていった。かづ子は、りつ子が勤める病院に入院しているが、娘はまだ母親に本当の病名を告げられないでいる。その頃、伊野はある場所に向かっていた……。

The Yazawa family consists of the father Takuro (Koji Yakusho) - who is always busy day trading, charming wife Erumi (Satomi Kobayashi), and teenage son Tetsuya (Eita) - who dreams of becoming an astronaut. The family is also joined by Saburo Akiba (Junichi Sawayashiki), a good-natured teen recently released from a juvenile corrections facility. Then one day Tetsuya falls into a coma from a car accident. A chain of events is set to occur set-off by the father taking a phone call from an unsuspecting girl named Hikari. The father pretends to be his son Tokuya...

Yamashita Takako works in the food section of a department store. She pays frequent visits to a reputable local Chinese restaurant about opening an in-store branch. The owner of the restaurant, Wang Qingkuo from Shanghai, who does all the cooking by himself, gives Takako the brush-off. One day, however, Wang collapses due to overwork, and is left with partial paralysis. Hearing the rumor of the restaurant’s closure, Takako resigns from the department store and becomes an apprentice to Wang.

Shy, quiet, and unsure of herself, Ryo Aihara doesn't quite fit in anywhere. Though she wants to make friends, she has trouble speaking up and holding a normal conversation like everyone else. It seems that whenever she talks, the words just don't come out correctly. Gradually, Ryo has gotten used to living life in silence as a lonely and introverted student. With no one to talk to, Ryo also has no need for a cell phone. Longing for friends to talk to, she creates a cell phone in her mind for imaginary phone conversations, and much to her surprise, one day Shinya picks up on the other side. For the first time in her life, Ryo has found someone she can talk to.

The movie revolves around Mitsuba, who studies traditional art of rakugo. Rakugo is a form of comical story telling, sometimes referred to as sit-down comedy. Even though Mitsuba is mediocre at best, he ends up teaching three students.

Army Second Lieutenant Hiroo Onoda (Nakamura Shido) has been fighting guerrilla warfare in the jungles of Lubang Island in the Philippines with his subordinates Corporal Shimada (Yanagiba Toshiro) and Private First Class Kozuka (Nishijima Hidetoshi) since the end of the Pacific War, without knowing the war had ended. Eventually, the two men die, unable to fulfil their duty to their homeland, and Onoda is left alone, but when a rescue team is sent out from the home country, he does not obey the order to return, believing it to be a diversion by the enemy, as the form of the return order is different. However, an encounter with adventurer Norio Suzuki (Masato Sakai), who has come from Japan to look for Onoda, leads to Onoda's return to his homeland in March 1974, 30 years after the end of the war, after completing his intelligence work on Lubang Island.

The four Takezawa sisters discover that their father has an illegitimate child so they hire a private detective to investigate.

One day poison is discovered in the shogun's food. The brilliant swordsman Mondo sets out to save Japan's leader from certain death.

国際連盟を脱退し国際的に孤立していた日本は、国内でも政治不安、恐慌や経済不況が蔓延し国民の不満が高まっていた。 こうした状況を憂い憤っていた一部の帝国陸軍青年将校達はひそかに企てていた現政権を取り巻く元老、重臣を粛清し天皇陛下中心の国政を実現すべく昭和維新を実現すべく昭和８年2月２１日ついにそれぞれの部隊を巻き込んで決起するが、国民を正義に導くはずの彼らの行動は次第にその思惑とはかけ離れた方向に陥っていく。

飼主の大学教授が亡くなってからも、渋谷の駅で主人を待ち続けた忠犬ハチの実話を基に人間と動物の交流を描く。原作・脚本は「映画女優」の新藤兼人、監督は「旅路　村でいちばんの首吊りの木」の神山征二郎、撮影は「きみが輝くとき」の姫田真佐久がそれぞれ担当。

光源氏 は、桐壺帝 の二番目の皇子として生まれた。母は桐壺更衣と呼ばれ、帝の寵愛を独り占めしていたが、三歳の源氏を残して他界。嘆き悲しんでいた帝は、やがて桐壺に生き写しの藤壺を女御として迎える。初めは藤壺を母と慕っていた源氏の気持ちは、いつの間にか恋にまで深まった。源氏にはその妻に左大臣 の娘・葵の上が定められていた。葵の上は美しいが権高な女性だったこともあって、藤壺に心を寄せる源氏とは睦まじく打ち解ける仲にはなれない。 ある日、源氏は藤壺に抑えきれぬ胸の内を明かした。藤壺を激しく抱きしめるが、彼女は「もうこれ以上罪を犯すことは出来ない。二度と会うことはない」と告げた。その後、源氏は夫のいる空蝉との一夜限りの契り、夕顔とのはかない愛、美人ではないが心優しい女・末摘花、幼い頃から手塩に掛けた若紫との結婚という愛の遍歴を重ねていく。

After the war-time government orders the disbanding of the Big-Six baseball league, the teams of Waseda and Keio universities play one final game before they are drafted into the armed forces and face the hardships of military service.

国営放送の報道部員・南は、京都で開催された国際科学者会議でUFOの実在を訴えた直後に失踪した兵藤博士の行方を追ううちに、世界各地にUFOが頻繁に現われ、それと遭遇した人間の血が青く変質する事実を知る。南はその事実を報道しようとするが、放送局に政府の圧力がかかって頓挫せざるを得なった上に左遷させられる。青い血の人間が世界中で急激に増加する事実を各国の政府が隠匿する裏には、異星人への疑いに不安を膨れ上がらせた主要国指導部による陰惨極まりない謀略が隠されていた。世界規模で人権の一切を否定された青い血の人々に降りかかる惨劇の数々。そしてそれは悲劇への道でもあった。

A group of kids find interest in birdwatching.

A young boys' coming of age tale set in a strange, carnivalesque village becomes the recreation of a memory that the director has twenty years later.

「男はつらいよ」シリーズ第10作。旅先で弁当を使わせてもらった旧家の奥様（田中絹代）から、テキ屋仲間の哀れな末路を聞かされた寅さんは、柴又へ帰ってくる。ところが寅さんの部屋は、御前様の親戚の大学助教授・岡倉金之助（米倉斉加年）が下宿中。面白くない寅さんは、また旅に出ようとしたが、門前で美容院を始めた幼なじみの志村千代（八千草薫）と再会し、思いとどまることに…

A Japanese film

A naively honorable samurai (played by Raizo) comes to the bitter realization that his devotion to moral samurai principles makes him an oddity among his peers, and a very vulnerable oddity in consequence. He takes the blame for the misdeeds of others, with the understanding that he will be exiled for one year and restored to the clan's good graces after the political situation dies down. As betrayal begins to heap upon betrayal, he realizes he'll have to live out his life as a master-less ronin, if not hunted down and killed.

[Period covered: 1637-1651] This is one of the most complicated plots of any of the Shinobi no Mono films! This film tells the story of Saizo’s son, Kirigakure Saisuke, who after seeing his father die at the Battle Of Shimabara, grows up to be an expert ninja. Before he dies, “Mist” Saizo tells his children Saisuke, and Yuri that they are not really brother and sister. She, in fact, is the daughter of the late lord Sanada Yukimura, and must be saved from the shogun’s forces. In the chess match of spy versus spy, can Saisuke defeat the shogun’s chief strategist, Matsudaira Izunokami at his own game? Showing many exciting ninja tactics, it is not to be missed.

When the man who seduced the famous painter Otoko as a teenager--and then wrote a bestselling novel about it--reappears in her life, her pupil--and lesbian lover--hatches a plot to destroy the man and his family.

Second film of Makino's Nihon Kyokakuden series set in Osaka's harbor. The series also known as "The Domain" Each a stand alone film in it's own, none are connected other than starring the famous Ken Takakura as the main Character. This story begins with Ken Takakura's character coming to Osaka after his brother's death. Another exciting yakuza story with superb yakuza action!!

Japan, 1860. The men of the Mito clan, victims of the Ansei purge, anxiously prowl around the Sakurada Gate of Edo Castle with the intention of assassinating Naosuke Ii of Hikone, tairō of the Tokugawa shogunate and responsible for their misfortune.

“東宝変身人間シリーズ”第3作。 生体実験の犠牲で、身体をガス化できる特殊能力を持ってしまった男と、彼の愛する美しい女、春日流家元・藤千代との悲恋を描いたSFスリラー。強盗殺人を捜査する岡本警部補たちは、容疑者として日本舞踊の家元・藤千代に目を付けた。だが、彼女は無実であると主張する男が現れる。彼・水野こそ、自在に身体を気体化できる能力を以て、強盗を働いていた真犯人だった。

The mythical adventures of the legendary Chinese trickster Monkey, who must outwit a variety of wily demons who stand in the way of him and his fellow Buddhist travelers. Though portrayed as a literal, if rather anthropomorphized, monkey in the original legends, this film substitutes the spindly comic actor Norihei Miki, sans makeup.

Comedy about three soldiers, two female reporters, six prostitutes, and the wife of an officer, all stranded on a South Seas island at the end of World War II.

「濡れ髪」シリーズ第一作目。遠州松平家の若殿・源之助は、自慢の剣の腕を許婚・鶴姫に散々痛めつけられ、大反省。しきたりだらけの若殿生活を抜け出し、自分の腕を試すため単身江戸へ向かった。右も左も知らない源之助は、早速団子屋で無銭飲食をしでかし捕まるが、柳橋の芸者・蔦葉に救われる。その後、源之助は源平と名を変え新しい生活をスタートさせるが…!?

The actor Koheiji is terribly in love with the wife of his best friend, the playwright Takuro; to get her, he would even kill Takuro.

It's a man's world. Shimamura, an artist, comes to this snowbound town to rejuvenate himself. He connects with Komako, a geisha he met on a previous trip, and it seems like love. She's the foster daughter of a local family, almost engaged to the family's son Yukio, now dying of consumption. He's tended by his sister Yuko who's angry at Komako for abandoning her brother. Shimamura returns to Tokyo but promises he will be back soon. In anticipation of his return, Komako breaks with her patron and her family loses their home. Complications arise when Shimamura doesn't come back as promised. Then Komako discovers that he and Yuko knew each other in Tokyo. Can Komako escape destiny?

Lavish Japanese-Chinese coproduction based on an ancient Chinese legend about a man who falls in love with a snake goddess in human form.

The president learns that the company's biggest stockholder is also a friend of his singing teacher and spies on his movements.

Period romantic drama.

A new third-class president wins an appointment thanks to his marriage with the former president's daughter.

A humble and simple Takezo abandons his life as a knight errant. He's sought as a teacher and vassal by Shogun, Japan's most powerful clan leader. He's also challenged to fight by the supremely confident and skillful Sasaki Kojiro. Takezo agrees to fight Kojiro in a year's time but rejects Shogun's patronage, choosing instead to live on the edge of a village, raising vegetables. He's followed there by Otsu and later by Akemi, both in love with him. The year ends as Takezo assists the villagers against a band of brigands. He seeks Otsu's forgiveness and accepts her love, then sets off across the water to Ganryu Island for his final contest.

1955 Toho adaptation of Natsume's novel.

After years on the road establishing his reputation as Japan's greatest fencer, Takezo returns to Kyoto. Otsu waits for him, yet he has come not for her but to challenge the leader of the region's finest school of fencing. To prove his valor and skill, he walks deliberately into ambushes set up by the school's followers. While Otsu waits, Akemi also seeks him, expressing her desires directly. Meanwhile, Takezo is observed by Sasaki Kojiro, a brilliant young fighter, confident he can dethrone Takezo. After leaving Kyoto in triumph, Takezo declares his love for Otsu, but in a way that dishonors her and shames him. Once again, he leaves alone.

Japanese-Italian adaptation of Puccini's opera.

During the Warring States era of early 17th century Japan, teenage princess Sen is besieged with other members of her family in Osaka Castle, by a rival force led by her grandfather.

Struggling to elevate himself from his low caste in 17th century Japan, Miyamoto trains to become a mighty samurai warrior.

頃は天保、所は江戸。折からドッと起る喧嘩のドヨメキの中で、悪浪人数名を向うに廻して群衆の人気を集めている若衆は、小笠原家の一人娘、男嫌いのじゃじゃ馬姫桔梗だった。小笠原家では恐妻家の父君、お狐様を狂信の母君、家老の久松彦右衛門が、松平家の若君麟太郎と桔梗の縁談をまとめようと協議中。

1953 jidaigeki directed by Nobuo Nakagawa of Jigoku and Ghost of Yotsuya fame.

1953 Hiroshi Inagaki movie.

三流どこの補習学校教師野呂は、税務署吏員金森風吉の家に間借りしている。独身者だ。久かたぶりに銀座へ出て目をまわし、トラックに轢かれそこなった。当分右腕が利かず、学生泡田に代って黒板に字をかいてもらうが、かき賃一時間百円也を請求され、びっくりする。学校経営者の土建屋から夜間担任に格下げされ、無体な時間外勤務を強いられても文句ひとついえぬ野呂が、心ひそかに想うのは金森の娘－－銀行事務員のカン子であった。カン子は無類のガンコ娘で、同僚とはりあい恋人とはりあい、張りのない野呂なんか念頭にもない。野呂と金森は散歩中、戦記物で売りだし今は時めく代議士の五津元大佐に会釈された、というので大感激、警官の甲賀をまじえ外食券食堂で五津礼讃の一くさりをはじめる。途中から一枚加わった学生泡田と甲賀が、話のはしばしに互いの身分を知り、掴みあいとなる。つられて食堂中が大格闘、野呂は丼をもってにげだした。この顛末にもこりず、野呂は学生ちの誘いにのってメーデーに参加宮城前の紛糾にまきこまれて拘置される。同じ署内に選挙違反で検挙された五津もいたが、前後して裟婆に出てからは、五津は「牢獄記」出版でまたまた大ヒット、野呂は学校もクビ、しごと探しに必死である。漸く金森の妻らんの世話でミシン会社荷造り係の口がみつかり、今や入社詮衡へでかけよう、というまぎわ、カン子自殺未遂の報がくる。恋人との結婚を反対されてカンシャクをおこしたのである。が、無我夢中の野呂は「人でなし！」と呼ばうらんの声を背に、とっととわき目もふらず詮衡場へかけつけた。...

1983年1月8日、テレビ朝日系列の「土曜ワイド劇場」枠（21:02-23:51）にて、2部構成の3時間スペシャルとして放映。第1部「娘の疑惑旅行」、第2部「美しい母の旅路」。麻佐子と信雄・隆子夫妻を実の親子として設定している。視聴率21.9％（ビデオリサーチ調べ、関東地区）。