Hiroo Ikeda movie
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.
Japanese propaganda film about the Normanton Incident.
Jûnai Onodera
In 1701, Lord Takuminokami Asano has a feud with Lord Kira and he tries to kill Kira in the corridors of the Shogun's palace. The Shogun sentences Lord Asano to commit suppuku and deprives the palace and lands from his clan, but does not punish Lord Kira. Lord Asano's vassals leave the land and his samurais become ronin and want to seek revenge against the dishonor of their Lord. But their leader Kuranosuke Oishi asks the Shogun to restore the Asano clan with his brother Daigaku Asano. One year later, the Shogun refuses his request and Oishi and forty-six ronin revenge their Lord.
Kimura, Private 2nd Class
Following a young man through his childhood ambition to follow his father into the military to losing his life in combat in China.
A village romantic drama. (Now lost.)
A story of a servant girl whose life is upturned by her doomed love for a spineless young man.
Kinjo no ko
A silk factory worker is persuaded to support her son's education up to a college level despite their poverty. Many years later, she travels to Tokyo to visit her son.
Sono shounen-jidai (Childhood Sadao)
The film tells of the strained relationship between a mother and her two sons after the death of the family patriarch.
Tomio's classmate
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。
Kodomo
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。
A short concerning an impoverished insurance salesman and his scrappy son, whose fisticuffs with the other boys of their village put his father’s livelihood in jeopardy.
Second son
When Sakamoto is made redundant he cannot bring himself to tell his wife. Instead he investigates other employment opportunities. Considered to be a lost film.
Ghost of Kantaro
A young couple flee their disapproving parents, get lost of Mt. Akagi and find a cache of gold protected by the ghost of a gangster.
