Shôjirô Sugimoto

Japanese comedy film.

Japanese comedy film.

Japanese romance film.

The movie follows a young woman (Kinuyo Tanaka), a daughter of a high-ranking businessman and his neglected mistress, as she struggles to ease her mother's loneliness, while also having an affair with her father's subordinate.

Three men vying for the same job end up chasing the same girl in this comedy-drama from noted Japanese director Yasujiro Shimazu.

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.

Living Things a film by Heinosuke Gosho

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。

Silent comedic short by Mikio Naruse

A Japanese short film, the earliest extant film of the great director Hiroshi Shimizu