Shin'yō Nara
出生 : 1896-11-30, Akita Prefecture, Japan
死亡 : 1977-11-26
Tetsuji Takechi's third film is based on two short stories by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki. The film depicts the lurid and violently erotic dreams of a writer, his wife and his sister, after having spent a night out drinking and visiting sex shows. It underwent extensive censorship before the government would allow it to be released. About 20% of the film's original content was cut and this footage is now considered lost.
Factory boss
Ignoring the protests of his working-class mother, a young man becomes wrapped up in the world of delinquents and yakuza.
「家族会議」の山ロ松三郎製作の春青メロドラマ。「沖縄健児隊」の沢村勉のオリジナル・シナリオから「処女雪」の原研吉が監督した。撮影は「朝霧(1953)」の森田俊保、音楽は「勢揃い 大江戸六人衆」の加藤光男。出演者は大船映画初出演の「花の生涯」の草苗光子、「蛮から社員」の三島耕、「家族会議」の月丘夢路、「青春三羽烏」の三橋達也などである。
A young woman becomes president of a business.
Motoko Fujikawa works in the Seisen Church as an assistant to pastor Maki Inokichi. Motoko falls in love with Inokichi's virtuous character and devotes herself to the rehabilitation of a delinquent girl, gradually finding her job at the institution more worthwhile than the marriage recommended by her parents. Meanwhile, inside Inokichi's heart a flame of unknowing love for the single-minded Motoko begins to burn...
Asako works in a hostel for troubled young women. When a beautiful young girl is brought in one day after committing theft, Asako finds out from the older widow she works with that the new girl is undoubtedly her half-sister. When the younger sister suddenly flees on account of a misunderstanding, Asako makes up her mind to find the mother who deserted them both.
Koizumi
An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chief and the local gangster bosses.
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.
Second film of the Bannai Tarao series starring Chiezo Kataoka
Furukawa
桑原は銀行でも古参株の一人である。彼のケチなことにおいては既に定評があり、同僚から一本、二本と巧みに煙草を稼いだりして「ポケット騒ぎ」という俗名さへ持たされている。彼には一人娘がいる。女房にも甘いが、ことに娘のことになると極端な愛溺を示して同僚達の反感を買うのが常である。彼は又上役の部長には最も信用があり、一番昵懇になっていると悦に入っている。そこにつけ込んだ同僚が、部長が桑原の娘を息子の嫁にとかねがね思っていると造言してもったいらしく桑原に告げる。部長絶対主義の彼はそれを信じ、娘には許婚者がいることも見捨ててかかるのである。
A lawyer fights doggedly for a more just legal system to rid Japan of its draconian penal system.
Japanese war movie.
Japanese propaganda film about the Normanton Incident.
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。
A reformatory in the remote countryside houses 200 delinquents and problem children. The teachers and caretakers face much trouble. The school is often short on water, and one day, the well runs dry.
Genjûrô Hosokawa
A spirited young teacher challenges the conservative school employing her with liberal thinking and teaching methods.
Adaptation of Kishida Kunio's novel. Set against the backdrop of a power struggle within a hospital, depicts the love lives of the director's daughter, the administrative director, a doctor, and a nurse.
Weed with Flowers
Jie (Michiko Kuwano) attended a women's university with the financial support of her geisha sister Oha (Hiroko Kawasaki) and became a lawyer. The aim. Michiko (Kuniko Miyake), one of the seven best friends from the same women's college, is getting married. The man she's marrying is her sister's lover.
Eiko is an innocent young lady born into a wealthy family with nothing to offer. She was good at singing, and lived her life playing around with her cronies, organizing music concerts and so on. However, things change when her father's business fails and she was suddenly thrown out into the world without any foundation. Eiko has no one to support her after she loses her social status, and her only tutor, Shinnosuke (Natsukawa Daijiro) was the only one who was sincere. Eiko is a stickler for using everything she can get her hands on, and she quickly moves into Shinnosuke's house.
Yōkichi Hayashi
A man who works late hours at a deadening job lives together with his wife and his younger sister. The younger sister's a modern girl who's starting to receive romantic attention from one of her co-workers.
A Japanese wartime film directed by Yasushi Sasaki.
A businessman’s daughter falls in love with one of her father’s employees.
A musical film made for the inauguration of Shochiku's Ofuna Studio, with an all-star cast of the era.
шурин Сумако
Jyuta, an honest owner of a taxi company, has a younger half-brother who is involved in the yakuza world and doesn’t get along well with his mother. Jyuta tries to correct him…
Saida
The story is centered around the devastating experiences of two villagers, Osaki Shuichi, and his cousin, Nishimiura Kinue, when they leave their hometown for the metropolis of Tokyo. They are in love with each other, but Kinue is expected to marry the lawyer Kanda Seiji. In consequence, Shukichi leaves for Tokyo, where he becomes tutor to the son of the rick Iwaki family. The heartbroken Kinue also makes her way to the capital, where she becomes a bar hostess.
Okazaki
The film tells of the strained relationship between a mother and her two sons after the death of the family patriarch.
Kinoshita
Ryoichi and Chikako, brother and sister, live together. Chikako toils during the day and, at night, prostitutes herself to fund his college tuition.
Shunsaku Atsumi
An actress returns to Tokyo after a successful stint in Hollywood to reclaim—with the help of her gangster brother—the daughter she abandoned years before.
Father
A young man falls in love with a prostitute and is disowned by his family. He is then drafted, and heads off to war. Script exists - considered to be a lost film.
Masa
Early Japanese sound film, a remake of Josef von Sternberg’s DOCKS OF NEW YORK set in Yokohama.
Two people are fascinated by a sculptor's statue. The film is lost.
Eisaku Nagashima, secretary
Michiko gets pregnant after a rape. She marries a boring business partner of her father to avoid the shame. Later she meets the rapist again who is now a union leader in opposition of her husband.
Masaki Asano
His brother
Bored in his marriage, a dentist flirts with a young woman on a train. However he soon finds himself embroiled in a series of misunderstandings with his wife, the young woman and her husband. Considered to be a lost film.
The 1929 Japanese film "Mother" which helped child actress Hideko Takamine become a star.
Ichiro Ono
Early feature film by Hiroshi Shimizu.
ある女学校の仲の良い三人の女生徒(栗島すみ子、筑波雪子、松井千枝子)の卒業後の生活遍歴を描いたメロドラマ。