Makoto Kobori

Japanese film.

The story of a couple, a spoiled son and a down-to-earth girl, in Osaka in the early Showa era. The film won the prestigious Blue Ribbon awards for best director, best actor (Morishige) and best actress (Awashima), and the Mainichi Concours award for best actor and best screenplay (Yasumi Toshio). It ranked second (after Naruse Mikio’s Ukigumo) on the Kinema Junpō top ten films for the year.

Adaptation of the novel by Bunroku Shishi.

The Great White Tiger Platoon was part of the Aizu clan's last ditch efforts to stop the advance of Imperial troops after the fall of the Tokugawa Shogunate. Meant to be a reserve unit as it was made of the young, 16-17 year old sons of Aizu samurai. Their story is one of the great tragedies of the Boshin War (1868-1869) as they were called into action. Getting cut off from the main body of their platoon, a group of 20 from the 2nd squad retreated to Iimori Hill, where they looked down upon fires surrounding Aizu Castle and thinking that the castle has fallen and all is lost, they choose to die as samurai by committing seppuku. A superb rendition of this true story that shows the true honor of the samurai.

Jirocho and his followers chase the Kurokomas into the Kai Province.

1953 Toho adaptation of Natsume's novel.

市役所の市民課長・渡辺勘治は30年間無欠勤のまじめな男。ある日、渡辺は自分が胃癌であることを知る。命が残り少ないと悟ったとき、渡辺はこれまでの事なかれ主義的生き方に疑問を抱く。そして、初めて真剣に申請書類に目を通す。そこで彼の目に留まったのが市民から出されていた下水溜まりの埋め立てと小公園建設に関する陳情書だった……。

夜毎起こる殺人事件。現場に残る鮮血の手型が江戸の町を脅かす。しかし、そんな血生臭い事件が起こる中、少女は明るく唱う…。

The purple hood reveals the embezzlement of public money by officials. A remake of Masahiro Makino's 1923 film.

Kotobuki-za is a story of the Naniwa-bushi singer Baichuken Tsurumaru.

The few residents left on the streets in Tokyo share their individual stories and come to understand the melancholy of saying goodbye.