Tamae Kiyokawa

Japanese comedy film.

ボクサーを夢見て上京した男性。彼は、トレーニングに励みながら楽団の音楽にも触れ、充実した日々を送る。しかし、楽団のリーダーが暴力団に脅迫される事件が発生。自らの大切な人々を守るため、彼は復習を決意する。

An old man dies of heartbreak when a cruel landlord is about to repossess his land. The old man haunts the landlord from the grave. Since the man died in debt, his wife and daughter are indentured servants and are forced to work in the landlord's factory.

精油所の技師河合譲治は酒も煙草も麻雀もやらず、上役や同僚から無類の竪物と思われているが、実は秘かにナオミという女を飼育していた。ナオミはまだ少女の面影を残しているが、譲治は理想の女を作りあげようと奇妙な執念をナオミにそそぎ、そして、ナオミと結婚した。譲治はナオミに教養をつけさせようと、ピアノやイタリア語を習わせたが、ナオミは学生の浜田や熊谷らのボーイフレンドと遊びまわり、勉強はそっちのけだった。そのうえ、ナオミがボーイフレンドの誰彼の見境もなく身を任せているという噂がたった。

Japanese comedy directed by Noriaki Yuasa.

A story about four best friends and their lives inside and outside college. Then suddenly one of them receives a surprising offer to be a movie star.

Japanese comedy film.

Second "Pfc. Story" sequel and the ninth and final sequel to "Story of Second Class Private", the only one in both series not directed by Seiichi Fukuda.

Set in the postwar turmoil, Akasaka no shimai paints a vivit portrait of the life of three sisters who struggle to live in Tokyo.

Kohei Misugi works in a vegetable market, but his ambition is to be a photographer. He is given his first opportunity to demonstrate his talent by the Sakura Film Company which offers him an assignment to "Cover Tokyo" with a camera. But he is disillusioned when he is told he must work together with Miharu, a good looking girl in the film company's publicity department. Then the fun begins.

Jidaigeki by Tai Kato

Story of young love in the hills.

Kitagawa Utamaro is a famous ukiyo-e artist known for his paintings of beautiful women. The courtesan who became his model became even more popular. Ocho, a resident of an apartment building, hears about this and secretly plans to follow Otose, the owner of Mizuta-ya, who became famous as Utamaro's model. At this time, the Kano school, headed by Kano Eikawa, which was under the control of the shogunate, is dissatisfied with Utamaro's fame and tries to compromise him…

The story follows Oshino, a geisha who is trying to start a new life with a lover who is a painter. However, her past filled with debts and pimps catches up to her.

Nobuo is a hot-headed hoodlum fresh out of reform school who struggles to make a clean break with his tearaway past.

1957 drama from director Kôzaburô Yoshimura

Yuko is sent to the coastal regions to be raised away from the rest of her sophisticated family where she finds out from her ill grandmother that she is not who she thought she was.

A young man and woman are determined to marry despite opposition from her parents.

An Ishiro Honda film.

Toku, a factory worker gives food to a starving woman, Tsuru, who then follows him home. He shares a shack in a shanty village in Kawasaki with his friend Pin-chan. The two men try to get rid of her but then let her stay when she gives them money. Tsuru tells the people of the village that she lost her job due to a strike, then was robbed of her severance pay, then sold to a brothel in Tsuchiura. She ran away with a friend from Kawasaki. Toku and Pin-chan sell her to a geisha house and spend the money. She is thrown out. The owner demands his money back. Tsuru earns the money to pay their debt by working as a prostitute outside the station. The other prostitutes beat her. She fends them off with a policeman's revolver and is then shot dead by the police.

Japanese musical.

A sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love letters for other people.

A human billboard and a shoeshine girl met a kid of five who got separated from her mother at a street of Ginza. They try to find a mother in a crowded town...

1952 Japanese film directed by Kunio Watanabe.

Japanese comedy film.

Directorial debut by Umetsugu Inoue, the famous director of Musicals

1950s Japanese comedy.

Japanese drama film.

In a small town, according to the homecoming of Professor Ishinaka, the youth culture group was overwhelmed to make a presentation for the summer festival, but because of lack of funds, she works part-time at the spectacle of a tour, a haunted house Especially. The ghost was a struggle amongst the people, it was a great success in filling the crowd, but in the circus hut next to it, Kenji who was supposed to have disappeared was pitiful.

A luckless geisha struggles to make a living for herself and her young son.

Japanese "kayo" film based on the song "Ieraishan" by Yoshiko Yamaguchi.

Japanese comedy film.

「群狼」「人生選手」の筈見恒夫が製作担当、「群狼」「海のＧメン　玄海灘の狼」の志村敏夫が監督に当っている。原作は、講談倶楽部に掲載された島田一男の探偵小説を、「大都会の丑満時」の笠原良三が脚色している。俳優は「こころ妻」の堀雄二「雪夫人絵図(1950)」の久我美子、「羅生門」の千秋実、「君が心の妻」の月丘千秋、「いつの日君帰る」の田崎潤等。

Adaptation of a novel by Yojiro Ishizaka, originally released in two parts.

A bar girl tries to pass her three children, each from a different father, to rural relatives.

Melodrama by Kiyoshi Saeki

Tanuma Kandayuu is a high class samurai of the house of Nabeshima. He finds a lavish board of Go (a Chinese Board game) at Kinbei's store. He recommend Kinbei to offer it to his lord. Kinbei hesitates at first, since he knows the board has a mysterious legend surrounding it; it's believed that for every game played on the board, one death is required.

Police detective Heiji is assigned to catch the masked Maboroshi gang of robbers who have terrorized all of Edo leaving few clues as to who their leader is.

会田時彦は化粧製造販売会社の女社長小村女史に多くの就職希望者の中から採用された。復員者の彼は一番待っていてくれる愛子の所へ報らせたが、何故か彼女は喜ばなかった。愛子には会田時彦と愛を誓ってはみたものの、彼の留守中に彼女の心はみたされず、別の愛人が出来てしまったのである。時彦はこれを知って彼等達の幸福を願って身を引いたが、自分のためには幸福ではなかった。毎晩カフェーを飲み歩き、満足に会社にも出勤しなかった。またカフェーの百合、君子達は時彦をお互いに独占しようとしたが、時彦は相手にはしなかった。丁度その頃、小村社長の姪にあたる、小村輝美が化粧品の製造部に勤務していた。彼女は何くれとなく時彦をなぐさめてくれる。承知しないのが百合、君子達である。しかし輝美も彼女達と協定を結んで彼を独占しなかった。だがいつの間にか仕事を毎日一緒にしていると、友情はやがて愛情に変わり、愛情が真の恋愛に進んでいた。小村女社長は彼を採用した時から、「出雲の神様」であった。もちろん、百合、君子達も反対はしなかった。二人が結ばれたことは皆の幸福でもあった。

Kôfuku eno shôtai - Invitation to happiness

Lord for a Night is a 1946 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa.

In A Tale of Archery, young, timid bowmaster Kazuma (Akitake Kôno) seeks to beat the archery record set by Hoshino Kanzaemon, a mysterious figure who, it is rumored, drove the previous champion (Kazuma’s father) to suicide. Possessed of much raw talent, Kazuma is also very much a coward, holing himself up in an inn run by the kindly Okinu (Kinuyo Tanaka) and generally avoiding confrontation of any sort. Despite his clandestine manner, enough of the locals know of Kazuma’s purpose and an attempt is made on his life. He is saved by Karatsu Kanbei (Kazuo Hasegawa), a samurai who offers to help Kazuma hone his archery skills, though it soon becomes clear that this apparently selfless stranger has several potentially shady ulterior motives.

A small community in wartime Japan learn how to make do with less.

A self-absorbed young actor humiliates an elderly Noh performer, who then commits suicide. His act of cruelty compels his father to disown him, leading the once promising actor to a life on the streets. But his desire to win back the respect of his father and the affection of the dead actor's daughter pushes him toward a more noble existence. Naruse employed a delicately structured mise-en-scene in this family melodrama, which evokes the work of Josef von Sternberg.

Set in Qingdao, China, a Japanese company locates an office there and begins work and cooperation with a local Chinese company for business. Many Japanese engineers also move to China, with their families, for the company in order to construct a canal. There are young Chinese resisting the Japanese in this area.

Okoma, a witty young woman working as a conductor in an old, rickety bus in Kōfu, Yamanashi (rural Japan), has a creative idea that could avert the dwindling number of passengers when her job and the bus company itself are at stake.

Adaptation of a novel by Nobuko Yoshiya that was serialized in "Shufu no tomo" between 1939 and 1940.

9th directorial work by Yamamoto Satsuo.

Twenty-year-old Yoshiko (Setsuko Hara) and her younger sister Asako (Yōko Yaguchi) struggle to accept changes in their home during the preparations of their widowed father's wedding to his chosen bride, Maki Tsuneko (Sadako Sawamura), who's anxious about her conduct as the bride.

This is a rokyoku film of Tenjuken Ungetsu II (Hideko Itami), a popular rokyoku performer who was famous for her seven different voices for men and women of all ages.

主力選手が出征し、成績が上がらない職業野球団アトラス軍。監督の姪・秀子は野球好きのおてんば娘。秀子は応援歌を作ってスタンドからエールを送る。 そのおかげかアトラス軍は大勝利。しかし、秀子の両親は彼女が球場に行くのには反対だった…。当時のプロ野球のスター選手たちが多数出演した青春映画。

Wartime propaganda filmed by the Japanese in occupied China, Shirley Yamaguchi portrays an orphan rescued from the streets by a kindly Japanese merchant marine officer. Part spy thriller and part Shanghai travelogue, it was part of a popular series known as "Chinese Continental Friendship" made by the occupying Japanese in China.

A forceful indictment of the devastating effects of war and nationalistic fanaticism on the average man, who, in the face of the absurdity of violence, is reduced to apathy or victimhood.

The Old Man of the Propeller can be seen as a comedic amalgam of “King Lear” and “Christmas Carol”. A neighborhood loan shark is hounded by his relatives expecting big inheritance. But he is not giving any favor to anyone. His only joy of life is to go on junk hunt in the neighborhood, collecting garbages and scraps and selling them to junkmen to make profit.

A priest in Hokkaido adopts a blind orphan girl, and as she grows up he finds himself falling in love with her.

Part 2 of a 2-part romance (fist part - Kafuku zempen) based on a story by noted author Kikuchi Kan. In the second half, we discover that Toyomi is pregnant -- and while Shintaro and Yurie are on their extended honeymoon, she bears his child, a girl named Kiyoko. She is supported in adversity by Michiko -- and gets considerable moral support from not only her own mother but also from Shintaro's mother and siblings. Even more surprisingly, Yurie strikes up a friendship of sorts with her. When Yurie learns that the child is Shintaro's, she convinces Toyomi that it would be best to let Shintaro (and her) raise Kiyoko, so Toyomi can get on with making a proper life for herself. Tearfully, Toyomi agrees. Sometime later, Michiko goes to visit Toyomi -- and sees her at work, as a kindergarten teacher.

Part 1 of a 2-part romance based on a story by noted author Kikuchi Kan. The central character here is Toyomi (played by Takako IRIE, star of Mizoguchi’s "Water Magician), a rich young woman in love with Shintaro (Minoru TAKADA), a rich young man. Unfortunately, Shintaro’s father is in the process of arranging a marriage for him with Yurie (Chieko TAKEHISA), the scion of an even wealthier family. In order to avoid this, the two young lovers flee to Tokyo to live together. When Shintaro comes back to proclaim his intent to marry Toyomi, his father browbeats him into attending the long-arranged marriage meeting with Yurie. While Shintaro is back home, Toyomi goes on a vacation trip with her closest chum, Michiko (Yumeko AIZOME). At a class reunion, Toyomi is to distressed (at not having heard from Shintaro for so long), she doesn’t go out on the town with her classmates. Michiko, however, runs into Shintaro and Yurie (also out on the town), and pulling him aside, demands an explanation.

Japanese domestic drama.

As suggested by the title, this film takes up the theme of the city, beginning with a series of traveling shots from Chiyo's point o view on a bus leaving the countryside and entering the metropolitan cityscape. After some fruitless job hunting in downtown Tokyo, Chiyo accepts a job as a bar hostess in Shiba ward. Well away from glamorous Asakusa and Ginza, this is a neighborhood bar where the women are dirt poor, each having only one kimono to their name....

The otherwise promising young man Asaji (Heihachirô Ôkawa) and his younger brother Yuji (Hideo Saeki) face blighted lives because of society's disapproval of their illegitmacy and déclassé family.

1936 P.C.L. adaptation of Natsume's novel.

Adaptation of Fumiko Hayashi's novel.