Won Jury's Special Award at the Turin International Film Festival of Young Cinema 1993
Koma-san
A straight young woman living in Tokyo becomes involved in the lives of a gay man and his married lover.
黒澤明監督が村田喜代子の原作を基に、かつて原爆を体験した祖母の許を訪れた4人の孫が体験するひと夏の出来事を描き、反核を訴える感動ドラマ。夏休み。長崎から少し離れた山村に住む老婆・鉦の許に4人の孫たちがやってきた。都会の生活に慣れた孫たちは田舎の生活に退屈を覚えながらも、長崎の街にある戦争の傷跡や鉦が話す昔話を聞いて、戦争に対する考えを深めていく。
黒澤明監督自身が見た夢をベースに、時に美しく、時に残酷な8つの物語がオムニバス形式でつづられ、豊潤なイメージ世界が描かれる作品。きつねの嫁入りを見た少年の話「日照り雨」。花吹雪の中、人形たちが舞い踊る「桃畑」。戦争で生き残った男が体験する不可思議な物語「トンネル」。ゴッホが絵画の世界に入り込んだ「鴉(からす)」。原発の恐怖を描いた「赤富士」など、8つの物語が、時に美しく、時に残酷にオムニバス形式でつづられていく。黒澤監督の豊潤なイメージ世界を堪能できる作品。
Matsuyoshi
Set in Japan during the bubble era, this unique home comedy cheerfully and humorously depicts the daily life of a strange family that works together to accumulate a small amount of money, while mixing irony and satire.
The story of a Japanese man who as a 16-year-old went to Maui to work in the sugar cane fields in order to support his family back in Japan. Now 89 and still living in Hawaii he is visited by his granddaughter who brings him a letter from his disinherited and recently dead son. This brings back memories of his life with his wife and family following the attack on Pearl Harbor, in particular of his son who had gone off to join the war for the Americans.
When the 'Lowly Ronin' helps an orphaned teenage girl avoid being turned into a prostitute, she then claims he is her father and they start a farm as father and daughter until fate steps in and he must draw his sword.
「男はつらいよ」シリーズ第5作。義理ある正吉親分(木田三千雄)危篤の報をうけ、寅さんと登は札幌へ向かう。息子に逢いたいと懇願する親分のために、寅さんは機関手の息子・石田澄雄(松山省二)を説得するが、拒まれてしまう。親分の死により、浮草稼業に嫌気がさした寅さんは、一念発起、堅気を目指し、裏の工場の労働者となる。しかし長続きはせずに、たどり着いたのは浦安の豆腐店「三七十屋(みなとや)」。その一人娘・節子(長山藍子)に惚れた寅さんは、大ハリキリで、労働にいそしむが…
Japanese comedy film.