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。
Sue's lady in waiting
戦乱の世を生き抜いた武将・一文字秀虎も70歳を迎え、家督を息子3人に譲ることを決意。長男の太郎には一の城、次男の次郎には二の城、三男・三郎には三の城をそれぞれ与えた上、3人兄弟、仲良く相和して暮らすように説く。だが、三郎は、父の今後の身を案じたのがかえって秀虎の不興を買い、地方へ追放されてしまう。さらに3人兄弟の城を泊まり歩いて余生を暮らすつもりだった秀虎だが、太郎、次郎にそれぞれ疎んじられる。
Takemaru's Nurse
巨匠・黒澤明監督が手がけた戦国スペクタクル巨編。武田信玄の影武者として生きた男の悲喜劇を荘厳にして絢爛な映像で描く。戦国時代。家康の野田城攻めの折り、鉄砲で撃たれこの世を去った武田信玄。弟信廉は信玄死すの報を打ち消すため信玄の影武者を立てる。男は盗みの罪から処刑されるところを信玄と瓜二つだったことから助けられたのだった。だが男にとって戦国の雄・信玄として生きることはあまりにも過酷だった……。カンヌ国際映画祭グランプリ受賞。
A man is involved in a fatal car accident, and though he is blameless, his company transfers him to a remote branch in a small town. Before he leaves, he gives the man's widow a large sum of money that she uses to move back to her hometown.
The story tells of a group of samurai who were left leaderless (becoming ronin) after their daimyo (feudal lord) was forced to commit seppuku (ritual suicide) for assaulting a court official named Kira Yoshinaka, whose title was Kōzuke no suke. The ronin avenged their master's honor after patiently waiting and planning for over a year to kill Kira. In turn, the ronin were themselves forced to commit seppuku for committing the crime of murder.
Drama about the lives of the five daughters and daughter-in-law of a store owner.
A woman and her daughter are in love with the same man, a chef at the restaurant that the mother manages. He is slightly crippled from frostbite in his years in Siberian labor camps and considers himself "already dead."
Historical drama about a sleep-eyed ronin
An adaptation of the popular Sazae-san comic strip. The first entry in Toho's Sazae-san series.
Otsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Her daughter Katsuyo doesn't see any future in her mothers trade in the late days of Geisha. But Otsuta will not give up. This film portraits the day time life of geisha when not entertaining customers.
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A humble and simple Takezo abandons his life as a knight errant. He's sought as a teacher and vassal by Shogun, Japan's most powerful clan leader. He's also challenged to fight by the supremely confident and skillful Sasaki Kojiro. Takezo agrees to fight Kojiro in a year's time but rejects Shogun's patronage, choosing instead to live on the edge of a village, raising vegetables. He's followed there by Otsu and later by Akemi, both in love with him. The year ends as Takezo assists the villagers against a band of brigands. He seeks Otsu's forgiveness and accepts her love, then sets off across the water to Ganryu Island for his final contest.
A married Japanese forester during WWII is sent to Indochina to manage forests. He meets a young Japanese typist and promises to leave his wife. He doesn't and after the war, she turns up and the affair resumes.
1950s Japanese comedy.
A high-born woman named Okuni travels around the country with Gohei, a samurai retainer who is in service to her. They are in search of Tomonojo, who has killed the man who was Okuni’s husband and Gohei’s master, and they cannot return to their lord’s home until they have fulfilled their duty of hunting down and killing Tomonojo.
Japanese comedy film.
Michiyo lives in the small place Osaka and is not happy with her marriage, all she does is cook and clean for her husband.
Miyoko
What is marriage? Young couple in match-making wanted to know before they decide. They visited married couples of sisters and brothers. Love comedy in 1942.
Geisha
Omaki
This epic depicts the battle between Uesugi Kenshin and Takeda Shingen. The focus of the story is the struggle by the unit leader in charge of the main supply wagons and the supply troops to transport materiel to the Uesugi army. To this are added episodes involving an itinerant woman.
Kiyo, the maid
Adaptation of a novel by Nobuko Yoshiya that was serialized in "Shufu no tomo" between 1939 and 1940.
The story is based on the serial novel by Tsunoda Kikuo.
The story is based on the serial novel by Tsunoda Kikuo.
Yuriko, Hideko's sister
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。
Part two of two.
Two hyper-competitive salarymen let their workplace rivalry spill over into their private lives, as both men try to one-up each other on a luxurious beach vacation neither's family can afford.
Japanese film based on the life of writer Ichiyo Higuchi (1872-1896).
This film attempts to reconstruct the tension of the Battle of Shanghai through an episode in an understated way, introducting its story in a documentary mode. In the film story, Japan's marine regiment protects Japanese residents and Chinese refugees-women and young children-from rampant street fighting, Shanhai Rikusentai unsparingly uses its first eight minutes for an official-mannered self-justification of the war. From the viewpoint of explaining Japan's military operation,the narration refers to the city s spatial division in sync with maps on screen.
The second wife
Based on an autobiographical story by Toyota Masako.
