Toyo Takahashi

Eighth installment in the "Gokudo" series. Depicts the activities of Shimamura Seikichi and his henchmen

“支那で果樹園を作るのが夢だ”という玉井金五郎は生来の気ッ腑のよさと度胸で男をあげ、一家を興すまでになった。その頃、戸畑港では、永田・大庭組と伊崎組一派とが荷役をめぐって争っていた。金五郎は、伊崎の挑戦を受けて立つ。金五郎の肩には、女賭博師・お京が彫った花と龍の刺青があった。

The fourth part in the series "Code Between Brothers". The story takes place in Fukagawa, Tokyo, at the beginning of the Showa era, where five players following the harsh path of a knight defeat a despicable Yakuza gang.

After serving his sentence, Yakuza family member Toshin-gumi Umebayashi is released from prison. Toshin-gumi was already headed by the boss in the second generation of Shotaro, but Shotaro fell into a trap, he is manipulated by his sworn enemy Kanzaki-gumi. Kanzaki-gumi captures the Toshin-gumi oil fields mined by the first boss. Umebayashi explodes in anger and attacks Kanzaki-gumi, but...

Shochiku's popular series of gang films, this one has the hero returning from prison bent on revenge. He runs into Chinese hoodlums, blackmailers and gold-smugglers. But he also aids and abets young lovers yet, despite his help, their love ends in tragedy and he tracks down his prey in Kobe.

A young woman begins murdering all those responsible for her ailing father's condition. Because the girl is so outwardly sweet and innocent, the detective looking into the deaths does not suspect her.

Misawa Ihei (Nagato) is traveling with his wife Tae (Iwashita Shima) who abhors the practice of sword fighting for prize money. Tae is the daughter of the clan's chief counselor who married the low-ranking Ihei to avoid becoming the clan lord's mistress. Into the mix comes Oba Gunjuro (Tetsurō Tamba), a mysterious ronin who will do anything for money. This leads to a fitting climax as the forces of hate and love converge while the couple attempt to break through the border!

On a small island, inhabited by only fourteen hundred people, a young fisherman's son, Shinji falls in love with Hatsue, the daughter of the richest and most difficult man on the island. Despite their differences in class, they begin to meet and rumors spread of them having an illicit affair. Soon after, Shinji jumps into a stormy sea to help a ship in distress. The vessel turns out to be owned by Hatsue's arrogant father, who now becomes an understanding and sympathetic parent and allows the two lovers to marry.

主人公は岡山出身の山口善助。無学で貧しいゆえに実社会で辛酸をなめてきた男である。がゆえに「軍隊こそ天国」と信じる男の無垢さと悲しさを、昭和史のなかに描くというスタイルは前作同様。山正のような男がもう一人いたら？

のるかそるか、弥十郎が早わざに賭ける生と死!熱砂の荒野に息づまる興奮をよぶ4対1の決斗！！好漢・大友柳太朗が魅せる、騎馬と槍を駆使した時代劇アクション。

全日本理容選手権大会で、段原金作は前年度の優勝者海老名銀子を破って一等に入賞した。立派な腕をもちながら恵まれなかった金作は、これが機会で「タイヨウ理髪店」の主人海老名銀平にスカウトされ、住み込みで働くことになった。

A laid-back man tries to become a member of the yakuza.

Shinko Terasawa was always considered to be the odd ball of the bunch. At a time when romance was against school regulations, Shinko was the first to take a bite out of the forbidden fruit. Expelled from her former school, she finds herself in an all-girls school in Jokamachi, where rumors fly. One day, Shinko delivers an anonymous love letter addressed to her English teacher, Ms. Shimazaki. Convinced that the students are playing a prank, Ms. Shimazaki is adamant about getting to the bottom of this "problem”.

周平（笠智衆）は、妻とは死別し、長男の幸一（佐田啓二）は結婚して家を出て団地暮らし。いまは娘の路子（岩下志麻）と次男の和夫（三上真一郎）と３人安らかに暮らしていた。 ある日、周平はいつものように友人の河合（中村伸郎）、堀江（北龍二）と酒を飲みに行く。 話題は路子の嫁行きの話になり、まだ路子を嫁にやることなど考えてもいなかった周平は悩み始める…。 日本映画界の巨匠・小津安二郎監督の最後の作品で、妻に先立たれた男とその子供達の幸せの中にもなぜか潜む孤独と寂しさを描いた作品。

Japanese comedy film.

Yoshida’s first big-budget production and colour film is a haunting tale of unrequited love and postwar disillusion. The story of the fatal attraction between a spineless intellectual and a strong woman is conventional, but its enactment is radically new.

An investigation into a drug smuggler who is assassinated in front of an insurance building sets two detectives, Sumikawa and Akine, into a sprawling investigation through Tokyo's underworld.

After moving in to their dream home, newlyweds decide to rent out their second floor to save money. They soon discover the woe of being landlords.

Asakichi beats a ganster, Sada, in a physical fight, leading to recognition by Sada's clan boss. When Kotoito, the geisha Asakichi is in love with, is kidnapped by a rival clan and sold to a a house of pleasure, Asakichi and Sada set out to rescue her.

Manao Horiuchi movie

新婚一週間目に夫が消えた! 生きているなら証言して! 連続殺人を包む謎の霧! 鍵を握る三人の女! ! 広告社に勤める憲一は、新婚7日目に金沢へ出張、そのまま消息を絶った。妻の禎子は金沢へ出掛け、単身捜査に乗り出すが、手がかりはつかめなかった。やがて憲一が広告社に勤める前に、巡査の風紀係だったことが判明し、事件はそれに絡んでいる模様。そして意外な事実が明るみになってくる。野村芳太郎監督が、北陸を舞台に人間の孤独と悲しさをスリリングに描いた傑作。

A woman and her daughter are each forced to contend with an increasing pressure to marry, particularly from three men who knew her late husband.

A successful textile industrialist from the provinces, who is beloved by his employees for his kindness, cannot find a wife because of a disfiguring birthmark on his face. Even the courtesans in Yoshiwara refuse to entertain him, until an indentured peasant prostitute, Tamarazu, takes the unsavoury assignment and treats him with brash tenderness.

An upstanding young man’s racy adventure filled with conspiracies and love.

旅回りの駒十郎一座の乗った船が港に着いた。駒十郎は一膳飯屋にお芳を訪ね、その昔二人がもうけた清も今では郵便局に勤めていると知って安心する。清には駒十郎はお芳の兄ということになっていた。駒十郎の連れ合いのすみ子は、清のことを不審に思い加代に清を誘惑してくれるよう頼む。加代と清は恋仲になり、それを知った駒十郎は加代とすみ子を激しく叱りつける。客入りの悪くなった一座は解散することになり、駒十郎と清は加代を巡って対立する。お芳は清に駒十郎が実の父親だと打ち明けるが、清は許さず、駒十郎は気が抜けたように立ち去る。駅に行くとすみ子が待っていて、二人は車中の人となるのだった。

Drama which shows the struggle of Fumiko, a female teacher, at work and at home.

Story of a romance between a middle-aged journalist and a young woman.

郊外の住宅地、長屋のように複数の家族が隣り合って暮らしている。林家の息子実（設楽幸嗣）と勇（島津雅彦）はテレビがほしいと両親にねだるが、聞き入れてもらえない。子供たちは、要求を聞き入れてもらえるまで口を利かないというストライキをして、最終的に買ってもらうのだった。　

Based on the Nobu Koito story

A young woman tries to keep her family together after her father disowns her sister.

A delinquent young man (Kobayashi Akira) from a wealthy family decides to get in on a blackmailing scheme targeting his young stepmother (Watanabe Misako). However, he doesn't realize that his fellow blackmailers have their eyes on his girlfriend next.

A man clashes with his daughter over her choice of fiancé.

Former boxer Daishiro lost his wife, and his only son, Kaoru, went missing, it was a heavy blow for Daishiro. One day, Daishiro got a call from his relative Morihiko. He said he forgot the winning lottery ticket of 2 million yen at the hotel, so he wants Daishiro to go and pick it up. Morihiko used the hotel for secret meetings, so he said he couldn't go there himself because he was afraid it would become public. When Daishiro entered the hotel, the Yakuza, who learned about the lottery from the newspaper, threaten the hotel maid Noriko, and want to rob her. Daishiro helps Noriko and safely picks up the lottery, but a message arrives from his relative Seikichi from Osaka. His missing son Kaoru is said to be a boxer in Osaka. "My son... He has the blood of a boxer in him..." Daishiro is heading to Osaka in a hurry...

The story follows a university student who moves into an apartment building and becomes involved with a waitress. The landlord then attempts to evict the tenants and sell the building through illicit means.

Tane, the lady proprietor of an inn for amorous couples, lives there with her three children. When her eldest daughter loses her fiancé due to the fact her mother is a mistress, her despair drives her to become a cabaret hostess.

The obstinate black market trader Okyo lives together with her son Seitaro, who works as a mechanic for a bus company. She also looks after her son's colleague, the bus driver Fujita. When he causes an accident one day, Seitaro testifies against him due to his moral scruples, thus getting his company into trouble.

The day to day life in an establishment for delinquent teenage girls.

The story of Yoshinaka during the tumultuous period of warring related to us in the Heike Monogatari. Close in setting to Kinugasa’s famous Gate of Hell (1953).

An ethical, young tax collector new to his area encounters increasingly absurd individuals and groups coping with their post-war woes.

大石久子は昭和3年、新任教師として瀬戸内海にある小豆島の分校に赴任した。久子が受け持つことになった一年生は十二人で、みな澄んだ瞳をしていた。やがて久子は本校へ転任することになった。しかし貧しい村の教え子たちは、一人として望み通り進学することができなかった。戦争をはさんで島の分校に戻った久子は、そこでかつての教え子たちと再会する。

戦後変わりつつある家族の関係をテーマに人間の生と死までをも見つめた深淵なドラマ。故郷の尾道から20年ぶりに東京へ出てきた老夫婦。成人した子どもたちの家を訪ねるが、みなそれぞれの生活に精一杯だった。唯一、戦死した次男の未亡人だけが皮肉にも優しい心遣いを示すのだった……。

War film by Kon Ichikawa

結婚にあまり興味のない娘と、そんな娘に早く結婚してほしいと気を揉む家族を中心にさりげない日常をユーモアを織り交ぜ淡々と細やかに描く感動作。敗戦後わずか6年の作品とは思えないモダンな息づかいには驚かずにはいられない。北鎌倉に住む間宮家では適齢期を過ぎた娘紀子の結婚が何より気がかり。当の紀子は大手の会社で秘書として働き、いまだのんきに独身生活を楽しんでいる風だった。やがて、そんな紀子に縁談話が立て続けに舞い込むのだったが……。 　巨匠・小津安二郎監督を代表する傑作の1本。

"Pure white nights" - A romantic tale that depicts love between married people and the psychology of their marriage with elegant and a controversial touch. Love, art and suffering until the tragic and absurd ending.

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.

鎌倉で一人娘の紀子と2人で暮らす大学教授の曽宮周吉。妻を早くに亡くしたこともあり、紀子は27歳になる今でも父を置いてよそへ嫁ごうとはしなかった。周吉の実妹・田口まさは、そんな2人が気が気でなく、何かと世話を焼いていた。いつまでも渋る紀子を結婚させるため、周吉はついにある決断をするのだった。

A Japanese war widow recalls her love affair with her deceased husband.

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.

Adaptation of Fumiko Hayashi's novel.