Zenbei Terazawa
Sanada
The life and travels of adventurer Naomi Uemura, who disappeared in Alaska in 1984. A member of the first Japanese expedition to reach the summit of Mt Everest in 1970, Uemura also accomplished several "firsts". He was the first man to reach the North Pole solo, climb Denali solo, and float down the Amazon river solo. In the film, Uemura returns to Tokyo after a stint in Siorapaluk in Northern Greenland. In Tokyo, he reconnects with an old friend and, over coffee, shares his life story - from his days as a college dropout to his successful expedition to the top of Everest.
Interrogator (segment "Runaway Horses")
物語は三島由紀夫最後の一日となる朝から始まり、『金閣寺』『鏡子の家』『奔馬』を劇中劇として見せながら三島の生涯を描いていく。
どもりを持つ学生・溝口は金閣寺はその美しさに見苦しい自分の姿を責め悩み、放火をしてしまう『金閣寺』。容姿端麗で華奢な美青年・治が、最後はマゾヒスティックな狂愛に溺れていく『鏡子の家』。剣道に励む青年が同じ学生仲間とクーデターを決起する『奔馬』。そして、三島由紀夫の最期の瞬間に至る…。
Shozo Godai
Four girls and their manager aiming for stardom!
Genji Tagawa
A double suicide happens in Morioka in Iwate Prefecture. The two were employees of rival real estate companies. A prosecutor who senses a setup exposes the truth.
Horie
山口瞳の小説を降旗康男が映画化。函館で居酒屋「兆治」を営む藤野英治。輝くような青春を送り、挫折と再生を経て現在に至っている。かつての恋人で、今は資産家と一緒になった「さよ」の転落を耳にするが、現在の妻茂子との生活の中で何もできない自分と、振り払えない思いに挟まれていく。周囲の人間はそんな彼に同情し苛立ち、さざなみのような波紋が周囲に広がる。「煮えきらねえ野郎だな。てめえんとこの煮込みと同じだ」と学校の先輩の河原に挑発されても、頭を下げるだけの男。そんな夫を見ながら茂子は、人が人を思うことは誰にも止められないと呟いていた。
In collaboration with the LDP presidential election of the entire national public, a masterpiece depicting the reverse side of Showa political history released, superimposed cast, a group image of real politicians centered on Shigeru Yoshida and political history after the war.
Chief Nakagawa
その日、警察官の英次は雪の降り続く銭函駅ホームで、妻の直子と、4歳になる息子義高に別れを告げた。離婚を承諾した直子は、動き出した汽車の中で、英次に笑って敬礼するが、その目には涙が溢れていた。苛酷な仕事と、オリンピックの射撃選手に選ばれ合宿生活が続いていたことも原因であった。傷心をひきずる中、ある日の検問中、英次の上司・相馬が英次の目前で連続警察官射殺犯“指名22号”・森岡茂に射殺された。中川警視の「お前には日本人全ての期待がわかっている」との言葉に、犯人を追跡したい英次の願いは聞き入れられなかった。テレビが東京オリンピックマラソン競技三位の円谷幸吉の自殺を報じていた。「これ以上走れない……」英次にその気持が痛いほどわかった。
Riichiro Ujima
Out of the blue, a bourgeois family on the Sea of Japan finds an unconscious woman on the beach and decides to let her board.
関東ヤクザの一大勢力、東竜会幹部の加納は、東竜会を関西連合と合併させようと画策していた兄貴分の松岡を殺すはめとなり、まだ幼い松岡の娘・洋子の世話を舎弟の南に託すと、旭川刑務所に送られる。それから15年後、服役を終えて加納は出所するが、彼の不在の間に東竜会の連中はすっかり様変わりしていた。服役中、ブラジルにいる伯父と偽って洋子と文通していた加納は、すっかり美しく成長した彼女の姿を目の当たりにする。
Nobuyuki Kinomata
Legendary detective returns
Professor Masato Takigawa
スターウォーズブームの中製作された、映画「海底軍艦」の宇宙版リメイク。1980年代、世界各地でUFO騒ぎがおき、また電波障害により大混乱が発生した。これを宇宙からの侵略の前兆と捉えた国連宇宙局・宇宙防衛軍 (UNSF) は、宇宙防衛艦の設計建造を滝川正人に依頼、一方で隊員の訓練を開始した。しかし次第にその騒ぎは収まり、滝川は平和な地球には必要ないとして宇宙防衛艦の建造を中止、退任してしまった。 1988年秋、再びUFO騒動と大規模な通信障害が発生。国連宇宙局の三好は宇宙防衛艦「轟天」を完成させる使命を帯び、滝川を説得するため日本に帰還する。滝川は消極的だったが、彼を暗殺しようとした刺客から三好、室井、冬木によって救われる。さらに、宇宙ステーション・テラが「巨大なローマ船」という通信を残して爆発。国防軍は滝川に轟天の建造の再開と乗員の編成を要請する。 敵のUFOヘル・ファイターによって世界各地の大都市と地上の国連軍基地が壊滅状態となる中、滝川は隊員達を再招集、太平洋マウグ島で轟天の完成を急ぐ。侵入した工作員の妨害も排除しつつ轟天は完成、地球上を飛び回っていたヘル・ファイターを全滅させ、侵略軍の前線基地がある金星へと進撃を開始する。しかしその途中、三笠の遺体に扮して侵入した敵兵によって滝川の娘・ジュンが拉致されてしまう。三好は冬木達とともに、敵艦の心臓部爆破とジュンの救出のため大魔艦に潜入する。
Ito
西村寿行の同名小説を原作としたサスペンスアクション作品。 検事の杜丘冬人は新宿の雑踏で見知らぬ女から「金品を盗まれ強姦された」と告発され緊急逮捕されてしまう。他の男も「カメラを盗まれた」と供述、逮捕に必要な証拠も揃っていた。自分にかけられた罠を取り除くため、現場検証の場から逃走を図る冬人。女の正体をつかみ彼女の郷里へ向かうが、すでに女は殺されており、冬人は殺人犯として追われることに。日高山中に逃げ延びた冬人は、自分をはめた真犯人が政界の黒幕である長岡了介ではないかと思い始める。
Ken's older sister Yoko, who has raised Ken like a mother, decides to move to Brazil with an older man.
Arashiyama
空手ブームに新風を吹き込んだ超人アクション映画「直撃！地獄拳」の第2弾。先祖ゆずりの甲賀忍法を駆使する甲賀、自称世界一の金庫破り・桜、元警視庁刑事・隼たちが宝石“ファラオの星”を巡ってマフィアの殺し屋と対決、果ては大空中戦を繰り広げる、スリルとスピード、パンチと笑いに満ち溢れたダイナミック・アクション巨編！
Vice Admiral Takajiro Ohnishi could see that Japan's defeat in WWII was inevitable. He came to realize that the only way to force a negotiated solution was to convince the Americans that invading Japan would cause massive casualties on both sides. The cold logic of suicide attacks, where one man and one plane could kill hundreds, seemed the only solution. In one of the cruel ironies of fate, Ohnishi actually succeeded; he convinced the Americans that invading Japan would be too costly in lives. But what he could not foresee was that America had another way of ending the war.
Arashiyama
地獄に落ちるのは誰！？殺人仕掛人三人が日本に集結！！超人！？狂人！？空手ブームに新風を吹き込んだ超人アクション映画！甲賀の血を受け継ぎ忍法・拳法・空手を操る探偵・甲賀龍一が、世界中の腕利きの殺し屋を用心棒に招き入れる強大な組織を相手に、空手・拳法・忍術を駆使してダイナミックに暴れまわる！
The ninth and final film in the Contemporary Tales of Chivalry series.
A Yakuza film directed by Kôsaku Yamashita
A ruffian joins the ranks of the emperor’s guards.
Jukichi Kazama
A story of lone wolf struggling with human compassion and duty.
Rear Admiral Ota
国内最大の激戦となった沖縄戦の全貌を圧倒的な迫力で映像化した戦争大作！太平洋戦争で日本が経験した唯一の国内戦として多数の犠牲者を生んだ悲劇の沖縄決戦を、岡本喜八監督が壮大なスケールで描いた戦争大作。１９７１年の沖縄返還協定調印という当時の時局を背景に製作された。敗色濃厚な日本軍は、連合軍を沖縄で食い止めるため、大量の兵力を注ぎ込んだ。しかし連合軍の空爆によって、沖縄第三十二軍はあえなく四散、やがて米軍の上陸をゆるしてしまう・・・。
Terajima, an ex-yakuza and current nightclub owner, is brought back into the world of crime when his former brother attempts a hostile take over.
Young yakuza Shujiro Hanada goes to prison after losing his cool in a rigged gambling game and slashing a few other players. When he's released in 1927, the world has changed. His sister died in the Great Kanto Earthquake and his father is also gone. His brother Jukichi invites him to stay at his in-laws and works in their family pub. He lies low, helping his blind mother-in-law and slowly developing a relationship with Ikuye, the hostess who helped him before his arrest. But trouble lurks when the resident gang decides to show its strength.
Maruoka Yusuke / Orochimaru
A yakuza member embarks on a trail of revenge for his murdered boss. Senzo, the successor of the Mita Family, searches for the man bearing a tattoo of a dragon who is said to be responsible for the death of their former leader.
Japanese crime film
This is the sixth film in the Brutal Tales of Chivalry series
Back after four years, Goro learns his younger brother's been thrown out of the gang and his girlfriend's married another man. It's payback time.
A film about the construction of the Kasumigaseki Building, the first high-rise building in Japan.
Kazama Jukichi
Hidejuro is sent to prison after killing the boss of a rival family. After being released, he discovers that his family has scattered and he is taken in by a company of quarry workers, whose boss has a strict code of non-violence. When the rival family tries to take over the company and kills their boss, Hidejuro must choose between his promise of non-violence and his yakuza code of revenge...
The film is dedicated to the souls of flight school graduates killed in World War II. Young boys dream about becoming pilots and apply to flight schools. However, the flight schools have extremely demanding, harsh training, and once they finally become pilots, they must become suicide bombers and give their lives for their homeland.
昭和30年前後、ある地方都市。刑務所を出所した速水は世話になった田島組に戻るが、田島組は新興勢力の本間組と対立していた。速水は組長の娘・敏子にひそかに好意を抱くが、田島組のある組員が本間組に射殺されてしまう。速水が単身、本間組に殴り込みをかけると警察に逮捕されて、ふたたび懲役へ。そこで昔なじみの流れ者・黒島と再会するが、黒島は本間組の世話になる身だった。塀の外では田島組と本間組の抗争が激化する。
Kazuo, a Japanese army intelligence agent, reveals a foreign intelligence network in Japan and then sent to Borneo Island with a special mission.
Story of loyal sailors giving their lives for their country as human torpedoes towards the end of the War.
After being bailed out of trouble by a member of the Kaijima Clan, Ryuhei dedicates himself to saving the Kajima’s lucrative lumber business.
Fierce war breaks out when Shujiro’s rival clan attempts to sabotage his lucrative construction business.
Kyohei Shigemasa
It has been 5 years since Eijiro Kikukawa of the Asakusa Kaminarimon family killed the head of the Suzaki family. Finally he gets out of prison and comes to the city of Odahama, where he had a mistress, Okei, whom he could not forget. He accidentally helped a man named Hanji from the Kurokane family and was received by the family as a guest. And soon Eijiro is involved in a showdown between the yakuza families.
Kunitaro Nagano
Three closely associated gamblers have adventures in Yokohama, Hokkaido, and Macao. Gambling trio endure hardships to rescue Naojiro’s family.
因縁深い二組の新婚夫婦が、奇しくもハネムーンで同じコースをたどる喜劇。緑魔子とデビューより度々組む渡辺祐介監督が、演技派・川崎敬三を相手役に、小悪魔的魅力を引き出す。会社勤めの彰（川崎）は、結婚するつもりだったタイピストの久美（緑）が親会社の御曹司・庄三郎（人見）を打算で夫に選び、失意の中で同僚の知恵子（磯野）と結婚するが、南紀一周の新婚旅行で久美夫婦と何度も鉢合わせするうちに、恋心が再燃してしまう。
A young yakuza who respects obligation and humanity must face cruel and heartless turf wars leading to a fight to the death with his own brother.
Yakuza families clash over a lucrative fishery business.
Hidejiro is a wandering yakuza with a ‘karashi botan’ (Chinese lion and peony) tattoo. Owing a favor to the Soda Family, he kills the boss of the rival Sakaki Family. When the Soda attacks the Sakaki and double-crosses him, with sword in hand, Hidejiro seeks brutal retribution.
Kazama
After World War II, their town was a pile of rubble. Gennosuke, the second-generation boss of the Kamizu Group was upholding yakuza chivalry by keeping black-market and illegal items out of their open-air market. Taking advantage of the mess, Iwasa and his gang take hold of goods from the US military, black-market and controlled items in order to become the most powerful group in the Enko area. Iwasa has Gennosuke assassinated but before he dies, he names Shinji Terajima as his successor and makes him swear to carry on the family business and not seek revenge or use violence. Shinji tries to make his family’s marketplace a success, but with constant interruption and attacks from Iwasa’s gang, he can no longer keep his word to his former boss.
"When human beings venture too far along a trail made by wild beasts, it is said, they quite often discover themselves on a road of no return." Based on the novel of the same name by Seichô Matsumoto.
One day a company executive learns that his younger brother, whom he recommended, embezzled company funds. To save the situation he withdraws his life savings and gives money to his younger brother. He then suddenly disappears…
Muraki
刑務所を出所した村木は、賭場で少女と出会う。ある夜、彼は屋台でその少女と再会した。彼女の名は冴子。冴子はもっと大きな勝負があるところへ連れて行ってほしいとせがんだ。二人は大きな賭場へ行くが、村木はそこで、葉という男を見つけた。殺しと麻薬だけに生きているという葉は、賭けをしている冴子のことを見つめていた。
Chikara Tsuchiya
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.
Dr. Tazawa
地球の6千倍もの質量を持つ恒星が発見された。土星探査船・隼によって、その恒星・ゴラスの軌道は地球を目指していることが判明する。地球上の爆発物ではゴラスを粉砕出来ないことを知った国連は、地球その物をロケットに変え、公転軌道上からの離脱を決意する。各国の科学技術者は総力を結集、南極に巨大なロケット噴射口を建造するが……。
Drama about two college friends, now working for the same banking firm, torn apart by jealousy over their inequitable positions and love lives.
The life of a toilet-seller during the Japanese Economic Miracle.
Ko Tanomura, who was ordered to study abroad in the United States for two years as a youth executive at Haneda Airport and a royal industry, was looking for the appearance of Sako Ozegawa from a large number of see-offs. --Kou's father, Cheongju, is an authority on religious studies, and Orie is his third wife. Eiko, who is a distant relative of Orie, came to Tokyo to care for her sick. Two months ago, Ko, who first met Eiko, was deeply moved...
Kikumori
Kikumori runs a cabaret on the docks, while his friend Kaji operates transport boats. When a gang of drug dealers tries to force the pair to cooperate in a smuggling scheme, conflict arises between the two friends. Falsely blamed for murder, Kikumori is blackmailed into an attempt to sabotage Kaji's boats and kill him. But the friendship between the two men proves an obstacle to the gangleader's plans.
Lt. Koji Kitami is a navigator-bombardier in Japan's Naval Air Force. He participates in the Japanese raid on the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor in 1941 and is welcomed with pride in his hometown on his return. As Japan racks up victory after victory in the Pacific War, Kitami is caught up in the emotion of the time and fights courageously for the standard of Japanese honor. But his assuredness of his government's righteousness is shaken after the Japanese navy is defeated in the debacle of Midway.
Major Ichiro Katsumiya
東宝が「地球防衛軍」の姉妹編として製作した大作SF映画。近未来、宇宙ステーションJSS3が謎の円盤群に破壊され、地球上では鉄橋や汽船が空中へ舞い上がる原因不明の怪事件が起きる。国際宇宙科学センターは対策に奔走するが、メンバーには宇宙人スパイが紛れ込んでいた。地球侵略を企てる宇宙人ナタール人は、月に基地をつくっていたのだった。スピップ1号、2号による月調査と、月面での攻防戦を何とか生き延びた宇宙科学センターのメンバーたちだが、ナタールの地球全面攻撃の日は刻一刻と近づきつつあった。それに対抗すべく人類は宇宙戦闘機と地対空熱戦砲を量産し迎撃態勢を整えていく。そしてついにナタールの円盤群が地球に襲来。ここに地球人類対ナタールの決戦の火ぶたが切っておとされた。
Adapted by Yasumi Toshio and directed by Toyoda Shiro, this is a literary work based on a full-length novel of the same name published by Shiga Naoya of the Shirakaba School.
太平洋戦争における日本の敗北を目前に控えた昭和20年の初夏、河本艦長率いる潜水艦イー57は某国の親日派高官父娘を乗せて極秘裏に和平工作を図るべく、カナリー諸島へ向けて出航した。乗組員の多くは徹底抗戦を主張し、和平にも否定的だったが、敵との遭遇などさまざまな困難を経て皆の意思はひとつにまとまっていく。しかしやがてポツダム宣言が発令される。
Seizo Nabayama
An Ishiro Honda film.
1958 Theater of Life adaptation.
Ryônosuke Taya
加東大介と小林桂樹が弥次喜多コンビをユーモラスに演じた喜劇。作品のネタに困った十返舎一九は、栃面屋弥次郎兵衛と喜多利屋喜多八に金を与え二人に旅をさせる。だが二人をつけねらう謎の美男子に旅を邪魔され、弥次さん喜多さんは面白くない。実はこの男、偽小判事件にからみ姿を消した十兵衛の行方を追う幕府の隠密で、一緒に出発した十兵衛の娘お雪とはぐれてしまっていた。旅先で数々の失敗を繰り返す弥次喜多コンビだったが、二人の行動が偽小判事件を解決に導くことになり…。
May Kawaguchi is a famous Japanese fashion designer. Returning to Tokyo from her home in New York, she travels incognito with a tour group, in hopes of having a quiet vacation without being noticed. But she is spotted and the press has a field-day with the returning celebrity. Her hopes of rest shattered, she agrees to put on a large-scale fashion show.
Shimamura
It's a man's world. Shimamura, an artist, comes to this snowbound town to rejuvenate himself. He connects with Komako, a geisha he met on a previous trip, and it seems like love. She's the foster daughter of a local family, almost engaged to the family's son Yukio, now dying of consumption. He's tended by his sister Yuko who's angry at Komako for abandoning her brother. Shimamura returns to Tokyo but promises he will be back soon. In anticipation of his return, Komako breaks with her patron and her family loses their home. Complications arise when Shimamura doesn't come back as promised. Then Komako discovers that he and Yuko knew each other in Tokyo. Can Komako escape destiny?
A girl rebels against her mother, who runs a brothel in Yokohama, and attempts to find freedom on her own.
Xu Xian
Lavish Japanese-Chinese coproduction based on an ancient Chinese legend about a man who falls in love with a snake goddess in human form.
Kosuke Kindaichi
The story of a professional nude model stalked by a bizarre, unknown man wearing a hideous mask.
Shôji Sugiyama
蒲田に妻と住む杉山正二は、丸ノ内への通勤途中で知り合ったサラリーマンたちと仲良くなり、退社後に遊びに行くのが日課となっていた。妻は退屈な毎日から逃れるように、おでん屋を営む母の実家へ帰ったりしている。通勤仲間と出かけた江ノ島で、杉山は金子千代と接近。千代の誘惑に耐えきれず、関係を持ってしまう。二人の関係に気づいた杉山の妻は家出して、旧友のアパートに転がり込んだ。同僚の死をきっかけに、杉山は自分の生き方を振り返り、千代と別れようと考え始める。ちょうどその頃、会社で地方工場への転勤話が持ち上がった。小津安二郎が野田高梧とともに書いたシナリオを監督し映画化。不倫に揺れる昭和30年代のサラリーマン夫婦を描く。
Period romantic drama.
Naojiro Mikazuki
Forced on the road by yakuza obligations, a man sets out on a reckless journey to Tsumagoi. Movie posters for local cinemas were often displayed at sento (public baths) too. The handwritten text on the bottom here announces the film will play at Hassen for 3 days.
Film directed by Senkichi Taniguchi
Rikiya Kizu
An Ishiro Honda film.
Set at the end of World War II and after Japan's defeat, it is a melodrama about a man and a woman at the mercy of war. Wataru is entrusted by his best friend who has gone off to war with his sister Reiko to marry her, but he is not ready to abandon his love for Kumiko, a nurse at his mother's hospital.
Captain Wakabayashi
This is a film about a Naval Air Corps Director who hates the war. Director Honda uses this film to ask the question "What is war?", showing the human bonds between Japan and America, Japanese military tactics which had little regard for life, and the attitude of Japanese military personnel who treated their actions as if they were just doing a job. This film contains few battle scenes, concentrating instead on the love stories of young officers and female members of the community in this lonely air base.
Ueda [sandwich man]
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...
Botchan
1953 Toho adaptation of Natsume's novel.
Gohei
A screwball tale of a suspected “lady thief” and the detective who is on her trail, following her from Osaka to her home village, where she is going to hold a memorial service for her father. Of course, the detective falls in love with his prey.
A section chief at the Bureau of Construction is in a shady relationship with a construction company. Then a new, young and honest subordinate is assigned to work under the section chief. Once he learns about the shady relationship, however, the new subordinate skillfully conceals the corruption and joins the corrupt, shady relationship.
Once an average and seemingly ordinary Tokyo girl, she suddenly finds herself as a TV star owing to her discovery by a casting company, which noticed photographs that her cousin had sent. When another actress falls ill she is given the role instead. Her first film is a success propelling the young actress to popularity, her own fans, money and a house. While everything looks dandy from the outside not all is well within the family however.
Niheita Inoda
Atsuko is an office secretary who is also her family's primary source of income and caretaker in postwar Japan.
Kanae, who broke up with her husband and moved to her uncle's house, met two men when her father, a university professor, collapsed. Michihara, a wealthy man and Miyashita, a youth scholar. Kanae is attracted to Miyashita, but ...
"My mother is Japanese, a drifting diva of Tokyo" After the death of her father Reika goes to Japan to visit her mother, but can't find her, so she starts performing at a cabaret in Yokohama. Her mother, already settled, found about Reika's whereabouts, but won't acknowledge her daughter for fear of loosing her current status.
Ikeuchi was captain of the K - University ice hockey team. The daughter Shikotsuko of Ginza 's western restaurant "Piccolo" was also a female student at K University and was a figure player. They had a dream of being dispatched to Oslo in the Olympic Games and were struggling in each way. Mizuno who runs a sports equipment store in Ginza, showed the geisha by guiding the junior's Ikeuchi and others to the shop of Shimbashi one day.
Corporal Fukami
War film by Kon Ichikawa
Ikeda
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.
Nishida
Though recognized worldwide almost exclusively for his colorful kaiju fare, director Ishirō Honda (Godzilla, Rodan, Mothra) was a natural humanist with a particular understanding of the relationship between people and their social environs. His debut fiction feature, The Blue Pearl (Aoi Shinju) – virtually unseen in the west until now – depicts the melodramatic, but keenly-observed interplay between a young man from Tokyo and two ama (pearl divers; literally “women of the sea”) in a superstitious coastal town. Though raised within the same tradition-bound crucible, the two women – Noe and Riu – are portrayed as diametric opposites; the former meek but affectionate, the latter strong-willed but jaded by a tryst with metropolitan life. Nonetheless, Honda provides equal weight to their desires and their ambitions to break free from the social mold imposed upon them from birth.
A young lord joins gang of Robin-esque robbers.
A Japanese adaptation of Guy de Maupassant's short story Boule de Suif, directed by Kimura Keigo
Seiichi Endo
A young man, convicted of a crime and imprisoned in the penitentiary, comes to believe that his wife is being unfaithful to him. He contrives his escape from the prison in order to seek her out and learn the truth, but the police give chase and he must flee into the mountains.
Adaptation of a novel by Yojiro Ishizaka, originally released in two parts.
This little seen early work by Ichikawa was produced during the director's Shintoho period (1947-51). Written by Kaneto Shindô and featuring Ryô Ikebe as a young policeman it is part crime drama, part social study. Definitely not an undiscovered masterpiece, but still a must for Ichikawa buffs.
Goichi Murashima
A film by Kiyoshi Saeki
Meiichi Mizushima
Woman melodrama by Shiro Toyoda
Kawasaki
An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chief and the local gangster bosses.
Three humorous love stories set in rural Japan.
Mikami
Mikami, a Japanese soldier, is captured by Chinese forces. Although able to escape, he is treated with contempt by his peers. After falling in love with a prostitute named Harumi, she convinces him to desert the army and live with her. Directed by Senkichi Taniguchi with a screenplay by Taniguchi and Akira Kurosawa and assistant direction by Ishiro Honda. Kurosawa's final credit as a screenwriter was removed from initial release due to various rewrites.
Rokusuke Kaneya
Continuation of The Blue Mountains: Part I. Released a week later.
Rokusuke Kaneya
Teacher Yukiko finds herself in opposition to conservative faculty and villagers after defending a student for being in a relationship with a young man from Tokyo.
Shigeya Moriguchi, a newspaper reporter
Japanese mystery thriller.
Nobuo
Japanese noir.
Segawa
A teacher at a Japanese school tries to hide his outcast upbringing.
新聞記者の浩一は女医の幸子と新婚旅行で別府行きの船に乗り込んだ。ところが、隣室の客が失踪したり、停電でダイヤの首飾りが紛失したり、果ては失恋による服毒自殺まで起こる始末。事件のたびに扉がノックされ、ノック恐怖症になった二人はようやくホテルの一室に落ち着いたが、七度目のノックがされ…。
Omnibus of love stories from 1947 directed by famous directors, featuring big stars.
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.
Tsutomu
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.
