Osamu Takizawa

A documentary about the lives of actors in the Sakura-tai theatrical troupe, which had arrived in the island of Hiroshima to begin preparations for the staging of a play just before the atomic bombing.

Set in Japan's Tenpyou era (729-749 CE), four young monks are sent to China to study Buddhism and bring a high priest back to Japan with them. The film tells the tale of the four monks' youth and the life and times of the high priest Ganjin.

岩手で不審なトラックを追跡したパトカーが銃撃される事件が発生。陸上自衛隊の警務部長・江見は、内閣調査室の利倉とともに捜査を進め、一部の自衛隊員によるクーデター計画《皇帝のいない八月》の存在を知る。同じころ、かつて江見の部下だった藤崎はクーデターに加わる一部隊を率い、博多発東京行きの特急さくら号を乗っ取る。だが政府による鎮圧作戦が始まり、藤崎の隊は孤立。藤崎は最後の手段で乗客たちを殺すと脅す。

世界で初めて農民を組織したといわれる大原幽学を主人公に、笹川繁蔵、平手造酒、飯岡助五郎など浪曲でお馴じみの「天保水滸伝」をからませて、その時代に生きた人間群像を描く。脚本は「わが青春のとき」の山内久、監督は「不毛地帯」の山本薩夫、撮影は「君よ憤怒の河を渉れ」の小林節雄がそれぞれ担当。

Final part of epic drama about war and its effects upon human beings, follows the fortunes of the Godai family through the Sino-Japanese War through the Soviet Union's sudden attack upon Japanese troops at the end of the war.

Second part of an epic drama of war and its effects upon human beings, follows the fortunes of the Godai family from 1935 through Japan's invasion of China. Based on the novels by Jumpei Gomikawa, who also penned The Human Condition.

It was five years ago when Minako spent a night with Sozo, younger brother of her ex-husband. She now lives in a local town with a rich old man who owns a dry goods store. Minako travels to Tokyo on business every three months, during which time she continues to meet Sozo, who has married the daughter of his respected teacher.

Keisuke Godai, head of the upstart Godai family conglomerate, plans to strengthen ties with the hardliners in the Kwantung Army as they plan military expansion into Manchuria.

映画ファン待望の2大スター対決が実現し、シリーズ最大のヒットを記録した第20作。蓮華沢の里を3年ぶりに訪れた盲目の渡世人、座頭市。だが村の平和は、小仏の政五郎と生糸問屋の烏帽子屋弥助という2大勢力の対立によってすっかり脅かされていた。市が里に戻ってきたと知った政五郎は、早速、凄腕の用心棒・佐々大作に市の暗殺を命じ、大作もまた100両の金に釣られてその仕事を請け負う。かくして両者はひとたびあいまみえるが、お互いの実力を見てとった2人は、再度の勝負を約束して一旦は別れるが...。

富山県黒部川上流に関西電力が建設する第四発電所。現場責任者には北川が任命され、資材運搬用のトンネル掘削は熊谷組が担当することになった。熊谷組の岩岡源三の息子である剛は父の強硬なやり方に反発し設計技師となっていた。現場に赴いた剛はそこで体力が衰えてしまった父と、熱心に工事に打ち込む北川の姿を見て、工事に参加することにする。やがて工事現場では山崩れが起こり大量の水が流れ込んだ。北川は自分の娘が白血病に冒されたことを知るが、工事現場を離れることができなかった。

During the 1880's a young swordsman, Saotome Gengo, on his way to Tokyo stops at an inn in a small town. But he does not know that his prowess has already attracted envious attention and that Senzo, the boss of the local gang, plans to have him killed. Seiji, the disowned son of the innkeeper, has run up a big gambling bill and, to settle it, the hoodlums decide to kill him. He is saved, however, by Hanako, star of the dancing troupe also staying at the inn. Gengo meets Hanako and learns that the troupe cannot open their show because the local police corruptly demand too much of the receipts. After another fight, Gengo sees the police-chief on behalf of the troupe, but is refused. So he suspects that the police and the hoodlums are implicated with each other. There seems no way to open the show until they hear that the governor is coming to the town for a local banquet. They appeal to him and he promises to investigate. It is decided that a duel will settle the matter...

誤診という名の殺人! 人の命を救うはずのメスが、野望のためにみがかれる! 医学界の封建的な人間関係、派閥抗争などを、野望に燃える浪速大学医学部第一外科助教授、財前五郎を中心に描く。

One morning, Kazue is nearly knocked over by a motorbike in front of an instrument store, breaking all the records that she was carrying. The two connect instantly and begin seeing each other every day. However, Iwai, Yukio’s foster parent, is concerned - Yukio had been exposed to the atomic bomb when he was four years old and had been showing symptoms of atomic radiation, hospitalizing him in the Genbaku Atomic Bomb Survivor’s Hospital. Unfortunately, nobody knows when the symptoms may return. When Yukio passes out from anemia during work, he decides to part with Kazue. A couple of days later, Yukio tells her of his destiny at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, but Kazue passionately encourages him.

In 1943, Japan is amidst the Pacific War. Sobei Sonoda is one of the wealthiest landowners of the San'in region. His land spread for miles, as far as the eye can see. People treated him with respect. But even the richest must think about the future. One day, he decides to arrange a marriage between his only son, Junkichi and the daughter of an even more powerful family. Sobei, hoping to benefit from this union, soon discovers that his son was in love with a lower class girl.

When her only relative, her elder brother is accused of robbing and murdering an old woman loan-shark, pretty, young Kiriko travels from her home in Kyushu to Tokyo to get Japan's top lawyer to defend her brother. Unfortunately her naive idealism is shattered when the lawyer refuses to take the case based on her insufficient funds. What follows is a long determined revenge plot that sees the heroine become a Tokyo bar hostess and worse to punish the lawyer. The plot thickens with another murder mystery and a sleuthing reporter.

The Sengoku Era was coming to an end. The monopoly of the ever powerful shogun, Ieyasu Tokugawa, was at a near. Only one man was brave enough to stand in Ieyasu's way - A lone wolf samurai by the name of Kagekatsu Uesugi. Inspired by Uesugi's courage to revolt, a young samurai warrior, Touzou Kuruma decides to join the fight. Their target: the Tamonyama Castle.

「黒髪」：妻を捨て、京都から遠い任地へと赴いた武士。そこで彼は、良い家柄の娘と結婚するが、彼女は冷酷な女で、男は今さら、別れた妻のことを思い出すのだった。やがて任期を終え、京都に戻った彼は最初の妻と再会するが…。「雪女」：きこりの巳之吉は、森へ薪を採りに入ったところで吹雪に遭い、山小屋に閉じ込められるはめに。その晩彼は、雪女の姿を目の当たりにし…。ほかに「耳無し抱一の話」「茶碗の中」の計4編。

An original warrior directed by Toshio Takagi, directed by Eisuke Takizawa of “Kiriko's Tango” by Toshio Yasumi, a comedy, cheerful widow. The photo was taken by Minoru Yokoyama from “Asakusa no Toko Odoriko Monogatari”

1964 Nikkatsu Theater of Life adaptation.

A Tokyo family escaping the war relocates to a Hokkaido village; their daughter is set to marry the local leader's son, but her siblings disapprove.

Jiro, a young yakuza, and Mami, a diplomat’s daughter, are two young lovers from different worlds. Having met by accident, they soon discover a new life together. But their love is ill-fated. Mami's family will not accept her choice, while leading an honest life seems like an unattainable goal for Jiro. Can there be anything else but a tragic ending?

The basic story in Love under the Crucifix is about Ogin, daughter of a tea master, who are both Christians in feudal Japan. Ogin falls in love with a feudal prince, also a Christian who is already married, and that creates problems. Further, when the Shogun bans Christianity, the situation worsens.

On his deathbed, a wealthy businessman announces that his fortune is to be split equally among his three illegitimate children, whose whereabouts are unknown to his family and colleagues. A bevy of lawyers and associates scheme to procure the money for themselves, enlisting the aid of impostors and blackmail.

A father and son are both heavy drinkers. However, the son dies in an accident at a bar, leaving behind a fiance…. A unique social satire that focuses on why people drink alcohol.

釈迦の生誕から入滅までを壮大なスケールで描いた歴史スペクタクル。世を憂えて修行の道に入ったシッダ太子は、悪魔の誘惑を退けついに悟りを開く。だが彼に嫉妬するダイバ・ダッタは、バラモンの法力を以て、シッダ太子と仏教徒を様々な方法で迫害していくが......。

Asada Keiko and Kurokawa Saburo are two young college students. When Keiko visits Saburo's house, she meets his father Kokichi and his mother Motoko. Motoko is a famous hair dresser, who openly flaunts her lover. When Kokichi and Motoko fight, which they do a lot, he routinely threatens to leave but never quite does. A relationship develops between Saburo and Keiko, but Saburo is shaken when his mother tells Keiko the truth about Saburo's past and the secret of his birth.

An opportunistic department store clerk gets involved with three women and attempts to manipulate them so he can move up the social ladder.

A young doctor falls into a despair of developments. He plans to revenge the disgrace inflicted upon his sister, whose engagement was broken as a result.

A journalist decides to do his own investigation after a series of strange murders are committed during a local election campaign.

大岡昇平の同名小説を、和田夏十が脚色し市川崑が監督した反戦映画。病院にも部隊にも見放された田村は、フィリピン戦線のレイテ島をさまよっていた。同じように敗走している仲間と病院の前で合流するが、その病院が砲撃を受けたため、田村は一人で逃げ出す。食べるものもなく、仲間を失った田村は、草を食べて生き延びていた。やがて生き別れたかつての仲間である永松と安田と再会。二人は殺した味方の兵士を“猿”と称し、その肉を食べていた…。

瀬戸内海の真只中、江田島の海軍兵学校は日本海軍揺籃の地であった。太平洋戦争も激烈をきわめて来た昭和十七年十二月、石川竜太郎は海軍兵学校に入学し、兵学校での分隊生活が始まった。ある日、自習室に集められた石川ら分隊の新入生は、分隊伍長の佐田を中心とする生徒から激しく叱責されたが、反発した村瀬真一は、気の荒い上級生の小暮になぐられる。石川は村瀬と小暮にどこか魅かれるものを感じていた。

An early contemporary yakuza action drama.

Legendary yakuza Shimizu Jirocho and his 28 henchmen travel the unruly path from a 'Fire Festival' in Akiba to a decisive battle by the Fujigawa.

Kensaku Muro and his father manage a farm in Sakudaira at the foot of the Yatsugatake Mountains. One day Kensuke saves a suicidal woman, Fukiko Uzu, who jumps into a waterfall. Having injured his eyes in the process, he is brought to Tokyo for medical treatment. In Tokyo, Kensaku visits his mother Kaneko who left her son years ago. She now owns an exclusive club and has a son, Isao, with the president of Kobe Concern. Isao plots to steal Kensuke's farm as part of a land development scheme with Fukiko's husband. Without knowing they are blood related, their conflict over the farm intensifies.

Kiku and her brother Isamu are social outcasts, children of a prostitute mother and black GI father, in postwar Japan.

At about the same time as lwami, president of a Tokyo company is murdered by an unknown assailant, it happens that an urgent call has been received from an airline company's office on remote Hachijo Island for a special serum. A Cessna aircraft which has been chartered by a man named Ohashi takes off for the island with the serum piloted by Ishida. But when airborne, Ohashi, who is the murderer of lwami, holds up Ishida at gunpoint and orders him to land on a small island west of Hachijo where a ship is waiting to take him to Hong Kong...

Japanese suspense film.

国田信吉は大学を出て、今はドサまわりの山村民之助一座で座付作家となっている。信吉の芝居は大入満員となり座長は喜ぶが、信吉に新解釈の新しい演し物をと熱く語られ、座員全員で女を求めて稽古を抜け出してしまう。座長には二人の娘がおり、姉の千鳥は一座の二枚目俳優の妻、妹の千草は信吉に想いを寄せていた。信吉は姉妹ともに肉体関係を持ち、人妻である千鳥と結婚したいと言い出す。信吉は千鳥の夫である栄三郎と離婚してもらうための話し合いをセッティング。栄三郎は一座には信吉と千鳥が必要だから自分は身を引くと告げるのだった。

Japan, 1701. A group of samurai become rônin after their lord is forced to commit seppuku for assaulting a court official, who will become the target of a merciless revenge.

1957 drama from director Kôzaburô Yoshimura

From the pen of Yoshikawa Eiji comes this exciting story. The Naruto Strait separates Tokushima from the islands of Awaji and Honshu. On Tokushima the mad lord dreams of conquest and forges a bloody revolt against the Tokugawa shogunate. A mysterious swordsman named Noriyuki Gennojo has crossed Naruto’s waters to uncover the Awa clan’s secrets. He puts his life on the line after finding a testament of Awa’s secrets, written in blood by a dying man. Joining Noriyuki are a female ninja who loves him, and the beautiful daughter of an enemy who’s sworn to kill him. Awa’s defenders willl stop at nothing to prevent the blood-soaked letter from reaching the shogun.

Nominated for Golden Berlin Bear.

The story of a novelist whose wife is confined in a mental hospital. His love for her drives him to write about her, though he runs into trouble when her parents accuse him of cashing in on her misfortune.

Japanese drama film, originally released in two parts.

Chief editor Shirou Kanzaka (Hisaya Morishige) of Sankei Publishing Inc. is being tried for embezzlement and the staging of Chiyo Umehara's suicide. The victim is a woman who's said to have had sexual relations with the defendant. Four intertwined witnesses; a critic, Shirou's employee, a singer, and his wife, are all called to the stand. His destiny now lies in their hands.

Christ in Bronze is a 1955 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Minoru Shibuya. It was entered into the 1956 Cannes Film Festival.

Nobuko is a widow who lives with her daughter-in-law Tamiko and her brother Junjiro. The family's gatekeeper, Komatsu, is attracted to Tamiko, but she is encouraged to marry a doctor and he is afraid to tell her his feelings.

Shigeki Kachi, Tosuke Satomura, and Nanako, who belong to the theater company Vuanbert around Dosa, withdrew at the indignation of the chairman Hayashi and seeked their own careers in the film industry.

A reporter Takuo, who is sleeping in the newspaper room of the Maichō newspaper company, receives a sudden report from a reporter that the missing Akiyama JNR president was found dead.

Dai-ni-bu: Aijô ruten: Kiyoshi Saeki directed movie

Ginko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one geisha house to the next, trying to find love and hope in the process. No matter how hard she tries, she just can't escape her sad fate.

Shows the devastation caused by the atomic bomb, and by use of a fictional storyline, portrays the struggle of the ordinary Japanese people in dealing with the aftermath.

Group of women escape Chinese controlled area for Japanese occupied lands during Pacific War.

A story of a passionate teacher and his great effort for the children in a poor village.

A Japanese soldier who died in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in Hawaii entrusted Henry Gray with an unfinished score and promised to complete it.

Story of a Beloved Wife is an autobiographical work based on Shindo's first marriage. Jūkichi Uno stars as a struggling screenwriter, and Nobuko Otowa stars as the wife who supports him through his early struggles.

Genji, the illegitimate offspring of a Japanese potentate, goes by the philosophy of "love 'em and leave 'em" as a matter of course. Only when his heart is broken by Awaji does Genji realizes how much pain he himself has caused.

The film portrays the experiences of Takashi Nagai as a survivor of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki.

“グランプリ女優”京マチ子の主演作。讃美歌の流れるクリスマスの夜、ゆきずりにも似た男に純潔を捧げた女が、哀しくもたどる背信と罪の世界。再びめぐってこない青春を泥沼に捨てて絶叫する、女の心にふと咲いた恋の切なさを描く。

Saburo and Keiko fall in love with each other but the tide of war separates them.

An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chief and the local gangster bosses.

When the future of his construction company falls into danger, a controlling father pushes his children into unsatisfying marriages and careers in order to regain financial stability.

Iemon Tamiya is an impoverished masterless samurai who craves a better life, which he cannot have because of his marriage to Oiwa, who is completely devoted to her husband.

The East Asian Acrobatic circus enjoys popularity after welcoming the Asuka brothers, two prestigious trapeze acrobats. One day, one of the brothers gets injured and a substitute needs to be found. Rumors start to float around concerning the circus clown and his grandiose acrobat career which ended tragically. Will he be able to reconcile with his tumultuous past and get the show running?

A teacher at a Japanese school tries to hide his outcast upbringing.

Life and love in corrupt postwar Tokyo, as a young couple struggles against both the law and the mob.

不世出の将棋指し、坂田三吉を描く伝記ヒューマン・ドラマ。坂田は藁草履職人で長屋暮らしをしているが、三度の飯より将棋が好き。家財道具も仏壇も幼い娘の着物までも質に入れて会費を捻出、将棋大会に出かけてしまうが、どこか憎めない。妻の小春と娘の玉江が、そんな坂田を温かく見守る。

After Japan's loss in the war, the wealthy, cultured, liberal Anjo family have to give up their mansion and their way of life. They hold one last ball at the house before leaving. The seemingly cold, cynical son secretly grieves for his defeated father and the values that the war destroyed, while the daughter tries to prevent father from taking his life and to find her own place in the new Japan.

This film focuses on Koreans living in Japan. The filmmaker’s humanism comes across in the portrayal of a girl living in a shabby tenement, the warmth of a Korean girl she meets, and the friendliness of this Korean girl’s family.

Based on an autobiographical story by Toyota Masako.

A colourful study of theatrical life. Two acting troupes vie for the Kyoto market during the Genroku Era. Tojuro, an extremely popular actor, feels the limits to his acting when he sees his rival troupe put on a new type of play featuring its star, Nakamura. He has the famous Chikamatsu write a new play but cannot get used to the character he is to play in it.

Japanese adaptation of LES MISERABLES. The last film of director Itami took inspiration from Les Miserables. Transpiring during the Southwestern War of 1877 in Japan, which was the last civil war in the country, a criminal escapes prison only to be found by a monk. The criminal decides to turn a new leaf based on their conversation and goes on to become a town's mayor. He hears news of a mistaken arrest and identity. The revelation of truth is the start of a series of miseries.

The prewar film Haha no kyoku (Mother's Melody, 1937) is known for its place in Japanese film history as one of the top three melodramas as well as for its authorship: Yamamoto Satsuo is an auteur not usually associated with filming melodramas. Yamamoto made the film right after he moved, along with his mentor Naruse Mikio, to the Toho film company. A number of subsequent postwar mother's films adopted some of its essences, making it a genre-defining moment in Japanese cinema. This great melodrama is atypical of Yamamoto's output, much of which deals with political corruption and inequities within social institutions and offers a strong anti-establishment appeal.

Adaptation of Fumiko Hayashi's novel.

Three sisters earn money for their bossy mother by being samisen street musicians. This means mainly playing a banjo type instrument for tips in bars...