Ken Uehara

Story of famed Japanese actress Kinuyo Tanaka, with an emphasis on her working relationship with director Kenji Mizoguchi.

広島県の尾道に住む高校生・和子は放課後、化学の実験室を掃除中にラベンダーの香りを嗅いだ途端、なぜか気絶してしまう。やがて彼女は目覚めてから、時間の流れを飛び越えてある一日を繰り返して何度も体験するという、不思議な能力を持つようになっていた。そんな和子は転校生である男子の同級生・深町に魅了されるが、和子に起きた異変の原因も実は彼にあって、彼の正体はなんと未来からやって来たタイムトラベラーだった。

大学生の村瀬（石坂）は、友人から押し付けられて依田家の家庭教師となり、短大卒業後も両親に就職を反対され家庭に渋々こもる同家の娘・久美子（浜）に出会い、悩みなどを聞くうちに惹かれていくが、彼女には知られざる秘密があった。

Young Guy (Kayama) competes in an electric guitar competition and plays American-style football. Released alongside Invasion of Astro Monster.

一万二千年前、地殻変動のため海底に沈んだムウ帝国。だが彼らは海底に都市を作り、世界征服を企んでいた。そのころ終戦間際にこつぜんと姿を消した神宮司大佐たちは、孤島でひそかに海底軍艦を建造していた。それを察知したムウ帝国は、神宮司の娘・真琴と恋人・旗中を連れ去ってしまう。やがて始まるムウ帝国の総攻撃。そしてその砲火の中、ついにムウ帝国撃滅を決意した神宮司は、海底軍艦を出動させる……。

鶴亀製菓では、石黒専務の発案で、長年研究してきた新しい清涼飲料水、ハッスル・コーラを発売しようとしていた早速、実験というわけで社内で一番無気力な社員田中太郎が試飲することになった。ショボクレタ表情の太郎は飲むうち、次第にポパイの如くハッスルして来た。

「続社長道中記　女親分対決の巻」の笠原良三と「ニッポン無責任野郎」の田波靖男が共同で脚本を執筆、「にっぽん実話時代」の福田純が監督した若大将シリーズの第四作。撮影は「妻という名の女たち」の内海正治と「ホノルル・東京・香港」の西垣六郎。

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.

Yuuichi Tanuma, our young hero, is a senior at Kyonan University and captain of the marathon team. His parents run a sukiyaki restaurant back in his hometown. When his allowance stops coming in, Yuuichi moves back in with his folks to work part-time. He has his eyes set on nationals in the fall, until one day he runs into a young woman who's fallen into trouble with the Lightning Gang...

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……。

京南大学法学部の学生、田沼雄一は軽音楽部に所属する学生である。父親の友人である島川の経営するレストランで拳闘部のマネージャーである江口の引き起こした喧嘩に巻き込まれて店をめちゃくちゃにしてしまう。店を壊した責任と島川の娘・信子と結婚させようという親たちの企みもあって雄一はレストランで住み込みで働くことになる。レストラン隣の洋裁店で働く中里澄子と親しくなる雄一だが、同級生の京子や妹・照子の友達でファッションモデルのきみ子にも言い寄られるモテモテぶり。一方、拳闘部の助っ人として試合に出ることになった雄一は、万座のホテルに出張させられたりと練習も思い通りにはいかない始末。女性たちに言い寄られて好きな澄子にも誤解を受けて試合当日を迎えるのだった。

This Japanese film speculates on the events which lead the U.S. and the Soviet Union into a nuclear Armageddon.

Four fishermen friends are caught up in a piracy plot.

日本の貨物船がロリシカ国の水爆実験場があるインファント島の近くで沈没した事故を取材するため、新聞記者の福田とカメラマンのミチは島へ。そこで福田たちは先住民たちを調査する中条と知り合う。ジャングルで一行は、小美人という身長約30cmの双子の妖精と出会うが、日ロ合同調査隊のロリシカ人ネルソンは後日、島を再訪し、小美人を捕らえて見世物にする。やがて島の守護神である怪獣モスラの幼虫が日本近海に現われ……。

京南大学法学部の学生、田沼雄一は水泳部のエースであり若大将というニックネームで呼ばれている。おっとりとした性格で授業中にドカ弁を食べる豪快さもある。麻布の老舗のすき焼き屋・田能久の長男でもあるが、謹厳実直な父親の久太郎とは意見が合わず、ぶつかってばかりいる。

Romantic melodrama set in contemporary Hong Kong, Japan and Laos. Hiroshi Tanaka (Takarada) is a Japanese journalist on assignment in Hong Kong who meets and falls in love with Wu Li Hung (Ming). He proposes to Wu Li but she rejects him because of her distaste for mixed marriages (her mother was Japanese but deserted her family and returned to Japan during WWII). Tanaka locates Wu Li’s mother and unsuccessfully tries to reunite them, but eventually Wu Li accepts his proposal. A joyous Tanaka flies off to Laos to finish an assignment but on the eve of his wedding he is killed there.

A woman has to give up her dream of becoming an actress when her family goes into debt, but she catches the eye of a businessman while working at a nightclub. He sets her up with her own nightclub, but with expectations attached.

Sanae is left a widow after her prestigious husband dies, but holds the proceeds of a million yen insurance policy. Being childless, her former in-laws have no objection to her return to her own family.

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.

The story tells of Tsuchiya, a university professor and a widower who is in love with a widow who runs a small restaurant, and his son is in love with a runaway girl who turns out to be the leader of a religious sect. Kusano is the henpecked proprietor of a rice biscuit shop who dreams of owning a bird and dog shop and his daughter is in love with a boarder, employed by the private detective agency searching for the runaway girl. The agency head has his own dream of arranging thirty marriages and has already accomplished twenty-seven. Tatsumi is a newspaper reporter who dreams of a big scoop to enable him to marry a girl TV producer and his friend a mountain climbing enthusiast who dreams of joining a Himalayan expedition but is opposed by his wife. His love of the mountains is shared by a boarder in their home and by a fishmonger's son.

A modern love story involving different affairs.

Historical drama about a sleepy-eyed ronin.

Ultra-perky model likes single freedom but feels ryosai kenbo ("good wife, wise mother") pressure, exemplified by her bored-to-tears sister.

Kosaka drops to death while ice climbing with his friend Uozu to see the sunrise on the New Year’s Day. The investigators try to find the cause of the death, then discover that the cut rope was made in the factory for which Uozu’s brother works.

An Ishiro Honda film. The first part of A Rainbow Plays in My Heart released the same day as the second film.

An Ishiro Honda film. The second part of A Rainbow Plays in My Heart released the same day as the first film.

A woman marries, gives birth to a stillborn child, and divorces, falls in love with a hotel-keeper, only to find herself subordinated to his drive for success, takes up with a tailor who cannot console himself with her strong personality.

In Kyoto a young kimono maker with traditional ideas gets involved with a married professor.

The president learns that the company's biggest stockholder is also a friend of his singing teacher and spies on his movements.

A new third-class president wins an appointment thanks to his marriage with the former president's daughter.

Portmanteau film about young lovers.

Adaptation of the novel by Bunroku Shishi.

What is the life of a Geisha like once her beauty has faded and she has retired? Kin has saved her money, and has become a wealthy money-lender, spending her days cold-heartedly collecting debts. Even her best friends, Tomi, Nobu, and Tamae, who were her fellow Geisha, are now indebted to her. For all of them, the glamor of their young lives has passed; Tomi and Tamae have children, but their children have disappointed them. Kin has two former lovers who still pursue her; one she wants to see, and the other she doesn't. But even the one she remembers fondly, when he shows up, proves to be a disappointment.

成瀬巳喜男監督が川端康成の同名小説を映画化した原節子の代表作の一つ。鎌倉を舞台に、老境に入った男が、同居する若く美しい息子の嫁に抱く複雑な心模様を丁寧に描く。 鎌倉で息子夫婦と暮らす尾形信吾は、老いを感じ、寂しさを感じる日々を送っていた。息子・修一の浮気に耐える嫁の菊子を不びんに思う信吾は、いつしか菊子にひかれるようになるが、やがて菊子の妊娠がわかり…。

A family comprised of a man, woman and their only son is torn apart when the father, who is a doctor with his own clinic, is to go off to war. Soon the wife and the son are left without an update of his status and whether he is alive or not. With the clinic lying dormant the doctor's wife rents the premises to her husband's underling. This is a man who does not accept payment from the poor. The woman, in the meantime, works at a restaurant whose owner being ill has given her additional duties. Her younger sister is an unmarried finance writer who also lives with them. It is both sisters, however, who receive marriage proposals.

At the close of the war in Japan, a widowed mother makes every possible sacrifice to bring up her ungrateful son and daughter who are unimpressed with their poor standard of living at home. They gradually reject her in search of the material comforts that working as a maid cannot provide. The mother's despair becomes interminable.

Ten years into a marriage, the wife is disappointed by the husband's lack of financial success, meaning she has to work and can't treat herself and the husband finds the wife slovenly and mean-spirited: she neither cooks not cleans particularly well and is generally disagreeable. In turn, he alternately ignores her and treats her as a servant. Neither is particularly happy, not helped by their unsatisfactory lodgers. The husband is easily seduced by an ex-colleague, a widow with a small child who needs some security, and considers leaving his wife.

かつて東京・千住に立っていた「お化け煙突」の下で暮らす人々の日常を描いた人間ドラマ。。

A married couple looking for an apartment move in with the husband's co-worker, a widower. The husband becomes jealous of the widower and his wife.

Buntaro, the president of a food trading company got tired of the day-to-day routine of life. The new secretary, Nobuko, suggested her "shacho-san" (the president) run away from the job. Nobuko took Buntaro to her home and introduced him to her own family as friend, "Sachio-san"...

Atsuko is an office secretary who is also her family's primary source of income and caretaker in postwar Japan.

Bittersweet shomin-geki drama by Keigo Kimura

Melodrama by Kon Ichikawa

Michiyo lives in the small place Osaka and is not happy with her marriage, all she does is cook and clean for her husband.

Japanese drama film.

Thriller drama by Kon Ichikawa

Wataru Naohiko who has the prosecutor general as his father became a young composer and its symphony "saint" invoked the world echoed. But his disciple Uchiyama and his best friend prosecutor Daisuke Toki accused his music as a sesame of pause-only technique, not a truly heart-hungry art.

Japanese "kayo" film based on the song "Ieraishan" by Yoshiko Yamaguchi.

Hamako has just started working for her personal hero, Madame Yuki. Her romanticized view of the Madame is broken immediately, though, as she is introduced with a ever-growing list of the Madame’s personal problems.

Setsuko is unhappily to Mimura, an engineer with no job and a bad drinking habit. She had always been in love with Hiroshi but both of them failed to propose when Hiroshi left for France a few years ago. Now he is back and Mariko (Setsuko's sister) tries to reunite them. She too is secretly in love with Hiroshi.

Melodrama by Kiyoshi Saeki

Part 2 starts where the first film ended, with Iemon disposing of the bodies of his wife and Kohei, marrying upward, and being blackmailed by the evil Naosuke.

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.

A love triangle among a girl, her poor boyfriend, and a rich company president.

会田時彦は化粧製造販売会社の女社長小村女史に多くの就職希望者の中から採用された。復員者の彼は一番待っていてくれる愛子の所へ報らせたが、何故か彼女は喜ばなかった。愛子には会田時彦と愛を誓ってはみたものの、彼の留守中に彼女の心はみたされず、別の愛人が出来てしまったのである。時彦はこれを知って彼等達の幸福を願って身を引いたが、自分のためには幸福ではなかった。毎晩カフェーを飲み歩き、満足に会社にも出勤しなかった。またカフェーの百合、君子達は時彦をお互いに独占しようとしたが、時彦は相手にはしなかった。丁度その頃、小村社長の姪にあたる、小村輝美が化粧品の製造部に勤務していた。彼女は何くれとなく時彦をなぐさめてくれる。承知しないのが百合、君子達である。しかし輝美も彼女達と協定を結んで彼を独占しなかった。だがいつの間にか仕事を毎日一緒にしていると、友情はやがて愛情に変わり、愛情が真の恋愛に進んでいた。小村女社長は彼を採用した時から、「出雲の神様」であった。もちろん、百合、君子達も反対はしなかった。二人が結ばれたことは皆の幸福でもあった。

A young man rents an apartment in Tokyo and discover it was built by his father. He falls in love with the daughter of the mistress of the house and decides to marry her. Only to discover that his father is is in debt and wants him to marry Ranko so that she may help his company by granting 1.5 million yen. Teruko decides to borrow money from a greedy bar owner who lends her money on certain conditions and photographs her without her consent. A love traingle forms between Koroku, Ranko, and Teruko. Things complicate when Koroku marries Teruko and Tsugawa threatens them for the money causing many twists and turns.

In postwar Japan a young woman is unable to marry her sweetheart because her family's in difficult circumstances and needs her income to keep afloat.

レビュー劇場の照明係で歌手志望の少女みち（並木路子）が楽団員たちに励まされ、やがて歌手としてデビューする「スター誕生」の物語。

Hisshoka is a 1945 Drama film directed by four Japanese directors.

A widow raises her sickly son to be strong enough to join the army and fight on the front lines.

The few residents left on the streets in Tokyo share their individual stories and come to understand the melancholy of saying goodbye.

A wealthy family will not allow the military to grow crops on their fields due to their superstitious beliefs about their son's illness.

The sweet but naive denizens of a charming port town are hoodwinked by a couple of con men at the outset of World War II. But the hustlers’ plan backfires when they come down with severe cases of conscience. Keisuke Kinoshita’s directorial debut is a breezy, warmhearted, and often very funny crowd-pleaser that’s a testament to the filmmaker’s faith in people.

Japanese war movie.

Kempeitai fights American spies in Japan

Inoue was something of a rarity in the sense, that he was a Shochiku house director who seems to have worked mostly in period films, often with big stars like Hasegawa or Bando. "Sumidagawa", named after the river that runs through Tokyo, is also a period film, but thematically a modern one. All the themes that you associate with the normal Shochiku women's films set in the present day are in this film, just in a different context: love, the planning of a marriage, career, family relations and societal melancholy. There is no action or swordplay.

Most of the students studying Ikebana with Kozoe Iemoto are daughters of rich Tokyo families. Kozoe meets and grows close to a doctor who proposes marriage but whose mother harbours ill feeling towards her because of an incident in the mountains where a child got into difficulties. Kozoe rejects the proposal but falls ill and when she recovers, decides to devote herself entirely to the world of flower arranging.

In the movies of those times, you can see young boys in the company scene often. Those boys were called kyuji (給仕), which means “waiter” literally. They are doing odd jobs in the company including serving tea, ushering visitors, buying tobacco, etc. Ordering lunch for the individual requests was also an important job. Those boys were hired often as soon as they graduated from elementary school.

Uta’s mother died when she was six years old; her father she never met. She was forced to adopt a traveller’s life when her grandmother died, and now she is a dancer and part of a family of actors who travel from town to town, setting up street performances. A way of escape from this marginal existence arises when she gets the chance to move to tea merchant Hiramatsu’s place, where she is asked to teach his daughter to dance.

Weed with Flowers

A young student of traditional dance falls in love with a handsome young man who visits the dance school in order to take photographs.

A man who works late hours at a deadening job lives together with his wife and his younger sister. The younger sister's a modern girl who's starting to receive romantic attention from one of her co-workers.

Naomi Tazawa (Hiroko Kawasaki), who works at Isetan Department Store, was told by an executive at a film company (Ken Uehara), that he was going to make a film about her. She was scouted to become an actress, but she held strong. Around that time, her adoptive father dies, and at the time of his death, she learns that her real father was a man of high rank.

Two childhood friends go their own ways but meet again some years later after they have both married. They get re-acquainted, meet each others’ families, and all is well. Then the disagreements start...

A young doctor, Kozo Tsumura, falls for young nurse Katsue Takaishi. But she's got a secret: she's a widow with a son. Kozo and Katsue decide to run away to Kyoto, but her child suddenly became sick and she just missed the train and Kozo. She makes it to Kyoto finally, but is unable to meet him. Plus she isn't accepted into Kyoto society. She goes back to her hometown and tries to forget him. She quits the hospital to concentrate on her singing. She makes her professional debut with the hit "Aizen Katsura". Kozo is in the audience.

Pre-war Asakusa was a riotous district of cabarets, dance-halls and brothels - a striking backdrop for Shimazu's story of innocence and experience. Pretty, young Reiko is the new dancer in an infamous theatre troupe, and her fellow performers try to protect her virtue in a land of vice. Meanwhile, an ageing actor wants to be a hero off stage as well as on, and the troupe matriarch Marie has to keep them all together.

Three men vying for the same job end up chasing the same girl in this comedy-drama from noted Japanese director Yasujiro Shimazu.

A businessman’s daughter falls in love with one of her father’s employees.

A professor, Komiya, and his bossy wife, Tokio, are to look after Setsuko, their high-spirited niece from Osaka. Despite being a minor, Setsuko is a liberated woman who does whatever she wants, including smoking. She even convinces Koyima to take her to a geisha house. When she gets rather tipsy, the professor calls Okada, one of his students, to take her home. The wife becomes suspicious of Setsuko when she sees Okada bringing her home.

The eldest daughter of a noble family is in love with an aviator while being courted by a fellow aristocrat she thinks is a dullard. Told from the perspective of Ryota. In this second part, we learn that Akemi is pregnant...

The eldest daughter of a noble family is in love with an aviator while being courted by a fellow aristocrat she thinks is a dullard. This part is told from the perspective of Akemi.

The narrative is about a woman who faces hard times, when her husband is arrested for a crime committed by his boss. The woman also has a child to look after, and they end up meeting several colorful personalities.

A musical film made for the inauguration of Shochiku's Ofuna Studio, with an all-star cast of the era.

昭和の名匠・清水宏監督が、川端康成の短編小説「有難う」を上原謙主演で映画化したロードムービー。伊豆地方の美しい自然を背景に、バス運転手と乗客たちが織り成す人間模様をユーモラスに描く。道を譲ってくれた人々に「ありがとう」と声を掛けることから、「ありがとうさん」と呼ばれて親しまれているバス運転手。そんな彼のバスに、貧しさから東京に売られていく娘とその母親、訳ありの女、威張り散らすヒゲの紳士らが乗り込んでくる。（eiga.com）

A Japanese film