S13 District Local Welfare Officer
Theatrical version of episode 17 of Ultra Q TV series.
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.
Imoto
This Japanese film speculates on the events which lead the U.S. and the Soviet Union into a nuclear Armageddon.
Rest House Owner's Wife
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……。
Masako
A single mother from the country raising a 6th grade boy comes to Tokyo, leaves the boy to live with his uncle's family, runs a struggling grocery store, and works a local inn. The boy befriends a girl, the daughter of the innkeeper...
A war widow with a young boy manages a farm with her bossy mother-in-law. When a reporter comes to interview her, the two begin an affair. He turns out to be married and won't leave his wife. Her older brother tries to marry off his children and hang on to/ extend his farm through an advantageous marriage in the face of threatened land confiscation and the desire of his children to get comfortable urban jobs instead of the backbreaking work in the paddy fields under parental control.
Mother
Ultra-perky model likes single freedom but feels ryosai kenbo ("good wife, wise mother") pressure, exemplified by her bored-to-tears sister.
The fourth entry in the Company President Series
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.
In the Tokugawa Era, the clan of Lord Yagyu has hidden away three scrolls containing clan secrets which, if revealed, would cause revolution and disaster for the clan. The information is divided among the three scrolls, all of which must be possessed for the secrets to be understood. When Princess Yuhime steals the scrolls, Tasaburo, a samurai with magical powers, and his brother Senshiro are sent to retrieve them.
Historical drama about a sleepy-eyed ronin.
An adaptation of the popular Sazae-san comic strip. The first entry in Toho's Sazae-san series.
Kayo (Eriko's mother)
Kane, Ryukichi's wife
A husband and wife's pet peeves and minor irritations escalate into major rifts and animosity.
'Yayoi' Madam
ゴジラシリーズ第2作。岩戸島に遭難した飛行士によって、ゴジラとアンキロサウルス、通称アンギラスの闘いが目撃された。対策本部はゴジラを監視下に置き、本土上陸を阻止しようとする。しかし、脱走した囚人が起こしたコンビナートの火災が、ゴジラを大阪に誘導してしまう。そしてゴジラを追って、アンギラスも姿を現わした。世紀の闘争の末、アンギラスは倒れゴジラは海へ去ったが、大阪の街は廃虚と化す……。
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.
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.
Kimi, Haruo's mother
Parent apathy to sexual education leads to various troubles for the young cast.
Following the Second World War, the lives of various people in a poverty-stricken area of Tokyo are entertwined. Pachinko parlor girls, shoeshine boys, a maker of costume jewelry, and a streetcorner artist all struggle to make their livings and to find happiness in difficult surroundings.
Jidai-geki by Kiyoshi Saeki
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.
