Mitsuko Mori

2000 live-action Japanese film.

山里に住む若者アシタカは、怒りと憎しみにより“タタリ神”と化した猪神から呪いをかけられてしまう。呪いを解く術を求めて旅に出るアシタカはやがて、西方の地で“タタラ”の村にたどり着く。エボシ御前が率いるその村では、鉄を造り続けていたが、同時にそれは神々の住む森を破壊することでもあった。そして、そんなタタラ達に戦いを挑むサンの存在をアシタカは知る。人の子でありながら山犬に育てられた彼女は“もののけ姫”と呼ばれていた。

TV movie based on the novel "The Tale of Genji" by Murasaki Shikibu, which tells about the life of Prince Hikaru Genji, who was nicknamed "Shining" by people for his dazzling noble beauty. In 1991, to commemorate the 40th anniversary of TBS' founding, it was released with a total production value of around 1.2 billion yen and aired in two parts.

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

Japanese comedy film.

A Toho film featuring the comedy duo Konto 55, (コント55号), comprised of comedians Kinichi Hagimoto and Jiro Sakagami.

A story depicting the challenges faced by today's youth in working to build a better tomorrow, based on the theme of Toshiba's progress as one of Japan's leading manufacturers of electronic and electric goods.

Love story of a working-class boy and girl.

A man is involved in a fatal car accident, and though he is blameless, his company transfers him to a remote branch in a small town. Before he leaves, he gives the man's widow a large sum of money that she uses to move back to her hometown.

Comedy-drama about university tennis players.

When a gifted Japanese craftsmen dies, his three daughters are summoned to decide who will take over the family ribbon business in this family drama. Only one daughter cares to carry on her father's work, but she is met with resistance from her stepmother. One sister cares nothing for the artisan tradition, while the other is an icy opportunist whose only love is for money. It is the daughter who cares the most for her father's work who wanders away in a symbolic journey of self discovery.

Keizo Tsujiguchi believes his wife Natsue was having an extramarital affair when their child was kidnapped and killed. He believes of her extramarital affair she was unable to watch over their child properly and blames her for their daughter's death. To exact revenge on his wife, he then adopts the killer's child without telling the truth to his wife or their newly adopted child.

Japanese comedy film.

Three stories revolve around independence, a man searching for his wife, and a poor craftsman trying to make money.

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…

巨大な工場と、煙と音が交錯する街川崎。野上則子は、そんな街のかたすみに住む、高校生だ。家族は、タクシーの運転手の父竜太郎、工場で働く母千枝子、それに女房に死なれた竜太郎の弟亀三の子供ひろしの四人。母千枝子は、幼い日に別れた母静江への想いを筆に託して詩集をつくっていた。それを知った則子は、ステレオ欲しさに、母の詩集から一篇を抜き出し新聞に投稿し、賞金三万円を狙った。やがて、その詩は佳作に入選した。が、その喜びも束の間、父竜太郎が進行性肝炎で倒れた。戦争で受けた鉄砲弾が体に入っていたのが原因だった。夫の死とともに千枝子の生活は一変した。チンドンヤ夫婦を二階に同居させ、工場もやめて儲けの多い氷屋に転業した。そんなとき、新聞社を通じて捜していた千枝子の母静江が九州にいることがわかった。千枝子は信じられない嬉しさに茫然としながらも、何度も母のもとへ手紙を出した。が、返事はこなかった。数日後静江からの伝言を持った静江の次男松崎弥太郎が千枝子の許を訪れた。“逢いたくない、そっとしておいて”それが静江の答えだった－－静江はかつて、村に演習に来た兵隊と過ちをおかし、千枝子を生んだが、その後生活のために妾となり、料亭を転々として後二人の子供のいる松崎弥兵衛の後妻になったのだ－－竜太郎の病いは日ましに悪化し、遂にこの世を去った。生活は苦しくなった。千枝子はタクシーの運転手になり、則子はパチンコ店でバイトを始めた。そんなある日、突然千枝子の許に静江が上京してきた。長い別れが、一度は感情のもつれを引きおこしたが、親子の愛情はたちがたく、静江は再び千枝子の許に帰ってきた。初秋の爽やかな空の下、晴々とした則子の顔があった。

Nine maids serve the household of a writer and his wife. The couple treat their maids like daughters and marry them off to eligible men. So, they are forever looking for new maids. As the years go by maid servants become hired help and more bossy and independent, so Chikura and his wife find themselves adjusting their lives to keep up with changing times.

Story of romance and rivalry between two ad agencies vying for the same account with a pharmaceutical firm.

The life of a toilet-seller during the Japanese Economic Miracle.

Follow-up to "Ekimae Ryokan." Set around the Yurigaoka and Nishi-Ikuta stations on the Odakyu-Odawara line, the film takes up the problem of real estate around the expanding Yurigaoka apartments.

A quintessential example of the period "ghost cat" (bakeneko or kaibyo) movie, this was one of at least six such titles released by the studio Shinko Kinema between 1937-40 featuring Japan's first scream queen, Sumiko Suzuki. Here she plays Mitsue, the possessive onna-kabuki actress betrothed to apprentice shamisen player Seijiro. When one day Okiyo, a beautiful young girl of samurai class, is led to Seijiro's house by his lost cat Kuro, she becomes besotted with him. Dark jealous passions are invoked in Mitsue, which are intensified when Seijiro gifts Okiyo his precious shamisen. The cat is the first to suffer at the end of Mitsue's hairpin, but returns from the grave to assist Okiyo's younger sister Onui avenge her sister's murder.