Keiko Tsushima

A woman is discovered strangled inside a car, and Inspector Muta of the Yamashita police station hurries to the scene! The relationship between the murdered woman and a suspect whom the new Assistant Inspector, Iwaki, has been pursuing for one year will soon become clear...

Film director Mario Baba meets a mysterious gentleman, and realizes he is a important man from his boyhood. The two chase each other around, causing a lot of commotion.

An attorney from Yokohama is found murdered at Lake Toya in Hokkaido. Uematsu (Noi Yasuo), of the Hokkaido police goes to Yokohama in search of Konno Shizuka (Watanabe Azusa), a woman who may know something about the case. He tries to take her in to the station for questioning. Muta (Kobayashi Keiju) happens to be there as well. Muta learns that Konno has a debt with a moneylender in Hokkaido.

People from all walks of life (a high-school student, a middle-aged businessman, a yakuza chief, etc.) all receive mysterious messages from loved ones who were killed 3 months earlier in a shipwreck. They are instructed to go to a small island in the Inland Sea that evening. At the stroke of midnight, the lost ship emerges from the sea and they are given a brief time to say their final words to their lost loved ones, before the deceased must once again board the ship and it sinks back into the depths.

Island villagers find a young woman and young man swept ashore near their remote village in northeastern Japan. The two have tried to escape the girl's enforced marriage to another man, in order that they may marry themselves. The ancient custom of the village decrees that the angry sea gods must be calmed by throwing the pair back into the sea. The lovers face being sacrificed to the sea gods or perhaps something even more difficult to bear.

「男はつらいよ」シリーズ第34作。上野の焼き鳥屋で、“懐が旅先”の寅さんに奢ってくれたのは、仕事に疲れた証券マン、富永健吉（米倉斉加年）。律儀な寅さんは御礼にと今度は御馳走するが、結局、茨城県牛久沼の富永宅に泊まる。富永夫人のふじ子（大原麗子）の美しさにドギマギする寅さんだったが、ある日、仕事に疲れた富永が失踪。寅さんは哀しみに打ちひしがれるふじ子と共に、富永の故郷、九州へと捜索の旅に出るが・・・。

Youth suspense movie.

Soccer movie.

A Japanese businessman is sent to Sri Lanka and meets a beautiful Japanese woman with a past. They befriend an old Japanese-Indian widow who has an estranged son in Japan.

Lonely youth Shinji meets Hatsue, a pretty pearl diver, on the beach and the two fall in love. But Shinji has a rival for Hatsue's affections, Yasuo. Yasuo spreads unpleasant gossip about his rival, and Hatsue's father forbids her to see Shinji. But when the boy saves the passengers on a boat owned by Hatsue's father, his luck in love begins to change.

A sentimental drama about aspiring artist, Eiji, who rescues a blind girl. His friends Goro and Minoru and the blind girl's sister Kazue are a happy group until Goro steals money from Kazue's purse. Goro is arrested and his friends start bothering Eiji. To escape their harassment he changes jobs. But then he becomes the victim of an unexpected accident.

Centred on Aonari Hyokichi, a young literary man with aspirations to become a writer, and the surrounding people, including Kira Tsuneo and Tobigashikaku.

A story about a man who stakes his life on horse racing.

寛文五年。みつは、兄新三の殺害容疑および近親相姦の罪で捕われたが、与力南原一之進の残酷な拷問に口を割ろうとはしなかった。その拷問に不信を持ったのは与力吉岡頼母だった。やがてみつは、事の一部始終を吉岡に自白して、水礫の刑に処せられた。みつの生涯は暗く短かかった。小町娘と評判が高かったみつを、呉服屋の巳之吉は妾にしようと日頃から執心していた。新三は、その話を断ったが、大工の仕事中に重傷を負い、治療代に苦しんだ。巳之助と権造は兄妹の援助に乗り出したが、みつの払った代償はあまりに大きかった。哀しみに暮れる兄妹は、狂ったようにお互を求めあった。やがてこの事実が巳之助に知れ、みつは新三の目前で犯された。新三はこれを苦にして自殺をはかったが死にきれず、みつが兄の苦痛を見かねてノミを打ち下したのだった。寛文八年。珠光院の院主代玲宝は、夜な夜な裸身を、付き役尼僧の燐徳に笞うたせ、歓喜に身をゆだねていた。ある日玲宝は、尼僧妙心が本寺の僧春海と密会しているのを発見した。玲宝は、春海を女犯の罰として滝にうたせ、妙心には、苛酷な拷問を加えた。やがて、妙心は残虐な私刑に耐えきれず、春海の名を呼びながら世を去った。一方、春海は玲宝の心を受け入れなかったため、玲宝の鉈で首をかき落された。そして、玲宝自身も春海の首を愛撫しながら自害して果てた。 寛文十一年。柳橋の芸者君蝶の背に彫られた地獄絵図が、評判をよんでいた。この刺青を彫ったのは彫丁だったが、彼は南原を尋ね、女が苦悶する表情について教えを請うた。ちょうどその頃、漂流船で流れ着いた白人女たちが、キリシタン宣教の疑いで、拷問を受けることになっていた。彫丁は一代の彫りものにしようと、土台になる処女探しにかかった。その哀れな犠牲者になったのは、町娘の花だった。南原らによる拷問はすさまじかった。そして花の体には、着々と拷問地獄の模様がその輪郭を現わしはじめた。だが、その図には地獄の邏卒の顔が未完成のままだった。彫丁は、非情に笞うつ南原を刺し、断末魔の表情を花の背に写し取った。吉岡らが牢に踏み込んだのは、その直後だった。だが、その時すでに牢は炎に包まれていた。

Ohyaku is a grifter who falls in love with a thief, who recruits her for his plan to rob a shipment of government gold. When this plan goes wrong and Ohyaku ends up in prison, she resolves to do anything to escape and claim revenge on the ones who betrayed her and her lover.

During the Taisho Period (early 1920's) a monastery of warrior monks was split apart between two factions. One of these factions was led by the Chief Abbot and his protege, Shinkai. When Shinkai intercedes in a fight between a rival priest and some ruffians it leads to his expulsion from the order. This story introduced us to the character of Shinkai, a "Karate Priest" and his long running feud with Ryotatsu, his greatest rival. There are touches of humor as Shinkai breaks all the commandments of a priest, including fighting, gambling, and running after women. All this leads to an awesome conclusion as he must destroy a gang of yakuza aided by corrupt priests. The fighting is fast and furious as Ryotatsu waits to see if Shinkai can live long enough to face him in the ultimate test! /Winterheart of CG

A longtime hotel employee (Morishige) struggles to bring his old-fashioned ryokan in line with postwar Japanese business practices.

Historical drama about a sleep-eyed ronin

A young man and woman are determined to marry despite opposition from her parents.

Historical drama about a sleepy-eyed ronin.

Dotanba - Last Minute

Japanese drama.

Shinsaku was once a renowned playwright, has now been left behind by journalism and is living a lethargic life in Oiso. His family is concerned with Shinsaku regaining his old vigor as a writer and Sakie, his daughter, finding a suitable match, while the family is struggling with the losses of war.

"A unique left-wing comedy by Yamamoto.... A travelling theater troupe, led by Umagoro Ichikawa, comes to play in a mining town, and manages to sell every seat. Before the play begins, however, a miners' strike is announced, creating an uproar. In addition, the players find they have been cheated out of their profits by a crooked impresario. The socially naive actors join together with the progressive union members to create a political 'strike drama,' and learn much from each other in the process." --Alan Poul, Japan Society

Japanese film.

連続ラジオ・ドラマを、「五十円横町」の井手俊郎が脚色し、「ここに泉あり」の今井正が監督、撮影も同じく中尾駿一郎の担当である。 出演者の主なるものは「たそがれ酒場」の津島恵子、「美わしき歳月」の木村功と野添ひとみ、「狼」の宇野重吉と小沢栄のほか、劇団人多数である。

Takes place in one place, a beer hall, over the course of one evening. Uchida employs this concentration of setting and time to fashion a microcosm for a group portrait of Japan. One by one, the regulars of the bar appear: the pianist who dreams of becoming a composer but has disappeared from the music world after a knifing; a stripper who had planned to be a ballet dancer; an elderly painter trying to make a living at pachinko, and who rues his art having been used for militarist propaganda during the war; a young waitress considering elopement; a colonel turned real estate broker who attempts to rouse the crowd in military song until he realizes the tune has been transformed by marchers in the street into a leftist chant. The "twilight" is more than just a time of day; here, it is a state of being, a suspension between past and present, between the camaraderie of the saloon and the harsh world outside.

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.

Kunisada Tadaharu, a peasant of Kunisada Village in Joshu Sai County, could not stand the bad government and poor harvest of Takebe Genhan, the governor of the time. entered the world of As he played more and more games at the gambling hall, he became feared as "Chuji the gambling robber", and became a boss who had a share of Inui such as Nikko's Enzo and Shimizu's Kentetsu. However, due to a disagreement, he killed his benefactor Isaburo Boss, and was abandoned by Yasugoro and was chased. However, Chuji cleverly took advantage of the peasant uprising, shut himself up on Mt. Akagi, opened a gambling hall, and was touted as the greatest boss in the Kanto region. The magistrate, who learned of the close relationship between the peasants and Chuji, finally arranged for Chuji to go on a trip. Chuji, who doesn't know that he was weighed, gleefully descends the mountain, but...

麦の刈入れが終わる頃。とある農村では野武士たちの襲来を前に恐怖におののいていた。百姓だけで闘っても勝ち目はないが、麦を盗られれば飢え死にしてしまう。百姓たちは野盗から村を守るため侍を雇うことを決断する。やがて、百姓たちは食べるのもままならない浪人たち7人を見つけ出し、彼らとともに野武士に対抗すべく立ち上がる……。

1950s Japanese drama.

A film about the Ghost of Okiku that's based on the kabuki play Bancho Sarayashiki.

Based on the novel by Yoshie Hotta

A young student falls into a hopeless romantic attraction to a sick girl, whom he can only see from afar.

A group of Okinawan high school girls are drafted as nurses during the American invasion of the island. As the enemy army advances further, the situation for the girls becomes increasingly desperate as food and shelter run out and the number of injured climbs, leading to the film's tragic finale.

田舎出身の佐竹茂吉は、社長の親友の娘で上流階級育ちの妙子と結婚した。妙子は一等車での旅行や野球観戦などで遊び回り、茂吉は妙子の嫌いなタバコ「朝日」を吸い、出かけるときは三等車に乗り、酔って帰ってはお茶漬けを食べていた。茂吉と妙子の溝は深まるばかり。妙子が同級生の住む神戸へ旅行している間に、茂吉の海外出張が決まり、妙子に連絡がつかないまま茂吉は日本を発ってしまう。

A gallant swordsman takes on the forces of evil with the help of his trusty friends.

Nami (波 Nami) is a Japanese film directed by Noboru Nakamura. It was entered into the 1952 Cannes Film Festival.

It chronicles the experiences of a neighbourhood doctor, whose taste for tonkatsu (a popular Japanese dish, similar to a pork schnitzel) earns him the nickname ‘the pork cutlet prince’ (‘Tonkatsu Taisho’, the film’s Japanese title) from the affectionate residents of the tenement in which he lives. When a local hospital, run by a female doctor, plans to expand, the future of the tenement is called into question.

A fishing union depends on two brothers to make up the losses caused by the dishonest captains they replaced.

kikyou - The Return

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

Drama directed by Yasushi Sasaki.

十二歳の天才少女美空ひばり登場！爆弾娘が主人公の音楽メロドラマ。 自分の作曲した『悲しき口笛』という歌を手かがりに、外地から復員してきた兄が、行方不明の妹を探し回り巡り会うまでを描いた作品。戦後の荒んだ社会の中を健気に生きる可憐な少女の役柄で、天才少女歌手・美空ひばりが本格主演、ひばりが歌った同名主題歌も大ヒットし、全国にひばりブームを巻き起こした。監督の家城巳代治は、本作発表後、まもなくレッドパージにより退社、活躍の場を独立プロに移している。

A 1948 Japanese film.

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.