Masami Taura

Japanese "kayo" film based on the song by Tsuzuko Sugawara.

Story of a woman, Saiko, who divorces her doctor husband when she is given a baby by a stranger who claims it is the husband's child. Saiko embarks on an affair with her cousin's husband, but a crisis threatens when she discovers that her ex-husband is about to remarry.

Love story between a student and girl whose parents are itinerant entertainers. Set in Japan in the 1920's.

Japanese romantic comedy film.

The proprietress of a long-established sushi restaurant in Asakusa is a war widow who has raised three children. A film that lightheartedly depicts a generational battle between a mother who is anxious about the issue of an heir and her modern children.

Tane, the lady proprietor of an inn for amorous couples, lives there with her three children. When her eldest daughter loses her fiancé due to the fact her mother is a mistress, her despair drives her to become a cabaret hostess.

親子愛の断層に焦点を当てた巨匠・小津安二郎の異色作――― 杉山周吉は、20年前、妻にその愛人と逃げられ、長女を嫁がせた今、次女・明子とひっそりと暮らしている。だが、最近明子の帰宅が遅れがちなことに気をもんでいた。明子は年下の恋人の子を妊娠、それを知って姿を消してしまった彼を毎晩探しさまよっていたのだ。そんなある日、ふとしたことから明子は自分や父を捨てた実母と再会。何も知らなかった明子は、母のみだ…

A neighborhood labors under postwar hardships.

The obstinate black market trader Okyo lives together with her son Seitaro, who works as a mechanic for a bus company. She also looks after her son's colleague, the bus driver Fujita. When he causes an accident one day, Seitaro testifies against him due to his moral scruples, thus getting his company into trouble.

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.

蒲田に妻と住む杉山正二は、丸ノ内への通勤途中で知り合ったサラリーマンたちと仲良くなり、退社後に遊びに行くのが日課となっていた。妻は退屈な毎日から逃れるように、おでん屋を営む母の実家へ帰ったりしている。通勤仲間と出かけた江ノ島で、杉山は金子千代と接近。千代の誘惑に耐えきれず、関係を持ってしまう。二人の関係に気づいた杉山の妻は家出して、旧友のアパートに転がり込んだ。同僚の死をきっかけに、杉山は自分の生き方を振り返り、千代と別れようと考え始める。ちょうどその頃、会社で地方工場への転勤話が持ち上がった。小津安二郎が野田高梧とともに書いたシナリオを監督し映画化。不倫に揺れる昭和30年代のサラリーマン夫婦を描く。

The Nakata family, father, mother, son Hideo, and daughters Taeko and Akiko live in the poorer section of modern Tokyo. Their troubles start when the father leaves with another woman, returns after he is rejected, and leaves again with the family's money.

A young widow, made world weary by her abusive, neglectful husband, finds herself in a minor scandal when she's seen with her intense, no-nonsense childhood sweetheart.

The Kumakichi Ishida family lived happily in a small house in Shibuya while their mansion in Azabu was requisitioned by the occupation forces. When the residence is released to them, Mrs. Ishida wants to turn it into a Western style hotel to recoup their fortunes, but returns to Shibuya, swindled and sober.

永楽商事社員桜井は妻直子と子供の三人暮らしだが、直子の悠子が親の勧める縁談を嫌って家出して来た。近所の会社員山田は、ある夜バーのマダムに送られて遅く帰って来たため、激しい夫婦喧嘩が始まる

This drama of middle-class life in postwar Japan tells the story lower-middle-class workers in the city of Kawasaki, and their troubles and travails.

Historical drama about two samurai who fight over everything yet unite together to fight an evil lord.

A student at a woman's university takes a controversial action against the school's old-fashioned doctrines.

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.