An elderly woman, Ume Matsumoto, complained to the First Investigation Department that her son Hirasaka, who runs a shoe store, had disappeared. The ominous foreboding of the First Investigation Department hit the mark, it turned out that the discovered unidentified body of the drowned man was Hirasaka. Moreover, the land in front of the station, owned by Hirasaka, was sold by someone. Suspecting that this is a planned murder, the Investigative Group, fearing the escape of the criminal, begins to act secretly, without creating an investigation headquarters.
Katsuko Banno
Based on a 1956 television feature on Japan’s national network, NHK, this is one of Uchida’s rarest films. A socially conscious drama with a contemporary backdrop, Dotanba focuses on the attempts to rescue a group of trapped miners. The title is a figure of speech — (essentially “last minute” or “eleventh hour”) — that refers to a situation of peril. The film boasts a script co-written by Uchida and Akira Kurosawa’s frequent screenwriter, Shinobu Hashimoto, and stars Kurosawa’s frequent star Takashi Shimura.
Hayata and his best friend Ushijima came to Tokyo to become champions. Hayata repeatedly sought to join Tamura's boxing club, but Tamura fell in love with Ushijima's punch. Then Hayata decides to become Ushijima's manager and make good money on his friend's talent. Ushijima himself is a peaceful, kind guy who doesn't really like boxing, but under the wise guidance of Hayata, he starts to defeat one opponent after another...
オートレース場で大穴が出た瞬間、サラリーマン風の男がガックリと倒れる。群衆を掻き分けて、警視庁捜査一課が遺体の検証に乗り出す。目撃者を尋ねても、観衆が熱狂していた中での出来事であり、何ら手掛かりがなく、証拠品は、手製拳銃による銃弾代わりのパチンコ玉と長田部長刑事がスタンドの隅で拾った焼け焦げた手拭いの端切れのみ。捜査一課は大穴の賞金を払い戻した怪しい男を探り当てる。ダフ屋の池本雄一という男だった。急遽、雄一のヤサに踏み込むが、タッチの差で取り逃がしてしまう。そして、雄一の立ち寄った呑み屋から山村刑事らが指紋つきのコップを押収していると、突如背後から私製拳銃の銃弾に曝され、長田刑事が撃たれてしまう。
Tomoko
Directorial debut by Umetsugu Inoue, the famous director of Musicals
In a village in Manchuria, a group of Japanese settlers struggle against the elements to create wet rice paddies.
