Okaji
いちど見たらその個性的なキャラクターゆえに誰も忘れることのできない、戦後の日本映画界になくてはならない貴重なバイプレイヤーとして活躍した殿山泰司。自らを「三文役者」と称し女と酒とミステリ小説を愛しつづけた彼のことを、みなは親しみを込めて「タイちゃん」と呼んだ。1998年4月30日にその生涯を閉じた殿山泰司の俳優人生を長年の同志、新藤兼人監督が映画化したペーソスあふれる感動ドラマ。
Toyoko Yanagawa
A retired actress whose husband has recently died visits her summer home. There she has encounters with old friends and acquaintances who bring various stories and news of death and the past
Densuke's mother
浜崎家に誕生した、待望の赤ちゃん・鯉太郎（上野友）の顔を見るため、伝助の母・たき（乙羽信子）が九州から上京。たまたま居合わせた一之助と、鯉太郎のオムツのことで大げんか。 ある日、みち子さんが同窓会に行くため、たきに鯉太郎を預けるが、生憎ギックリ腰となり、仕方なく伝助は息子を会社に連れてゆく。ところが、仕事中、好奇心旺盛な鯉太郎が鈴木建設本社で行方不明になってしまう・・・。
Masa
1879年、良家の長男として生まれ育った荷風。父の意向に反し早くから文学の道を志した荷風は、やがて玉ノ井の娼家でお雪と出会う。世の中の底辺に生きながらも清らかな心を持つお雪に、荷風は運命的なものを感じ57歳にしてついに結婚の約束をする。が、東京大空襲に見舞われた2人は離れ離れとなってしまう…。
Tomi Izeki
A comedy about the lives of people living in the shopping district of Osaka.
A documentary about the lives of actors in the Sakura-tai theatrical troupe, which had arrived in the island of Hiroshima to begin preparations for the staging of a play just before the atomic bombing.
Mother
Haru, an aging scriptwriter, has isolated himself somewhere in the woods of Nagano to work on his first novel. As the last surviving member of his kin, he intends to chronicle the family he grew up in.
Namie Yasui
Takeshi Yasui, a junior high school student is found dead in a river. The police investigate it as a murder related to bullying. The dead boy turns out to have been murdered by two of his schoolmates, who he had been bullying.
Yasuko Moto
The life and travels of adventurer Naomi Uemura, who disappeared in Alaska in 1984. A member of the first Japanese expedition to reach the summit of Mt Everest in 1970, Uemura also accomplished several "firsts". He was the first man to reach the North Pole solo, climb Denali solo, and float down the Amazon river solo. In the film, Uemura returns to Tokyo after a stint in Siorapaluk in Northern Greenland. In Tokyo, he reconnects with an old friend and, over coffee, shares his life story - from his days as a college dropout to his successful expedition to the top of Everest.
Ume
大阪ミナミで「人斬り夜叉」の異名を取った修治が暮らすのは、若狭湾に面した小さな港町。15年前のしがらみを忘れさせるほど、妻や子らと静かな生活を送っていた。ある冬、ミナミから螢子という女がやってきて、居酒屋を始める。美しい螢子を目当てに男達は店に集うが、螢子にはヒモ同然の矢島という男がいた。矢島は漁師たちに覚醒剤を唆し始める。薬を処分した螢子に逆上した矢島を止めようとして、背に傷を負う修治。隠し続けてきた、かつての修羅の痕跡でもある夜叉の彫り物が露わとなり、修治の過去が知れ渡ってしまう。
Tei Ishikawa
桂木万里は、ドジで根暗な高校生。彼女は5歳の時、南太平洋に浮かぶ小さな島・ニューカレドニアの名を父・次郎がしてくれたおとぎ話で知った。そこは、神さまのいる天国から、いちばん近い島だという。突然、その父が亡くなり“天国にいちばん近い島”を自分の目で確かめてみたいと思った万里は、母・光子に相談し、冬休みのニューカレドニア・ツアーに参加する。
Katsue
The melodramatic story of a pink crew’s tragi-comedic adventures on location. A fictionalized adaptation of set photographer Ichiro Tsuda's 1980 book The Location (Za Rokēshon), an illustrated 229-page document about the cameraman’s experiences with pink cast and crew on the sets of several films produced in the late 1970's.
Hideyo, after age 40
Internationally acclaimed for his cinematic realism and social commitment, Kaneto Shindo based the story of THE HORIZON on his sister's experiences. The film concerns Hideo, a young girl who leaves Japan in 1920 to settle her family's debt by being sold in marriage to a Japanese farmer in San Francisco. Over the next 20 years the couple works hard and raises 4 children. After Pearl Harbor is attacked they are interned with other Japanese immigrants in a camp, losing both their land and their assets. Hideo has now been uprooted twice and has to adjust to her son's going to war and her daughters' post-war assimilation and marriage to Americans despite her protests. But Hideo is a survivor and she awaits a new immigrant from Japan with hope.
Keiko
Can a woman love two men at the same time? Set against the backdrop of Kyoto's rich history, this story depicts a woman's difficult choice for love. Ayako, played by Yukiyo Toake, is an international conference coordinator. Torn between her childhood sweetheart (played by Kenji Sawada) and her English professor (played by Noboru Nakaya), Ayako will seek answers to love, marriage, and choice.
The final part takes Shingo into a confrontation with his friend Yagyu Katsunoshin’s uncle in a duel that could change the destiny of Japan.
夏樹静子の原作を浜木綿子主演で映像化したサスペンス作品。 出演：浜木綿子／乙羽信子 1982年46分
Omomo
貧しい農家に生まれた後の葛飾北斎こと鉄蔵は幼いときに幕府御用達の鏡磨師、中島伊勢の養子となり、絵師の弟子として修業を積むも、不行跡で何人もの師から破門を言い渡され、現在は佐七(後の曲亭馬琴)の家に娘のお栄とともに居候中の身。だが定職にも就かず、毎日ぶらぶらしている彼ら父娘に佐七の女房・お百は不満を抱いていた。そんなある日、鉄蔵は不思議な魔性を持つ若い美女、お直と出会い、興味をそそられるのだが…。
1980 Japanese film.
“Quit working as a nurse!” “All right, I will!” thus began the married life of Yasuo and Keiko. But the reality is harsh. Keiko even had to work on the first night after her marriage. Ten years later, the married couple is still at it. Yauso tends to the house and their children, while Keiko sacrifices family life for life as an overworked nurse. One day, after Keiko comes home utterly exhausted and dejected from her work, Yasuo makes up his mind and writes a letter of resignation in her place. Upon learning of this, Keiko angrily declares that nursing is what she lives for and she will keep on working. Realising that that is one battle he will never win, Yasuo sends a letter to a newspaper -- “Nurses’ husbands, aren’t you having a hard time? Get together nurses’ husbands. Contact me.” There is a tremendous response. This leads to the formation of many unions of nurses’ husbands throughout the country.
Sumie
山口県の萩にある旧家の唐沢家には、麗子、紀子、恵子の美人三姉妹がいた。ある日、ボブという青年がアメリカから日本文化を研究するために来日、唐沢家に滞在することに。次女の紀子には婚約者の藤村がいたのだが、彼は3年前に忽然と姿を消してしまった。ボブの研究は、三女の恵子が手伝うことになる。そんな中、藤村が突然戻ってきて、紀子たちは結婚することに。ところが、紀子が藤村の本に挟まれていた3通の封筒を発見した様子を、ボブと恵子は見てしまう。手紙は、藤村の妹・智子に宛てられたものであったのだが…。
Ryoko Kariba
The men who surround and torment the young protagonist (demanding teacher, owner of the company that rapes his own daughter, despotic and uncompromising father) are opposed to women (victims of men) as embodiment of salvation.
The body of Sakai Hatsuko, a woman of 23 who has been slain with a knife, has been found in a forest. Some days later, Ueda Hiroshi, a 19-year-old shipyard worker, is arrested and charged with the murder. At Ueda's trial, a complex story unfolds.
Toyo, Mother
A 1977 Japanese biographical film directed by Kaneto Shindo based on the life of shamisen player Takahashi Chikuzan.
Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director (Aru eiga-kantoku no shogai) is a 1975 Japanese documentary film on the life and works of director Kenji Mizoguchi, directed by Kaneto Shindo (Onibaba). It runs 150 minutes and can be found on the second disc of the Region 1 Criterion Collection release of Ugetsu (1953).
Mino Kawamura
Based on a true story, an elderly woman resiliently spends nine months attempting to retrieve her husband's dead body, fighting government bureaucracy and indifference all along the way.
Adaptation of Natsume Soseki's classic novel in a modern setting.
Kyoko (Shigezo's daughter)
A woman looks after her father in law.
Teru Kamozawa
The story tells of the adoration of Sasuke for his mistress, the blind samisen-teacher Shunkin, who treats him imperiously and subjects him to cruel beatings.
Middle aged woman
A woman takes revenge on her husband after he leaves her for a younger woman by harassing the couple with unwanted phone calls at night.
Sakurada Shizu
Oshima’s magisterial epic, centering on the ambivalent surviving heir of the Sakurada clan, uses ritual and the microcosm of the traditional family to trace the rise and fall of militaristic Japan across several decades.
Take Yamada
Michio Yamada, a recent school graduate, is sent to Tokyo to work as a fruit-packer in a department store as part of a government programme. He takes a gun from a house on an American base and uses it to kill several people. The scene changes to Yamada's childhood. Yamada is born the child of a reprobate and a weak-willed woman. As a boy Yamada, experiences poverty and the rape of his sister at first hand.
Tamiko / Prostitute Yuki
Otoyo
Otowa is a former Seto Inland Sea island farmer who has moved to the mainland in order to find work, but instead ends up dead. The film begins with the discovery of her corpse, which leads to an investigation that uncovers the narcotics, prostitution, and murder in which many poor farmers had found themselves trapped after World War II.
Oharu
Impersonating an Imperial Army officer by wearing a "red lion's mane", a poor servant returns to his village after 10 years of absence to end the village's suffering caused by corrupt officials.
Hatsu Yonamine
In 1943, critical developments in the Pacific War have placed Japan at a disadvantage, although the fiery breaths of war hadn't yet reached Okinawa Normal School for women. Nothing seemed the least bit out of the ordinary, as Kazuko and her friends enjoyed a day of sports. A year later the war takes a devastating turn, as US forces plan an amphibious attack known as "Operation Iceberg" on the Ryukyu island.
Yone
In the Sengoku period, a woman and her daughter are raped and murdered by soldiers during a time of civil war. Afterwards, a series of samurai returning from the war through that area are found mysteriously dead with their throats torn out. The governor calls in a wild and fierce young hero to quell what is evidently an Onryō ghost. He encounters the two beautiful women in an eerie, beautiful scene. After spiritual purification, he meets the demon in a thrilling fight.
aka Libido.
Osasa
Farmer Abare Goemon is confronted by brigand-like samurai. He raises an army of farmers to fight them and does so brilliantly. When Lord Asakura sees the success Goemon has achieved, he attempts to recruit him to fight in a conflict between Asakura and another clan. Goemon refuses, and Lord Asakura sets out to destroy him.
Former playmates (Naito and Tamura), both long ago abandoned by their parents, recall their youth and fall in love.
The Housemaid
A well-respected drama teacher confesses to his housekeeper that the atomic bombing of Hiroshima has left him impotent. With the coming of spring, the sympathetic housekeeper suggests that the Master observe the Yobai , a custom in which the young men of a village steal into the bedrooms of susceptible women to have sex.
Jiju
Provincial 14th century governor Moronao, attracted to the wife of a court magistrate, tries to seduce her and when she rejects his advances plots to send her husband into battle.
Ayako Wakao won the Blue Ribbon and the Kinema Jumpo for this film.
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…
Woman
While her son, Kichi, is away at war, a woman and her daughter-in-law survive by killing samurai who stray into their swamp, then selling whatever valuables they find. Both are devastated when they learn that Kichi has died, but his wife soon begins an affair with a neighbor who survived the war, Hachi. The mother disapproves and, when she can't steal Hachi for herself, tries to scare her daughter-in-law with a mysterious mask from a dead samurai.
Ikuyo
After her mother runs away from home, Tomoko is raised to be a geisha. One day Tomoko meets her mother in a red-light district in Tokyo and her life deeply gets in trouble.
Tamiko
A divorced woman enters a marriage arranged by her mother in exchange for money to save the life of her seriously ill son.
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.
Japanese comedy film.
A dark family secret sends a 21-year-old French student (Hoshi) on a journey of self-discovery.
Gorosuke
The ship Kaijin Maru is left adrift after losing all means of navigation in a storm. The four people on the ship are becoming increasingly desperate as food and water run out.
Kimino
Japanese drama film.
This Japanese film speculates on the events which lead the U.S. and the Soviet Union into a nuclear Armageddon.
Gen is a lonely orphan boy. His sole sense of companionship comes from an imaginary friend, the god Prince Fudo-Myo. Prince Fudo-Myo comes to the boy's rescue in times of difficulty.
Tomoko, Takashi's wife
The year is 1932, and a woman, whose tenant-farmer fiancé is fighting in China, is raped by the landowner's son, who has returned from the war with a crippling injury, and then forced into marriage with him. In four more chapters, presented over three decades, their children undertake their own searches for love, while the parents try to make each other as miserable as possible.
The university professor Ozeki Hitoshi (Ryu Chishu) is regarded as an eccentric by people in his surroundings. When his daughter Tokiko is asked to marry a colleague, she and her mother are overjoyed, but Hitoshi is not satisfied with the situation.
Hama
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.
Toyo, the mother
瀬戸内海に浮かぶ小さな孤島に四人家族が住んでいた。千太とトヨとその息子たち、太郎と次郎だ。島には水がないので、畑を耕すためにも、毎日船で大きな島へ水を汲みに行かなければならない。子供たちは隣島の学校に通っているので、彼らを船で送り迎えするのも千太とトヨの仕事だ。会話もなく、変化のない日常が続いていた。しかしある日、太郎が高熱を出してしまう。千太は医者を探すのだが…。
Shigeko Fukatani
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...
In this Japanese drama, a village girl goes to Tokyo and becomes a hooker to support her ailing mother. While there she meets an unmarried teacher (at least he says he's unmarried) and falls in love. When she learns that he lied and is married to a woman whose child was fathered by another man, she is crushed. He returns to his wife. The woman becomes more distraught when she learns her uncle has misused the money she has sent. As the final straw, her mother dies, and the girl becomes sick.
Heinosuke Gosho movie
Goddess of Anenouzume
The legend of the birth of Shintoism. In Fourth Century Japan, the Emperor's son Ouso expects to succeed his father on the throne, but Otomo, the Emperor's vassal, prefers Ouso's stepbrother, and conspires to have Ouso die on a dangerous mission he has contrived. But Ouso prevails in the mission and returns to his father's castle under a new name, Prince Yamato Takeru. Otomo plots to have the Prince sent into even greater danger, but Otomo is unaware that the gods have favored the Prince and the outcome is far from what any of them expected.
Hideya
Story of a romance between a middle-aged journalist and a young woman.
Shizu Kuboyama
An ageing fishing boat, Dai-go Fukuryu Maru ("Lucky Dragon No. 5") sets out from the port of Yaizu in Shizuoka Prefecture. It travels around the Pacific line fishing. While the ship is near Bikini Atoll, the ship's navigator sees a flash. All the crew come up to watch. They realize it is an atomic explosion, but take time to clear their fishing gear. A short time later, grey ash starts to fall on the ship. When the ship returns to port the sailors have been burned brown. They unload the fish, which are then transported away. They visit the local doctor and then go to Tokyo for an examination. It turns out they are all highly radioactive. Their symptoms become worse, and the contaminated fish causes a panic.
O-Chiyo
When Yumiko Tsuyama, a potter by profession, comes inquiring about a room for rent in an old mansion overlooking Osaka, she finds a bizarre collection of characters already living there. The unlikely leader of this menagerie is Yoda Goro, who speaks four languages fluently, is an expert in cabbage rolls, and has written how-to books encompassing every aspect of human existence.
Aunt
Based on the novel by Toyoko Yamazaki.
Ofutsu / maid
加東大介と小林桂樹が弥次喜多コンビをユーモラスに演じた喜劇。作品のネタに困った十返舎一九は、栃面屋弥次郎兵衛と喜多利屋喜多八に金を与え二人に旅をさせる。だが二人をつけねらう謎の美男子に旅を邪魔され、弥次さん喜多さんは面白くない。実はこの男、偽小判事件にからみ姿を消した十兵衛の行方を追う幕府の隠密で、一緒に出発した十兵衛の娘お雪とはぐれてしまっていた。旅先で数々の失敗を繰り返す弥次喜多コンビだったが、二人の行動が偽小判事件を解決に導くことになり…。
Comedy based on the writings of Ango Sakaguchi.
The Princess
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. In Part II, the search for the scrolls continues.
Floating Vessel (源氏物語 浮舟 , Ukifune) is a 1957 color Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa. Drawn from parts of the famous Genji monogatari by Lady Murasaki.
Kakuko Mori
Based on Kakuko Mori's autobiography, about her life and retirement from acting due to her increasing blindness.
Tamaki Minowa
20th film adaptation of the novel Ono ga tsumi (published 1900-1901).
Ryûri no kishi
Akiko
Poor social conditions badly affect the relationship between a married couple, when the husband, who is desperately searching for work, fails to notice the terrible sacrifices made by his wife when she accepts a job at a local inn.
Sakie / Umeko
Based on the novel by Torahiko Tamiya.
Kabuki adaptation: A princess, a figure from the literary past who anticipates a modern woman, tempts a self righteous priest.
Michie (segment 1)
A group of five rookie insurance salespersons, driven to desperation by the impossibility of their work in Japan's failing postwar economy, form a plan to rob a cash delivery truck in order to provide for their families.
At Shizumoto, a geisha shop not far from Ginza, a group of geisha are going about their day, putting up a modest resistance to the tragedies of life. The proprietress, Ikuyo, is a ridiculously good-natured woman who gives money to a poor but brilliant young man, Eisaku Yanoguchi, to attend college on the condition that he will take care of her in the future.
Shigeki Kachi, Tosuke Satomura, and Nanako, who belong to the theater company Vuanbert around Dosa, withdrew at the indignation of the chairman Hayashi and seeked their own careers in the film industry.
Tsuru
Toku, a factory worker gives food to a starving woman, Tsuru, who then follows him home. He shares a shack in a shanty village in Kawasaki with his friend Pin-chan. The two men try to get rid of her but then let her stay when she gives them money. Tsuru tells the people of the village that she lost her job due to a strike, then was robbed of her severance pay, then sold to a brothel in Tsuchiura. She ran away with a friend from Kawasaki. Toku and Pin-chan sell her to a geisha house and spend the money. She is thrown out. The owner demands his money back. Tsuru earns the money to pay their debt by working as a prostitute outside the station. The other prostitutes beat her. She fends them off with a policeman's revolver and is then shot dead by the police.
An Inn at Osaka, rarely seen outside Japan, follows the story of an insurance company executive from Tokyo, Mr. Mito, who is demoted to the Osaka office. He takes a room at a small inn and tries to rebuild his life. Notable for its exquisite framing and cinematography, An Inn at Osaka allows its complicated plotlines to disappear behind the minutiae of penury and humiliation that Mito and others suffer during the post-war economic and social reconstruction.
Fujiko Shirakawa
Nobuko Otowa won the Blue Ribbon Award for the Best Actress for this among other films.
Okume
Shizue Kitami
Nobuko Otowa won the Blue Ribbon for the Best Actress for this movie among others.
Ginko
Ginko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one geisha house to the next, trying to find love and hope in the process. No matter how hard she tries, she just can't escape her sad fate.
Fumiko Ota
Kazuo Miyagawa’s prizewinning black-and-white cinematography draws out the moral shadings of Nobel laureate Yasunari Kawabata’s 1952 novel Thousand Cranes, a quietly devastating story of a young man, orphaned during the war, who stumbles into a passionate yet tragic relationship with his late father’s mistress and her daughter.
Takako Ishikawa
Shows the devastation caused by the atomic bomb, and by use of a fictional storyline, portrays the struggle of the ordinary Japanese people in dealing with the aftermath.
Masako Ataka
Soichi Ataka is the eldest son of Ataka family. Although mentally challenged, he's a person with a gentle heart. Soichi's wife, Kuniko is devoted to her husband and together the couple runs the family farm. Their happy family life comes to an abrupt halt when Soichi's half-brother, Joji returns with his wife Masako after failing in a business.
Maki Ayukawa
Takako
Story of a Beloved Wife is an autobiographical work based on Shindo's first marriage. Jūkichi Uno stars as a struggling screenwriter, and Nobuko Otowa stars as the wife who supports him through his early struggles.
Shizu
Shinnosuke is introduced to Shizu as a prospective marriage partner, but he falls in love with her widowed sister Oyu. Convention forbids Oyu to marry because she has to raise her son as the head of her husband's family. Oyu convinces Shinnosuke and Shizu to marry so that she can remain close to Shinnosuke.
Murasaki no ue
Genji, the illegitimate offspring of a Japanese potentate, goes by the philosophy of "love 'em and leave 'em" as a matter of course. Only when his heart is broken by Awaji does Genji realizes how much pain he himself has caused.
Directed by Senkichi Taniguchi
A jewelry store president begins to fall for the doctor treating her husband's illness.
