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.
Old Man
京都、哲学の道近く、喜多沢家の四姉妹は両親亡き後、長女・彩を中心に、雑誌社に勤めるカメラマン茜、大学生の杏、高校生の藍で茶房、小径を営んでいた。ある日、杏は大学のフェンシング部の桜庭諒と柚木冬悟に同時に愛を告白された。そして、学園祭のパーティーで、冬悟からキスをされた杏は、彼の誕生日に京扇子の老舗、柚木家を訪ねた。杏にプロポーズをする冬悟。それを知った彼の従妹で親が決めたフィアンセ宝代寺毬子は、杏を呼び出して、喜多沢家の本当の子供は彩だけだと告げるのだった。ショックを受けた杏は戸籍を調べる。そんな杏に、茜は自分たちがいた施設が経営不振のために閉鎖となり、保母をしていた喜多沢千代に三人共引き取られたのだと告げる。立ち聴きをしていた藍もその秘密を知る。藍は激しいショックを受け、ディスコで酒に酔い暴走族にからまれるが、茜と諒に救けられる。茜はスナックでバイトをして生計を手助けしていた。そんな時、東京に住む杏の産みの親、綾小路良江が現われ、彩に杏を引き取りたいと申し出る。悩みぬいた杏は、綾小路家に行く決心をし、その前日、冬悟と旅に出た。しかし、東京に出た彼女は、良江に置手紙を残し、保母の勉強をしながら自活する。茜が岩城医師から白血病を宣告された。長くは生きられないと悟った彼女は、諒と冬の日本海を見に行き結ばれる。彩と岩城は以前、結婚を約束していたが、彩の両親の交通事故死で諦めたのだった。杏は茜の病気を、建設会社に就職が決まり東京に研修に来ていた冬悟から聞いた。京都に帰る杏。茜は妊娠していることを姉妹に告げる。子供を産めば彼女の生命は危い、だが、茜の決意は固かった。そして、姉妹の見守るなか、無事男の子を出産し、一仁と名づけた。諒は海が見たいという茜を連れて病院を出た。茜は諒の腕の中で息をひきとる。諒の運転する車は茜を乗せ、崖から海へと飛びこんだ。杏の前に山奥の工事現場から、仕事を終えた冬悟がたくましくなって戻ってきた。時は流れ、手描友禅の絵筆を握る藍、保母となった杏の姿があった。一仁は二歳になり、彩と岩城に手をひかれ、姉妹坂をおりて行く。
Moelle (voice)
サンリオ創立20周年記念作品。ロミオとジュリエットをモチーフに、火の国の娘と水の世界の少年の禁じられた悲しい恋の行方を描く。仲のよい火の神テミスと水の神グラウコス姉弟に嫉妬した風の神アルゴンは、悪いウワサを流して2人の仲を引き裂こうと企んだ。まんまと乗せられた姉妹は、激しい諍いの末、姉は陸へ、弟は海へと別れてしまう。時は流れ、水の子シリウスは、ふとしたことから火の子マルタと出会った。たちまち恋に落ちる2人だったが…。
Toshishun
The Chinese tale of a poor young man. His mother married to the cruel king of the state and he wants to take his mother back. One old man comes from the heaven and makes his three wishes come true.
Doctor
Masako, a five-year-old girl living in the suburbs of Chiba, gets a tiny scratch on her finger while playing with mud in a marsh. After that, she suffered all kinds of horrible spasms including biting her tongue. The doctor checks on her for hours on end and arrive at the conclusion that she has tetanus. It seems like the devil has come to dwell in the little girl's body. Her parents have to to bear the sufferings of their child and face the fear that they might also be the victims of tetanus. The once peaceful family has changed completely and the three have been cast into a bottomless hell.
Tragedy about a terminally ill girl.
Ikenouchi Seikan
「男はつらいよ」シリーズ第17作。上野の飲み屋で、みすぼらしい老人と出会った寅さんは、気の毒に思いとらやに連れて来てしまう。その老人は、日本画の大家・池ノ内青観（宇野重吉）だった。世話になったお礼として青観が描いた絵をめぐり、とらやでは大騒動が巻き起こり、寅さんは旅に出ることに。ところが兵庫県龍野で、寅さんは青観と再会、市長の接待を受け、芸者ぼたん（太地喜和子）と意気投合。しばらくして、ぼたんが、客だった鬼頭（佐野浅夫）に貸した二百万円を踏み倒されそうになって、上京。あまりにも理不尽な事態に、憤慨した寅さんは・・・
Tappei Yabuki
仕事一筋だった一鬼建設社長の一鬼太治平は、初めて仕事を離れヨーロッパの周遊旅行に出る。途中、一鬼は体の異変に気づき、医者に診てもらう。数日後、判明した結果は癌だった。しかも、あと一年の命だった…。
Tappei Yakubi
仕事一筋だった一鬼建設社長の一鬼太治平は、初めて仕事を離れヨーロッパの周遊旅行に出る。途中、一鬼は体の異変に気づき、医者に診てもらう。数日後、判明した結果は癌だった。しかも、あと一年の命だった…。
Sankichi Ishihara
昭和39年夏、与党・民政党の総裁選挙が行なわれ、現総裁にして内閣総理大臣の寺田政臣と最大派閥の領袖・酒井和明の一騎討ちとなった。数で劣る寺田総理が率いる寺田派は党内切っての実力者で副総理・広野大悟の派閥と協調して必勝を図った。その段階において両陣営とも票集めに10億円以上の実弾を投入した。中には広野派の神谷直吉代議士のように両陣営からちゃっかり戴く者もいた。激烈な選挙は僅差で寺田の三選で幕を閉じた。 それから数日後、金融業を営む石原参吉の元に内閣官房の西尾貞一郎が訪れ、星野康雄官房長官（寺田派）の名刺を持参したうえで秘密裏に資金を用立てて欲しいと告げる。ところが石原はこの申し出を断るものの星野の名刺を持ち去る。金融王として裏の世界を渡り歩いた石原は直感的に星野の周辺に何らかの疑惑があることを思いつき、星野の周辺を洗い出し始めた。その過程で寺田総理の郷里・九州の福流川ダム建設を目論む竹田建設と発注元の電力開発株式会社（小説では電力建設株式会社）若松圭吉副総裁の一派の談合と汚職の存在が浮かび上がる。
Narrator (voice)
大正時代末期。一人旅で伊豆を訪れていた旧制一高3年生の川島は、伊豆大島出身の旅芸人一座と出会い、しばらく彼らと道中をともにする。偏見の目で見られがちな彼らに同情して義憤を覚える一方、川島は次第に一座の若い踊り子、かほるの初々しさに魅了されていき、かほるのほうも彼に淡い恋心を抱くようになる。しかし、一座の年長の女性のぶは、若い2人が叶わぬ恋に深入りするよりはと、あえて2人を別れさせようとするが…。
Narrator (voice)
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.
Kyoko's father
Shigeo Miyaji
A film set in Nagasaki examining prejudice against atom bomb victims.
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.
Mori
富山県黒部川上流に関西電力が建設する第四発電所。現場責任者には北川が任命され、資材運搬用のトンネル掘削は熊谷組が担当することになった。熊谷組の岩岡源三の息子である剛は父の強硬なやり方に反発し設計技師となっていた。現場に赴いた剛はそこで体力が衰えてしまった父と、熱心に工事に打ち込む北川の姿を見て、工事に参加することにする。やがて工事現場では山崩れが起こり大量の水が流れ込んだ。北川は自分の娘が白血病に冒されたことを知るが、工事現場を離れることができなかった。
Romance about student-nurse interns.
Narrator (voice)
aka Libido.
Nobuyuki Noda, Ken's uncle
During a Soviet circus tour in Japan, a small street musician, Ken, meets a clown, Yuri Nikulin. Upon learning that his sick father is being treated in the Soviet Union, Ken sets off in search of him. The friendship of the great clown and the boy continues in Moscow.
Kensaku Kokubu
A remake of the 1957 classic "Man Who Raised a Storm" with Watari Tetsuya in the title role.
Doctor
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.
Hanai
森村桂の青春小説を吉永小百合主演で映画化。就職活動中の娘が、社会と現実の壁にぶつかりながらもたくましく成長していく姿を描く。
A film dealing with the trials and tribulations of a primary school before and after the Pacific War, set in Fukashima Prefecture.
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.
Heartwarming story of an ambitious girl who becomes a concert pianist with the help of her musician father.
Akiyama
When a US army sergeant is found drowned in Tokyo Bay, an investigation is launched to determine how and why he lost his life. The investigation uncovers a black market scheme involving counterfeit money, murder, and conspiracy.
Narrator (voice)
1964年秋、東京で開催された第18回オリンピックが成功に終わり、街が次第に落ち着きを取り戻したころ、もう一つの国際スポーツ大会が開幕する。それは《国際身体障害者スポーツ大会》。この時、世界で初めて《パラリンピック》という愛称が用いられ、以後この名で親しまれることに。当時の皇太子ご夫妻も臨席して開会式が催された後、いよいよ大会がスタート。53人の日本人参加者も、各国の選手たちに交じって競技に励む。
Shingo Kazami
Japanese drama film.
The Samurai
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.
A young girl knows that she is going to die and in this she is supported by the devotion of the boy who loves her. They originally met at the hospital. There it transpired that the only way to save her life was to sacrifice an eye and part of her face. The operation seems a success. Later, however, her other eye becomes affected. She feels she must let the boy go, and yet she depends so much upon his devotion.
An original warrior directed by Toshio Takagi, directed by Eisuke Takizawa of “Kiriko's Tango” by Toshio Yasumi, a comedy, cheerful widow. The photo was taken by Minoru Yokoyama from “Asakusa no Toko Odoriko Monogatari”
A boy who dreams of being a yakuza leader is reformed by a girl's pure love for him.
Japanese drama.
Yoshida’s first big-budget production and colour film is a haunting tale of unrequited love and postwar disillusion. The story of the fatal attraction between a spineless intellectual and a strong woman is conventional, but its enactment is radically new.
Little dark-eyed boy Kazuo. Yes, he dreamed of the sea. However, like everyone here in the village. Kazuo only wanted to study first, to finish school... But he failed. Mother died. The woman who replaced her brought with her affection, comfort, and warmth of mother's hands. It seemed that joy settled in their house again. But one day a storm caught the fishermen at sea. Father did not return... Father's friends, fishermen, tried to help the widow, who was left with two children. But the money was still not enough. And then Kazuo decided to become a fisherman. After all, he was now the eldest in the family...
Satsuo Yamamoto's filmic depiction of the famous 1949 Matsukawa Incident.
It's a story of the life of a man who advocated the necessity of sex education to children, which was unusual at the time, solely opposed to the amendment of the Peace Preservation Law, and was assassinated by a rightist prior to his opposition speech.
Yusaku Kasama
A young doctor falls into a despair of developments. He plans to revenge the disgrace inflicted upon his sister, whose engagement was broken as a result.
Director
The monologue and mysterious death of a man who survived and returned from Iwo Jima. A newspaper reporter writes an article about "The Man from Iwo Jima" asking the people who were close to him about his character and the painful memories off all those involved.
Drama which shows the struggle of Fumiko, a female teacher, at work and at home.
Manakichi 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.
Professor Sasaki
山国の小都市にある北山高校では、近くある対抗野球大会で持ちきりである。だが三年の花巻竜司だけは、憂うつそうだった。竜司の家は伝統あるお寺で、父の玄城が病気で寝ているため、竜司が父の代理をしていた。家族は母と、婚期のおくれた姉の五人。竜司の悩みは、来年卒業して東京の大学に進学出来そうもないことだった。ある日の放課後、竜司は応援部のボス桐村たちに、竜司が学校新聞に書いた記事のことで殴られた。それを知った親友の小淵沢達也がかけつけ、竜司を助けた。竜司の気持を聞いた達也は、自分は芸者の子で父もなく、大学を出て就職するよりも自分の家の調理場を手伝い、将来は町一番の料理屋にしてみせるといった。達也の妹莉恵子も女中代りによく働いた。莉恵子は竜司が好きだが、竜司が同級生の醍醐優子と仲良しなのが気になった。恵まれた家庭に育った優子は竜司をいろいろと慰めた。ある夜、竜司は姉の友達令子がやっている酒場で、飲めない酒を飲み、そこに泊った。翌朝隣に令子が寝ているのをみて愕然とした。悩む竜司をたずねた莉恵子は、竜司に自分の気持を打明けた。一方達也は、自分は優子が好きだと竜司に告白した。それがもとで二人は喧嘩し絶交してしまった。数日後、川原で達也が桐村達に脅かされているのを聞き、喧嘩のことも忘れてかけつけた。これが縁で達也たちと桐村は仲直りした。達也と竜司も。二人の表情はいつしか晴れた空のように明るくなっていった。
Kenichi, who lives like a stray dog among fellow gangsters, finds his love for the first time while the police are trying to catch him on suspicion of murder.
A unique action drama in which a ruthless yakuza encounters a woman and realizes his true love as the conflict between the yakuza intensifies.
Director
Japanese suspense film.
Fisherman
Japanese suspense film.
A family is slowly falling apart: the father is absent from the start, the mother a kept woman thanks to her children, the son is being cheated on by his wife, one daughter is forced to marry an older man against her will, while the other has retreated into smug moral superiority.
The beauty of the Japanese family system is portrayed through the women who greet a woman who went to America thirty years ago to visit her grave.
Director
Two young Japanese schoolboys, one skinny and poor, one fat and well-to-do, become unlikely friends.
Based on Kakuko Mori's autobiography, about her life and retirement from acting due to her increasing blindness.
Japanese drama film.
Director
The story of a novelist whose wife is confined in a mental hospital. His love for her drives him to write about her, though he runs into trouble when her parents accuse him of cashing in on her misfortune.
The story of a novelist whose wife is confined in a mental hospital. His love for her drives him to write about her, though he runs into trouble when her parents accuse him of cashing in on her misfortune.
Kiichi
Based on the novel by Torahiko Tamiya.
Upon discovering that her father has a mistress, a young girl befriends the "other woman" and her child. Realizing that her half-sister is doomed to being regarded as an outcast, the heroine sets about to spiritually legitimize the girl.
Across the Inagawa River that runs through the center of the village, the children of the two villages scrambled for a swimming pool, and each time a stone battle took place. Takemaru, the only son of the priesthood of Tada Shrine, was weak and was always forced to carry stones. However, neither swimming nor stone-throwing was a secret to his sick mother, Kouko... Seishi Matsumaru, Ryuichi Yoshida, and Ado Matsuyama were adapted from "Tenmangu" and "Ishigassen", directed by Mitsuo Wakasugi of "Waran Hayashi", and photographed by Hanjiro Nakazawa of "The Last Women".
Nobuko is a widow who lives with her daughter-in-law Tamiko and her brother Junjiro. The family's gatekeeper, Komatsu, is attracted to Tamiko, but she is encouraged to marry a doctor and he is afraid to tell her his feelings.
Housewives from four neighboring households casually gather at an old well at Kaneko's house in a residential area on the outskirts of Tokyo. If two people come together, they will talk about selling kimonos, if three people come together, they will discuss food shopping, and when four people come together, there will be laughter. Focusing on four housewives who gather at the edge of the well, it depicts the daily life of each household.
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。
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.
Professor Yamamoto
A university professor and his wife have two sons with infantile paralysis. Through trial and error, they struggle to open a school for disabled children at their own expense. Based on a true story, it features natural child performances under Hiroshi Shimizu’s skillful direction.
Shizuka, Eiichiro, and Mineko, their father and son, live modestly in a certain suburb, leading a dreary but happy life. Eiichiro is troubled by Shizuka's desire to live together in familiar Tokyo. Mineko is the exact opposite of Eiichiro. A literary masterpiece depicting the fateful sorrow and humor of a mother and child
Yasuichiro Isa, who works in the labor section of Sone Mining Tokyo Headquarters, paid a monthly fee for his younger brother, Reiji, who was in trouble because he had a bonus of 10,000 yen more.
不治の病と烙印を押され、生涯の望みを断たれてからというもの死と逸楽にのみ身をゆだね、野良犬のように世を渡り歩く哀れな素浪人・平手造酒。酒、女、恐喝。情け容赦ない冷酷漢・平手造酒だったが、とある旅籠屋で見識りとなったお吟の存在が、再び生きることへの執着を持たせた。
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.
A sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love letters for other people.
Nobuko Otowa won the Blue Ribbon Award for the Best Actress for this among other films.
Film directed by Eichi Koishi and starring Wakao Ayako
Mr. Kimura
A young woman, who must support her father as a middle-aged man's mistress, finds herself falling in love with a student closer to her age.
Kohei Sakai
Ginzo
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.
Kisaku Yamada
Onna Hitori Daichi wo Yuku (A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land, Kinuta Production, 1953) was the second feature film directed by Kamei Fumio, who is known as a master of documentary films, and followed his “Haha Nareba Onna Nareba(Become a Mother, Become a Woman)” (1952).
Ichiro's dad
Japanese film.
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.
A family of Kyoto textile workers struggles after tragedy.
Yakichi Ogiya
奈良の荒れ寺に集まる街娼たち。年老いたお春は羅漢堂に入り、過去に出会った男の面影を思い浮かべていた。御所勤めをしていた13歳のお春は、公卿の勝之介に宿に連れ込まれたところを見つかり、両親ともども洛外へ追放となってしまった。その後、松平家に取り立てられ嗣子をもうけたものの、側近の裏切りに遭い実家へ帰されてしまう。島原の郭に売られたお春は、気に入られた客の住み込み女中となるが、その妻に嫉妬され追い出されてしまった。さらに結婚相手が急死し、世話になった男の盗みが発覚して捕らえられるなど、流転の人生を歩むのだった。
Keita
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.
Michio Kuki
A jewelry store president begins to fall for the doctor treating her husband's illness.
The Angry Street includes a great deal of location shooting in the rebuilt city, including downtown streets, residential neighborhoods, the campus of the University of Tokyo, and the high life of jazzy dance halls. Sudo (Hara Yasumi) and Mori (Uno Jukichi) are two university students who make money by picking up rich girls in dance clubs and conning them into giving them cash. Mori is the brains of the operation, and Sudo is the suave dancer who picks up the girls. Over the course of the film, Sudo becomes involved with three different girls and is drawn into the gangster milieu, which he seems unable to resist even though he is responsible for his mother, grandmother, and sister, Masako (Wakayama Setsuko). In this world of bad boys and girls, Masako is the pillar of strength and moral virtue who finally enables Mori to straighten out.
Natsume
An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chief and the local gangster bosses.
A joint project by Sojiro Motoki and Tomoyuki Tanaka, co-dramatizing the original story by Shu Sekikawa with Senkichi Taniguchi and Kenro Matsuura. The fur of a stray dog, the double-barreled gun tied to the backpack, the beard covered with tanned leather, and the bottom of the snow-burnt shining eyes, for the first time in thirteen years, these reached out to the bottom of society. Genji Iwaki dreamed of reuniting with his first love, Tsukie Shiina, with a huge amount of gold dust. To hand over half of the gold dust, he appeared in the memorable N city from the mountains of Teshio with the hope of seeing his late colleague's son, Ichiro Akutsu...
1950 Toho film directed by Senkichi Taniguchi
Shigeki Nonaka
When the future of his construction company falls into danger, a controlling father pushes his children into unsatisfying marriages and careers in order to regain financial stability.
Joji
Yomoshichi
Part 2 starts where the first film ended, with Iemon disposing of the bodies of his wife and Kohei, marrying upward, and being blackmailed by the evil Naosuke.
Yomoshichi
Iemon Tamiya is an impoverished masterless samurai who craves a better life, which he cannot have because of his marriage to Oiwa, who is completely devoted to her husband.
Japanese adaptation of Marcel Pagnol's play "Marius", set in early XXth century Japan.
A woman's struggle for equality in Japan in the 1880s. Eiko Hirayama leaves Okayama for Tokyo, where she helps the fledgling Liberal Party and falls in love with its leader Kentaro Omoi, just as the party is being disbanded by the government.
Ginnosuke Tsuchiya
A teacher at a Japanese school tries to hide his outcast upbringing.
Life and love in corrupt postwar Tokyo, as a young couple struggles against both the law and the mob.
Otomatsu
This film focuses on Koreans living in Japan. The filmmaker’s humanism comes across in the portrayal of a girl living in a shabby tenement, the warmth of a Korean girl she meets, and the friendliness of this Korean girl’s family.
Japanese propaganda film
