Yukiko Shimazaki

One evening, at the Marine Tower observatory, cosmetics salesman Ichiro Iki is drawn into conversation with an unfamiliar young lady Akiko. She invites Ichiro back to a hotel where they make love but part without even exchanging names. A week later, they have a second chance encounter at the observatory. This time, Ichiro is the one who pursues her. Back at the hotel, Akiko begs Ichiro to give her sister – Kyoko, a bar hostess – absolute hell. Akiko resents her sister for lecturing on chastity, while wantonly indulging in promiscuous activity. Ichiro takes an interest in Kyoko and sets out towards her bar…

An early Okamoto yakuza film, though it's not in the Underworld series (along with The Last Gunfight and The Big Boss) despite being alternatively known as "Death of the Boss." While Okamoto did not write this film and took on the project because he was assigned and "just doing [his] job" according to an interview with Chris Desjardins in Outlaw Masters of Japanese Film, he did express a general excitement about working in action cinema (which shows through in this film's energy.)

Yuzo Kayama plays the protagonist, a whale-hunting cannon manufactuing supervisor, whose brother is an automobile tester for Komatsu Motors which has a fatal accident. As his brother investigates the "Accident" with his old college friend (makoto Sato), now a reporter... They stumble across murder, espionage and cover-ups. High-class night club, femme fatale, and a "Blueprint of Murder" all adds up to a bigger plot then first expected.

Gang of robbers quarrel about the loot, but when one of them gets killed, his younger brother seeks them out to ice them one by one.

A historical drama that depicts the touching beauty of world obsession and human love in the style of light comedy, in the center of which is a young man who has a master license menkyo kaiden in the art of swordsmanship, but weak against lies and women. A remake of Bungaku no Issue, shot by Sadao Yamanaka in 1933.

Chuji Kunisada runs into strange adventures which tests his skill as a samurai as he untangles intrigue and murder against the backdrop of the majestic Mount Akagi.

Japanese film.

元香川家の農園主任技師の作之助は、病のために御婚約破棄になった朝子に対して深い愛情を抱いていた。平和な農園にも悪夢のような戦争が訪れ、爆弾の落ちる猛火の中、退避する夜に、二人の心はあらゆる自制心を超えた熱い抱擁に固く結ばれたが、翌日に作之助は外地に出征することに。敗戦後、華族の特権は失われ、薄幸に泣く朝子は俗界を去り、法籍に身を置くことになる。それを知った作之助は農園に急ぐが一足違いで会うことができず…。

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.

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……。

Dai-ni-bu: Aijô ruten: Kiyoshi Saeki directed movie

Dai-ichi-bu: Dôkai-wan no rantô - Kiyoshi Saeki directed movie.

Based on Philippines war experiences. Military doctor Leutenant Hanada deserts with a local girl. The officer in command orders Lieutenant Uji to shoot Hanada. Uji takes a sharpshooter called Takagi and tracks him. At first Uji cannot forgive Hanada but as Uji is isolated from the main force he too starts to think of desertion.

Once an average and seemingly ordinary Tokyo girl, she suddenly finds herself as a TV star owing to her discovery by a casting company, which noticed photographs that her cousin had sent. When another actress falls ill she is given the role instead. Her first film is a success propelling the young actress to popularity, her own fans, money and a house. While everything looks dandy from the outside not all is well within the family however.

製作は「青春会議」の藤本真澄。原作は源氏鶏太の「ホープさん」「三等重役」の二作より「風雪二十年」の猪俣勝人がシナリオ化したもので、監督は「結婚行進曲」の市川崑、撮影も同じく飯村正である。出演者の主なものは「呼子星」の小林桂樹、「青春会議」の杉葉子、小泉博、「慶安秘帖」の島崎雪子のほか河村黎吉、沢村貞子、斎藤達雄などである。 東洋鉄業に勤める若原俊平は通称「ラッキーさん」。庶務課から秘書課へ抜てきされ、給料の前借をして全部同僚に奢ってしまうというような男。同じ課の泰子は彼にほのかな好意を感じました。泰子の父町田さんは、秋葉社長にタイプが似ているので、冠婚葬祭にはよく社長の替玉をつとめます。東洋鉄業の元社長、奈良財閥六代目庄右衛門の令嬢由起子さんの美容院開店祝いに行ったときも、社長の替玉であることを白状した上、お葬式の帰りであることまで白状して大失敗を演じました。秋葉社長はこの失態をつぐなうため由起子さんのお婿さんを世話しようと季節はずれの社員大運動会を催しました。若手独身社員は我こそと大はりきりでしたが、由起子さんには若原が気に入ったらしく、由起子さんを想っていた近藤と、若原に好意を寄せていた泰子とは失望を感じました。そしてその失意がこの二人を結びつけましたが、一方由起子さんは奈良財閥のため銀行家勝田家の令息と結婚することになり、ラッキーさんの若原は一人淋しく釧路所長に栄転して行きました。

Michiyo lives in the small place Osaka and is not happy with her marriage, all she does is cook and clean for her husband.

Though recognized worldwide almost exclusively for his colorful kaiju fare, director Ishirō Honda (Godzilla, Rodan, Mothra) was a natural humanist with a particular understanding of the relationship between people and their social environs. His debut fiction feature, The Blue Pearl (Aoi Shinju) – virtually unseen in the west until now – depicts the melodramatic, but keenly-observed interplay between a young man from Tokyo and two ama (pearl divers; literally “women of the sea”) in a superstitious coastal town. Though raised within the same tradition-bound crucible, the two women – Noe and Riu – are portrayed as diametric opposites; the former meek but affectionate, the latter strong-willed but jaded by a tryst with metropolitan life. Nonetheless, Honda provides equal weight to their desires and their ambitions to break free from the social mold imposed upon them from birth.

A romantic melodrama about the shifting relationship between Ryosuke and Miki as their precarious employment and social circumstances shift around them.

Adaptation of a novel by Yojiro Ishizaka, originally released in two parts.