Screenplay
或る小藩。ここでは、町奉行が不明瞭な辞職を繰り返していた。そんな矢先、江戸から望月小平太なる新任がやってくる。ところが、その男には振る舞いの不埒さから“どら平太”という渾名がついていた。実際、着任する筈の期日を10日も過ぎても、彼は奉行所に出仕しない始末なのだ。しかし、それはどら平太本人が友人で大目付の仙波義十郎に頼んで、わざと流させた悪評であった。実は、彼は密輸、売春、賭博、殺傷などが横行する「壕外」と呼ばれる治外法権と化した地域の浄化にやってきたのだ。
Writer
A middle-aged man's family loses patience with him as he struggles with his seemingly directionless life.
Director
A middle-aged man's family loses patience with him as he struggles with his seemingly directionless life.
Writer
A lighthouse keeper and his family follow work from town to town, each time making new friends and receiving a visit from his troublesome father.
Director
A lighthouse keeper and his family follow work from town to town, each time making new friends and receiving a visit from his troublesome father.
Self
An extremely lovely tribute to Ozu, on the 20th anniversary of his death. It uses a combination of footage from vintage films and new material (both interviews and Ozu-related locations) shot by Ozu's long-time camera-man (who came out of retirement to work on this). Surprisingly (or perhaps not), it focuses less on Ozu's accomplishments as a film-maker than on his impact on the lives of the people he worked with..
Original Story
August 9, 1945. An atomic bomb drops on Urakami, Nagasaki at 11:02am. The story of Dr. Nagai and his family.
Writer
August 9, 1945. An atomic bomb drops on Urakami, Nagasaki at 11:02am. The story of Dr. Nagai and his family.
Director
August 9, 1945. An atomic bomb drops on Urakami, Nagasaki at 11:02am. The story of Dr. Nagai and his family.
Writer
A newspaper reporter investigates the lives of juvenile delinquents.
Director
A newspaper reporter investigates the lives of juvenile delinquents.
Writer
京浜工業地帯の一角で鉄工所を経営している川瀬周三は、昭和４１年になって、めっきり身体のおとろえを覚え、工場の実務を２６歳になる一人息子の武志に譲った。そして、秋には、妻・雪枝の郷里から田切杏子を迎え、結婚式をひかえていた。順風満帆、周三にはおだやかな老後が残されているだけのように思えた。昭和４１年５月、武志は、友人吉川と近くの釣り堀に出かけた帰り道、ある若者とすれ違った瞬間、腹部を刃物で刺され「お父さん、口惜しいよ、こんなことで死ぬなんて、仇は必ずとってくれよ」と言うと、周三の腕の中で息たえた。
Director
京浜工業地帯の一角で鉄工所を経営している川瀬周三は、昭和４１年になって、めっきり身体のおとろえを覚え、工場の実務を２６歳になる一人息子の武志に譲った。そして、秋には、妻・雪枝の郷里から田切杏子を迎え、結婚式をひかえていた。順風満帆、周三にはおだやかな老後が残されているだけのように思えた。昭和４１年５月、武志は、友人吉川と近くの釣り堀に出かけた帰り道、ある若者とすれ違った瞬間、腹部を刃物で刺され「お父さん、口惜しいよ、こんなことで死ぬなんて、仇は必ずとってくれよ」と言うと、周三の腕の中で息たえた。
Writer
A Japanese businessman is sent to Sri Lanka and meets a beautiful Japanese woman with a past. They befriend an old Japanese-Indian widow who has an estranged son in Japan.
Director
A Japanese businessman is sent to Sri Lanka and meets a beautiful Japanese woman with a past. They befriend an old Japanese-Indian widow who has an estranged son in Japan.
Executive Producer
This film follows the daily lives of a group of people barely scraping by in a slum on the outskirts of Tokyo. Yet as desperate as their circumstances are, each of them—the homeless father and son envisioning their dream house; the young woman abused by her uncle; the boy who imagines himself a trolley conductor—finds reasons to carry on.
Screenplay
Drama about the friendship between a lonely laborer (Atsumi) and a young woman (Hoshi) unable to enter college.
Screenplay
An inspirational teacher is the focus of this Japanese drama. After his friend kills himself, Natsuki takes a teaching job on an isolated island. His new students, the children of ignorant fishermen, can see no value in education; therefore, they have no desire to learn. Natsuki then introduces the children to volleyball. The kids are immediately fired up by the game. After winning the island tourney, they go on to win the national championship. Suddenly learning has taken on a whole new dimension. Meanwhile Natsuki gets married. Unfortunately for his wife, he refuses to leave the island.
Director
An inspirational teacher is the focus of this Japanese drama. After his friend kills himself, Natsuki takes a teaching job on an isolated island. His new students, the children of ignorant fishermen, can see no value in education; therefore, they have no desire to learn. Natsuki then introduces the children to volleyball. The kids are immediately fired up by the game. After winning the island tourney, they go on to win the national championship. Suddenly learning has taken on a whole new dimension. Meanwhile Natsuki gets married. Unfortunately for his wife, he refuses to leave the island.
Original Story
Former playmates (Naito and Tamura), both long ago abandoned by their parents, recall their youth and fall in love.
Writer
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.
Director
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.
Producer
A Tokyo family escaping the war relocates to a Hokkaido village; their daughter is set to marry the local leader's son, but her siblings disapprove.
Screenplay
A Tokyo family escaping the war relocates to a Hokkaido village; their daughter is set to marry the local leader's son, but her siblings disapprove.
Director
A Tokyo family escaping the war relocates to a Hokkaido village; their daughter is set to marry the local leader's son, but her siblings disapprove.
Executive Producer
A story about four best friends and their lives inside and outside college. Then suddenly one of them receives a surprising offer to be a movie star.
Director
A story about four best friends and their lives inside and outside college. Then suddenly one of them receives a surprising offer to be a movie star.
Screenplay
Screenplay
A demobilized soldier becomes a day laborer with a road construction gang, and his wife goes to work to bolster their income. Their modest dream is to see their son grow and to be happy as a family.
Producer
A demobilized soldier becomes a day laborer with a road construction gang, and his wife goes to work to bolster their income. Their modest dream is to see their son grow and to be happy as a family.
Director
A demobilized soldier becomes a day laborer with a road construction gang, and his wife goes to work to bolster their income. Their modest dream is to see their son grow and to be happy as a family.
Writer
Hikaru and Ichiro are close friends in high school. Hikaru's elder brother Tadashi fell in love with Ichiro's elder sister, Mikako at first sight. Although she gave the cold shoulder to Tadashi, she gradually became fond of Tadashi.
Director
Hikaru and Ichiro are close friends in high school. Hikaru's elder brother Tadashi fell in love with Ichiro's elder sister, Mikako at first sight. Although she gave the cold shoulder to Tadashi, she gradually became fond of Tadashi.
Screenplay
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.
Producer
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.
Director
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.
Producer
In a time of continuous civil wars ravaging the fields of feudal Japan, the eldest son of a very poor peasant family, living alongside the bridge over the Fuefuki river, decides to serve a warlord to escape his miserable condition, being soon followed by his younger brothers. Although not all the men of the family take this tragic path of death, women of the family will be doomed to endure the pain of loss during the next five generations.
Screenplay
In a time of continuous civil wars ravaging the fields of feudal Japan, the eldest son of a very poor peasant family, living alongside the bridge over the Fuefuki river, decides to serve a warlord to escape his miserable condition, being soon followed by his younger brothers. Although not all the men of the family take this tragic path of death, women of the family will be doomed to endure the pain of loss during the next five generations.
Director
In a time of continuous civil wars ravaging the fields of feudal Japan, the eldest son of a very poor peasant family, living alongside the bridge over the Fuefuki river, decides to serve a warlord to escape his miserable condition, being soon followed by his younger brothers. Although not all the men of the family take this tragic path of death, women of the family will be doomed to endure the pain of loss during the next five generations.
Screenplay
When a wealthy, selfish family decides to take care of an elderly hobo who collapsed near their home, they are beset by visits from his numerous friends.
Director
When a wealthy, selfish family decides to take care of an elderly hobo who collapsed near their home, they are beset by visits from his numerous friends.
Writer
A father curries favor with his bosses to further his career, but his wife has lost faith in him. She returns to her family home while they rent out their house during the summer to pay off their mortgage, and there she meets a lonely old man...
Director
A father curries favor with his bosses to further his career, but his wife has lost faith in him. She returns to her family home while they rent out their house during the summer to pay off their mortgage, and there she meets a lonely old man...
Screenplay
会津若松で育ち、東京の大学に通う岩垣が久々に帰省し、４人の友人と再会した。しかし、現在の立場や環境を異にする彼らには、既にそれぞれの人生の苦悩があり…。
Director
会津若松で育ち、東京の大学に通う岩垣が久々に帰省し、４人の友人と再会した。しかし、現在の立場や環境を異にする彼らには、既にそれぞれの人生の苦悩があり…。
Screenplay
After surviving the double suicide pact she made with her lover, a woman gives birth to their child.
Director
After surviving the double suicide pact she made with her lover, a woman gives birth to their child.
Writer
Two men at an ironworks encounter roadblocks: the first does not have the grades to get a job, while the other finds himself falling for a co-worker.
Director
Two men at an ironworks encounter roadblocks: the first does not have the grades to get a job, while the other finds himself falling for a co-worker.
Writer
70歳になると人減らしのため楢山で姥捨を行う村があった。69歳になるおりんは、息子の辰平と孫たちを世話しながら、辰平の後妻を探していた。辰平は去年、妻に先立たれていたのだ。楢山祭りの日、辰平は隣の村から妻を迎えることができた。おりんは楢山へ行く準備を始めるが、自分の歯が立派であることを恥じ、石臼にぶつけて折ってしまう。そして正月の数日前に突然「明日山へ行く」と言い出すのだった。
Director
70歳になると人減らしのため楢山で姥捨を行う村があった。69歳になるおりんは、息子の辰平と孫たちを世話しながら、辰平の後妻を探していた。辰平は去年、妻に先立たれていたのだ。楢山祭りの日、辰平は隣の村から妻を迎えることができた。おりんは楢山へ行く準備を始めるが、自分の歯が立派であることを恥じ、石臼にぶつけて折ってしまう。そして正月の数日前に突然「明日山へ行く」と言い出すのだった。
Screenplay
The plans of a trio of burglars are continually thwarted by the arrival of visitors to the house they plan to rob.
Director
The plans of a trio of burglars are continually thwarted by the arrival of visitors to the house they plan to rob.
Writer
松竹が誇る天才監督・木下惠介監督が、日本縦断ロケを敢行。高峰秀子と佐田啓二の主演により、同名の主題歌と共に大ヒットを記録した名作。灯台守一家の25年にわたる波乱に満ちた生活と愛情を、繊細かつ力強いタッチで描いた壮大なる年代記。 灯台守の夫と連れ添う妻の半生を描いた作品。なくてはならない大切なものを教えてくれる、心温まる作品。
Director
松竹が誇る天才監督・木下惠介監督が、日本縦断ロケを敢行。高峰秀子と佐田啓二の主演により、同名の主題歌と共に大ヒットを記録した名作。灯台守一家の25年にわたる波乱に満ちた生活と愛情を、繊細かつ力強いタッチで描いた壮大なる年代記。 灯台守の夫と連れ添う妻の半生を描いた作品。なくてはならない大切なものを教えてくれる、心温まる作品。
Writer
Ignoring the protests of his working-class mother, a young man becomes wrapped up in the world of delinquents and yakuza.
Director
Ignoring the protests of his working-class mother, a young man becomes wrapped up in the world of delinquents and yakuza.
Director
A coming-of-age story portrayed as the loss of all youthful illusions. Sixteen-year-old Yoichi dreams of becoming a sailor. His parents are fishmongers, and Yoichi lives together with them and his four siblings in cramped living conditions. His beloved younger sister is given to a wealthy, childless uncle; his best friend moves away; the girl he fell in love with from afar is with someone else: little by little, Yoichi loses all the people that are important to him.
Screenplay
Screenplay
Now an old man, Masao returns to his childhood home and begins to recall his upbringing in this abandoned sector of Japan.
Director
Now an old man, Masao returns to his childhood home and begins to recall his upbringing in this abandoned sector of Japan.
Screenplay
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.
Director
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.
Screenplay
大石久子は昭和3年、新任教師として瀬戸内海にある小豆島の分校に赴任した。久子が受け持つことになった一年生は十二人で、みな澄んだ瞳をしていた。やがて久子は本校へ転任することになった。しかし貧しい村の教え子たちは、一人として望み通り進学することができなかった。戦争をはさんで島の分校に戻った久子は、そこでかつての教え子たちと再会する。
Director
大石久子は昭和3年、新任教師として瀬戸内海にある小豆島の分校に赴任した。久子が受け持つことになった一年生は十二人で、みな澄んだ瞳をしていた。やがて久子は本校へ転任することになった。しかし貧しい村の教え子たちは、一人として望み通り進学することができなかった。戦争をはさんで島の分校に戻った久子は、そこでかつての教え子たちと再会する。
Writer
A student at a woman's university takes a controversial action against the school's old-fashioned doctrines.
Director
A student at a woman's university takes a controversial action against the school's old-fashioned doctrines.
Screenplay
A sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love letters for other people.
Screenplay
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.
Director
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.
Screenplay
A young student falls into a hopeless romantic attraction to a sick girl, whom he can only see from afar.
Screenplay
Carmen falls in love with an artist in this sequel to Carmen Comes Home. The film is noted for being entirely shot with canted (Dutch) camera angles.
Director
Carmen falls in love with an artist in this sequel to Carmen Comes Home. The film is noted for being entirely shot with canted (Dutch) camera angles.
Screenplay
A fishing union depends on two brothers to make up the losses caused by the dishonest captains they replaced.
Director
A fishing union depends on two brothers to make up the losses caused by the dishonest captains they replaced.
Screenplay
When a family has to relocate due to the war, they are ostracized by their new community.
Director
When a family has to relocate due to the war, they are ostracized by their new community.
Screenplay
A girl who'd left her hometown for the exciting adventure of the big city returns home years later for a visit, soon somehow causing scandal.
Director
A girl who'd left her hometown for the exciting adventure of the big city returns home years later for a visit, soon somehow causing scandal.
Screenplay
Two journalists and their lovers share an uncertain future.
Director
Two journalists and their lovers share an uncertain future.
Producer
A jewelry store president begins to fall for the doctor treating her husband's illness.
Screenplay
A jewelry store president begins to fall for the doctor treating her husband's illness.
Director
A jewelry store president begins to fall for the doctor treating her husband's illness.
Screenplay
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.
Story
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.
Director
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.
Director
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.
Director
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.
Director
A matchmaker looks to unite a young woman from a wealthy Tokyo family with the humble owner of an auto garage.
Director
A teacher at a Japanese school tries to hide his outcast upbringing.
Director
The mistress of a crook real estate broker comes to terms with her soulless existence after an artist paints her portrait.
Writer
Like many women after the war, Toshiko works as a chorus girl; her boyfriend Tadashi wishes she'd join him more frequently, but she detests his criminal involvement.
Director
Like many women after the war, Toshiko works as a chorus girl; her boyfriend Tadashi wishes she'd join him more frequently, but she detests his criminal involvement.
Screenplay
A Japanese war widow recalls her love affair with her deceased husband.
Director
A Japanese war widow recalls her love affair with her deceased husband.
Story
In postwar Japan a young woman is unable to marry her sweetheart because her family's in difficult circumstances and needs her income to keep afloat.
Director
In postwar Japan a young woman is unable to marry her sweetheart because her family's in difficult circumstances and needs her income to keep afloat.
Story
A young man who is unable to tell his childhood friend how he feels makes a pledge with her to reveal all of their secrets during the upcoming festival.
Screenplay
A young man who is unable to tell his childhood friend how he feels makes a pledge with her to reveal all of their secrets during the upcoming festival.
Director
A young man who is unable to tell his childhood friend how he feels makes a pledge with her to reveal all of their secrets during the upcoming festival.
Director
A Japanese family weathers much hardship after their military uncle comes to live with them during WWII.
Director
A widow raises her sickly son to be strong enough to join the army and fight on the front lines.
Director
The few residents left on the streets in Tokyo share their individual stories and come to understand the melancholy of saying goodbye.
Writer
A wealthy family will not allow the military to grow crops on their fields due to their superstitious beliefs about their son's illness.
Director
A wealthy family will not allow the military to grow crops on their fields due to their superstitious beliefs about their son's illness.
Director
The sweet but naive denizens of a charming port town are hoodwinked by a couple of con men at the outset of World War II. But the hustlers’ plan backfires when they come down with severe cases of conscience. Keisuke Kinoshita’s directorial debut is a breezy, warmhearted, and often very funny crowd-pleaser that’s a testament to the filmmaker’s faith in people.
Writer
This was 1942, so it was a national policy film, no matter what you call it. But when the war was still on the winning side, there wasn't even a little bit of sadness in the film (as the war was getting worse and worse, the burdens on our backs were increasing day by day, and we had to keep forming a line for tomorrow with nowhere to go (Akira Kurosawa's "The Most Beautiful", Admiral Nomura's "Enemy Air Raid", etc.) (Song of Annihilation, directed by Sasaki Yasushi). The film closes with the hope of the blue cloud that is bubbling up in the air. Or it may be the last time that a Japanese film talks about war and looks at the end of the war with an unconcerned eye.
Screenplay
Writer
A businessman runs afoul of the law and commits suicide, leaving behind a wife and five children. The eldest son takes the family to Tokyo and labors to restore its name and fortune
Idea
A businessman runs afoul of the law and commits suicide, leaving behind a wife and five children. The eldest son takes the family to Tokyo and labors to restore its name and fortune
Assistant Director
Pre-war Asakusa was a riotous district of cabarets, dance-halls and brothels - a striking backdrop for Shimazu's story of innocence and experience. Pretty, young Reiko is the new dancer in an infamous theatre troupe, and her fellow performers try to protect her virtue in a land of vice. Meanwhile, an ageing actor wants to be a hero off stage as well as on, and the troupe matriarch Marie has to keep them all together.
