Noriko Honma

A narrative feature made from a collage of clips from various films around the world.

個性派作家・内田百閒の随筆を原案に、百閒の日常と彼の教師時代の教え子との交流を描く。 昭和18年の春。先生は生徒たちに、作家活動に専念するために学校を去ることを告げるが、退職後引っ越した家にも門下生たちは遊びにやってくる。

黒澤明監督が村田喜代子の原作を基に、かつて原爆を体験した祖母の許を訪れた4人の孫が体験するひと夏の出来事を描き、反核を訴える感動ドラマ。夏休み。長崎から少し離れた山村に住む老婆・鉦の許に4人の孫たちがやってきた。都会の生活に慣れた孫たちは田舎の生活に退屈を覚えながらも、長崎の街にある戦争の傷跡や鉦が話す昔話を聞いて、戦争に対する考えを深めていく。

黒澤明監督自身が見た夢をベースに、時に美しく、時に残酷な8つの物語がオムニバス形式でつづられ、豊潤なイメージ世界が描かれる作品。きつねの嫁入りを見た少年の話「日照り雨」。花吹雪の中、人形たちが舞い踊る「桃畑」。戦争で生き残った男が体験する不可思議な物語「トンネル」。ゴッホが絵画の世界に入り込んだ「鴉(からす)」。原発の恐怖を描いた「赤富士」など、8つの物語が、時に美しく、時に残酷にオムニバス形式でつづられていく。黒澤監督の豊潤なイメージ世界を堪能できる作品。

伊庭義明三尉を隊長とする、近代武器で武装した21名の陸上自衛隊員は、演習に参加するための移動時に突然、補給地ごと戦国時代にタイムスリップしてしまった。戸惑っている彼らに長尾平三景虎が家来と共に会いに来た。景虎は伊庭と初めて会った瞬間「同族じゃ」と気に入り、異なる服装・武器に惹かれ、仲間にしたいと考える。タイムスリップした現実を安易に受け入れられなかった伊庭と自衛隊員たち。しかし景虎らに遭遇し、景虎と敵対する戦国大名のゲリラ軍に襲撃され仲間が死亡。そして景虎の戦を目の当たりにしたことで、戦国時代に来てしまったことを否応なしに受け入れていく。

In the 19th century Edo period, sisters Oshizu and Otaka have sacrificed their personal happiness to work and care for their ailing father. Otaka falls in love, but can’t accept a marriage proposal since her older sister needs to marry first. When Oshizu learns of this decision, she takes matters in her own hands.

ゴジラシリーズ第7作。行方不明の兄を探す少年、大学生２人、銀行強盗ら４人が乗りあわせたヨットが、エビラの襲撃を受けて遭難。南海の孤島レッチ島に漂着する。彼らはそこで、インファント島の住人を拉致し、核弾頭を秘密裏に造る秘密結社・赤イ竹の存在を知る。彼らはレッチ島に眠っていたゴジラを覚醒させて、インファント島の島民たちの救出と、島からの脱出を画策するが…。

山本周五郎原作の『赤ひげ診療譚』を基に、巨匠・黒澤明監督が三船敏郎、加山雄三主演で映画化したヒューマニズム溢れる人情ドラマ。江戸時代の小石川養生所を舞台に、そこを訪れる庶民の人生模様と通称赤ひげと呼ばれる所長と青年医師の心の交流を描く。長崎で和蘭陀医学を学んだ青年・保本登は、医師見習いとして小石川養生所に住み込むことになる。養生所の貧乏くささとひげを生やし無骨な所長・赤ひげに好感を持てない保本は養生所の禁を犯して破門されることさえ望んでいた。しかし、赤ひげの診断と医療技術の確かさを知り、また彼を頼る貧乏な人々の姿に次第に心を動かされていくのだった……。

During the mayoral election, two ex-prisoners decide to replace the lucky pen of an annoying candidate with a mini-bomb.

In an effort to find an economic means of purifying salt water, a joint U.S.-Japanese military command is set up on an isolated Japanese island where an unusual salt water lake is situated. However, their purifying experiments arouse the prehistoric monster Obaki from hibernation at the lake's bottom, and it proceeds to attack Japan. Although made by a U.S. independent film company, this film was based on a Japanese Toho monster film of 1958, "Daikaiju Varan", from which all of the monster effects scenes and a few incidental dramatic shots were edited into it.

やくざと元締めが対立するさびれた宿場町。そこへ一人の浪人者がやってくる。立ち寄った居酒屋のあるじに、早くこの町を出ていった方がいいと言われるが、その男は自分を用心棒として売り込み始める。やがて男をめぐって、二つの勢力は対立を深めていく……。ハメットの『血の収穫』を翻案、時代劇に西部劇の要素を取り込んだ娯楽活劇。

A skilled country doctor's talents are such that he can even perform operations as difficult and novel as removing a patient's kidney for the first time in Japan. Unfortunately for him, however, his wife's addiction to gambling is of such a magnitude that he is down to selling his underwear to make money. The image sticks and he becomes known as the 'underwear doctor.' On the other hand, his successful surgery's patient is so grateful he himself wants to become a physician.

夫を亡くした圭子は、外国人マスターが経営する銀座のバー“ライラック”の雇われマダムだった。よく店に来ていた利権屋の美濃部が、かつて圭子の下で働いていたユリに店を持たせ、そちらへ頻繁に出入りしているようだ。マスターからはユリのように体を張って売り上げを回復させろと言われてしまう。ある日、狂言自殺をするつもりだったユリが本当に死亡した。葬儀の席で圭子は美濃部に食ってかかるが、血を吐いて倒れてしまう。酒の飲み過ぎで胃潰瘍にかかっていたのだ。やがて圭子は客に体を許すようになるが、その度に裏切られてしまう。

Ryuta and Mineo Komatsu are brothers, both yakuza (gangsters). Mineo, although complicit in crime, even murder, wants out of the gangster life, hoping to become a successful singer instead. Ryuta loves his brother, but Mineo's possible defection presents problems for the gang, and Ryuta realizes he must kill his brother if he wants to survive.

When a rare species of butterfly is found in a mysterious valley in Japan, a pair of entomologists go to investigate and find more. They discover Varan, a giant monster, Who decided to leave the valley and head straight for Tokyo.

A war widow with a young boy manages a farm with her bossy mother-in-law. When a reporter comes to interview her, the two begin an affair. He turns out to be married and won't leave his wife. Her older brother tries to marry off his children and hang on to/ extend his farm through an advantageous marriage in the face of threatened land confiscation and the desire of his children to get comfortable urban jobs instead of the backbreaking work in the paddy fields under parental control.

Ultra-perky model likes single freedom but feels ryosai kenbo ("good wife, wise mother") pressure, exemplified by her bored-to-tears sister.

An Ishiro Honda film. The first part of A Rainbow Plays in My Heart released the same day as the second film.

An Ishiro Honda film. The second part of A Rainbow Plays in My Heart released the same day as the first film.

A woman marries, gives birth to a stillborn child, and divorces, falls in love with a hotel-keeper, only to find herself subordinated to his drive for success, takes up with a tailor who cannot console himself with her strong personality.

Kiyoko (Takamine Hideko) and her husband want to open a coffee shop. She becomes increasingly close to the bank clerk (Mifune Toshiro) she's asked for a loan.

A humble and simple Takezo abandons his life as a knight errant. He's sought as a teacher and vassal by Shogun, Japan's most powerful clan leader. He's also challenged to fight by the supremely confident and skillful Sasaki Kojiro. Takezo agrees to fight Kojiro in a year's time but rejects Shogun's patronage, choosing instead to live on the edge of a village, raising vegetables. He's followed there by Otsu and later by Akemi, both in love with him. The year ends as Takezo assists the villagers against a band of brigands. He seeks Otsu's forgiveness and accepts her love, then sets off across the water to Ganryu Island for his final contest.

町工場を経営する財産家・中島喜一は突然、原水爆とその放射能に対して強い恐怖を抱くようになり、地球上で唯一安全と思われる南米ブラジルへの親類縁者全員の移住を計画する。しかし、このあまりにも突拍子もない行動に対し、現実の生活が脅かされると感じた家族は喜一を準禁治産者として認めてもらうため裁判にかけるのだった。

The story of a couple, a spoiled son and a down-to-earth girl, in Osaka in the early Showa era. The film won the prestigious Blue Ribbon awards for best director, best actor (Morishige) and best actress (Awashima), and the Mainichi Concours award for best actor and best screenplay (Yasumi Toshio). It ranked second (after Naruse Mikio’s Ukigumo) on the Kinema Junpō top ten films for the year.

Forced on the road by yakuza obligations, a man sets out on a reckless journey to Tsumagoi. Movie posters for local cinemas were often displayed at sento (public baths) too. The handwritten text on the bottom here announces the film will play at Hassen for 3 days.

Lonely youth Shinji meets Hatsue, a pretty pearl diver, on the beach and the two fall in love. But Shinji has a rival for Hatsue's affections, Yasuo.

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 legendary gangster raises himself out of a small town and gathers followers on his rise to power.

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……。

The eldest daughter of a rural family Mon returns home from Tokyo pregnant after an affair with a college student Kobata, which causes a scandal that will threaten the marriage prospects of the younger sister San, in her cash-strapped family. The ill-tempered eldest brother Inokichi decides to take on the role of disciplinarian, with harrowing results.

A story of unhappy youths and the perils of lack of sex education.

Ten years into a marriage, the wife is disappointed by the husband's lack of financial success, meaning she has to work and can't treat herself and the husband finds the wife slovenly and mean-spirited: she neither cooks not cleans particularly well and is generally disagreeable. In turn, he alternately ignores her and treats her as a servant. Neither is particularly happy, not helped by their unsatisfactory lodgers. The husband is easily seduced by an ex-colleague, a widow with a small child who needs some security, and considers leaving his wife.

かつて東京・千住に立っていた「お化け煙突」の下で暮らす人々の日常を描いた人間ドラマ。。

A married couple looking for an apartment move in with the husband's co-worker, a widower. The husband becomes jealous of the widower and his wife.

市役所の市民課長・渡辺勘治は30年間無欠勤のまじめな男。ある日、渡辺は自分が胃癌であることを知る。命が残り少ないと悟ったとき、渡辺はこれまでの事なかれ主義的生き方に疑問を抱く。そして、初めて真剣に申請書類に目を通す。そこで彼の目に留まったのが市民から出されていた下水溜まりの埋め立てと小公園建設に関する陳情書だった……。

A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.

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.

Japanese "kayo" film based on the song "Ieraishan" by Yoshiko Yamaguchi.

平安時代、羅生門の下で雨宿りをする下男（上田吉二郎）相手に、旅法師（千秋実）と杣売り（志村喬）が奇妙な話を語り始める。京の都で悪名高き盗賊多襄丸（三船敏郎）が山中で侍夫婦の妻（京マチ子）を襲い、夫（森雅之）を殺害したという。だが、検非違使による調査が始まると、盗賊と妻の証言はまったく異なっており……。

谷崎潤一郎の同名小説を八住利雄が脚色し阿部豊が監督した文芸作。大阪を舞台に美しい四姉妹が織りなす物語。『細雪』はこの後、島耕二(1959年)と市川崑(1983年)により映画化された。四女の妙子を演じた高峰秀子が抜群の演技力を見せる。洪水のシーンに特撮が使われ、豪華な衣装が多数用意されるなど、当時としては破格の製作費がかけられたという。 　昭和初期の蒔岡家。長女の鶴子は夫と共に古い暖簾を守り、次女の幸子は婿養子を迎えて芦屋に分家、三女の雪子は幸子夫妻から縁談を持ちかけられるが上手くいかない。四女の妙子は恋仲になったカメラマンが死亡したことから、自暴自棄になってしまう…。

An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chief and the local gangster bosses.

A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded bus. Desperate to right the wrong, he goes undercover, scavenging Tokyo’s sweltering streets for the stray dog whose desperation has led him to a life of crime. With each step, cop and criminal’s lives become more intertwined and the investigation becomes an examination of Murakami’s own dark side.

The Whole Family Works, Mikio Naruse's adaptation of a Sunao Tokunaga novel, feels more of a piece with the writer/director's quietly observant and psychologically charged later work. For the Naruse-familiar, it is an anomaly only in its placement within his filmography—indeed, this could be a film made by the elder, stasis-minded Naruse momentarily inhabiting, through a metaphysical twist of fate, his stylistically exuberant younger self. Set in depression-era Japan around the time of the Sino-Japanese War (which the director evokes, during a brief dream sequence, by dissolving between children's war games and actual adult warfare), The Whole Family Works gently observes a family coming apart at the seams. Ishimura (Musei Tokugawa) is the jobless father of nine children.

Based on an autobiographical story by Toyota Masako.