Michiko Kuwano

A lawyer fights doggedly for a more just legal system to rid Japan of its draconian penal system.

Kotobuki-za is a story of the Naniwa-bushi singer Baichuken Tsurumaru.

Japanese Warmovie

Japanese propaganda film about the Normanton Incident.

The story of a boy who befriends a lonely middle-aged man.

Most of the students studying Ikebana with Kozoe Iemoto are daughters of rich Tokyo families. Kozoe meets and grows close to a doctor who proposes marriage but whose mother harbours ill feeling towards her because of an incident in the mountains where a child got into difficulties. Kozoe rejects the proposal but falls ill and when she recovers, decides to devote herself entirely to the world of flower arranging.

In the movies of those times, you can see young boys in the company scene often. Those boys were called kyuji (給仕), which means “waiter” literally. They are doing odd jobs in the company including serving tea, ushering visitors, buying tobacco, etc. Ordering lunch for the individual requests was also an important job. Those boys were hired often as soon as they graduated from elementary school.

한 가족의 몰락과 재건에 관한 이야기를 담고 있는 이 작품은 당시 흥행과 작품성에서 모두 성공한 초기작으로 장면간의 전환 또는 휴지부로 기능하는 여백 쇼트의 사용, 움직임이 없는 정적인 카메라 등 가장 오즈적이라고 특징지을 수 있는 후기 작품들의 양식과 내러티브 형태가 특징적으로 드러나는 작품이다. 경제계의 거물이었던 도다씨의 갑작스러운 죽음 이후 둘째 아들 쇼지로는 중국 천진으로 돈을 벌기 위해 떠나고 남은 도다 부인과 막내 딸 세츠코는 귀찮은 존재로 외면당한 채 형제들 집을 전전하다 결국 처분조차 힘든 바닷가의 낡은 집으로 옮겨간다. 도다씨의 기일을 지내기 위해 천진에서 돌아온 쇼지로는 어머니와 여동생에 대한 형제들의 태도에 대해 분통을 터트린다.

Jie (Michiko Kuwano) attended a women's university with the financial support of her geisha sister Oha (Hiroko Kawasaki) and became a lawyer. The aim. Michiko (Kuniko Miyake), one of the seven best friends from the same women's college, is getting married. The man she's marrying is her sister's lover.

A man who works late hours at a deadening job lives together with his wife and his younger sister. The younger sister's a modern girl who's starting to receive romantic attention from one of her co-workers.

Two childhood friends go their own ways but meet again some years later after they have both married. They get re-acquainted, meet each others’ families, and all is well. Then the disagreements start...

A young doctor, Kozo Tsumura, falls for young nurse Katsue Takaishi. But she's got a secret: she's a widow with a son. Kozo and Katsue decide to run away to Kyoto, but her child suddenly became sick and she just missed the train and Kozo. She makes it to Kyoto finally, but is unable to meet him. Plus she isn't accepted into Kyoto society. She goes back to her hometown and tries to forget him. She quits the hospital to concentrate on her singing. She makes her professional debut with the hit "Aizen Katsura". Kozo is in the audience.

Approaching their graduation ceremony, Saegusa, Sanae, and their classmates go on an overnight trip to Hakone with their teacher Ms. Kawahara, who will soon leave school. They thank her doing so and go on their respective paths, ending soon their student life.

A Japanese wartime film directed by Yasushi Sasaki.

Sabu Toshinobu is an archaeologist who has taken a liking to Kinuyo Tanaka, the daughter of an archaeologist at an inn in Izu, where he is visiting to conduct an excavation. Sabun gets along well with his childhood friend Michiko Kuwano, but his mother (Fumiko Okamura) is against her, so he gives up easily and ends up being married to Kinuyo Tanaka.

Sabu Toshinobu is an archaeologist who has taken a liking to Kinuyo Tanaka, the daughter of an archaeologist at an inn in Izu, where he is visiting to conduct an excavation. Sabun gets along well with his childhood friend Michiko Kuwano, but his mother (Fumiko Okamura) is against her, so he gives up easily and ends up being married to Kinuyo Tanaka.

Yuki is a young, single mother supporting herself and her son, Haru, with a job as a bar hostess.

매일 매일 되풀이 되는 일상속에서 조카 '세츠코'가 방문한다. 대학교수인 숙부와 매사에 여성스러움과 부의 상징으로 골프치기를 강요하는 숙모사이에서 '세츠코'는 일상에 변화주기를 시도한다. 골프치러간다고 거짓말을 하고 사제의 집에 가서 골프가방을 맡기고 도쿄의 술집에 들른 숙부앞에 '세츠코'는 도쿄기생이 보고싶다고 기생집에 가자고 조르는데…

A musical film made for the inauguration of Shochiku's Ofuna Studio, with an all-star cast of the era.

A melodrama about a businessman's relations with the three women in his life.

아리가토 씨는 젊고 친절한 버스 운전사로, 그가 모는 버스는 가난한 해안가 마을에서 산을 넘어 도시로 향한다. 그는 좁은 길에서 길을 비켜주는 주민들에게 언제나 ‘고맙습니다’라는 인사를 전한다. 딸을 대처로 보내려는 걱정 많은 어머니와 그 딸, 아리가토 씨에게 추파를 던지는 여인 등 오늘도 다양한 승객들이 아리가토 씨의 버스에 오른다.

A Japanese film

두 아이를 키우던 하루코는 홀로 아들 카니치를 키우던 카이치와 재혼한다. 그런데 얼마 후, 투자 사기 사건을 일으킨 카이치는 가족을 버리고 사라진다. 하루코는 아이들을 건사하기 위해 술집에 나가기 시작한다. 세월이 흘러 아이들이 장성한 후, 뜻밖에 하루코의 과거가 문제가 되는데, 딸 카요코는 남편에게서 버림 받고, 아들 히데오는 범죄자가 되고 만다. 기자가 된 카니치만이 유일하게 하루코의 곁을 지킨다. 시미즈의 마지막 무성영화로, 자연스러운 조명을 사용한 네오리얼리즘적 촬영기법을 통해 시각적 모더니티를 완성한 걸작이다. 급속한 시대의 변화 속에서 인물들이 겪는 내적 갈등을 통해 당대 일본의 어두운 사회상을 섬세하게 담아낸다.

The story is centered around the devastating experiences of two villagers, Osaki Shuichi, and his cousin, Nishimiura Kinue, when they leave their hometown for the metropolis of Tokyo. They are in love with each other, but Kinue is expected to marry the lawyer Kanda Seiji. In consequence, Shukichi leaves for Tokyo, where he becomes tutor to the son of the rick Iwaki family. The heartbroken Kinue also makes her way to the capital, where she becomes a bar hostess.