Yukichi Iwata

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

사요코는 아버지가 거둔 오노와 결혼은 약속했지만, 오노의 학업 때문에 두 사람의 결혼은 미뤄지고 있다. 한편, 고노가의 장남 킨고는 출세나 금전에는 별 관심이 없는데, 계모는 자신과 딸 후지오를 생각해 여러 가지 방법을 모색한다. 후지오는 이복 오빠 킨고의 친구이자 예비 외교관 무네치카와 정혼한 사이다. 그러나 후지오 모녀는 무네치카가 성에 차지 않고, 후지오는 영어 선생인 오노와 결혼하려는 계획을 세운다. 학업을 핑계로 확답을 미루던 오노는 후지오 때문에 결국 사요코에게 파혼을 선언한다. 일본의 문호 나쓰메 소세키가 쓴 첫 번째 신문연재소설을 각색했다.

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.

Keitaro is a law student and Yaeko s a high school girl. They are neighbors, and their friendship is starting to develop into something more romantic. Then, Yaeko's sister Kyouko has a breakup with her husband and returns home. Kyouko is clearly interested in Keitaro and Yae becomes anxious.

The film tells of the strained relationship between a mother and her two sons after the death of the family patriarch.

Japanese silent film.

This 1932 adaptation is the earliest sound version of the ever-popular and much-filmed Chushingura story of the loyal 47 retainers who avenged their feudal lord after he was obliged to commit hara-kiri due to the machinations of a villainous courtier. As the first sound version of the classic narrative, the film was something of an event, and employed a stellar cast, who give a roster of memorable performances. Director Teinosuke Kinugasa was primarily a specialist in jidai-geki (period films), such as the internationally celebrated Gate of Hell (Jigokumon, 1953), and although he is now most famous as the maker of the avant-garde silent films A Page of Madness (Kurutta ichipeji, 1926) and Crossroads (Jujiro, 1928), Chushingura is in fact more typical of his output than those experimental works. The film ranked third in that year’s Kinema Junpo critics’ poll, and Joseph Anderson and Donald Richie noted that 'not only the sound but the quick cutting was admired by many critics.

The film is a lengthy work interweaving characters from different backgrounds and social strata in a narrative centered around the experiences of its heroine, Yumie Sone. Over two hours long, Seven Seas was released theatrically in two parts, with the first part entitled "Virginity Chapter" coming out in December 1931, while the second part, "Chastity Chapter," followed in March 1932. Near the beginning of the narrative, at a garden party given by the wealthy Yagibashi family in Tokyo, Yumie meets Takehiko, the Yagibashis' playboy son and the brother of Yumie's fiancé, Yuzuru. Yumie, a young middle-class woman, lives with her ailing father, a retired ministry official, an older sister, and a younger sister still a child (played by a very young Hideko Takamine). Takehiko, who has just returned from a trip to Europe, is attracted to Yumie and contrives to have her stay overnight at his family's mansion where he takes advantage of her.