Mayuri Mokushô

The altered American release of Godzilla Raids Again. Originally meant to be known as the The Volcano Monsters, the film was eventually released as "Gigantis."

1955년에 개봉된 고지라 시리즈의 두번째 작품. 1954년에 개봉한 고지라가 대히트를 치게 되자 당연히 후속작에 대한 이야기가 나오게 되었다. 그러던중 칸사이의 스폰서가 강력하게 요구한 탓으로 두번째 작품의 배경은 오사카로 옮겨가게 되었다. 무려 3개월 만에(!) 뚝딱 해치운 이 영화는 츠부라야 에이지가 특촬감독으로 단독 기명된 최초의 작품이기도 하다. 이전 작품에는 고지라만 등장했으나, 이 영화에선 최초로 고지라와 맞서는 상대편 괴수가 등장한다. 안기라스[3]가 그 첫 타자로서 고지라와 오사카성에서 대혈투를 벌인다.

태평양 전쟁 중에 도미오카를 만나 사랑에 빠진 유키코는 그가 이혼하고 자신과 살아갈 것이라고 생각한다. 그러나 그는 여전히 아내와 함께 살고 있었고, 유키코의 갑작스러운 방문에 놀란 도미오카는 집을 나와 온천이 있는 여관으로 그녀를 데려간다. 그리고 아내가 병이 들어 도저히 떠날 수 없다고 하는데...

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.

Asahi Shoji's office girl, Aiko Tatebayashi, is a modern girl of Akira herself. The dentist's father has already cleared up his eldest daughter Keiko to Mizukami, but this time Aiko's turn and her sister's wedding greeting card are handy to add a request for the color of her sister's son. However, Aiko, who wants to be herself, uses the help of her friend, private detective Nobuko Migishi, to break through the behavior of the matchmaker, Mrs. Yamaguchi, who is a matchmaker. However, Nobuko's mistress Rokuro Kojima has become sloppy these days, so when Aiko investigated this time, it was found that the cause was Kojima's best friend Hiroshi Minamimura. Aiko was completely indignant at Minamimura's rude attitude of saying what she thought. In the mouth of Mrs. Yamaguchi's match, Mr. Fumio Kaki, the sales manager, is the best candidate.

Young Setsuko Fujino begins a new job at Tokyo Chemical Company. She likes her boss, Ippei Hitachi, and enjoys serving him tea, despite the fact that her fellow workers think the women employees should not have to act in such a servile manner. When the women go on strike over the issue, Setsuko finds herself caught in the middle. When the heir to the company, Ryosuke Tanabe, proposes marriage to Setsuko, she is honored, but realizes that her real affection is for Hitachi.

Japanese comedy film.

1950s Japanese comedy.

Melodrama by Kon Ichikawa

Romantic melodrama

The critical establishment was clearly not prepared to accept a woman's prison film featuring former prostitutes recovering from venereal diseases, unwanted pregnancies, and estranged lovers. With its cat fights, hysterical tantrums, film noir lighting, and dramatic music, White Beast is indicative of the new influences of the Hollywood psychological thriller on Naruse. Caged (John Cromwell, 1950) initiated a cycle of women's prison movies in the United States that may or may not have been shown in Japan, but the stylistics of White Beast draw on the same paranoid woman's films and film noir conventions that preceded the American cycle.

The Angry Street includes a great deal of location shooting in the rebuilt city, including downtown streets, residential neighborhoods, the campus of the University of Tokyo, and the high life of jazzy dance halls. Sudo (Hara Yasumi) and Mori (Uno Jukichi) are two university students who make money by picking up rich girls in dance clubs and conning them into giving them cash. Mori is the brains of the operation, and Sudo is the suave dancer who picks up the girls. Over the course of the film, Sudo becomes involved with three different girls and is drawn into the gangster milieu, which he seems unable to resist even though he is responsible for his mother, grandmother, and sister, Masako (Wakayama Setsuko). In this world of bad boys and girls, Masako is the pillar of strength and moral virtue who finally enables Mori to straighten out.

An early film by Kon Ichikawa

Three humorous love stories set in rural Japan.

전후의 일본, 한차례의 세력 다툼이 있은 후, 두목이 된 젊은 야쿠자가 알콜 중독자인 의사에게 치료를 받는다. 의사는 그 젊은이에게 결핵이라는 진단을 내리고 치료할 것을 권하며 곧 두 사람 사이에는 묘한 우정이 싹튼다. 하지만 얼마 후, 감옥에서 출소한 이전의 두목이 자신의 자리를 되찾으려 하면서 그 젊은 야쿠자는 곤경에 처하게 되는데...

Slice of life film centered around a couple of years in the life of a rural high school girl.