Sachiko Meguro

Sachi Hamano's Yurisai (Lily Festival) is about a man (Mickey Curtis) in his seventies who comes to live in an apartment building that also houses seven elderly women. The film examines the ladies' sexual desires as the man proceeds to woo each of them. Kazuko Yoshiyuki portrays one of the female residents. The film was adapted from a novel by Houko Momotani and was screened at the Montreal World Film Festival.

국회의원을 인질로 잡고 농성 중인 청년을 설득하려던 형사 야부이케는 ‘세계의 법칙을 회복하라’는 수수께끼 같은 쪽지를 받고 혼란에 빠진다. 잠시 망설이던 사이, 청년은 인질을 쏘고 자신도 자살한다. 이 사건으로 문책을 받은 야부이케는 무기한 휴가를 떠나게 된다. 우연히 도착한 숲에서 그는 주위의 모든 나무를 독으로 물들이는 한 그루의 나무를 발견하는데, ‘카리스마’란 이름의 이 나무를 둘러싸고 숲에서는 여러 입장들이 싸우고 있다. 나무와 숲 모두를 구하고 싶다는 생각을 한 야부이케는 이 숲의 투쟁 속에 들어가게 된다.

Suicide has long been used as a form of social protest in Japan. In this film, set in 1703, samurai culture is being transformed by the emergence of a new merchant class. Elements of the social contract are beginning to unravel, and some unscrupulous people took undue advantage of these changes before the social order was re-created. In this story, a rich merchant gives his clerk an I.O.U. instead of wages. When the impoverished clerk presents the paper to the merchant at the agreed upon time asking for payment, the man flies into a rage and pretends he never wrote it and claims the clerk is trying to defraud him. Then he sets his henchmen on the clerk to administer a beating.

When Daisaku Hotta (Kosaburo Onogawa), the cheer leader of Tonan High School, hears that Rikiya Kudo (Saburo Shindo), the captain of the Judo team and Shiro Usami (Kei Wakakura) of the boxing team are about to fight, he breaks it up that are apt to erupt so suddenly on campus. Rikiya is an honor student, recommended to the Toa University by his school and is almost certain of being accepted next spring. Shiro is long on brute strength but short on brains. Naturally, they waste little love on each other, so there is very little ground for any understanding between them.

The story of a sexy girl with a passion for attracting men and counting the money she entices from them with her body.

14th in the 17 film Daiei "Woman Gambler" series

A beautiful hostess of a small restaurant moonlights as a well-trained assassin tasked with taking the life of a wealthy businessman...

The entangled relations between the son of a seductive tea-ceremony teacher and the women in his father's life. Based on the novel by Kawabata Yasunari.

Up until this point, young Sayuri Nanjo has had to live most of her life in a nun-run boarding school for orphans and away from her parents. That's all about to change when her real father mysteriously comes to get her and finally bring her home.

A film about two boys and two girls, and how they each come to sex, each in his or her own way.

Ken Ogata plays Shiro Miyagi, a sprinter with Olympic aspirations whose dreams were shattered by WWII. A broken man, he leads the dissolute life of a gigolo until a chance meeting with a fiery young athlete named Hiroko (Michiyo Yasuda). Realizing that she has talent as a sprinter, Miyagi sees a second chance at Olympic glory in becoming her coach. Following Miyagi’s unconventional, military-style training, Hiroko sets a record for the 100-meter dash, but her greatest hurdle proves to be a “sex check” which all professional athletes must pass.

A man operates a small real estate business near Osaka. A man from Tokyo asks for help in buying a large tract of land in order, he says, to build an automobile factory. But by accident the realtor learns that the Tokaido Railway Line is going to be built directly across the land just acquired.

Ide of the Kokusai Rayon Company visits a supermarket and finds cheap shirts being passed off as his company's products. But a closer look reveals that the last letter of "Kokusai" has been changed to "n" and reads "Kokusan." The buyers, however, are all under the impression that they are buying Kokusai shirts. Ide begins an investigation to find out where the shirts are being made, but before he is able to uncover anything, he is killed on a train and his little black book, filled with secret data, is stolen. Sugino then starts a one-man search for both the killer and the factory turning out the cheap shirts.

Two car manufacturers spy on each other to try to find out details and prices of a new sports car each is about to launch.

일본의 대표적인 작가 에도가와 란포의 소설을 미시마 유키오가 희극화한 것을 영화로 만들었다. 각본은 '벌거 벗은 섬', '오니바바' 등으로 유명한 감독 신도 가네토가 썼다. 원작은 몇 번이나 영상화된 바 있으나 이 작품은 고혹적이며 농염한 분위기로 스토리가 전개, 갑자기 기괴한 뮤지컬이 시작된다는 이색작으로 완성되었다. 쿄 마치코가 분하는 검은 도마뱀이 남장을 하고 호텔에서 춤추며 탈출을 하기도 하고 검은 도마뱀의 표적이 된 아가씨를 지키는 경호원들이 식사를 하며 즐겁게 경호원 노래를 부르는 등 관객을 이차원 공간으로 끌어들여가는 연출이 곳곳에 눈에 띈다.

A young girl is rigorously trained in the feminine arts so that she can become a geisha. As she struggles through life, she learns to live not just as a woman but as a complete person.

Contemporary musical drama film by Yasuzo Masumura.

The inventor of a ground-breaking glue, Sanada, becomes rich thanks to his discovery a high executive in his company. Because of this promotion, his world is changing completely : his wife behaves like never before, considering she's now rich and has the right to do whatever she wants, even having an affair. (Also occasionally known in English as “Overflow”)

밝게 웃는 얼굴과 건강함이 매력인 시마 교코. 엉뚱한 사건을 계기로 제과회사의 마스코트로 선택된 교코는 곧 스타덤에 오른다. 거대한 현대 소비사회에 희롱당하고 부딪치면서도 강한 의지를 관철하는 남녀를 그린 마스무라 야스조의 초기 대표작.

Kosaka drops to death while ice climbing with his friend Uozu to see the sunrise on the New Year’s Day. The investigators try to find the cause of the death, then discover that the cut rope was made in the factory for which Uozu’s brother works.

The story revolves around a young man appointed to rescue a troubled hospital who must choose between two women, a dedicated nurse or a spoiled rich girl.

Adaptation of the Yukio Mishima novel.

A traditional bar mistress in Kyoto clashes with her Tokyo rival.

Large star shaped aliens travel to earth in hopes of warning them about an oncoming catastrophe. To prevent panic about their appearance, one alien takes the form of a popular singer.

Based on the original work of Akutagawa Prize-winning writer Ashihei Hino, the film depicts the love of the proud geisha Nobukichi Hakata in the early Taisho era.

Tokyo, 1890. Through avarice, a series of misunderstandings, and failures of courage, the engagement of Kan-ichi (a student) and Miya (the daughter of Kan-ichi's debtor) is canceled to enable Miya to marry Tomiyama, a wealthy banker's son. In bitter despair, Kan-ichi breaks with his friends, drops his studies, and declares he has ceased to be human. He apprentices to a money-lender, and he's soon ruthless and wealthy. Several years later, Miya's in misery, her husband mistreats her. She goes to Kan-ichi to beg forgiveness; he pushes her away. He's now pursued by Akagashi, herself a cold-hearted loan shark. Can anything free Kan-ichi's hard heart from the golden demon

식모살이를 하던 큰딸 몽이 임신을 하고 돌아오자, 아버지는 크게 언짢아 한다. 오빠 이노키치까지 홀몸이 아닌 그녀를 심하게 구박하자, 이를 견디지 못한 몽은 집을 나간다. 한편, 언니의 도움으로 간호학교에 다니던 상은 애인과의 결혼을 서두르지만 마음대로 되지 않는다.