Fudeko Tanaka

1981 Japanese film based on the novel by Naoshiro Yoshimoto.

A tragic love story between a prostitute and a young trainee monk.

A man whose son has been murdered pushes to create laws to financially protect victims' families.

In this retelling of an infamous unsolved heist, a couple tries to outlast the statute of limitations after successfully stealing 300 million yen.

Roman Porno from 1975.

A young woman fails her university entrance exam and starts shoplifting.

료마는 막부 쪽의 자객에게 저격 대상이 된 것뿐만 아니라 근황의 주류파들에게도 저격 대상이 된다. 1867년 11월 새로운 정치를 세워야 한다는 킨노파와 현 권력을 유지하고자 하는 사바쿠파의 일대 충돌이 일어나는데, 료마는 킨노파에 속해있다. 그리고 료마는 우연히 알게 된 여자 반이 사바쿠파의 테러 그룹인 신센구미의 멤버인 토미타 사부로의 여자인 것도 모른채 친하게 지낸다.

Minoru visits his home on Okinoerabu island for the first time in thirty years. Seeing the old man who used to be in love with his mother, Minoru recalls the old days spent on the island with his young, beautiful mother.

죄수들에게 스콜피온으로 알려진 마츠는 교도소의 원활한 운영을 방해하고 교도관에 대한 모욕적인 공격에 대한 복수로 감옥에 갇힌다. 고위 인사의 방문으로 하루의 유예가 주어진 그녀는 그것을 이용하여 다시 간수를 공격하고 이것은 더 잔인한 처벌과 굴욕으로 이어진다. 하지만 그녀에게 6명의 다른 여성 수감자들과 함께 탈출할 기회를 준다. 감옥에서 그들의 초현실적인 도피는 교도관, 교도관, 그리고 서로에 대해 죄수들을 구덩이에 빠뜨리고..

마사루는 날아다니는 몽상에 잠기는 것이 취미다. 그를 제외한 그의 다른 가족 구성원들은 사회적으로나 경제적으로 자신이 처한 운명에 순종하며 살아간다. 반면 새로움을 꿈꾸는 마사루는 자신이 처한 상황에서 벗어나기 위해 안간힘을 쓴다. 하지만 대신 그가 얻는 것은 자신의 삶과 세계에 대한 크나큰 환멸뿐이다.

About an establishment where old men pay to sleep besides young girls that had been narcotized and happen to be naked, the sleeping beauties. The old men are expected to take sleeping pills and share the bed for a whole night with a girl without attempting anything of bad taste like putting a finger inside their mouths.

A film dealing with the trials and tribulations of a primary school before and after the Pacific War, set in Fukashima Prefecture.

Struggling with his true emotions, dreams, memories of the past and the reality Shizuo is about to marry, but is torn between his wife-to-be and the love to his mother.

Ayako, a young woman from a rural fishing village, is sold by her family into a brothel when her father takes ill. There, she is quickly stripped of her innocence and illusions.

남자들이 모두 전쟁터로 끌려간 중세 일본. 시어머니와 며느리는 생존을 위해 함께 살아간다. 그들이 선택한 삶의 방법은 하이에나 같은 수렵이었고 대상은 인간이었다. 강을 타고 떠내려오는 사무라이 시체들의 장구류와 일본도를 벗겨 근처 동굴에 사는 노인네와 물물교환을 하고 그러다가 급해지면 살인도 한다. 두 명의 여인은 생계가 걸려있는 문제이다 보니 이러한 작업이 매우 능숙하다. 그러던 어느 날 시어머니의 아들이자 며느리의 남편 대신에 살아 돌아온 하치라는 남자가 등장한다. 그는 풀밭을 껑충껑충 뛰어다니고 고기도 터프하게 뜯어먹는 남자다. 죽은 남편에 대한 도덕적 신념과 성적인 욕망 사이에서 갈등하던 며느리는 결국 하치와 깊은 사랑에 빠지게 되고 시어머니는 우연히 그 사실을 알게 되어 복잡한 감정에 사로잡히는데...

Tajima Yumi, in grade school, is overjoyed when her father says they are moving to an apartment in a big city. But the beautiful home she had imagined is in a slum area called Samurai Village, a little settlement, where people live from hand to mouth. To make things worse, a group of vagrants descends on the already crowded ragpickers' village. The sight depresses and saddens little Yumi, but when her father gives up drinking, it makes up for everything in her eyes, and when he runs past liquor shops to avoid temptation, Yumi's laughter rings out merrily again. A unique social drama depicting the growth of a new generation that confronts the world of adults full of vanity in the image of a girl living in poverty.

Japanese drama.

Joe Shishido is an ambitious bike racetrack tout who becomes inadvertently involved in a triangle with a vulnerable prostitute (Izumi Ashikawa) and her brutal yakuza pimp (George Ai).

A touching story of a girl who sails away from her love to keep her family together.

Keisuke and Shizuko grew up by the Kitakami river and came to fall in love before they knew it. Eighteen years ago, Shizuko was left an orphan and was taken in by Keisuke's parents, who had raised her as their own child. At the riverside when the cherry blossoms are falling, Keisuke, now enrolled in university, promises Shizuko that he will tell his parents about them at the start of the summer vacation. He then sets off for Tokyo...

One of Sayuri Yoshinaga's first leading roles.

Mega star Akira Kobayashi stars as Jiro in the rambunctious tale of a chef who opens a restaurant in the busy Ginza district. His culinary skills and dashing good looks bring in the women as well as unwanted trouble, while an explosive political scandal builds around his girlfriend’s business...

Rambler Shinji arrives in town armed with nothing but a guitar. With assistance from an old gun-for-hire friend, he sets about to stop the mob from turning an honest ranch into a gambling resort.

Maki, a porter at the Sakura Hotel, finds a body in Room No. 2 and picks up a piece of paper on which is written "one-third of the key", also the part of a key. From a newspaper he learns that the dead man is an official who has been detained as a suspect in a bribery case involving 150,000,000 yen and that another suspect named Matsunaga is still in custody. Maki realizes that if he can obtain the other two-thirds of the key, he will be a multi-millionaire.

A man is wrongfully accused of murder.

버스회사에서 근무하는 게이코는 비행청소년을 위한 사회단체에서 활동하다 노부를 만난다. 게이코는 노부를 바른 길로 이끌기 위해 갖은 노력을 하지만 노부의 옛 친구들이 노부를 가만히 두지 않는다.

The young Takako Kuramoto has come to Tokyo to study and starts working for the rich Tashiro family as tutor of the daughter, Kumiko, while she receives attention from her two older brothers, Yukichi and Shinji. Meanwhile, the exact parentage of Shinji comes to light.

Roppeita is big in size, clumsy and full of energy. When his grandfather orders him to move out to Tokyo to save a sinking milk delivery business a distant relative of his runs, he encounters the most strangest of clientele.

Japanese drama film.

전후 부흥이 한창 진행되고 있던 1950년대의 일본. 당시의 도쿄에 점재한 홍등가의 하나 ‘스자키’로 이어지는 다리의 기슭에 낡은 선술집이 있다. 매춘방지법시행 이후 머지않아 사라질 풍경 스자키의 유곽과 선술집을 배경으로 그곳에 출입하는 사람들의 일상과 남녀의 관계를 메마른 정서와 유머로 그려내고 있다.

Haruki Murakami is a successful family man and the head of a camera company. Unbeknownst to Murakami, his arrogant son oscillates between a mistress and a new lover who sings at a nightclub. When Murakami’s disabled daughter befriends the mistress, the affair throws the family into turmoil.

Japanese drama film.

Yasuichiro Isa, who works in the labor section of Sone Mining Tokyo Headquarters, paid a monthly fee for his younger brother, Reiji, who was in trouble because he had a bonus of 10,000 yen more.

A group of Okinawan high school girls are drafted as nurses during the American invasion of the island. As the enemy army advances further, the situation for the girls becomes increasingly desperate as food and shelter run out and the number of injured climbs, leading to the film's tragic finale.

Five women classmates from a college in Tokyo are on the first stretch of a walking tour when one of them, Masako, falls ill at a railway station. Osen, a middle-aged maid from a nearby inn, takes her in and nurses her, assisted by Dr. Minami, a young physician who diagnoses her illness as a mild case of pneumonia. With Masako in good hands and needing a few days to recuperate, her classmates continue their tour. Masako’s recovery, however, is hampered by her spoiled and immature nature and her determination to punish the world for the loss of her mother.

Sumako, a country girl, becomes a great actress with the help of Hogetsu,a scholar who brought some of European realism to the Japan's stage. The relationship leads to the end of his marriage and the breakup of his Arts Society. This is another version of Kenji Mizoguchi's film "The Love of Sumako the Actress" ("Joyû Sumako no koi"), from the same year. Both tells the story of the famous actress Sumako Mitsui (1886-1919), considered the first great modern theater actress in Japan. Mizoguchi himself is said to have preferred Kinugasa's version.

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

After learning that he has accidentally killed a man in a fight, Unokichi must look after the man's pregnant widow.

A comedy about two salarymen who routinely degrade themselves for their boss.

A small community in wartime Japan learn how to make do with less.

A sixteen-year-old who had been living on her own since her mother died, frequently gets in trouble with the police. She gets sent to an "institute" for young girls in the countryside. There the residents grow their own food, cook and clean for themselves, and are taught language, music, and sewing. While there the young girl slowly begins to form friendships and come out of her shell.

1942 adaptation of Izumi Kyoka's novel.

신슈의 여관에서 일하는 오후미는 여관 후계자인 겐키치와 사랑에 빠지고 만다. 아버지의 반대에 부딪힌 겐키치는 오후미와 함께 무작정 도쿄로 도망친다. 그러나 곱게 자란 도련님 겐키치는 돈 벌 궁리는커녕 얼마 지나지 않아 홑몸도 아닌 오후미를 내팽개친다. 남겨진 오후미는 홀로 아들을 낳고, 아이를 떠돌이 아코디언 연주자 요시타로에게 수양 아들로 내준다. 요시타로와 함께 떠돌이 생활을 하던 오후미는 순회공연을 갔다가 겐키치와 재회한다.

Father, son Kentaro and daughter Ochiyo, who live on the banks of the Sumida River, regain their love for each other after family discord and separation. The film is considered lost.