Middle-aged woman
This Japanese melodrama chronicles the exploits of a geisha's beautiful daughter. The daughter is the geisha's pride and she spares nothing to insure that she has a bright future. But the hard-working young woman's dreams of becoming a dressmaker are shattered.... She then becomes a nightclub hostess who plays cards with male patrons using her body as the prize.
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.
After a random encounter at a bar, two couples collide. Two men, two women, embroiled in a love-and-hate drama that threatens to engulf them. The sexual anxiety between the interwoven couples tautens right up to the nearly unbearable tension of the climax...
The story contrasts the life of two doctors, former classmates and now both assistant professors at Naniwa University Hospital in Osaka. The brilliant and ambitious surgeon Goro Zaizen stops at nothing to rise to a position of eminence and authority, while the friendly Shuji Satomi busies himself with his patients and research.
Old Farmer's Wife
1965년 개봉한 일본의 흑백 괴수 영화. 감독은 유아사 노리아키(湯浅憲明), 제작 및 배급은 다이에이(大映). 가메라 시리즈의 첫번째 작품이다.
A young intellectual conscientious objector is forced to serve with the Japanese army in Manchuria. He joins with a dim-witted former gangster in an effort to desert by stealing a train.
Tobacco shop proprietress
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.
Ume, Tokumitsu's maid
변호사의 아내 소노코는 미술학교에서 만난 묘령의 여인 미츠코와 사랑에 빠진다. 소노코가 미츠코에게 누드모델이 되어줄 것을 부탁하고, 둘은 서로의 육체를 탐미한다. 여기에 미츠코의 애인과 소노코의 남편이 가세해 묘한 사랑의 이야기가 이어진다. 다니자키 준이치로의 원작을 바탕으로 당시 일본영화계에서 금기시 되었던 여성간의 동성애를 요염하지만 깔끔하게 묘사한 마스무라 야스조의 대표작이다.
Based on a novel by Tsutomu Mizukami, this haunting melodrama focuses on a young bamboo worker who takes his father's prostitute as his wife.
A talent scout who had his eyes set on a star left-handed pitcher in the high school baseball world falls to his death at his hotel. Was it a homicide or suicide? His junior colleague pursues the mystery of his death.
Three stories about the relationship between men and women: "Playgirl" (Masumura/Shirasaka), "Company No. 2" (Yoshimura/Kasahara), and "San Nyotai" (Kinugasa/Shindô).
After a businessman is murdered, an investigation identifies a suspect who is then put on trial for that crime.
Okura
One of many adaptations of "Onna no isshō", this time by Yasuzo Masumura as a starring vehicle for famed actress Machiko Kyo.
Seventeen years after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, a newspaper reporter looks for the bomb's effects, but everyone seems to have forgotten. He meets a woman who was there when it happened but when they fall in love she isn't able to move on.
Coffee shop proprietress
Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Eriko" by Yukio Hashi.
등산 중이던 세 사람은 사고로 절벽의 한 로프에 매달리게 된다. 모두 죽을 수 밖에 없는 위기에서 아내는 남편이 매달린 로프를 끊어 자신과 다른 남자를 살린다. 아내는 살인죄로 법정에 서게 되고 그녀의 고백이 시작된다. 속도감 있게 과거와 현재를 넘나드는 교차 구성이 훌륭한 영화로 와카오 아야코를 일본영화사의 큰 배우로 이끈 작품이다.
O-kō
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.
Maiden A
Contemporary musical drama film by Yasuzo Masumura.
Hanae
A youth drama set in a Japanese university which is home to a group of active, leftist students.
The first story concerns an attractive young woman who works in a Tokyo nightclub. Her plan for a solid financial future has a double whammy. In the second story, a beautiful young woman is employed by an unscrupulous real estate agent to convince male clients to invest in worthless property. The last story is about a widowed geisha who has no real financial worries and who falls in love with a forger.
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.
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.
Kin - Tahei's wife
1957 drama from director Kôzaburô Yoshimura
선거 위반으로 구속된 아버지를 찾아간 구치소에서 긴이치는 아키코와 알게 된다. 아키코의 아버지는 아픈 어머니를 입원시키기 위해 나쁜 짓을 하다 잡혔던 것이다. 긴이치는 오토바이에 아키코를 태우고 해안으로 간다. 수영복을 입은 아키코의 성숙한 모습에 긴이치는 충격을 받아 넘치는 에너지를 짜버리듯 놀이에 흥겨워 하지만, 그러던 중 3년 전에 가출한 엄마랑 우연히 만나게 된다. 아버지의 보석금으로 10만엔을 빌려 줄 것을 부탁하지만, 그 자신을 담보로 하지 않으면 돈은 빌려줄 수 없다고 거절 당한다. 한 편 아키코는 엄마의 입원비 뿐만 아니라 아버지의 보석금도 마련하지 않으면 안된다. 누드 모델만은 하고 싶지 않은 아키코는 그만 몸을 팔 결심을 하고 긴이치에게 헤어지자고 말한다. 긴이치는 그 때 몸을 빼앗길뻔한 상태에서 아키코를 구하고 엄마한테 빌린 돈 10만엔을 그녀의 손에 쥐어준다. '받을 이유가 없다'고 거절하는 아키코에게 긴이치는 격정적인 입맞춤을 한다. 상처 입은 아키코를 안고 긴이치는 처음으로 솔직하게 아키코에게 사랑을 이야기 한다.
Adaptation of the Yukio Mishima novel.
