Tamae Kiyokawa

Japanese comedy film.

Coal miner Isamu Oba is forced to quit his village and leave his mother and siblings behind. Mining buddy Ichiro accompanies him to Tokyo, and the pair enjoy several "fish-out-of-water" sequences before finding employment at a boxing gym with trainer Sawada and his spunky sister Tomoko. The boys also find part time night jobs as roving minstrels in the club district courtesy of benevolent gang boss Asakawa. Of course, they run afoul of boss Karasawa's cruel gang. Karasawa also has it in for Asakawa, and this indirectly throws a spanner into the works as far as Isamu's burgeoning success as a kickboxer. When Asakawa 's HQ is burned to the ground by Karasawa's men, Asakawa tries to kill Karasawa - which, of course, leads to his own gruesome death. Isamu goes on the rampage with his sword, wiping out Karasawa and men.

An old man dies of heartbreak when a cruel landlord is about to repossess his land. The old man haunts the landlord from the grave. Since the man died in debt, his wife and daughter are indentured servants and are forced to work in the landlord's factory.

A middle-aged factory engineer trains, marries, and ultimately loses a teenage bride after she enslaves him to her whims.

Japanese comedy directed by Noriaki Yuasa.

A story about four best friends and their lives inside and outside college. Then suddenly one of them receives a surprising offer to be a movie star.

Japanese comedy film.

Second "Pfc. Story" sequel and the ninth and final sequel to "Story of Second Class Private", the only one in both series not directed by Seiichi Fukuda.

Set in the postwar turmoil, Akasaka no shimai paints a vivit portrait of the life of three sisters who struggle to live in Tokyo.

Kohei Misugi works in a vegetable market, but his ambition is to be a photographer. He is given his first opportunity to demonstrate his talent by the Sakura Film Company which offers him an assignment to "Cover Tokyo" with a camera. But he is disillusioned when he is told he must work together with Miharu, a good looking girl in the film company's publicity department. Then the fun begins.

Jidaigeki by Tai Kato

Story of young love in the hills.

Kitagawa Utamaro is a famous ukiyo-e artist known for his paintings of beautiful women. The courtesan who became his model became even more popular. Ocho, a resident of an apartment building, hears about this and secretly plans to follow Otose, the owner of Mizuta-ya, who became famous as Utamaro's model. At this time, the Kano school, headed by Kano Eikawa, which was under the control of the shogunate, is dissatisfied with Utamaro's fame and tries to compromise him…

The story follows Oshino, a geisha who is trying to start a new life with a lover who is a painter. However, her past filled with debts and pimps catches up to her.

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.

1957 drama from director Kôzaburô Yoshimura

작은 마을에서 할머니와 단둘이 살던 오노 유코는 갑작스러운 할머니의 죽음과 함께 자신이 아버지와 비서 사이에서 태어난 사생아이며, 생모는 2차 대전 이후에 연락이 끊겨 할머니가 맡아 기르게 되었음을 알게 된다. 도쿄에서 부유하게 살고 있는 계모의 집에서 살게 된 그녀는 계모와 이복형제들의 멸시를 받으며 하녀처럼 생활하지만 언제나 밝은 면만을 보며 자신의 삶을 긍정적으로 받아들이는 '명랑소녀'이다.

A young man and woman are determined to marry despite opposition from her parents.

An Ishiro Honda film.

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.

Japanese musical.

번역일로 먹고 사는 마유미는 결혼을 하지 않아 주위 사람들의 걱정을 산다. 마유미는 결혼 생각이 없다며 대답을 피하지만 사실 그는 오랫동안 한 여성만을 좋아하고 있다. 한편, 마유미는 우연히 만난 친구에게 새로운 일을 제안 받는다. 바로 미군과 사귀는 여성들에게 영어 편지를 대신 써주는 일이다. 기노시타 게이스케 감독이 각본을 썼으며, 다나카 기누요도 마유미의 고객으로 잠시 출연한다. 1954년 칸영화제 경쟁부문 상영.

A human billboard and a shoeshine girl met a kid of five who got separated from her mother at a street of Ginza. They try to find a mother in a crowded town...

1952 Japanese film directed by Kunio Watanabe.

Japanese comedy film.

Directorial debut by Umetsugu Inoue, the famous director of Musicals

1950s Japanese comedy.

Japanese drama film.

In a small town, according to the homecoming of Professor Ishinaka, the youth culture group was overwhelmed to make a presentation for the summer festival, but because of lack of funds, she works part-time at the spectacle of a tour, a haunted house Especially. The ghost was a struggle amongst the people, it was a great success in filling the crowd, but in the circus hut next to it, Kenji who was supposed to have disappeared was pitiful.

긴자에 있는 술집 벨아미에서 일하는 유키코는 외아들 하루오와 함께 방을 얻고 씩씩하게 살고 있다. 옛날부터 친구였던 시즈에는 만사 돈이면 다 해결되리라고 생각하고 부자집 첩으로 살고 있었지만, 유키코는 이를 못내켜 한다. 어느 날 시즈에는 본인이 소개한 마을 부자집 차남, 이시카와가 상경하니 안내해달라고 유키코한테 부탁한다. 할 수 없이 안내역을 맡은 유키코였지만 이시카와의 순수하고 인간적인 성격을 보고 아련한 연정을 갖게 된다.

Japanese "kayo" film based on the song "Ieraishan" by Yoshiko Yamaguchi.

Japanese comedy film.

One Sunday morning, Toshio Esaki, a young dentist, wakes up in his clinic. It seems that he was drunk and spent the night in the clinic instead of going home. When he goes into the laboratory to get a drink of water, he finds a woman wearing a green striped Western-style dress lying there.

Adaptation of a novel by Yojiro Ishizaka, originally released in two parts.

A bar girl tries to pass her three children, each from a different father, to rural relatives.

Melodrama by Kiyoshi Saeki

Tanuma Kandayuu is a high class samurai of the house of Nabeshima. He finds a lavish board of Go (a Chinese Board game) at Kinbei's store. He recommend Kinbei to offer it to his lord. Kinbei hesitates at first, since he knows the board has a mysterious legend surrounding it; it's believed that for every game played on the board, one death is required.

Police detective Heiji is assigned to catch the masked Maboroshi gang of robbers who have terrorized all of Edo leaving few clues as to who their leader is.

Kôfuku eno shôtai - Invitation to happiness

Lord for a Night is a 1946 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa.

에도 시대, 산주산겐도 사당에서 매년 개최하는 궁술 대회는 많은 이들의 관심의 대상이다. 다이하치로의 아버지는 이 궁술 대회에서 패배한 후 스스로 목숨을 끊었고, 다이하치로는 어릴 때부터 우승을 꿈꾸며 궁술을 갈고 닦는다. 하지만 최고의 실력자 간자에몽 등 어려운 장애물이 기다리고 있다. 나루세 미키오의 첫 사극 영화.

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

야심만만한 젊은 노(能) 배우 기타하치는 여행 도중 유명한 배우인 소잔에 대한 이야기를 듣는다. 소잔에 대한 궁금증이 생긴 기타하치는 직접 그를 만나지만 그에게 큰 모욕을 주고 만다. 이 일로 기타하치는 스승이자 양아버지인 겐자부로와 사이가 나빠지고, 그로부터 2년이 지난 뒤 소잔의 딸에 대한 안타까운 소식을 듣는다.

Set in Qingdao, China, a Japanese company locates an office there and begins work and cooperation with a local Chinese company for business. Many Japanese engineers also move to China, with their families, for the company in order to construct a canal. There are young Chinese resisting the Japanese in this area.

오코마는 작은 시골 마을의 낡은 버스에서 차장으로 일하고 있다. 그런데 최근 손님이 서서히 줄어들어 운전 기사인 소노다와 그녀는 일자리를 잃을 처지에 놓였다. 고심 끝에 오코마는 관광객들을 대상으로 관광지 안내 서비스를 기획하고, 마을의 소설가까지 끌어들여 새로운 시작을 하려 한다. 신인이었던 다카미네 히데코가 17살에 출연한 영화.

Adaptation of a novel by Nobuko Yoshiya that was serialized in "Shufu no tomo" between 1939 and 1940.

9th directorial work by Yamamoto Satsuo.

Twenty-year-old Yoshiko (Setsuko Hara) and her younger sister Asako (Yōko Yaguchi) struggle to accept changes in their home during the preparations of their widowed father's wedding to his chosen bride, Maki Tsuneko (Sadako Sawamura), who's anxious about her conduct as the bride.

This is a rokyoku film of Tenjuken Ungetsu II (Hideko Itami), a popular rokyoku performer who was famous for her seven different voices for men and women of all ages.

Hideko, a young Baseball fan, determined to cheer for her favourite baseball team by creating a new song for them.

Wartime propaganda filmed by the Japanese in occupied China, Shirley Yamaguchi portrays an orphan rescued from the streets by a kindly Japanese merchant marine officer. Part spy thriller and part Shanghai travelogue, it was part of a popular series known as "Chinese Continental Friendship" made by the occupying Japanese in China.

A forceful indictment of the devastating effects of war and nationalistic fanaticism on the average man, who, in the face of the absurdity of violence, is reduced to apathy or victimhood.

The Old Man of the Propeller can be seen as a comedic amalgam of “King Lear” and “Christmas Carol”. A neighborhood loan shark is hounded by his relatives expecting big inheritance. But he is not giving any favor to anyone. His only joy of life is to go on junk hunt in the neighborhood, collecting garbages and scraps and selling them to junkmen to make profit.

A priest in Hokkaido adopts a blind orphan girl, and as she grows up he finds himself falling in love with her.

Part 2 of a 2-part romance (fist part - Kafuku zempen) based on a story by noted author Kikuchi Kan. In the second half, we discover that Toyomi is pregnant -- and while Shintaro and Yurie are on their extended honeymoon, she bears his child, a girl named Kiyoko. She is supported in adversity by Michiko -- and gets considerable moral support from not only her own mother but also from Shintaro's mother and siblings. Even more surprisingly, Yurie strikes up a friendship of sorts with her. When Yurie learns that the child is Shintaro's, she convinces Toyomi that it would be best to let Shintaro (and her) raise Kiyoko, so Toyomi can get on with making a proper life for herself. Tearfully, Toyomi agrees. Sometime later, Michiko goes to visit Toyomi -- and sees her at work, as a kindergarten teacher.

Part 1 of a 2-part romance based on a story by noted author Kikuchi Kan. The central character here is Toyomi (played by Takako IRIE, star of Mizoguchi’s "Water Magician), a rich young woman in love with Shintaro (Minoru TAKADA), a rich young man. Unfortunately, Shintaro’s father is in the process of arranging a marriage for him with Yurie (Chieko TAKEHISA), the scion of an even wealthier family. In order to avoid this, the two young lovers flee to Tokyo to live together. When Shintaro comes back to proclaim his intent to marry Toyomi, his father browbeats him into attending the long-arranged marriage meeting with Yurie. While Shintaro is back home, Toyomi goes on a vacation trip with her closest chum, Michiko (Yumeko AIZOME). At a class reunion, Toyomi is to distressed (at not having heard from Shintaro for so long), she doesn’t go out on the town with her classmates. Michiko, however, runs into Shintaro and Yurie (also out on the town), and pulling him aside, demands an explanation.

주체적으로 변하는 여인의 모습을 담았다

As suggested by the title, this film takes up the theme of the city, beginning with a series of traveling shots from Chiyo's point o view on a bus leaving the countryside and entering the metropolitan cityscape. After some fruitless job hunting in downtown Tokyo, Chiyo accepts a job as a bar hostess in Shiba ward. Well away from glamorous Asakusa and Ginza, this is a neighborhood bar where the women are dirt poor, each having only one kimono to their name....

The otherwise promising young man Asaji (Heihachirô Ôkawa) and his younger brother Yuji (Hideo Saeki) face blighted lives because of society's disapproval of their illegitmacy and déclassé family.

1936 P.C.L. adaptation of Natsume's novel.

Adaptation of Fumiko Hayashi's novel.