Famed swordsman Araki Mataemon must face his best friend as they are forced to take opposite sides in a vendetta caused by the murder of a family member.
1942 adaptation of Izumi Kyoka's novel.
Shingo Ooto
Prewar jidaigeki starring Denjiro Okochi
Head of the boys
Early Japanese sound film, a remake of Josef von Sternberg’s DOCKS OF NEW YORK set in Yokohama.
Сhikara Ôishi
This 1932 adaptation is the earliest sound version of the ever-popular and much-filmed Chushingura story of the loyal 47 retainers who avenged their feudal lord after he was obliged to commit hara-kiri due to the machinations of a villainous courtier. As the first sound version of the classic narrative, the film was something of an event, and employed a stellar cast, who give a roster of memorable performances. Director Teinosuke Kinugasa was primarily a specialist in jidai-geki (period films), such as the internationally celebrated Gate of Hell (Jigokumon, 1953), and although he is now most famous as the maker of the avant-garde silent films A Page of Madness (Kurutta ichipeji, 1926) and Crossroads (Jujiro, 1928), Chushingura is in fact more typical of his output than those experimental works. The film ranked third in that year’s Kinema Junpo critics’ poll, and Joseph Anderson and Donald Richie noted that 'not only the sound but the quick cutting was admired by many critics.
Shiro Mizuno
Toshie, a young, conservative secretary-typist has fallen in love with Shozo Narita, a young man she has met through her work.
Boy
선원이었던 늙은 남자는 미친 부인의 곁에 있기 위해서 그녀가 갇힌 병원에 자신의 정체를 숨긴 채 관리인으로 취직한다. 남편은 아내가 그들의 아이를 익사시키고 자신도 자살시도를 했다고 기억한다. 그러나 어느 날 그들의 딸이 자신이 아버지와 했던 약속에 관해 이야기하기 위해 병원으로 엄마를 찾아온다.
