Chieko Seki

친구인 스기모토와 다시로는 스기모토의 아내 사유리가 갑작스럽게 사고를 당했다는 소식을 듣는다. 스기모토는 처음엔 교통사고 정도로 생각했지만 더 심각한 범죄가 벌어졌다는 걸 곧 알게 되고, 아내가 지금까지 어떤 비밀을 숨기고 있었다는 것도 알게 된다. 한편 다시로 역시 이 사건과 어떤 연관이 있음이 드러난다. 에드워드 아티야의 범죄 소설 『가는 선』(1951)을 원작으로 한 작품

Naomasa, the former lord of Okayama Castle and the head of the Iseda family, takes a strange boy, Kirihito, under his wing. However, Naomasa is sent to Europe for his rather too liberal lifestyle…

Movie directed by Kunio Matoi

Two obaachans become fast friends listening to music in front of a record store. They both boast about their loving sons but in reality, one had just escaped a retirement home and the other was looking for an escape from her son and daughter-in-law. With nowhere to go, the two wander around, befriending a cosmetics salesman and a kind waitress who give them beer. This biting social satire starring two memorable grandmothers, scripted by Yôko Mizuki, picked up on Japan’s aging population problem far ahead of its time.

After moving in to their dream home, newlyweds decide to rent out their second floor to save money. They soon discover the woe of being landlords.

1958년 성매매 금지법이 시행되자 다수의 성매매 여성들이 보호 및 재활 시설로 옮겨진다. 모범적인 모습을 보인 구니코는 부인회의 후원을 받아 가게를 운영하는 부부의 집에 머물면서 일을 돕기 시작한다. 그러나 그녀의 과거가 드러나자 사회적 편견과 차별에 끊임없이 시달리게 된다.

In "The Other Woman" the children of a distinguished professor find that the woman they have come to regard as their racy and slightly disreputable Ginza aunt is really their mother.

Modern comedy, based on the popular manga.

Japanese comedy film.

First "Pfc. Story" sequel and eighth overall sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".

First installment of the "Pfc. Story" series of military-themed comedies from Shochiku, and seventh overall sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".

Story of a romance between a middle-aged journalist and a young woman.

Comedy about the trials and tribulations of youth.

Sixth sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".

1958 Shochiku adaptation of Natsume's novel.

Japanese romantic comedy film.

Third sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".

Second sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".

First sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".

First film in a series of military-themed comedies from Shochiku.

Japanese comedy film.

After Shuichiro moved to Tokyo, the Tanno family became completely female, including Mrs. Tanno, Shuichiro's daughter-in-law Manzuko, painter Takashiro Egi, Shizu Kazemaki, Mitsue Nanbu, an intellectual who works in a university laboratory, and an old woman.

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.

Japanese war drama.

Gosho’s most celebrated film both in Japan and the West, Where Chimneys Are Seen is perhaps the most compelling example of his concern for, and insights into, the everyday lives of lower-middle-class people. Based on Rinzo Shiina’s novel of the absurd, the film depicts the lives of two couples against the backdrop of Tokyo’s growing industrialization during the 1950s.

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.

Directorial debut by Umetsugu Inoue, the famous director of Musicals

1950s Japanese comedy.

Japanese comedy film.

Japanese comedy film.

Directed by Senkichi Taniguchi

During the war a man is bitten by a creature which looks like a cross between a bear and an ape in the jungle. Later he starts to transform to a monster like creature who kills with his claw like fingers.

An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chief and the local gangster bosses.

A grade school in Tokyo, where students curse and gamble, has a pond on-premises with one particular teacher who is in charge and takes care of it. The pond holds a number of carp, but someone is snatching them. Amidst the student, one lives with his mother in poverty. The mother works at a factory whose owner is a member of the parent-teacher association and asks her son to help her employer's son to help with homework. Her son is not happy spending time doing this. Finally one day the teacher finds out who is stealing the carp when the poor boy finds out and reports it. It is a child who is not attending the school.