Osamu Takizawa

1945년 8월 6일, 히로시마에 원자폭탄이 떨어졌고 수많은 사람이 사망했다. 그중에는 작은 유랑 극단의 단원들도 있었다. 감독은 당시 사망한 단원들이 어떤 사람이었는지, 또한 그들이 어떤 활동을 펼쳤는지 살아남은 자들의 인터뷰와 재연을 통해 기억하려 한다.

Set in Japan's Tenpyou era (729-749 CE), four young monks are sent to China to study Buddhism and bring a high priest back to Japan with them. The film tells the tale of the four monks' youth and the life and times of the high priest Ganjin.

Taking the Chilean coup as an example, a group of young officers plan to overthrow the Japanese government on V-J Day. They aim to abolish the post-war constitution, restore the national army and revive the traditional spirit of Japan. As the conspiracy is exposed, the coup squadrons are wiped out one by one. The remaining squadron takes over a night train bound for Tokyo.

Final part of epic drama about war and its effects upon human beings, follows the fortunes of the Godai family through the Sino-Japanese War through the Soviet Union's sudden attack upon Japanese troops at the end of the war.

Second part of an epic drama of war and its effects upon human beings, follows the fortunes of the Godai family from 1935 through Japan's invasion of China. Based on the novels by Jumpei Gomikawa, who also penned The Human Condition.

It was five years ago when Minako spent a night with Sozo, younger brother of her ex-husband. She now lives in a local town with a rich old man who owns a dry goods store. Minako travels to Tokyo on business every three months, during which time she continues to meet Sozo, who has married the daughter of his respected teacher.

Keisuke Godai, head of the upstart Godai family conglomerate, plans to strengthen ties with the hardliners in the Kwantung Army as they plan military expansion into Manchuria.

With a price on his head, Ichi seeks tranquillity in a favorite village. Since his last visit, it has fallen prey to Boss Masagoro, the son of a merchant rumored to have stolen gold from the shogunate. The boss has hired Yojimbo as his hard-drinking enforcer, but Yojimbo is both a spy for the shogunate, trying to find the gold, and in love with the merchant's unwilling mistress, Umeno. Ichi hires on as the merchant's masseur and buys Umeno's freedom with his employer's own money. This embarrasses Yojimbo who withdraws from a pact with Ichi to stir up trouble between father and son and their gangs. As the two sides fight, Ichi finds the gold and sets up a final set of confrontations.

Kitagawa is an engineer charged with construction of a gigantic tunnel through the Japan Alps for the transportation of equipment in the building of the massive Kurobe Dam. The tunnel crosses an earthquake fault and Kitagawa is beleaguered not only by cave-ins and flooding, but by strife between management and the workers's union. Adding to Kitagawa's stress is the knowledge that as his attention is pulled inexorably toward the tunnel construction, his youngest daughter is dying from leukemia.

During the 1880's a young swordsman, Saotome Gengo, on his way to Tokyo stops at an inn in a small town. But he does not know that his prowess has already attracted envious attention and that Senzo, the boss of the local gang, plans to have him killed. Seiji, the disowned son of the innkeeper, has run up a big gambling bill and, to settle it, the hoodlums decide to kill him. He is saved, however, by Hanako, star of the dancing troupe also staying at the inn. Gengo meets Hanako and learns that the troupe cannot open their show because the local police corruptly demand too much of the receipts. After another fight, Gengo sees the police-chief on behalf of the troupe, but is refused. So he suspects that the police and the hoodlums are implicated with each other. There seems no way to open the show until they hear that the governor is coming to the town for a local banquet. They appeal to him and he promises to investigate. It is decided that a duel will settle the matter...

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.

One morning, Kazue is nearly knocked over by a motorbike in front of an instrument store, breaking all the records that she was carrying. The two connect instantly and begin seeing each other every day. However, Iwai, Yukio’s foster parent, is concerned - Yukio had been exposed to the atomic bomb when he was four years old and had been showing symptoms of atomic radiation, hospitalizing him in the Genbaku Atomic Bomb Survivor’s Hospital. Unfortunately, nobody knows when the symptoms may return. When Yukio passes out from anemia during work, he decides to part with Kazue. A couple of days later, Yukio tells her of his destiny at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, but Kazue passionately encourages him.

In 1943, Japan is amidst the Pacific War. Sobei Sonoda is one of the wealthiest landowners of the San'in region. His land spread for miles, as far as the eye can see. People treated him with respect. But even the richest must think about the future. One day, he decides to arrange a marriage between his only son, Junkichi and the daughter of an even more powerful family. Sobei, hoping to benefit from this union, soon discovers that his son was in love with a lower class girl.

When her only relative, her elder brother is accused of robbing and murdering an old woman loan-shark, pretty, young Kiriko travels from her home in Kyushu to Tokyo to get Japan's top lawyer to defend her brother. Unfortunately her naive idealism is shattered when the lawyer refuses to take the case based on her insufficient funds. What follows is a long determined revenge plot that sees the heroine become a Tokyo bar hostess and worse to punish the lawyer. The plot thickens with another murder mystery and a sleuthing reporter.

The Sengoku Era was coming to an end. The monopoly of the ever powerful shogun, Ieyasu Tokugawa, was at a near. Only one man was brave enough to stand in Ieyasu's way - A lone wolf samurai by the name of Kagekatsu Uesugi. Inspired by Uesugi's courage to revolt, a young samurai warrior, Touzou Kuruma decides to join the fight. Their target: the Tamonyama Castle.

고이즈미 야쿠모의 괴기담 중에서 4편의 에피소드를 영상으로 옮긴 옴니버스 영화. 출세를 위해 아내를 버리고 떠났던 무사(‘흑발’), 눈보라 속에서 설녀를 만나 목숨을 건진 청년(‘설녀’), 귀신을 피하기 위해 불경을 몸에 써넣는 맹인 악사(‘귀 없는 호이치’), 찻잔 속에서 기묘한 얼굴을 본 무사(‘찻잔 속’)의 이야기가 오싹한 공포와 함께 펼쳐진다. 환상적인 색채와 표현적인 세트를 이용한 뛰어난 미술과 촬영이 돋보이며, 다케미쓰 도루의 실험적인 음악 또한 탁월하다. 에 이어 두 번째로 칸영화제 심사위원특별상을 수상했다.

An original warrior directed by Toshio Takagi, directed by Eisuke Takizawa of “Kiriko's Tango” by Toshio Yasumi, a comedy, cheerful widow. The photo was taken by Minoru Yokoyama from “Asakusa no Toko Odoriko Monogatari”

1964 Nikkatsu Theater of Life adaptation.

A Tokyo family escaping the war relocates to a Hokkaido village; their daughter is set to marry the local leader's son, but her siblings disapprove.

Jiro, a young yakuza, and Mami, a diplomat’s daughter, are two young lovers from different worlds. Having met by accident, they soon discover a new life together. But their love is ill-fated. Mami's family will not accept her choice, while leading an honest life seems like an unattainable goal for Jiro. Can there be anything else but a tragic ending?

혼란스러운 16세기 일본, 지방 영주들은 세력을 안정시키기 위해 천주교의 전파를 막으려고 한다. 다도로 유명한 귀족집안의 긴은 우콘을 사모하지만 그는 이미 결혼한 사람인데다 자신은 오로지 천주만을 모시겠다는 대답을 듣고 집안을 위해 모즈야와 결혼한다. 천주교에 대한 탄압이 점점 더 심해지면서 우콘 역시 귀향길에 오르게 되고 긴은 우연히 히데요시 도요토미의 눈에 들어 강제로 끌려가게 될 처지가 된다.

죽음을 앞둔 한 사업가는 2억엔의 유산을 자신의 세 자식들에게 물려줄 계획이다. 그러나 이 계획을 알게 된 그의 동료는 자신이 유산을 차지하기 위해 계획을 세운다.

A father and son are both heavy drinkers. However, the son dies in an accident at a bar, leaving behind a fiance…. A unique social satire that focuses on why people drink alcohol.

An Indian prince leaves his world of comfort and riches behind to wander and meditate for six years in search of spiritual enlightenment. Siddartha (Cojoin Hong) turns his back on the old religion when people are starving needlessly and holy rituals include human sacrifices. During his meditations, he is tempted by erotic dancing women, demons, and the evil machinations of his criminal cousin. Devastate to attain the spiritual perfection and become the Buddha. He travels to convert followers by his kindness and wisdom, gaining a multitude of believers when he stops an elephant from crushing a local priest. Buddha of course goes on to become one of the great religious leaders of the world.

Asada Keiko and Kurokawa Saburo are two young college students. When Keiko visits Saburo's house, she meets his father Kokichi and his mother Motoko. Motoko is a famous hair dresser, who openly flaunts her lover. When Kokichi and Motoko fight, which they do a lot, he routinely threatens to leave but never quite does. A relationship develops between Saburo and Keiko, but Saburo is shaken when his mother tells Keiko the truth about Saburo's past and the secret of his birth.

An opportunistic department store clerk gets involved with three women and attempts to manipulate them so he can move up the social ladder.

A young doctor falls into a despair of developments. He plans to revenge the disgrace inflicted upon his sister, whose engagement was broken as a result.

A journalist decides to do his own investigation after a series of strange murders are committed during a local election campaign.

1945년 패전 말기의 필리핀 레이테 섬. 타무라 일등병은 부대와 병원에서 쫓겨나 소속 없는 군인이 되어 버린다. 밀림을 헤매던 그는 집결지를 향해 가는 병사의 무리를 만나지만, 이들은 살인을 하고 인육을 먹는 극한 상황에 빠지게 된다. 전쟁의 참혹함과 기아에 몰린 군인을 그린 이 영화는 스산한 공기와 신체의 움직임마저 느끼게 하는 아쿠타가와 야스시의 음악이 적막함을 실감나게 전하고 있다.

The former Japanese Naval Academy was at Etajima, one of the many islands of the beautiful Inland Sea. Among the new cadets were Ishikawa and Murase. Murase's mother had remarried after his father's death and the impressionable boy hated his overbearing father who held the whip-hand over his gentle mother. Out of defiance of his step-father he became wayward. But he was bright and his teacher persuaded him to enter the Academy as he knew that if he left home, his mother need not feel apologetic towards her husband on his account. Discipline was strict, their studies were hard and, in between, all the new cadets received an ample share of beatings, at the hands of the senior cadets, for the slightest mistakes. Murase thought all picked on him the most, especially Cadet First Class Kogure, who manhandled him at the slightest excuse.

An early contemporary yakuza action drama.

Legendary yakuza Shimizu Jirocho and his 28 henchmen travel the unruly path from a 'Fire Festival' in Akiba to a decisive battle by the Fujigawa.

Kensaku Muro and his father manage a farm in Sakudaira at the foot of the Yatsugatake Mountains. One day Kensuke saves a suicidal woman, Fukiko Uzu, who jumps into a waterfall. Having injured his eyes in the process, he is brought to Tokyo for medical treatment. In Tokyo, Kensaku visits his mother Kaneko who left her son years ago. She now owns an exclusive club and has a son, Isao, with the president of Kobe Concern. Isao plots to steal Kensuke's farm as part of a land development scheme with Fukiko's husband. Without knowing they are blood related, their conflict over the farm intensifies.

Kiku and her brother Isamu are social outcasts, children of a prostitute mother and black GI father, in postwar Japan.

At about the same time as lwami, president of a Tokyo company is murdered by an unknown assailant, it happens that an urgent call has been received from an airline company's office on remote Hachijo Island for a special serum. A Cessna aircraft which has been chartered by a man named Ohashi takes off for the island with the serum piloted by Ishida. But when airborne, Ohashi, who is the murderer of lwami, holds up Ishida at gunpoint and orders him to land on a small island west of Hachijo where a ship is waiting to take him to Hong Kong...

Japanese suspense film.

오사카 가와치 지역에는 많은 천막극장들이 있다. 이들은 연극을 상연하기는 하지만 실제로는 대개 오프닝으로 하는 스트립 쇼로 관객을 끌어들이는 극장들이다. 이 극장들 중 하나에서 대학 출신의 젊은 연출가 구니타가 일하고 있다. 그는 오직 연극에 대한 열정만으로 어려운 생활을 헤쳐나가고 있지만 극장의 주연배우의 아내인 치도리를 은근히 좋아하고 있다. 하지만 치도리의 시누이인 치구사는 적극적으로 구니타에게 구애의 감정을 드러낸다. 이들의 뒤얽힌 관계는 지방 도시에 가서 공연을 하게 되면서 표면화 되게 된다.

Japan, 1701. A group of samurai become rônin after their lord is forced to commit seppuku for assaulting a court official, who will become the target of a merciless revenge.

1957 drama from director Kôzaburô Yoshimura

일본의 국민적 역사소설가 요시카와 에이지의 연재 소설을 영화화

Nominated for Golden Berlin Bear.

The story of a novelist whose wife is confined in a mental hospital. His love for her drives him to write about her, though he runs into trouble when her parents accuse him of cashing in on her misfortune.

Japanese drama film, originally released in two parts.

Chief editor Shirou Kanzaka (Hisaya Morishige) of Sankei Publishing Inc. is being tried for embezzlement and the staging of Chiyo Umehara's suicide. The victim is a woman who's said to have had sexual relations with the defendant. Four intertwined witnesses; a critic, Shirou's employee, a singer, and his wife, are all called to the stand. His destiny now lies in their hands.

Christ in Bronze is a 1955 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Minoru Shibuya. It was entered into the 1956 Cannes Film Festival.

Nobuko is a widow who lives with her daughter-in-law Tamiko and her brother Junjiro. The family's gatekeeper, Komatsu, is attracted to Tamiko, but she is encouraged to marry a doctor and he is afraid to tell her his feelings.

Shigeki Kachi, Tosuke Satomura, and Nanako, who belong to the theater company Vuanbert around Dosa, withdrew at the indignation of the chairman Hayashi and seeked their own careers in the film industry.

A reporter Takuo, who is sleeping in the newspaper room of the Maichō newspaper company, receives a sudden report from a reporter that the missing Akiyama JNR president was found dead.

Dai-ni-bu: Aijô ruten: Kiyoshi Saeki directed movie

Ginko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one geisha house to the next, trying to find love and hope in the process. No matter how hard she tries, she just can't escape her sad fate.

작은 섬의 학교에서 교편을 잡고 있는 다카코는 여름 방학을 이용하여 히로시마를 방문한다. 원폭 당시 유치원 교사로 일했던 다카코가 과거 자신이 가르쳤던 아이들의 소식을 듣기 위해 다시 히로시마를 찾은 것이다. 그렇게 아이들을 찾던 다카코는 길거리에서 우연히 예전 자신의 집에서 일했었던 이와키치 아저씨를 만난다.

Group of women escape Chinese controlled area for Japanese occupied lands during Pacific War.

A story of a passionate teacher and his great effort for the children in a poor village.

A Japanese soldier who died in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in Hawaii entrusted Henry Gray with an unfinished score and promised to complete it.

Story of a Beloved Wife is an autobiographical work based on Shindo's first marriage. Jūkichi Uno stars as a struggling screenwriter, and Nobuko Otowa stars as the wife who supports him through his early struggles.

성년이 된 히카리겐지의 1년반 세월에 초점을 두어 그린 영화.

The film portrays the experiences of Takashi Nagai as a survivor of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki.

Saburo and Keiko fall in love with each other but the tide of war separates them.

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

When the future of his construction company falls into danger, a controlling father pushes his children into unsatisfying marriages and careers in order to regain financial stability.

간교한 나오스케는 감옥에 있던 사람들과 함께 탈옥을 공모하였으나, 그 사실을 간수에게 몰래 알려서 탈옥을 실패하게끔 만들고 자신은 감형을 받아 출옥을 하게 된다. 고헤이는 연모하던 술집 작부인 오이와를 술집으로부터 꺼내 주기 위해 돈을 마련하려고 도둑질을 하다가 감옥에 갖혔지만, 탈옥 공모에 가담하지 않았기 때문에 다행히 목숨을 건질 수 있었다.한편, 오이와는 비록 술집 작부이긴 했으나 행실이 곱고 용모 또한 수려하여 술집을 그만두고 벼슬을 얻지 못한 낭인 무사인 이에몬과 혼인을 하여 살고 있었다. 어느 날 이에몬은 에도에서 가장 큰 쌀 도매상의 외동딸인 오우메가 치한들에게 봉변을 당하는 장면을 목격하고 그녀를 구출해 주게 되는데, 남자다운 그 모습에 오우메는 한눈에 반하고 만다.감옥에서 출옥을 한 나오스케가 마침 그 장면을 목격하게 되었고, 한탕 잡을 만한 거리를 찾고 있던 그는 이에몬을 오우메와 맺어 주기 위해 오이와와 이혼시킬 계략을 세운다. 이에몬은 출세를 위한 절호의 기회를 놓칠 수 없다는 생각에 나오스케의 계략에 동참하게 되지만, 워낙 우유부단한 성격의 이에몬은 차마 오이와를 버릴 수가 없어 번민한다. 보다 못한 나오스케는 결국 오이와를 죽이는 수밖에 없다는 생각을 굳히고 그녀를 독살해 버린다. 그러나, 출옥한 이후에도 오이와를 잊지 못해 그 주변을 맴돌던 고헤이가 그 장면을 목격하게 되어, 그도 역시 참혹한 죽음을 맞고 만다.한편, 오이와의 쌍둥이 동생인 오소데는 언니가 행방불명된 데 대해 의혹을 품고 진상을 파헤치고자 하는데...

The East Asian Acrobatic circus enjoys popularity after welcoming the Asuka brothers, two prestigious trapeze acrobats. One day, one of the brothers gets injured and a substitute needs to be found. Rumors start to float around concerning the circus clown and his grandiose acrobat career which ended tragically. Will he be able to reconcile with his tumultuous past and get the show running?

A teacher at a Japanese school tries to hide his outcast upbringing.

Life and love in corrupt postwar Tokyo, as a young couple struggles against both the law and the mob.

Shogi, a Japanese form of chess, is a game that requires skill and determination. When poor sandal-maker Sakata decides to pursue his dream of becoming the Shogi Grand Master Champion, everything is at stake – including his family. What will it cost for Sakata to follow his passion?

제2차 세계대전에서 일본이 패전한 후, 부와 명예를 누려왔던 안조가(家)는 그동안의 삶의 방식은 물론 저택마저 포기해야 하는 상황에 이른다. 안조가의 저택에서 마지막 무도회가 열리는 날, 새로운 삶을 찾아야 하는 가족은 서로 갈등을 겪는다.

This film focuses on Koreans living in Japan. The filmmaker’s humanism comes across in the portrayal of a girl living in a shabby tenement, the warmth of a Korean girl she meets, and the friendliness of this Korean girl’s family.

Based on an autobiographical story by Toyota Masako.

A colourful study of theatrical life. Two acting troupes vie for the Kyoto market during the Genroku Era. Tojuro, an extremely popular actor, feels the limits to his acting when he sees his rival troupe put on a new type of play featuring its star, Nakamura. He has the famous Chikamatsu write a new play but cannot get used to the character he is to play in it.

Japanese adaptation of LES MISERABLES. The last film of director Itami took inspiration from Les Miserables. Transpiring during the Southwestern War of 1877 in Japan, which was the last civil war in the country, a criminal escapes prison only to be found by a monk. The criminal decides to turn a new leaf based on their conversation and goes on to become a town's mayor. He hears news of a mistaken arrest and identity. The revelation of truth is the start of a series of miseries.

The prewar film Haha no kyoku (Mother's Melody, 1937) is known for its place in Japanese film history as one of the top three melodramas as well as for its authorship: Yamamoto Satsuo is an auteur not usually associated with filming melodramas. Yamamoto made the film right after he moved, along with his mentor Naruse Mikio, to the Toho film company. A number of subsequent postwar mother's films adopted some of its essences, making it a genre-defining moment in Japanese cinema. This great melodrama is atypical of Yamamoto's output, much of which deals with political corruption and inequities within social institutions and offers a strong anti-establishment appeal.

Adaptation of Fumiko Hayashi's novel.

술집을 전전하며 샤미센을 연주하는 오소메, 클럽 댄서인 치에코, 그리고 건달을 애인으로 둔 오렌의 이야기를 그린 영화. 오렌은 최근 사고를 치고 도망간 애인을 숨겨주고 있다. 하지만 이 사실을 오소메가 알면서 세 자매는 곤란한 입장에 처한다. 나루세 미키오가 연출한 첫 유성 영화. (2015 한국시네마테크협의회 - 나루세 미키오 특별전)