Priest
Manga artist Gengo Odaka lands a job with the World Children's Land amusement park only to become suspicious of the organization when a garbled message is discovered on tapes. As Gengo and his team investigate, Godzilla and Anguirus quickly decipher the message and begin their own plan of action.
A young woman, an experienced gambler, enters a nunnery to atone for some of her father's crimes. When the nunnery runs into debt, she resorts to gambling and challenges the racketeer threatening to sell the place to a game.
Former inmate Katsuji gets involved in the horse gambling business while lending a helping hand to a ranch operator.
Hoodlum group helps fishermen against firm polluting their fishing ground.
Comedy of an entertainment agent and strip-teasers.
Pinku from 1971.
Police chief
Comedy about five good-for-nothings who run a phony exercise-hall.
Rivalry between a hoodlum group and a gangster organization.
A young composer falls in love with the beautiful daughter of a wealthy company president and flies to Paris when he learns she is studying music there. But, when he finally wins her after many difficulties, he somehow feels empty, because his spirit has always been aroused against barriers before him.
President
Five fellows are taken by the police for bank hold-ups.
Genzô Akiyama
Nobuko and five male friends graduate from a high school, promising to remain friends forever. One year later, Nobuko is working as a mediocre actress for TV commercials, and the five men are wearing beards and have formed a psychedelic rock band. One day, Nobuko meets Jun, who draws cartoons based on his experiences.
The hero tries to unite various gangs.
A comedy about Hikoichi, a mediocre train conductor who falls in love with a beautiful widow Sayuri.
Bungo is released from prison to find his son Kenichi in the care of strangers. Teruko, the woman originally looking after the boy, was forced to leave town and sell herself into prostitution. Bungo and Kenichi, in their search for Teruko, arrive in a new place and find work running a peddling stall for the upright Tatsumaki family. However, the drifting father and son soon find themselves caught up in a struggle for territory. Boss Negishi, the head of the yakuza family responsible for the death of the former Tatsumaki leader, will stop at nothing to take over the marketplace. Sickened by the injustice, Bungo takes on the rival boss knowing it might cost him his newly acquired freedom..
Apartment receptionist
A gang lord hires Kamimura, a hit man, to take out a rival boss who's gotten greedy.
A song drama based on the autobiographical song "The sun is laughing" by composer Endo Minoru. It tells the story of a young man who moves to Tokyo with a big dream of becoming a composer, and despite the unfamiliar city life, sticks to his original intentions with the gentle encouragement of his young wife, and takes the music world by storm.
Ayako, a young woman from a rural fishing village, is sold by her family into a brothel when her father takes ill. There, she is quickly stripped of her innocence and illusions.
Zushi Nojisuke
The fifth and final installment with the build up of the epic battle between Sasaki Kojiro and Miyamoto Musashi. With all the familiar characters making appearances: Otsu (Musashi's great love), Akemi, Matahachi (his former fellow soldier), old lady Osugi (still doggedly trying to defeat Musashi), and even the return of Priest Takuan (the man responsible for his journey towards enlightenment). But most of all, the boastful, long-haired and long-sworded Sasaki Kojiro.
Tokuichi
우유 배달을 하는 주키치는 상급 학교에 진학하는 것이 꿈이다. 하지만 집에서는 도박 중독인 아버지 때문에, 학교에서는 강압적인 선도부 때문에 여러 가지 곤란을 겪는다. 강압적이고 폭력적인 기성 질서에 굴복하지 않는 스즈키 세이준 특유의 남성 주인공 상이 잘 드러나 있으며 액션, 코미디, 멜로 등 다양한 장르가 한데 섞인 점이 도드라진다. (2012 스타일의 혁신: 닛카츠 창립 100주년 스즈키 세이준 회고전)
Shinkichi, the ramen seller
A seamstress seeks the love of her life while helping a troubled couple.
Many outlaws are gathered at the front line of the Japanese Army in a shock troop.
Tonpei
Hokkaido at the end of the Taisho era is Kitami. On the day his wife died of a dystocia, Bakuro Yonetaro fell asleep after being kicked by a sick woman Yuki at a vague shop after violence.
A young man who followed his father's wishes and became a travel actor causes a big commotion with his fellow members of the Gurentai group during their travel destination! Innocent to cute girls and reckless to bad guys! Exciting entertainment!
This is a factory area in downtown Tokyo, and Hikaru, nicknamed Pika-chan, is a nurse at the Mihara Clinic, a friend of the poor.
Shinko Terasawa was always considered to be the odd ball of the bunch. At a time when romance was against school regulations, Shinko was the first to take a bite out of the forbidden fruit. Expelled from her former school, she finds herself in an all-girls school in Jokamachi, where rumors fly. One day, Shinko delivers an anonymous love letter addressed to her English teacher, Ms. Shimazaki. Convinced that the students are playing a prank, Ms. Shimazaki is adamant about getting to the bottom of this "problem”.
A wandering vagrant, Hantaro, risks his life to save a beautiful blind girl and her father from con artists.
Iwakichi
Japanese drama film.
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.
Tatsuzo
1961 Toei adaptation of Yokomizo's novel.
Japanese comedy film.
Manao Horiuchi movie
Modern comedy, based on the popular manga.
Tokuma Takase
Japanese comedy film.
전쟁에서 겪은 사고 때문에 청각을 잃은 아키코는 특수학교에서 만난 청각장애인 미치오와 결혼한다. 척박한 환경 속에서도 두 사람은 작은 행복을 향해 열심히 노력하고, 영화는 이들이 삶에서 만나는 기쁨과 슬픔, 고난의 순간을 생생하게 묘사한다.
Set in the postwar turmoil, Akasaka no shimai paints a vivit portrait of the life of three sisters who struggle to live in Tokyo.
A semi-documentary story about the vicissitudes in the life of an elderly fisherman.
Haberdasher
Love story between a student and girl whose parents are itinerant entertainers. Set in Japan in the 1920's.
Umon’s services are called upon when innocent bystanders, Kayo and Minokichi, along with the ronin, Gontaro are mistakenly identified as suspects in several recent murder cases. To prove their innocence and uncover the truth, Umon launches his own investigation.
Wu Ching, the water spirit
The mythical adventures of the legendary Chinese trickster Monkey, who must outwit a variety of wily demons who stand in the way of him and his fellow Buddhist travelers. Though portrayed as a literal, if rather anthropomorphized, monkey in the original legends, this film substitutes the spindly comic actor Norihei Miki, sans makeup.
Kiku and her brother Isamu are social outcasts, children of a prostitute mother and black GI father, in postwar Japan.
Alongside Tokyo's Sumida River is a ragpickers' settlement known as Ant Village. One night, a young Catholic girl, Satoko Kitahara, who has been baptized under the name of Maria, comes to offer her services. However, Ant Village is not just an ordinary vagrants' community but a fine autonomous organization, and as the municipal authorities have long been demanding that the people of Ant Village leave the site, Satoko is utilized to publicize the Village and win public sympathy. While being utilized in this manner, Satoko is nevertheless glad to be able to help the people of Ant Village, especially the children, and when the summer vacation comes she decides to take the children on an excursion to Hakone. To raise funds for this purpose she becomes a rag-picker herself.
After discovering a slaughtered corpse, the investigating team of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department began canvassing the area around the crime scene. As a result, they found a wallet with bloodstains that seemed to belong to the victim, a woman's wallet that did not fit the field, earrings, and other valuable materials, which led them on a foot search. The woman's purse had been picked up by a male prostitute on the subway, and from the prostitute's testimony, they were able to identify the pickpocket's face, but the next day, the man was found dead in a road accident, apparently murdered.
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허름한 연립주택에 살고 있는 다양한 인간군상들의 모습을 특유의 날카로운 필치로 그려내고 있다.
Junai Monogatari AKA Story of Pure Love is about two poor youths, Mitsuko and Kando, rebelling against society in various ways, who are desperately trying to be together despite tortuous circumstances. The film depicts their lives as thieves, menial laborers who can get little pay, society outcasts, and of course, lovers. Junai Monogatari depicts, mostly, their struggles within the Japanese reformatory system and Mitsuko's worsening sickness.
Proprietor of the Daphne
A sensitive young woman aged 22 fell in love with a middle aged man who was troubled by his unfaithful wife.
Tane, the lady proprietor of an inn for amorous couples, lives there with her three children. When her eldest daughter loses her fiancé due to the fact her mother is a mistress, her despair drives her to become a cabaret hostess.
In this Golden Globe winner for Best Foreign-Language Film, director Heinosuke Gosho -- a master chronicler of Japanese middle-class life -- presents the story of Kiyoshi Yoshida (Koji Shitara), who feels estranged from both parents after his father returns from war. How the boy adapts to life with the virtual stranger his father has become is the film's focus. Chikage Awashima, Yûnosuke Itô and Yoshiko Kuga also star.
Shochiku Production on typhoon
Poor social conditions badly affect the relationship between a married couple, when the husband, who is desperately searching for work, fails to notice the terrible sacrifices made by his wife when she accepts a job at a local inn.
Tanabe
An Ishiro Honda film.
Three young women make a suicide pact, but they grow to have a better understanding of themselves.
An Inn at Osaka, rarely seen outside Japan, follows the story of an insurance company executive from Tokyo, Mr. Mito, who is demoted to the Osaka office. He takes a room at a small inn and tries to rebuild his life. Notable for its exquisite framing and cinematography, An Inn at Osaka allows its complicated plotlines to disappear behind the minutiae of penury and humiliation that Mito and others suffer during the post-war economic and social reconstruction.
Ikagin
1953 Toho adaptation of Natsume's novel.
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 married couple looking for an apartment move in with the husband's co-worker, a widower. The husband becomes jealous of the widower and his wife.
Mimura Jirozaemon
A comedic retelling of the legend of the loyal 47 ronin.
After graduating from a high school in the Seto Inland Sea, Koji, a childhood friend of Yaeko, went to Tokyo to enter university wearing a heartfelt sweater.
Based on the story of Shimizu no Jirocho.
Shinzo Hirai
료스케는 "뽀빠이" 타입의 아버지로 전쟁 때 폭격으로 불타버렸던 가게를 재건하고자 밤낮으로 열심히 일한다. 그의 아내인 마사코와 두 딸인 도시코와 히사코 또한 가족을 위해서 끝없이 희생하며 최선을 다해 돕는다. 도시코는 피카소에 영감을 받아 빵을 굽는 근대적인 사고를 사진 빵집의 신지로와 사랑하는 사이다. 어느 날 아버지는 병으로 눕게 되고 그의 형제인 기무라가 찾아온다. 그는 아버지에게 무슨 일이 일어나면 자신이 일을 돕겠다고 한다. 기무라는 모든 사람들과 잘 지내지만, 도시코는 사람들이 엄마와 기무라 간의 염문에 대해 수군거리는 소리를 듣게 된다. 이기심이 발동한 도시코는 기무라가 떠나야 한다고 주장하고 결국 기무라는 그렇게 하는데... (서울시네마떼끄 나루세 미키오 회고전)
Atsuko is an office secretary who is also her family's primary source of income and caretaker in postwar Japan.
'Chongire' Matsu
Period film about the legendary detective Umon
Five women classmates from a college in Tokyo are on the first stretch of a walking tour when one of them, Masako, falls ill at a railway station. Osen, a middle-aged maid from a nearby inn, takes her in and nurses her, assisted by Dr. Minami, a young physician who diagnoses her illness as a mild case of pneumonia. With Masako in good hands and needing a few days to recuperate, her classmates continue their tour. Masako’s recovery, however, is hampered by her spoiled and immature nature and her determination to punish the world for the loss of her mother.
After mastering swordsmanship at the dojo of Chiba Shusaku, and unable to serve a clan due to his illness, Hirate Miki becomes a ronin who winds up as bodyguard to Shigezo of Sasagawa leading up to an epic battle.
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.
Doctor
A film by Kiyoshi Saeki
Three humorous love stories set in rural Japan.
Police chief
Dessert Shop Owner
전쟁의 상흔이 가시지 않은 도쿄. 친구 하숙집에 얹혀 사는 유조와 언니 집에서 열여섯 식구와 함께 사는 마사코는 일주일에 한 번, 일요일의 데이트가 유일한 즐거움이다. 맛있고 값도 싼 ‘히아신스’라는 이름의 커피숍을 여는 것이 꿈인 두 사람. 하지만 현실은 비참하기 그지없어, 수중에 가진 돈이라곤 35엔이 전부다. 모델하우스도 구경해 보고, 세가 싸다는 아파트도 보러 가지만, 두 사람의 형편으론 그 어느 곳도 무리일 뿐이다. 유조의 친구가 경영하는 카바레에서도 냉대받고, 비를 맞으며 보러 간 연주회는 암표상이 표를 다 사 버려 매진이다. 그러나 두 연인들은 희망을 잃지 않고, 또 다시 내일을 준비한다.
After learning that he has accidentally killed a man in a fight, Unokichi must look after the man's pregnant widow.
A bizarre murder at a hot springs resort threatens to disrupt an Edo detective's (Hasegawa) vacation. When his hot-blooded wife (Yamada) starts snooping around, however, he finds himself reluctantly drawn in to the case.
This film depicts a troupe of wandering kabuki players traveling through rural Japan.
Enoken no wanwan taishô AKA Wanwan Taisho AKA Bowwow General directed by Nobuo Nakagawa
Enoken's pickpocket Kinta (returned from the Chakkiri Kinta movies) finds some unexpected trouble: a stolen diamond necklace he just can't seem to get rid of!
An irreverent take on a medieval Noh drama, Hokaibo sees Enoken play the titular monk whose lusts drive him to murder.
Enoken plays legendary ninja Sarutobi Sasuke, whose magical powers never help as much as expected - in war or in love.
1930s Japanese comedy.
Deputy Kurakichi
A comedic tale told in four parts, this film follows the antics of the pickpocket Kinta as he is pursued by a low ranking deputy named Kurakichi. The two get into all manner of peccadilloes and encounter a range of peculiar characters as their game of cat and mouse moves across the countryside in the last days of the Tokugawa Shogunate.
Enoken plays both Kondo Isami and his deadly enemy Sakamoto Ryoma in this comedic, song-filled vision of the Meiji Restoration.
Enoken plays a magician real powers come from his magical hat. A jealous theater owner sends girls, then goons, to keep Enoken from performing his grand show!
