Hisao Toake

Can a sinful man change and find peace? It's unlikely in gang-plagued Japan. Jokichi of Mikogami, a drifter (and hired sword), goes straight after protecting a woman in distress: they marry, have a son, and Jokichi pursues his father's craft. After three years, the gangs he embarrassed when he saved his wife find the family and leave Jokichi in grief, vowing revenge. To parry his terrible swift sword, rival gangs join forces, hiring a prostitute to pose as a woman needing help and breaking the code of honor to double cross the drifter. He finds unlikely allies: a thief who aids him for fun and a one-eyed swordsman who may be Jokichi's equal in skill and honor.

Tells of the feelings and sufferings of a young girl with an incurable paralytic disease.

Comedy of high school where students and teachers run wild, based on a popular comic strip.

독일, 일본, 이탈리아의 3국 동맹계약 결성 후 일본 군부는 미 함대가 모여있는 핵심요지, 진주만의 기습 공습을 결정한다. 이 극비의 공습작전은 전투기들을 동원한 극비의 침투작전이었다. 비행사들의 맹훈련을 통해 진주만 기습작전을 빈틈없이 꾸민 일본 전투기들이 마침내 진주만을 향한다. 한편, 이를 상상도 못한 진주만 미국 사령관은 전투기들과 항공모함들을 한곳에 모아 배치해놓고, 방만한 휴가를 보낸다. 죽음의 D-데이. 진주만 상공에 도착한 일본 전투기들은 작전성공을 알리는 암호 도라 도라 도라를 외치며 무차별 폭격을 가하는데...

Writer Jippensha Ikku hears Tsutaya Juzaburo, a wholesaler of picture books, mutter on his deathbed, "Where has Sharaku gone?" He begins to figure out the true identity of Sharaku, who disappeared after about 150 portraits of actors he created came out.

A Toho comedy film staring the Crazy Cats.

임신 3개월인 유미코는 교통사고로 사랑하는 남편을 잃는다. 상심에 빠진 유미코는 과거를 잊기 위해 아이를 지우고, 아오모리로 옮겨 여관 일을 도우며 지낸다. 하지만 그곳에서 유미코는 남편을 죽인 미지마를 만나게 되는데, 그녀의 마음 속에서 증오와 연모의 감정이 어지럽게 교차하고, 유미코는 복잡한 감정에 휩싸이고 만다.

When an only child is struck by a car and dies, the child's mother seeks vengeance against the driver in this thrilling drama. The car was driven by the wife of a company president who is having an affair. The woman's husband manages to buy silence about the incident, but the victim's mother discovers the identity of the driver. After she secures a job in the home of the company president and his philandering spouse, the woman plans to murder the couple's son when he reaches the age of her late son.

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

Movie adaptation of the TV series.

Helping her mother manage a nightclub, young Emiko quickly realizes how difficult life is.

A group of friends try to find success in corporate Japan.

전쟁 중에 남편을 잃은 레이코는 조그만 가게를 꾸리며 20년 가까이 늙은 시어머니를 비롯한 시댁 식구들을 돌보고 있다. 시동생 코지는 가게를 크게 키우고 그동안 고생한 레이코에게도 보답하고 싶지만 시누이들은 레이코가 집에서 떠나주길 바란다. 한편, 코지는 레이코에게 순수한 사랑을 고백하는데, 놀라면서도 마음이 흔들린 레이코는 집을 나가기로 한다.

Sonny Chiba plays a low ranking yakuza who spends more time enjoying life than doing the yakuza work. He falls in love with a pretty student girl, whose brother (Saburo Kitajima) later gets drawn into the yakuza business against his own wishes. The film is charmingly old fashioned, utilizing many studio sets and Showa era music; however, the film's real strength is the breezy romance between Chiba and lovely Chiyoko Honma.

A gang plans to steal twenty billion yen by safecracking tactics; however, they discover that one of the gang members is an infiltrating cop.

Takashi Fujiki stars as a rebel in this drama about life on the Yokohama waterfront by New Wave director Masahiro Shinoda. The rebel works as an errand boy for a shipping company and vents his frustrations by plucking on the guitar. His interpretations of popular trends in music are sometimes right-on, and sometimes not exactly. Bereft of his guitar, the rebel's modes of expression are not as effective in generating interest as the Yokohama docks themselves, a fascinating world in their own right.

Movie directed by Kunio Matoi

Based on the original novel by Tokuda Shusei, adapted by frequent Masumura scribe (and renowned director in his own right) Kaneto Shindo, this downbeat melodrama features a battle of women for the affections and commitment of the same man, a handsome car salesman. Masuko (Ayako Wakao) is the number one hostess at a cabaret, living with her lover, ... but finds out that he has a wife. When Masuko’s niece arrives the competition further ratchets up. (Also occasionally known in English as “Inflamation”)

1962 Japanese movie

A story about the nature of office workers today.

Daughter of a lumber shop in Edo strives to protect her family business from the competitor.

Japanese comedy film.

Shinichi “Sonny” Chiba returns as the reckless son of a private detective takes on the case of a minor league baseball pitcher who disappears right before signing a contract into the major leagues. Meanwhile, the body of an orthopedist is discovered in the river.

The life of a toilet-seller during the Japanese Economic Miracle.

Ichiro (Chiba) is a scrappy little sport in a big car and funny hat always looking for some fun and some extra cash on the side. He and his friends get themselves involved in some shady business dealings involving a kidnapping.

Hibari Misora plays Yoshiko, the popular daughter of a fish market owner. After discovering that she was adopted, she sets out to help her biological father who has fallen victim to an evil plot orchestrated by those who would take over his successful business.

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.

Japanese comedy film.

One week into newlywed Teiko Uhara's marriage, her husband, Kenichi, leaves on a short business trip and never returns. Teiko travels across Japan to search for him, and along the way discovers some surprising facts about her husband's past. With only a pair of old photographs among his belongings to go off of, Teiko tries to figure out what has happened to him.

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.

On his way to Tokyo one night, a truck driver picks up a country girl and has his way with her amidst a forest. A few days later he loses his job after a run-in with some punks, but is offered a job by a gangster impressed by his fighting skills. He tries to make amends with the girl he ravished, but becomes caught up in the ways of the underworld...

과부인 어머니와 함께 살기를 바라는 딸은 어머니가 재혼하고 싶어한다고 믿게 되자 결국 결혼을 결심하지만 어머니를 걱정해 결혼을 망설인다. 딸의 친구들은 그녀의 혼인을 돕기 위해 나선다. 결국 친구들은 그녀와 어머니 모두를 결혼시키기로 계획하고, 그들 중 평소 미망인에게 연정을 품고 있던 히라야마가 그녀에게 마음을 고백하는데... 돈 사토미의 소설을 기초로 오즈 야스지로와 노다 고고가 각색한 작품으로 아기자기한 에피소드들을 아름답고 섬세하게 그려낸 풍속 희극이자 풍부한 유머와 오즈적 에로스가 느껴지는 품격있는 작품. 오즈의 1949년작 <만춘>을 변형해 제작되었으며, <만춘>에서의 아버지와 딸의 관계가 이 영화에서는 어머니와 딸의 관계로 바뀌었다. 작품에서 가을이라는 계절은 부모들의 세대를 일컫는 말로 결혼이라는 주제와 혼자된 부모를 두고 떠나기를 망설이는 딸의 관계를 역시 중심적인 주제로 다루고 있다.

A skilled country doctor's talents are such that he can even perform operations as difficult and novel as removing a patient's kidney for the first time in Japan. Unfortunately for him, however, his wife's addiction to gambling is of such a magnitude that he is down to selling his underwear to make money. The image sticks and he becomes known as the 'underwear doctor.' On the other hand, his successful surgery's patient is so grateful he himself wants to become a physician.

Mega star Akira Kobayashi stars as Jiro in the rambunctious tale of a chef who opens a restaurant in the busy Ginza district. His culinary skills and dashing good looks bring in the women as well as unwanted trouble, while an explosive political scandal builds around his girlfriend’s business...

This subversive period film features a hotheaded young samurai, Kurodo, who threatens to commit harakiri in response to the humiliation meted out to his family by the Shogun. The film critiques the inhumanity of feudal obligations, and Uchida’s direction slyly satirizes the contemporary cinematic audience, whose taste for onscreen bloodshed is mirrored in a crowd gathering to watch the protagonist’s planned suicide. The Master Spearman is imbued with Uchida’s characteristic blend of dark humor and stylized action, and Ryutaro Otomo gives an admirable performance in the lead.

Story of girls in a Japanese reform school.

When a wealthy, selfish family decides to take care of an elderly hobo who collapsed near their home, they are beset by visits from his numerous friends.

Koharu, a young geisha, is in love with Kenichi, an apprentice carpenter to her father Masagoro. Their love life comes to a sudden halt after an argument between their two fathers. Can their love survive in spite of the bitterness between their two families?

Television production of I Want to Be a Shellfish. On a post-war peaceful day in Japan, Toyomatsu Shimizu, a barber as well as a good father and husband, is suddenly arrested by the Prefectural Police as a war criminal and sued for murder. According to the accusation by GHQ, Toyomatsu "attemped to kill a US prisoner", which was nothing but an order by his superior and failed after all with hurting the prisoner by weak Toyomatsu. Also, Toyomatsu was driven to corner at the trial by the fact that he fed the US prisoner some burdock roots to nourish him. Toyomatsu believes nothing but being not guilty, but he is sentenced to death by hanging. Prior to the execution, Toyomatsu writes a long farewell letter to his family, the wife and the only son: "If I ever incarnate, I hate to be a human being any more.... Oh yes, I would like to be...a shellfish living on the rock-bottom of the sea."

아버지 히라야마는 딸이 성품 좋고 가정적이고 능력 있는 남자를 만날 수 있도록 도움주기를 원한다. 하지만 말이 없고 자식과 살갑게 대하지 않는 히라야마의 성격상 딸은 그런 아버지의 의중을 파악하기 힘들다. 어느 날 딸 세츠코가 결혼할 상대가 있다고 하자 히라야마는 불같이 화를 낸다. 그리고 결혼식에 참석하지 않겠다고 선언한다.

Former boxer Daishiro lost his wife, and his only son, Kaoru, went missing, it was a heavy blow for Daishiro. One day, Daishiro got a call from his relative Morihiko. He said he forgot the winning lottery ticket of 2 million yen at the hotel, so he wants Daishiro to go and pick it up. Morihiko used the hotel for secret meetings, so he said he couldn't go there himself because he was afraid it would become public. When Daishiro entered the hotel, the Yakuza, who learned about the lottery from the newspaper, threaten the hotel maid Noriko, and want to rob her. Daishiro helps Noriko and safely picks up the lottery, but a message arrives from his relative Seikichi from Osaka. His missing son Kaoru is said to be a boxer in Osaka. "My son... He has the blood of a boxer in him..." Daishiro is heading to Osaka in a hurry...

A film about the rivalry between Captain Gondo and the harpooner Yosuke Yamagami, working on the best whaling ship Hayabusa Maru. One day they will have to face a giant, monstrous whale.

A traditional bar mistress in Kyoto clashes with her Tokyo rival.

A poor peasant, after years of scraping, becomes a rich and powerful Osaka merchant. Mizoguchi Kenji's final project; he died before completing it and directing duties turned over to Yoshimura Kozaburo.

A notorious abortion doctor fell down from a night train and he was dead. A man who knows the truth of this accident starts to chase a up-and-coming model.

동양 플라워즈의 스카우트맨 기시모토는 대학 야구의 강타자 쿠리타를 입단 시키도록 명령을 받았으나, 쿠리타에게는 그를 대학까지 보내며 키워준 다마키라고 하는 정체를 알 수 없는 남자가 함께 있고, 쿠리타는 다마키 애인의 여동생인 후에코와 사랑하는 사이다. 쿠리타를 얻기 위해 각 구단의 스카우트맨들이 분주한 속에 다마키는 쿠리타의 몸값과 함께 자신의 보수도 올리려고 결론을 나중으로 미룬다. 결국은 쿠리타가 귀성한 본가까지 스카우트맨이 들이닥쳐 욕심에 눈이 먼 가족들이 매수되어 형제간에 칼부림까지 일어나게 된다. 결국 쿠리타는 병상에 있는 다마키를 무시하고 오사카 삭스에 입단. 후에코와도 절연, 다마키는 죽게 된다. 너무나 추악한 싸움과 다마키의 몰인정함에 혐오감이 들었던 기시모토 였으나 다마키를 압도할 만한 포수를 찾는데 새로운 의욕을 불태우게 된다.

The woman prison has a cast all with a story of their own and with no dull or routine day. There is an employee who is divorced after her husband had an affair. She loves the jailed criminals and almost sees them as family. One day at a workshop someone faints while working hard to make money because she has a poor boyfriend. Another inmate is knocked up Another is a mother and has her child with her.

The orphaned son of a count who was assassinated by his subordinates in a conspiracy during the Pacific War becomes obsessed with taking revenge on his late father's enemies.

Detective Tarao goes undercover to battle an evil gun smuggling business.

Special Forces commander Captain Tadamori returns to Kyoto after successfully defeating the uprising of pirates in the western sea of Japan. But because the high courtiers dislike career soldiers gaining power and influence, they ignore the will of ex-Emperor Toba and refuse to reward the captain. Reward recommender Lord Tokinobu is punished, and the captain sends his son Kiyomori to the Lord's residence, where he falls in love with Tokiko, the Lord's daughter. Meanwhile, Kiyomori finds out that he is possibly the ex-Emperor's son... Written by L.H. Wong

Japanese film.

An Ishiro Honda film.

The story of a group of young people who organise their own travelling symphony orchestra to provide music for people living in remote villages shortly after the war.

모헤이는 부유한 표구상 집안에서 달력 제작 전문으로 일한다. 주인집 마님 오상이 돈 문제로 어려움을 겪고 있다는 것을 알게된 그는 그녀에게 돈을 마련해주려다가 오히려 오해를 당해 오상과 불륜의 관계라는 오명을 뒤집어 쓰게 된다. 주인의 분노를 알게된 두 사람은 가출해서 비와호에서 몸을 던져 자살하려고 한다. 하지만 같이 도주하는 과정에서 두 사람에게는 진정한 애정이 싹트기 시작한다. 그리하여 두 사람은 목숨을 걸고 도피행을 계속하기로 한다.

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.

Early adaptation of the book "The Inugami Clan", featuring the detective Kōsuke Kindaichi.

남편과 사별한 후 하츠코는 교토에서 혼자 힘으로 유곽을 꾸려 나간다. 외동딸 유키코는 도쿄의 음악학교에서 공부하고 있다. 그런데 약혼한 지 얼마 되지 않았던 유키코가 돌연 자살을 시도하고, 놀란 하츠코는 도쿄로 달려가 유키코를 집으로 데려온다. 하츠코는 마음에 두었던 젊은 의사 마토바에게 유키코의 치료를 부탁한다. 상심해 있던 유키코는 마음이 통하는 마토바와 점점 더 가까워진다.

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.

동경의 성공한 사업가인 신고의 아들인 슈이치는 아내인 기쿠코, 부모님과 함께 카마쿠라의 안락한 집에서 살고 있다. 그는 아버지가 중견간부로 있는 회사에서 일하기 때문에 함께 직장에 출근한다. 그러나 슈이치는 자주 시내에 늦게까지 남아서 그의 정부와 함께 술을 마시며 지낸다. 기쿠코는 시부모를 돌보며 남편을 참을성 있게 기다리는데, 남편은 늦은 시간에 술에 취해 돌아오곤 한다. 현명하며 근대적인 사고를 가진 신고는 아들의 무분별함을 알지 못하며 외로운 며느리를 가엾게 여긴다. 거짓말하는데 지친 슈이치의 비서 에이코는 결국 신고에게 슈이치의 불륜을 말해주면서...

Story about a poor Japanese woman living near an American army base who resorts to prostitution.

세 개의 각자 다른 이야기로 이루어진 영화. 외아들을 남겨둔 채 친정으로 돌아온 한 어머니의 이야기, 인정머리 없는 주인의 밑에서 하녀로 일하며 친척에게 돈을 빌리려 하는 미네의 이야기, 화류계를 떠나기로 마음먹은 기생 오리키와 그를 잊지 못하는 한 남자의 이야기가 차례로 펼쳐진다. 시네마준보가 그해 일본영화 1위로 뽑은 작품. (2013년 상반기 서울아트시네마 일본영화걸작 정기 무료상영회) 여류소설가 히구치 이치요의 단편소설 , , 등 3편을 원작으로 한다.

2차 세계대전 후. 결혼하여 도쿄에 살고 있는 자식들을 만나기 위해 노부부가 상경한다. 의사 장남과 미용실을 운영하는 둘째 딸은 곧 부모님의 방문을 부담스러워하고 바쁜 일상을 핑계로 소홀히 대한다. 전쟁 중 남편을 잃은 며느리 노리코만이 노부부를 극진히 모시는데…

A story of unhappy youths and the perils of lack of sex education.

다케오는 사치스러운 생활을 즐긴다. 반면 남편 모키치는 성실하고 돈을 쓸 줄 모르는데다가 직장과 집을 오가는 생활에만 익숙한 일벌레다. 다케오는 그런 남편이 답답해 매번 무시하기 일쑤다. 어느 날 다케오와 모키치는 크게 다투게 되고 그 일로 다케오는 친정집으로 향한다. 그 사이 남편은 우루과이로 출장을 떠나고 다케오는 모키치를 그리워한다.

Following the Second World War, the lives of various people in a poverty-stricken area of Tokyo are entertwined. Pachinko parlor girls, shoeshine boys, a maker of costume jewelry, and a streetcorner artist all struggle to make their livings and to find happiness in difficult surroundings.

Having completed the first year at his new medical practice, a doctor plans to relax on his day off. However, it is not to be: on this hectic day a man just back from the war front visits the doctor with a medical emergency, followed by a woman who claims to have been molested. Then a yakuza arrives to ask the doctor to cut his finger off...