Hisako Yamane

The young Takako Kuramoto has come to Tokyo to study and starts working for the rich Tashiro family as tutor of the daughter, Kumiko, while she receives attention from her two older brothers, Yukichi and Shinji. Meanwhile, the exact parentage of Shinji comes to light.

Harsh film about a car dealer who gets into financial trouble.

A conflict between two yakuza families in Tokyo, the Izus and the Yoshidas, has recently broken out. When an Izu underling starts a fight with a Yoshida man, Fuyu, the Izu family sends Tsuruta, a senior member of the clan, to make a personal apology to Fuyu. Tsuruta discovers that the woman he is in love with is Fuyu's sister, Tatsuko. Tsuruta ends up gambling with a swindler, who is in fact Tatsuko's husband. (The general plot of the film was re-used for Seijun Suzuki's Kanto Wanderer).

1956 Japanese film, originally released in three parts.

Upon discovering that her father has a mistress, a young girl befriends the "other woman" and her child. Realizing that her half-sister is doomed to being regarded as an outcast, the heroine sets about to spiritually legitimize the girl.

도심에 자리한 어느 큰 절, 이곳에는 어떤 사정으로 인해 절에서 오랫동안 자란 치즈루, 아야코 세츠코 세 자매가 있다. 서로 다른 개성을 가진 세 자매는 절의 일을 돕거나 자신의 미래를 준비하며 성실히 생활하고, 그러는 동안 절을 방문하는 사람들과 다양한 만남을 가진다. 오즈 야스지로 감독이 각본에 참여했다.

Historical drama about two samurai who fight over everything yet unite together to fight an evil lord.

Japanese film released to commemorate the 7th anniversary of Shintoho's founding.

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

Dai-ichi-bu: Dôkai-wan no rantô - Kiyoshi Saeki directed movie.

Michiko Asakura was married to the eldest son of the Sakuma family, an unsealed family in Shinshu, but died from her husband and returned to her parents' house in Tokyo with her five-year-old daughter Yoshiko.

Jidai-geki by Kiyoshi Saeki

Once an average and seemingly ordinary Tokyo girl, she suddenly finds herself as a TV star owing to her discovery by a casting company, which noticed photographs that her cousin had sent. When another actress falls ill she is given the role instead. Her first film is a success propelling the young actress to popularity, her own fans, money and a house. While everything looks dandy from the outside not all is well within the family however.

영화는 늙고 추해져 남자들의 관심을 끌 수 없는 거리의 작부가 지난 자신의 삶을 되돌아보면서 이야기를 펼쳐낸다. 궁녀였다가 결국에는 매춘부로까지 전락하는 그녀의 지난한 삶의 과정들을, 미조구치는 그 특유의 유장한 스타일로 그려내며 거기에 불가사의한 초월의 분위기를 부여하려 한다.

Bittersweet shomin-geki drama by Keigo Kimura

Period film about the legendary detective Umon

Melodrama by Kon Ichikawa

A young lord joins gang of Robin-esque robbers.

1951 Japanese movie

An early film by Kon Ichikawa

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...

Japanese mystery thriller.

부모가 정한 인담을 싫어, 오사카를 나와 도쿄에서 회사 근무를 하고 있는 카와키타구미의 오조지·코로쿠. 어느 때 그는 상경해 온 허수아·란코를 도망쳐 하숙처를 옮겨, 거기서 만난 테루코와 사랑에 빠진다. 하지만 카와키타조는 파산 위기에 있어서 란코와의 결혼은 놓칠 수 없는 것이 되었다.

A comedy about two salarymen who routinely degrade themselves for their boss.

Reputedly based on Frank Capra’s 1939 film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, A Descendant of Tarô Urashima is about a repatriated soldier who becomes populist politician in the Japanese Happiness Party.

The story of an airport and its air traffic control crew in a remote and northern Japanese town. Three of the air traffic controllers are female with one of them working with her dead fiancé's sister. The engaged man had gone to war and never returned.

Based on a short story by Dazai Osamu, produced under the national film law. The film's hero falls in love with the youngest daughter of a family he is visiting to arrange an engagement for his friend who has been drafted to fight in the war.

1944 war movie

It is 1921 and a town has a newspaper which prints urgent bulletins as required. The Washington-based CITES treaty, in which Japan participates, puts a limit on the number of warships any country can possess. As a result, Japan has to decommission a ship to its makers' disappointment. An institute of technology's laboratory designs a new ship. Due to less ships, sailors have to retire and are also disappointed. The laboratory's manager and an admiral are visiting a patient at a hospital and meet coincidentally. The former has a daughter who worries about her father's workload. She asks him to accompany her to a concert. Father has little time, but is convinced for her sake. He is inspired for a ship's design at the performance. The film is inspired by the life of Jo Hiraga.

A small community in wartime Japan learn how to make do with less.

Hanakosan (1943, TOHO, MAKINO Masahiro), a thoroughly light and joyful musical comedy, influenced by Busby Berkeley films, against the national policy under the wartime, was made into a film from comic serials by SUGIURA Yukio published in a magazine.

A 1942 film.

1942 adaptation of Izumi Kyoka's novel.

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.

The story is based on the serial novel by Tsunoda Kikuo.

The story is based on the serial novel by Tsunoda Kikuo.

This film depicts a troupe of wandering kabuki players traveling through rural Japan.

The only son of a sushi chef hates sushi and decides to leave home to search for a job and make his own way.

Song of the White Orchid was a co-production of Toho and Mantetsu, the railway that served the colonial region of Manchuria, and the first film in the Kazuo Hasegawa/Shirley Yamaguchi (Ri Koran) “Continental Trilogy.” Handsome Hasegawa (representing Japan) runs up against an impertinent Yamaguchi (representing the continent); not surprisingly, in the course of the film the woman comes around and realizes the benevolent intentions of the Japanese. In Song of the White Orchid Yamaguchi leaves Hasegawa, who plays an expatriate working for the railway, because of a misunderstanding. She joins a communist guerilla group plotting to blow up the Manchurian railway. Learning of the subterfuge that led to the misunderstanding, she renews her faith in Hasegawa—and by extension Japan—and tries to undermine the plot.

Japanese war movie