Jun Maki

일상이 무료하고 외로운 밥 해리스와 샬롯은 도쿄로 여행온 미국인이다. 영화배우인 밥은 위스키 광고 촬영차 일본을 방문했지만 일본의 낯선 문화와 의사소통의 어려움으로 소외감을 느낀다. 갓 결혼한 샬롯은 사진작가인 남편을 따라 일본에 왔지만, 외로움과 불확실한 앞날에 대해 번민한다. 같은 호텔에 머무르고 있던 밥과 샬롯은 호텔바에서 우연히 마주친다. 두 사람은 서로의 모습 속에서 공통점을 발견하고 서로에게 이끌리게 된다. 이 둘은 도쿄 시내를 함께 구경하고, 얘기를 나누면서 급속도로 가까워지는데...

This film was made by the Japanese occupation authorities in the Philippines as a propaganda film to show the Philippine people the "benefits" of the Japanese invasion and takeover of their country.

The premature death of a young mother serves as inspiration for her husband and son.

What is marriage? Young couple in match-making wanted to know before they decide. They visited married couples of sisters and brothers. Love comedy in 1942.

This epic depicts the battle between Uesugi Kenshin and Takeda Shingen. The focus of the story is the struggle by the unit leader in charge of the main supply wagons and the supply troops to transport materiel to the Uesugi army. To this are added episodes involving an itinerant woman.

This movie is presumed to be lost.

The film was produced during Second Sino-Japanese War, before the Pearl Harbor Attack in 1941. The film mainly concerns the training of newly-recruited pilots and their daily life, then their subsequent fighting experiences in China. Army supported the production, providing all the authentic airplanes, training and actual actions. They even provided the older biplanes disguised as Chinese fighter planes. Obinata plays the trainer-turned-combat-leader, who is passionate and cool at the same time. All his boys love him, of course. The film is not as intense, full of sugar-coated camaraderie, until young pilots are killed in action one by one. Last twenty minutes are fairly grim, as the message of self-sacrifice is heard loud and clear.

The Whole Family Works, Mikio Naruse's adaptation of a Sunao Tokunaga novel, feels more of a piece with the writer/director's quietly observant and psychologically charged later work. For the Naruse-familiar, it is an anomaly only in its placement within his filmography—indeed, this could be a film made by the elder, stasis-minded Naruse momentarily inhabiting, through a metaphysical twist of fate, his stylistically exuberant younger self. Set in depression-era Japan around the time of the Sino-Japanese War (which the director evokes, during a brief dream sequence, by dissolving between children's war games and actual adult warfare), The Whole Family Works gently observes a family coming apart at the seams. Ishimura (Musei Tokugawa) is the jobless father of nine children.