Chikage Awashima

고바야시 마사히로의 또 한편의 로드무비. 이전 작품에 비해 감동은 배가된다. 고단한 삶을 살고 이어가는 노인 타다오와 그의 손녀 하루는 집을 떠나 도시에 있는 할아버지의 형제들을 만나러 길을 나선다. 할아버지와 손녀의 여정을 통해 우리는 삶의 소중함과 가족의 가치를 발견한다.

도쿄(東京)가 가장 빛나는 크리스마스 이브. 눈까지 내려 운치를 더하는 밤, 재즈바에서 빌리 에반스의 [My Foolish Heart]가 흐른다. ‘나는 별이 좋다. 형은 내게 별보다는 사랑을 하라고 한다…’는 멜로디가 흘러나오는 가운데 천체망원경을 관찰하던 소년 쇼타(혼고 카나타)는 대학병원 옥상에 위태롭게 서있는 소녀 마이코(카시이 유우)의 모습을 발견한다.

A delightful and moving coming-of-age story. One summer, three young boys take an increasing interest in an eccentric old man who lives alone in a house surrounded by an overgrown garden. The boys form a bond with the recluse and set about weeding and replanting the garden.

A sensuous movie based on a literary work. Hitomi Kuroki stars as the film’s heroine.

An extremely lovely tribute to Ozu, on the 20th anniversary of his death. It uses a combination of footage from vintage films and new material (both interviews and Ozu-related locations) shot by Ozu's long-time camera-man (who came out of retirement to work on this). Surprisingly (or perhaps not), it focuses less on Ozu's accomplishments as a film-maker than on his impact on the lives of the people he worked with..

August 9, 1945. An atomic bomb drops on Urakami, Nagasaki at 11:02am. The story of Dr. Nagai and his family.

Love-hate drama of three beautiful sisters in Ooku in Edo Castle.

#13 in the Ekimae series of films. Set at Todai University, Professor Sakai (played by Frankie Sakai) mentors a group of university hopefuls. Cut to 25 years later, the students have each settled into their careers and cross paths with Professor Sakai's son, a P.E. teacher (also played by Sakai).

The last judgment.

The Wayside Pebble is an effective drama about the hardships of a childhood spent with a brusque, cold-hearted father and a submissive mother. The year is 1910 and the place is a small Japanese village. Goichi is suffering because he wants to go to school, but his family is too poor to afford that luxury. Even when a kind friend agrees to help out, Goichi's father refuses to give in to his son's request for an education. Instead, he sends Goichi off to work as an indentured servant for a cold-hearted merchant and his family. As tragedy strikes and the suffering of the young boy increases, he begins to look for some way out of his bleak situation.

Nine maids serve the household of a writer and his wife. The couple treat their maids like daughters and marry them off to eligible men. So, they are forever looking for new maids. As the years go by maid servants become hired help and more bossy and independent, so Chikura and his wife find themselves adjusting their lives to keep up with changing times.

Ensemble comedy.

The film takes place at the junction of the two eras of Meiji and Taisho. Sakata Sankichi, an uneducated zori sandal maker, becomes a professional shogi player through his genius shogi skills and lives a fanatically devoted shogi game supported by the love of his family. This is the 3rd adaptation of Hideji Hojo's famous play.

A dark family secret sends a 21-year-old French student (Hoshi) on a journey of self-discovery.

A story about the lives of four sisters and their manipulative mother who must come to terms with each of their decisions in life.

A boss of underworld helps the police crush an evil gang.

Megastar Kataoka Chiezo is Vice-commander Hijikata Toshizo of the Shinsengumi in this realistic tale of Japan’s inner battles that led to the downfall of the Tokugawa shogunate. Excellent performances and extremely good swordplay highlight this glimpse into the heart and soul of Japanese history. Although known as “Razor Blade” Hijikata, the vice-commander is a man of deep conviction with a little-known sense of humanity. Starting after the famed Ikedaya Incident, in which they saved Kyoto from Choshu’s plot to burn the city to ashes, they work hard to change the public’s view of them as merciless killers to their true mission of protecting the shogun. This is an extraordinary tale of blood and guts! From the pen of award winning author Shotaro Ikenami (Bandit Vs. Samurai, Hunter in the Dark, Misumi's The Last Samurai)

Japanese comedy film.

1958년 성매매 금지법이 시행되자 다수의 성매매 여성들이 보호 및 재활 시설로 옮겨진다. 모범적인 모습을 보인 구니코는 부인회의 후원을 받아 가게를 운영하는 부부의 집에 머물면서 일을 돕기 시작한다. 그러나 그녀의 과거가 드러나자 사회적 편견과 차별에 끊임없이 시달리게 된다.

Follow-up to "Ekimae Ryokan." Set around the Yurigaoka and Nishi-Ikuta stations on the Odakyu-Odawara line, the film takes up the problem of real estate around the expanding Yurigaoka apartments.

The university professor Ozeki Hitoshi (Ryu Chishu) is regarded as an eccentric by people in his surroundings. When his daughter Tokiko is asked to marry a colleague, she and her mother are overjoyed, but Hitoshi is not satisfied with the situation.

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.

Action and adventure abound in this story of friendship between two rival firefighters, Kichigoro and Jirokichi in old Japan. When Mukai Sadayu, the vassal of Kaga Clan's accounting officer, Shinagawa Daihachi demands that Omon serve him tea in his mansion and she refuses, the clan's samurai abduct her setting in motion a series of events that will bring the two firefighters into a world of danger and excitement. Jirokichi, leader of the Edo firefighting team "Ha-gumi" must first rescue Omon from the clutches of the vile Kaga Clan's retainers.

Set in the postwar turmoil, Akasaka no shimai paints a vivit portrait of the life of three sisters who struggle to live in Tokyo.

The plot is based on the novel "Akechi Samanosuke no Koi," the final work in a trilogy by Hiroshi Kato about the forced suicide of Oda Nobunaga at the temple Honnoji. Historically, the general Akechi Mitsuhide is credited with causing Nobunaga's downfall. Kato's novel focuses on Mitsuhide's nephew Samanosuke, who fought alongside his uncle during the assault on Honnoji.

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.

When Kaneko Ichinosuke aims to avenge his father who was wrongly accused of embezzlement, the samurai Kochiyama Soshun agrees to assist.

Nakamura Yukinojo gains popularity in Edo's kabuki scene as a handsome onnagata (a male actor who plays female roles). But hidden behind the placid expression of his stage face is a deep grudge for the men responsible for dishonoring his parents' names and leading them to suicide when he was still a child. When he discovers that the mastermind behind those crimes has come to see him act onstage, he begins in earnest to plot his revenge. With the help of a renowned Robin Hood-like thief named Yamitaro, he makes out his first target: the daughter of the man who orchestrated his parents' demise.

Kitagawa Utamaro is a famous ukiyo-e artist known for his paintings of beautiful women. The courtesan who became his model became even more popular. Ocho, a resident of an apartment building, hears about this and secretly plans to follow Otose, the owner of Mizuta-ya, who became famous as Utamaro's model. At this time, the Kano school, headed by Kano Eikawa, which was under the control of the shogunate, is dissatisfied with Utamaro's fame and tries to compromise him…

Adapted by Yasumi Toshio and directed by Toyoda Shiro, this is a literary work based on a full-length novel of the same name published by Shiga Naoya of the Shirakaba School.

세계 2차 대전 당시 대기업에서 종사하고 있는 카지는 군대에 집영되는 대신 광산에 가서 군대에 납품할 광물들을 생산하는 광산의 간부로 발탁된다. 군대 입대 때문에 하지 않으려고 했던 결혼을 하고 부인인 미치코와 함께 광산으로 간다. 양심으로 똘똘 뭉친 카지는 그곳에서 일본인에게 당하는 중국 노동자들의 생활개선과 동시에 포로로 잡혀온 중국 노동자들의 인간적인 생활을 찾아주기 위해 노력하지만 일본군과 광산의 다른 간부들과의 갈등으로 이어지고 결국 일본군에 눈 밖에 나서 군대에 입영되게 된다.

When Yumiko Tsuyama, a potter by profession, comes inquiring about a room for rent in an old mansion overlooking Osaka, she finds a bizarre collection of characters already living there. The unlikely leader of this menagerie is Yoda Goro, who speaks four languages fluently, is an expert in cabbage rolls, and has written how-to books encompassing every aspect of human existence.

During the 1200's, legendary Buddhist monk Nichiren returns from his studies to lead Japan out of moral crisis and prepare to fight Mongol invaders by creating a new form of Buddhism. He runs afoul of the existing Buddhist sects and their government supporters and is persecuted. Can Nichiren persevere before the Mogol fleet reaches Japanese shores?

전쟁 때문에 남편을 잃은 야에는 어린 아들을 키우며 시어머니와 함께 시골에서 농사를 지으며 살아가고 있다. 어느 날 야에는 신문 기자인 오카와와 취재를 계기로 가까워지고, 그에게 아내와 자식이 있다는 걸 알면서도 사랑의 감정을 느낀다. 나루세 미키오의 첫 번째 칼라 시네마스코프 영화.

A longtime hotel employee (Morishige) struggles to bring his old-fashioned ryokan in line with postwar Japanese business practices.

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.

Set in the 1860s, the final years of the Tokugawa Shogunate, The Fireflies focuses on Tose (Awashima Chikage), the mistress of the Teradaya, a small inn in the Kyoto suburb of Fushimi. She does not have an easy life. Her husband, Isuke (Ban Junzaburo), is a wastrel who fancies himself a kabuki singer and who is obsessed with cleanliness. Her mother-in-law, Sada (Miyoshi Eiko) dislikes her because of her humble origins (her family are farmers) and because she fears that she will inherit the inn instead of Sugi, her daughter. Sada's hopes for Sugi, however, are dashed when she runs off with a con artist and leaves her child behind for Tose to take care of. When Sada becomes seriously ill, it is Tose who nurses her. On her deathbed, Sada asks her daughter-in-law's forgiveness. Meanwhile Isuke spends most of his time with a mistress he has taken, forcing Tose to manage the inn by herself

Comedy based on the writings of Ango Sakaguchi.

일본의 국민적 역사소설가 요시카와 에이지의 연재 소설을 영화화

A study of uneasy relationships among the inhabitants of a tiny rural community.

A girl rebels against her mother, who runs a brothel in Yokohama, and attempts to find freedom on her own.

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.

In Asakusa, Tokyo, a couple of a violinist Yamano and a revue dancer Hanae lives in poverty. One day Hanae’s little sister rolls into their apartment and begins to stir things up with her riotousness.

니혼바시 거리에 ‘이나바야’라는 게이샤 하우스가 들어선다. 이나바야의 주인인 오코와 최고의 미인 기요하는 남자들의 선망의 대상이다. 매춘부인 누나를 찾던 가츠라기는 우연히 누나를 닮은 기요하를 만나 사랑에 빠지지만 기요하는 이를 거절한다. 그런데 낙담한 가츠라기는 우연히 오코를 만나 다시 반하고 만다. 이즈미 교카의 원작을 각색한 작품.

결혼 8년째를 맞아 부부생활에 권태를 느끼던 회사원 스기야마 쇼지는 어느 날 샐러리맨들의 하이킹 모임에 갔다가 타이피스트로 일하는 아름답고 쾌활한 가네코 지요와 사랑에 빠진다. 남편의 외도 사실을 알게 된 아내 마사코는 집을 나가는데.. ‘결혼’과 ‘죽음’의 문제를 다룬 영화들 사이에서 가교 역할을 하는 은 오즈가 주로 다루었던 ‘부모와 자식 간의 문제’가 아닌 결혼한 부부의 헤어짐과 재결합을 다룬 작품이다. 이제까지 오즈가 주로 다루었던 주제와는 거리가 있는 이 작품은 메이저 영화사인 쇼치쿠의 의견을 수렴해 관객 취향에 부합하는 일부 성적 문제가 가미된 멜로드라마로 탄생되었지만 여전히 오즈적 영화 스타일은 고수되고 있다. 현재까지 가장 일본적인 감독으로 평가받는 오즈는 이 작품에서도 일본문화 속에 깊이 존재하는 인생의 순환에 대한 철학적인 고찰을 이어가고 있다. (from Naver 영화)

This period film is inspired by one of the most notorious scandals to have taken place in Edo-period Japan. The heroine, Ejima, was a lady of the Ooku, the harem of Edo Castle in which the Shogun’s mother, wife and concubines resided, forbidden from contact with any other man except in the presence of the Shogun. The institution played a key role in the Byzantine world of Japanese court politics during the Edo era. In 1714, Lady Ejima was sent to pay her respects at a Buddhist temple in the city, and chose to pay an unauthorised visit to the kabuki theatre – a violation of protocol that was to have tragic consequences.

The story of a couple, a spoiled son and a down-to-earth girl, in Osaka in the early Showa era. The film won the prestigious Blue Ribbon awards for best director, best actor (Morishige) and best actress (Awashima), and the Mainichi Concours award for best actor and best screenplay (Yasumi Toshio). It ranked second (after Naruse Mikio’s Ukigumo) on the Kinema Junpō top ten films for the year.

Shuzenji Monogatari (The Mask and Destiny) is based on a 12th-century Japanese legend. An abortive royal romance leads to an escalating series of tragedies. The central character is a Japanese monarch who would prefer to live a humble existence as a maskmaker. Unfortunately, events -- and destiny -- are against him. When first released, Shuzenji Monogatari was held in far lower esteem than such recent Japanese films as Gate of Hell and Samurai. Nevertheless, the film was selected as an entry at the Venice Film Festival, possibly on the strength of its excellent production values.

A young man hands in his notice at work and breaks up with his girlfriend in order to pursue his true nature and dream of shaping the world according to his own desires. Against all the odds, he manages to push through his business idea – the foundation of an airline. At the same time, his ex-girlfriend refuses to accept their separation and attempts to force her way back into his life by any means possible. He in turn feels attracted to a young woman, who turns out to be the wife of one of his airline investors and who has herself had a secret lover for several years.

젊은 커플이 2차 세계대전의 공습하에 동경의 수키야바시대교에서 만나게 된다. 둘은 반년 후 다시 만날 것을 약속하나 결국 약속을 지키지 못하게 된다. 그녀는 다른 남자와 결혼하게 되고... (2004 한국영상자료원 - 1950년~60년대 동아시안 멜로영화전)

Each one of us lives differently. So, there are many tragedies and comedies in our lives. She feels many conflicts in living her life between truth and love.

젊은 커플이 2차 세계대전의 공습하에 동경의 수키야바시대교에서 만나게 된다. 둘은 반년 후 다시 만날 것을 약속하나 결국 약속을 지키지 못하게 된다. 그녀는 다른 남자와 결혼하게 되고... (2004 한국영상자료원 - 1950년~60년대 동아시안 멜로영화전)

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.

젊은 커플이 2차 세계대전의 공습하에 동경의 수키야바시대교에서 만나게 된다. 둘은 반년 후 다시 만날 것을 약속하나 결국 약속을 지키지 못하게 된다. 그녀는 다른 남자와 결혼하게 되고... (2004 한국영상자료원 - 1950년~60년대 동아시안 멜로영화전)

오랜 스트리퍼 친구인 아케미와 아사쿠사의 스트리퍼 카르멘은 아버지가 없는 아이를 부잣집 문 앞에 버리고 온다. 그러나 그 부잣집 가족은 이제 막 파리에서 돌아온 아방가르드 화가 아들의 전 애인이 복수를 위해 자신의 아이를 문 앞에 버리고 간 것이라고 오해한다. 그 부잣집 아들은 카르멘에게 누드 모델을 서줄 것을 부탁하고 카르멘은 그와 사랑에 빠지는데...

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.

Drama about a famous one-eyed, one-armed samurai swordsman of the middle of the Tokugawa period by the name of Tange Sazen. By chance, Tange gets an old pot in which the secret of the treasure of 1000000 ryos of gold is hidden. However, a bunch of different people hunt for the pot and Tange will have to apply his phenomenal fencing skills with the sword.

Nami (波 Nami) is a Japanese film directed by Noboru Nakamura. It was entered into the 1952 Cannes Film Festival.

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...

Inochi uruwashi

혼기에 찬 노리코는 조건이 좋은 혼처를 거부하고 부모 형제와 상의 없이 오빠의 친구이자 아이 딸린 홀아비 켄이치와 결혼하겠다고 선언한다. 갑작스런 노리코의 태도에 가족들은 당황한다. 오즈 야스지로의 대다수 영화들이 산업화와 서구화에 따른 가정의 해체에 관한 것이듯 이 작품도 딸의 결혼으로 대가족이 해체된다는 기본 골격을 따라 몇 개의 에피소드로 연결 된 홈 드라마이다. “스토리 자체보다 더욱 깊은 의미를 지닌 ‘윤회’라든가 ‘무상’이라든가 하는 것을 묘사하고 싶었다”는 오즈의 언급처럼 이 작품에서 스토리나 플롯이 중요한 기능을 하지 않음은 명백하게 드러난다. 일상적인 삶에 대한 세심한 탐구, 이야기의 과감한 생략, 시공간의 독특한 사용, 계속해서 변하는 행동의 리듬을 통해 오즈 특유의 소시민적 관점이 투영된 작품이다.

Two journalists and their lovers share an uncertain future.

Also known as Crazy Uproar.