Three stories revolve around independence, a man searching for his wife, and a poor craftsman trying to make money.
Department store guard
While under sedation in a dentist's office, a young art student has sex fantasies about naked women, vampires and a beautiful patient he saw in the office.
A young yakuza, Yatappe, wanders around the country in search of his long-lost little sister, Oito. While traveling, he rescues a young girl, Osayo, whose father entrusts her to him with his dying wish. To honor his promise to Osayo's deceased father, Yatappe brings her to safety, and from a distance keeps a watchful eye on her well being.
A Tokyo family escaping the war relocates to a Hokkaido village; their daughter is set to marry the local leader's son, but her siblings disapprove.
A demobilized soldier becomes a day laborer with a road construction gang, and his wife goes to work to bolster their income. Their modest dream is to see their son grow and to be happy as a family.
A carpenter, Shigetsugu, learns a lesson of love and humanity from five orphaned children and an affectionate woman named Oritsu. It's a winning combination of drama and humor. The warm friendship that grows between the carpenter, the woman and the children making this into a true masterpiece.
A geisha helps a runaway who looks just like her.
Matabei
A story of an orphan boy who wanted the love of parents so badly, another orphan sincerely pitied him to the point he gives his secret birthright as an illegitimate son to a Shogun as a "gift of hope" to the sad boy. As the orphan boy grew up, his loving heart became bitter and he saw the opportunity to take advantage of this birthright with the help of a man who wanted to use this orphan's desire to be loved, for seizing power in the shogunate by using the imposter. Many obstacles to hurdle along the way of deception, however, will they succeed or will he be exposed?
Japanese mystery film marking Yuka Mizuhara's film debut.
Japanese comedy film.
Popular geisha Koharu suspects that Yusaku, a handsome stranger she falls in love with, is involved in a robbery of precious diamond.
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.
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."
Live-action adaptation of Yoshiro Kato’s manga.
Eitaro Yoshii
Aiko, a bar hostess, falls for the son of a company president who also keeps a mistress, and whose family disapproves of his relationship with the bar hostess.
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.
Kisuke, the foster father
어릴 때부터 생업전선에 뛰어든 뒤 몇 명의 남자들 사이에서 험난한 시간을 보낸 오시마의 삶을 그린 작품. 19살에 결혼한 오시마는 열심히 일하면서 행복하게 살려 하지만 바람기 많은 남편 때문에 마음 고생을 한다. 여기에 불운한 사고까지 겹치면서 오시마는 이혼을 하고 다른 마을로 팔려간다. 하지만 그녀는 끝까지 좌절하지 않고 계속해서 희망을 찾는다.
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.
Rikitaro and Osayo are popular entertainers who throw knives. They are sweethearts. At one day They help Ocho, who is a beautiful pickpocket when she is attacked by Ronin. in Asakusa, However, they come to be surrounded by doubtful Ronin after that. Moreover, Rikitaro is called to stop by Kajima of Edo-Karo of Nihonmatsu-Han. He calls him a young lord and treats Rikitaro as one, because his young lord, Tetsunojo is missing. Kuni-Garo makes a plan to carry out. Kikumaru, the younger brother of the mother difference in him instead of Tetsunojo, Since Rikitaro is just like Tetsunojo, then, they are convinced that it is Tetsunojo of Rikitaro. Rikitaro and Osayo decide to help Kajima and Tetsunojo. Finally they success to crush Kikumarsu's group.
Fuyuko's father
A young widow, made world weary by her abusive, neglectful husband, finds herself in a minor scandal when she's seen with her intense, no-nonsense childhood sweetheart.
A boy falls in love with a girl. Neither of them know that she's to be sold to a brothel.
Three young women make a suicide pact, but they grow to have a better understanding of themselves.
A young woman becomes president of a business.
Follows six male friends from elementary school whose career paths diverge—newspaper reporter, engineer, boxer, sushi restaurant owner—but whose romantic lives intersect. (MoMA)
Tokuji Kawamura
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.
Born to a prestigious family, Natsuko is not impressed by any one of her suitors. Determined to spend her life serving god, she sets off to a convent in Hakodate, Hokkaido, and meets along the way a young bear-hunter with whom she begins an adventure.
Landlord's cousin
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...
Nami (波 Nami) is a Japanese film directed by Noboru Nakamura. It was entered into the 1952 Cannes Film Festival.
Tahei
It chronicles the experiences of a neighbourhood doctor, whose taste for tonkatsu (a popular Japanese dish, similar to a pork schnitzel) earns him the nickname ‘the pork cutlet prince’ (‘Tonkatsu Taisho’, the film’s Japanese title) from the affectionate residents of the tenement in which he lives. When a local hospital, run by a female doctor, plans to expand, the future of the tenement is called into question.
Inochi uruwashi
Jinkichi Aikawa
A fishing union depends on two brothers to make up the losses caused by the dishonest captains they replaced.
Furukawa
When a family has to relocate due to the war, they are ostracized by their new community.
Shoichi Aoyama
소와 말들이 뛰노는 평화롭고 한적한 산골 마을. 어릴 적 가출을 한 뒤 도쿄에서 스트립퍼로 일하고 있는 카르멘이란 예명의 오킨이 자칭 금의환향을 하겠다는 편지를 보내왔다. 오킨은 자신의 직업을 '정말로' 예술이라고 믿고 있는, 머리가 약간 모자라는 여자다. 오킨의 언니는 그 편지를 들고 가서 아버지께 보이며 오킨의 금의환향(?)을 허락해 줄 것을 부탁하지만 아버지의 반응은 냉담하다. 결국 남편과 상의를 한 끝에, '일본은 문화국가'임을, 그래서 응당 예술가는 어떤 일이 있어도 대우해 주어야 한다고 굳게 믿고 있는 교장 선생에게 아버지를 설득시켜 줄 것을 부탁한다. 우여곡절 끝에 귀향을 허락 받은 오킨. 산골 마을에서는 꿈도 꾸지 못할 파격적인 모습으로 금의환향을 하게 되고, 그런 오킨과 그 동료 마야의 모습은 순박한 산골 마을 사람에게 일대 파문을 일으키며 갖가지 해프닝이 벌이지게 된다. 한편, 돈이 되는 일이라면 물불을 가리지 않는 탐욕스러운 사업가인 마르쥬는 마을 사람들을 상대로 한 오킨의 스트립쇼를 계획하게 되는데...
Mr. Sato
케이죠는 좋은 집안의 딸 야스코를 중매로 만나 데이트를 즐긴다. 케이죠는 발레를, 야스코는 복싱 관람을 경험하며 서로에 대한 흥미를 키워가지만, 점차 밝혀지는 야스코 집안의 상황 탓에 갈등이 벌어진다.
Hikozo Sakai
전쟁 직후의 일본 사회를 배경으로 여인의 수난을 그린 작품. 미조구치 겐지의 <밤의 여인들>에서 창부 역할을 훌륭히 소화해 낸 인기 여배우 다나카 기누요가 호연했다. 전작인 <셋방살이의 기록>이 도시 인정물의 연장선상의 희극적인 작품이었다면, <바람속의 암탉>은 패전 후의 생활고와 가혹한 현실을 다룬 작품으로 가족간의 갈등을 주로 다루었던 오즈의 작품 세계에서 전후 일본사회에서 겪는 여성의 수난을 다루었다는 점에서 특기할 만한 작품이다. 전후 일본의 동떨어진 비현실적인 묘사로 동시대의 비평가들로부터 비판의 대상이 되기도 했던 작품이지만, 오즈의 후기 영화미학으로 가는 과도기적인 작품이다. 전쟁은 끝났지만 전쟁에 나간 남편 슈이치는 돌아오지 않고 소식도 없다. 남편 없이 어렵게 가정을 꾸려가던 도키코는 아이의 병원비를 벌기 위해 몸을 판다. 그러던 중 슈이치가 집으로 돌아오고, 아내는 남편에게 매춘 사실을 고백하는데..
Kawayoshi
1947년 패전 후 오즈가 만든 첫 작품으로, 류 치슈와 이다 조코의 호연이 돋보이는 작품. 동시대 감독들이 전쟁 체제에 대한 비판이나 반성 등을 그린 작품을 양산해내던 당시에도 전쟁 전과 마찬가지로 오즈가 선택한 첫 제재는 ‘인정’이었다. 전후 일본 사회에 대한 귀중한 다큐멘터리와 같은 이 작품은 오즈 특유의 정적인 영상 속에 인간적이면서도 감동적인 삶의 메시지를 전해 주고 있다. 도쿄의 한 거리에서 잡화상을 운영하는 다네에게 길 잃은 아이 고헤이가 억지로 맡겨진다. 사람에 대한 정과 사랑에 무심했던 다네는 고헤이를 부랑아 취급하며 귀찮은 존재로 여기지만, 소년에 얽힌 여러 일들을 겪으면서 차츰 사랑을 깨달아 간다. 그러던 중 아이를 찾는 친부모가 그녀 앞에 나타나고, 다네는 아이를 보내야만 하는 처지에 놓이게 된다.
Morita
Kotobuki-za is a story of the Naniwa-bushi singer Baichuken Tsurumaru.
Nobue's father
Hisshoka is a 1945 Drama film directed by four Japanese directors.
A wealthy family will not allow the military to grow crops on their fields due to their superstitious beliefs about their son's illness.
The story of a boy who befriends a lonely middle-aged man.
제2차 세계대전이 발발하기 전, 남규슈의 어느 항구 마을. 15년 전 이곳에 조선소를 지으려다 실패하여 마을을 떠났던 남자의 아들이 아버지의 유지를 잇겠다며 찾아온다. 이어서 남자의 아들이 또 한 명 나타난다. 마을 주민들은 두 사람을 환영하지만, 사실 이 둘은 어느 쪽도 남자의 아들이 아니다. 조선소의 재건을 명목으로 한 몫 잡아 보려는 사기꾼들이었던 것. 순박한 마을 사람들 속에서 두 사기꾼이 펼치는 소동을 유머러스하게 그린 인간 희극.
A nurse's tale of self-sacrifice during wartime. The title is borrowed from a patriotic song made popular by singer Hamako Watanabe during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
Pretty Oshige is deceived by her first love. After this, she lives a hard lifestyle, working at a number of jobs. Her only pleasure is her nephew, who eventually becomes a merchant marine. When Oshige meets her old love ten years later, she is able to forgive him and even thank him for the path her life has taken.
Inoue was something of a rarity in the sense, that he was a Shochiku house director who seems to have worked mostly in period films, often with big stars like Hasegawa or Bando. "Sumidagawa", named after the river that runs through Tokyo, is also a period film, but thematically a modern one. All the themes that you associate with the normal Shochiku women's films set in the present day are in this film, just in a different context: love, the planning of a marriage, career, family relations and societal melancholy. There is no action or swordplay.
This was 1942, so it was a national policy film, no matter what you call it. But when the war was still on the winning side, there wasn't even a little bit of sadness in the film (as the war was getting worse and worse, the burdens on our backs were increasing day by day, and we had to keep forming a line for tomorrow with nowhere to go (Akira Kurosawa's "The Most Beautiful", Admiral Nomura's "Enemy Air Raid", etc.) (Song of Annihilation, directed by Sasaki Yasushi). The film closes with the hope of the blue cloud that is bubbling up in the air. Or it may be the last time that a Japanese film talks about war and looks at the end of the war with an unconcerned eye.
An older sister and brother (Mieko Takamine and Masayoshi Otsuka) come to visit their grandfather (Takeshi Sakamoto) who lives deep in the mountains. As for their parents, father was serving in the South Seas and mother died of illness on her way home. So, the brother, who is still young, will live alone with his grandfather whilst the sister goes away to study to become a teacher.
Makoto Hirata
가난한 교사인 호리카와 슈헤이는 돈도 미래에 대한 희망도 없는 현실이다. 그럼에도 불구하고 그의 아들 료헤이의 성공을 위하여 온 열정과 생을 바치는데...
이부세 마스지의 유머 넘치는 원작을 시미즈 히로시가 세련되게 연출해낸 우아한 멜로드라마. 미노부 산을 찾는 참배객들로 늘 번화한 시모베 온천의 여관. 온천에 휴양 온 난무라는 온천욕을 하던 중 머리 장식핀에 발에 상처를 입게 된다. 머리 장식핀 주인인 에미는 이를 사과하기 위해 다시 온천을 찾고 난무라는 그녀를 보자 첫눈에 연심을 품게 된다. 에미는 그가 다시 걸을 수 있을 때까지 곁에 있어 주는데, 난무라의 상처가 다 나아 도쿄로 돌아가고 다른 이들도 떠나지만 에미는 온천에 머문다.
한 가족의 몰락과 재건에 관한 이야기를 담고 있는 이 작품은 당시 흥행과 작품성에서 모두 성공한 초기작으로 장면간의 전환 또는 휴지부로 기능하는 여백 쇼트의 사용, 움직임이 없는 정적인 카메라 등 가장 오즈적이라고 특징지을 수 있는 후기 작품들의 양식과 내러티브 형태가 특징적으로 드러나는 작품이다. 경제계의 거물이었던 도다씨의 갑작스러운 죽음 이후 둘째 아들 쇼지로는 중국 천진으로 돈을 벌기 위해 떠나고 남은 도다 부인과 막내 딸 세츠코는 귀찮은 존재로 외면당한 채 형제들 집을 전전하다 결국 처분조차 힘든 바닷가의 낡은 집으로 옮겨간다. 도다씨의 기일을 지내기 위해 천진에서 돌아온 쇼지로는 어머니와 여동생에 대한 형제들의 태도에 대해 분통을 터트린다.
A reformatory in the remote countryside houses 200 delinquents and problem children. The teachers and caretakers face much trouble. The school is often short on water, and one day, the well runs dry.
director of the arishima's hospital
Movie about a devoted and single woman and her daughter. The mother's nickname is "Bokuseki" (wooden head) because of his supposed stubbornness. No.10 in the list of "The 10 best films of 1940" by Kinema Junpo.
Movie about a devoted and single woman and her daughter. The mother's nickname is "Bokuseki" (wooden head) because of his supposed stubbornness. No.10 in the list of "The 10 best films of 1940" by Kinema Junpo.
Adaptation of Kishida Kunio's novel. Set against the backdrop of a power struggle within a hospital, depicts the love lives of the director's daughter, the administrative director, a doctor, and a nurse.
Rakugo-ka
Melodrama about a talented singer who finally makes her debut
Shinzō Arita
A man who works late hours at a deadening job lives together with his wife and his younger sister. The younger sister's a modern girl who's starting to receive romantic attention from one of her co-workers.
Grandfather
A follow-up to Children in the Wind, Four Seasons of Children(a.k.a. Kodomo no Shiki) is also based on a Tsubota Joji novel. The film is divided into two chapters, following the young protagonists' minor adventures and real-world awakenings over spring and summer, then autumn and winter.
Policeman
Two childhood friends go their own ways but meet again some years later after they have both married. They get re-acquainted, meet each others’ families, and all is well. Then the disagreements start...
A young doctor, Kozo Tsumura, falls for young nurse Katsue Takaishi. But she's got a secret: she's a widow with a son. Kozo and Katsue decide to run away to Kyoto, but her child suddenly became sick and she just missed the train and Kozo. She makes it to Kyoto finally, but is unable to meet him. Plus she isn't accepted into Kyoto society. She goes back to her hometown and tries to forget him. She quits the hospital to concentrate on her singing. She makes her professional debut with the hit "Aizen Katsura". Kozo is in the audience.
장님 안마사인 도쿠와 후쿠는 산중 휴양지에 일하러 가는 길이다. 두 사람은 소리만으로 몇 명의 아이들이 지나가는지 맞춰 보기도 하며 고갯길을 오른다. 때마침 두 사람 곁을 마차가 지나가고, 도쿠는 도쿄 여인의 향기가 났다며 미소 짓는다. 곧바로 일을 시작한 도쿠는 어떤 여인을 안마하게 되는데, 그는 낮에 맡았던 도쿄 여인의 향기를 알아본다. 한편, 여관 손님의 돈이 없어지는 사건이 발생하고, 수수께끼 같은 도쿄 여인이 의심을 받게 된다. 시미즈는 상황의 역전을 통해 갈등과 유머를 이끌어냈다. 여전히 시미즈 특유의 스타일이 돋보이는데, 특히나 걸으면서 이야기하는 트래킹 숏, 인물의 옆모습을 찍으며 움직이는 실내 트래킹 숏 등 모두 다른 방식으로 활용한 그의 카메라워크는 거장의 솜씨를 보여준다. 그리고 앞이 보이지 않는 도쿠의 시선이 떠나는 여인을 끝까지 따라가는 듯한 마지막 장면은 단연 최고의 명장면이다.
Approaching their graduation ceremony, Saegusa, Sanae, and their classmates go on an overnight trip to Hakone with their teacher Ms. Kawahara, who will soon leave school. They thank her doing so and go on their respective paths, ending soon their student life.
Shigeo's uncle
Shigeo is an aspiring writer living with his girl friend Minako and hoping for success and a better tomorrow every day. Both live on what Minako earns from working in a café. Shigeo is not happy with the situation and neither is his family who do not approve of Minako. Especially his uncle tries to convince him to leave Minako, even using his influence behind the scenes. Things start to change when Shigeo's sister pays the young couple a visit, being the first member of Shigeo's family to actually get to know Minako in person.
Uncle
젠타와 산페 형제는 아버지의 도시락을 서로 가져다 드리겠다며 싸우는 등 늘 티격태격한다. 특히, 타고난 악동인 동생 산페는 타잔 소리를 내며 골목을 휘젓고 다니는 골목대장이다. 그러던 어느 날, 아버지가 공문서 위조 혐의로 체포되어 감옥에 가고 만다. 형제의 눈부신 여름날이 돌연 끝나버리고, 산페는 시골로 보내진다. 오로지 집에 돌아가고 싶다는 생각뿐인 산페는 시골에서도 매일 사고만 친다.
A 1937 Japanese film.
Mr. Kawada
A Japanese screwball comedy about the battle between the sexes: two timid men, egged on by their wives, end up in a bitter duel over an expensive lace handkerchief.
Tessai Yamaoka
Kinuyo is a daughter of doctor of Chinese medicine, and Yasuo is a son of surgeon. Their families always fight like cat and dog. This relationship is ancestral. Although Kinuyo and Yasuo love each other, they have different thoughts toward treatments.
Sugiyama
매일 매일 되풀이 되는 일상속에서 조카 '세츠코'가 방문한다. 대학교수인 숙부와 매사에 여성스러움과 부의 상징으로 골프치기를 강요하는 숙모사이에서 '세츠코'는 일상에 변화주기를 시도한다. 골프치러간다고 거짓말을 하고 사제의 집에 가서 골프가방을 맡기고 도쿄의 술집에 들른 숙부앞에 '세츠코'는 도쿄기생이 보고싶다고 기생집에 가자고 조르는데…
The narrative is about a woman who faces hard times, when her husband is arrested for a crime committed by his boss. The woman also has a child to look after, and they end up meeting several colorful personalities.
A musical film made for the inauguration of Shochiku's Ofuna Studio, with an all-star cast of the era.
Fumikichi
Otoku asks her brother Bunkichi to speak with her son Seiichi, a young man for whom sacrificed everything but who now seems to be headed for a wastrel life. Bunkichi admonishes the boy to study harder, but it seems his uncle's advice may already be too late.
Hanaju
A melodrama about a businessman's relations with the three women in his life.
Teacher
In a Tokyo boarding house a group of students and recent graduates struggle to complete their studies and find jobs. Considered a lost film.
Family drama. A middle-aged father has just married off his third daughter, but still has his nine year old son to raise whom he resents as he was unwanted. (British Film Institute)
Kihachi
기하치와 어린 두 아들은 주린 배를 움켜쥐고 일자리를 찾아 떠도는 중이다. 작은 여관에 묵고 있는 이들은 공장을 찾아가 일자리를 요청하거나 들개를 붙잡아 보상금을 받으며 하루를 보낸다. 그러던 어느 날, 기하치는 자신과 마찬가지로 일자리를 찾고 있는 한 모녀를 우연히 만난 뒤 이들을 도와주려 한다. (2019 한국시네마테크협의회 - 알려진 오즈와 미지의 오즈 - 오즈 야스지로 특별전)
Tokochbi's Father
A Japanese film
Domestic comedy involving a strong wife and a "henpecked" husband taking place in a family-run judo school.
Seikichi
A period piece about the love of a wealthy blind woman, a teacher of koto and shamisen, and her devoted manservant. Based on a novella by Tanizaki Junichiro.
Kihachi
In a back alley of the Shitamachi district of Tokyo, Kihachi bears witness to a series of romantic complications involving the inhabitants of the neighborhood. Considered to be a lost film.
Нагамацу, водитель
Jyuta, an honest owner of a taxi company, has a younger half-brother who is involved in the yakuza world and doesn’t get along well with his mother. Jyuta tries to correct him…
Kihachi
오즈 야스지로 감독의 1934년 무성 영화이다. 사카모토 타케시 등이 주연으로 출연하였다. 키네마 준보 영화상을 수상했다.
That Night's Woman
Guest for portrait painter
Mikio Naruse’s final silent film is a gloriously rich portrait of a waitress, Sugiko, whose life, despite a host of male admirers and even some intrigued movie talent scouts, ends up taking a suffocatingly domestic turn after a wealthy businessman accidentally hits her with his car.
Heinosuke Gosho evokes in this film the family conflicts engendered by the eternal problem of a father who projects his professional desires on the life of his son. The sister Machiko is the essential link that will allow everyone to apologize to each other and achieve reconciliation
Fujii's uncle Muraki
The story deals with Fuji, nicknamed Waka-danna (Young Master), the star athlete on his university's rugby team. The son of a wealthy soy sauce manufacturer, Fuji basks in the glory of his athletic celebrity. Attracting the attention of admiring young women, Fuji resists family pressure to settle down and marry after college. Instead, he spends much of his time drinking and womanizing, behavior which eventually leads the college officials to expel him from the team.
Yokoshima
A silent 3-reel comedy short that uses the 1933 film King Kong as a backdrop to the story. It was produced by Shochiku Studios (who released the original 1933 film in Japan on behalf of RKO). It is now considered to be a lost film.
Kihachi
Two Tokyo co-workers come across a destitute young lady in search of a place to live.
In the formally ravishing Every-Night Dreams, set in the dockside neighborhoods of Tokyo, a single mother works tirelessly as a Ginza bar hostess to ensure a better life for her young son—until her long-lost husband returns.
A young couple is harrased by an uncle.
Hattori
"The Dancing Girl of Izu" tells of the story between a young male student who is touring the Izu Peninsula and a family of traveling dancers he meets there, including their youngest girl. The student finds the naïve girl attractive even though he eventually has to part with the family after spending memorable time together.
Thief
This pair of gentle yet witty and inventive comedies from the director of The Neighbour's Wife and Mine typify both the formal experimentation of early Japanese sound cinema and the social milieux that Shochiku tended to depict. 'Virtually plotless, and feeling more like comic sketches than fully developed stories,' writes Arthur Nolletti, Jr, 'these light comedies, or farces, take a wholly trivial matter (often a socially embarrassing situation) and use it as a springboard for a succession of gags.' Much of the films' distinction comes from the wit of Gosho's direction, the imaginative use of the new sound technology and the charm of the acting, particularly of the heroines (Kinuyo Tanaka in Bride; Hiroko Kawasaki in Groom). Yet in both films, Gosho finds room for some shrewd observation of character and environment, subtly exploring the values and assumptions of the suburban petit bourgeoisie.
College janitor
여자 한명을 둘러싸고 펼쳐지는 남자 두명의 우정 드라마. 사장 아들인 테츠오는 친구인 쿠마타, 시마자키와 즐거운 학생 생활을 보내고 있었는데, 부친이 갑자기 돌아가시어 회사를 이어받게 된다. 그러나 쿠마타의 배려로 취직을 하게된 친구들이 사장인 쿠마타에 대하여 비굴한 태도로 대하게 되는데...
Juuyaku
직장상사의 집 근처로 이사 온 요시이 겐지스케의 두 아들 료이치와 겐지는 텃세를 부리는 동네 아이들을 힘과 꾀로 물리치고 당당히 승자가 된다. 어느 날 친구들의 아버지이자 그들의 아버지의 직장 상사인 이와사키의 집에서 평소 존경해마지 않던 아버지가 직장 상사인 이와사키의 비위를 맞추기 위해 굽신거리는 모습의 활동 사진을 접하게 되는데...
Part two of Shimizu's major silent Seven Seas, a family drama of the intertwining fates of the rich, decadent Yagibashis and the far less prosperous Sone family.
Sakaguchi, tailor
A student comes up with various schemes to avoid paying a tailor the money he owes him. Considered to be a lost film.
Rou-Shain Yamada
대학을 졸업한 오카지마는 보험회사의 내근사원, 그러나 연로한 동료사원이 퇴출당하는 것을 보고 사장에게 반감을 갖게된다. 하지만 그 결과 그도 직업을 잃고만다. 지금은 서양식당을 운영 하지만 학생시절의 선생님이었던 오무라가 오카지마를 고용한다. 그리고 오카지마가 전단지 뿌리는 것을 본 그의 아내는 울음을 터트린다.
A playwright moves to a rural neighborhood to avoid the distractions of the city, but he discovers there are plenty of ways to get sidetracked in his new home, too.
Michiko gets pregnant after a rape. She marries a boring business partner of her father to avoid the shame. Later she meets the rapist again who is now a union leader in opposition of her husband.
Karei (a butler)
검도 달인인 오카지마는 얼굴의 무성한 수염으로 모르는 사람이 없을 정도로 유명하지만 거칠어 보이는 인상 때문에 취직도 실패하고 여성에게도 인기가 없다. 어느날 불량배들에게 위협당하고 있던 소녀 히로코를 구출해준 오카지마는 히로코의 권유로 수염을 깎아 버린다. 그러자 용모가 수려한 청년으로 변신을 해 취직도 하고 세명의 여성으로부터 프로포즈도 받게된다.
Section chief
A salaryman finds some money in the street and gets a reward for returning it to its rightful owner. However his colleagues immediately start borrowing money and selling him things he doesn't need, much to his wife's annoyance. Considered to be a lost film.
The adventures of a modern day descendant of a famed Edo era thief are the basis for this short supernatural comedy romp.
Yoshida
A farmer’s boy, obsessed with his balsa-and-paper flying models and with dreams of real aircraft, develops a friendship with the daughter of the local squire, who introduces the lad to her pilot brother and his flying officer friends; through hard work, and despite the handicap of a lowly class status, he eventually succeeds in qualifying as a pilot and joining the air force.
Ono, the company's president
Kenji is a small-time thief who likes drinking and fighting. When he falls in love with sweet and simple Yazue, and she finds out what kind of guy he really is, she leaves him "until he becomes an honest person." Kenji soon finds it's not easy to get rid of one's past.
Boss Gontora
A kidnapped boy proves to be more than his abductor can handle.
Friend
When Sakamoto is made redundant he cannot bring himself to tell his wife. Instead he investigates other employment opportunities. Considered to be a lost film.
Secretary
Tetsuo Nomoto, a young graduated student tries to find a decent job by himself. Later on, he will marry his girlfriend, Machiko, whom he hides the fact that he has no job. Hardships come quickly, which forces Machiko to find a job in a bar. [Partially lost film; only 12 minutes survive.]
Kunizo Ôhara
A young couple flee their disapproving parents, get lost of Mt. Akagi and find a cache of gold protected by the ghost of a gangster.
A melodrama about an orphan and her mother who are separated and lose contact, but are later reunited.
professor
같은 대학에 다니는 슈이치와 빈은 친한 친구지만 치에코의 마음을 사기 위해 서로 경쟁한다. 그러던 중 세 사람이 스키 여행을 떠나며 둘의 싸움은 더욱 격해진다. 오즈 야스지로의 초기 코미디 영화로서, 현재 상영본이 남아 있는 오즈의 영화 중 가장 오래된 작품이다.
A hen-pecked man works as his artist wife's model and a house-husband. When her patron flirts with her and humiliates him, he decides to get revenge by trying his own hand as a painter. Considered to be a lost film.
Principal
Comedy about a young man juggling several girlfriends. Considered to be a lost film.
Uncle
A married man falls for a dancer and his wife's uncle hires a private detective to spy on him. Considered to be a lost film.
Okada's father
Lost silent film
