Junkichi Orimoto

담배를 사러 다녀 오겠다는 아버지는 그렇게 돌아오지 않았다. 엄마는 아버지 대신 일을 나가고, 형은 엄마 대신 내 도시락을 준비했다. 원망과 그리움이 한 데 섞인 13년이 흐른 지금, 아버지와의 틈을 메우지 못한 채 아주 오랜만에 그를 마주한다.

고지식하게 사람을 구하는 일에 몰두하는 변호사와 남의 호의를 이용하는 천성의 사기꾼이 서로에게 없어서는 안되는 파트너가 되어가는 과정을 그린 드라마.

끊길 듯 끊어지지 않는 특이한 구성으로, 여러 개의 에피소드를 별개의 영화처럼 늘어놓으며 주인공의 영혼을 흥미롭게 해부하는 듯한 작품. 거주간병인인 사와는 자신의 아버지와 자달라는 고용주의 황당한 요구를 들어주다 사고를 저지르고 직업을 잃는다. 설상가상으로 돈까지 잃어버린 그녀는 길에서 우연히 만난 노인들을 협박하고 회유하면서 같이 지내는 기상천외한 삶을 산다. 그들과의 삶을 통해 사와는 그들이 주변사람들과 맺는 무력한 관계를 치유시키는 희한한 마술을 부린다. 긴 분량의 상영시간에도 불구하고 인간에 대한 감독의 분방한 상상력과 관점을 만끽하게 하는 작품이다.

2012년 7월. 그 지진 재해로부터 1년 후의 여름. 고교 3 학년의 미야모토 하루카(17)가 연주하는 피아노는 어둑어둑한 창고로부터 여름 풀의 향기 속에 녹아 들어 간다. 어느 날 도쿄의 대학에 다니는 언니, 아키바(20)가 갑자기 돌아온다. 우수하고 무엇이든 능숙하게 해내는 아키바와 언제나 비교되어 온 서투르고 겁이 많은 하루카. 그런 하루카에게는 피아노를 치고 있을 때가 유일한 안락한 시간이며, 헛간은 세상의 중심이었다. 미야모토 가문에는 어린 동생을 잃은 슬픈 과거의 기억이 있다. 하루카가 헛간에서 피아노를 치는 것은 동생에 대한 속죄이기도 했다. 그런 가운데 복숭아의 소문 피해가 할아버지를 괴롭혀 간다. 하루카는 항상 상냥하게 자신을 지켜봐 주고 있는 할아버지를 위해 어떤 결정을 내린다. 잃은 생명에의 가족들 각각의 생각, 후쿠시마의 복숭아 농가의 현상, 후쿠시마 현에서 피난해 온 소년과의 만남. 그리고 아키바와의 충돌. 하루카의 안에서 무엇인가 변하려 하고 있었다.

"Elite" members of an insurance company are gathered together to form a unit to investigate an accident and whether the company needs to pay out on the insurance policy or not.

Aki, who loves freedom, mets Masaya, an aspiring watchmaker. The two have opposite personalities and initially clash. The two reach better terms when Masaya is able to see Akis inner pain. Eventually, Masaya uncovers Akis sad past which was supposed to be held secret from everyone.

Momotaro and Hidemaro are 1st-years at Otokojuku, a private boys school where true men are made. Momotaro, proficient in academics and martial arts becomes good friends with Hidemaro an underachieving weakling. Omito Date, former student leader, plans his revenge against his former school. Now leader of an evil army from rival Kanto Gogakuren school he fully intends on taking over Otokojuku.

Jun, a 16-year-old teen, refuses to stand while the national anthem is being played at his graduation ceremony. This event will totally change his life, as he involuntarily becomes the new hero of a rebel anti-system youth. Singer Muy's pop music and his friend, Nozomi, with whom he shares his sadness and hatred for the society that surrounds them, help him bear his terrible loneliness.

어른이 되면 맛볼 수 없는, 맛보지 않고는 어른이 될 수 없는, 레몬처럼 청랑했던 고교 시절을 그린 토시마 미호의 연작소설집을 원작으로 하고 있다. 『레몬일 때』는 도쿄까지 네 시간 반이 걸리는 어느 시골 고등학교를 무대로 수수한 청춘들의 평범한 일상을 맑고 촘촘하게 그린 청춘 드라마이다.

Middle-aged farmer Noda Masao (Daichi Yasuo) is a good, honest man, but his attempts for marriage have all met with failure. Through a friend, Masao meets Liberty (Ruby Moreno), a Filipino woman working in Japan. When they decide to get married, Masao borrows money from his Agricultural Association and travels to the Philippines for the wedding - only to discover that it was all a scam. Stranded in Manila with no money, Masao ends up staying to work. One day he meets a beautiful farmer's daughter, Christina (Alice Dixson), reawakening not only his chances for love, but also his love for farming.

Former childhood friends Kadoya Kaneo and Tochino Masatatsu cross paths again. Kaneo is now a yakuza member, while Masatatsu is a nightclub owner with a distaste for crime gangs. When a yakuza boss dies, a struggle for his position takes place between Kaneo's boss Awano and the young Nakahira. Nakahira's men try to extort money from Masatatsu, bringing him in between a yakuza battle.

Kodama learns that his old classmate Hayashi is getting married to an idol, and organizes a junior high school reunion.

Yukihiko's first film.

Hama-chan and Su-san go fishing during a business trip, but Hama-chan has to give a lecture on Su-san's behalf in a case of mistaken identity.

A violent detective who can handle assault and blackmail in a straight forward manner.

A Tokyo psychiatrist is hoping to better his career by marrying the daughter of a prominent doctor. The match is threatened however when an attractive but very troubled tourist guide comes to him for consultation...

A trading company employee's girlfriend loses her memory while on a trip. In place of the friend who was supposed to have accompanied her the whole time is a mysterious man.

Eighteen-year-old Isamu works at a coffee shop. Rebelling against his father, he eloped with Momo (Yasuko Tomita). One night, Isamu injures a middle-aged woman by hitting her with his bicycle.

Yuki Kimura, a company president's secretary, agrees to marry his son Yutaka on the president's recommendation. When Yutaka breaks up with his lover, a hostess, she implies she's going to commit suicide. In a panic to get to her quickly, Yutaka punches a man at a taxi stand. The next day, when Yutaka's lover hears the news about a man dying and realizes it was the man Yutaka punched, she demands money...

Third movie in the Hissatsu (Sure Death!) Series. Chasing the killer of a lawman, a group of assassins fall foul of a group of blackmarket financiers who dispatch their own hitmen to dispose of them.

Originally released in Japan as "The Return of Godzilla" in 1984, this is the heavily re-edited, re-titled "Godzilla 1985". Adding in new footage of Raymond Burr, this 16th Godzilla film ignores all previous sequels and serves as a direct follow-up to the 1956 "Godzilla King of the Monsters", which also featured scenes with Burr edited into 1954's "Godzilla". This film restores the darker tone of the original, as we witness the nuclear destruction of giant lizard terrorizing Japan.

일본 소설가 미시마 유키오의 생애와 그의 세 소설 작품을 각각 흑백과 스타일 넘치는 컬러로 번갈아 가며 보여주는 독특한 구조의 이 영화는 삶과 예술을 하나로 통합하려했던 그의 최후 몸부림을 마지막 4장(부제가 '4장의 삶'이다)에서 그려내 내용과 형식의 긴밀함을 꾀하고 있다

1954년, 고지라는 옥시전 디스트로이어로 산화되었다. 그러나 계속되는 핵실험으로 어느날 도시에 나타난 쇼키리스라는 바닷니가 나타나는데 쇼키리스가 갑자기 출몰하던 건 고지라가 나타났기 때문이다. 하지만 일본 정부는 고지라의 부활은 아직 인정할 수 없다며 진실을 은폐하는 행위를 하지만 얼마 뒤 고지라가 도로를 부수며 부활하며 결국 일본 정부는 고지라의 부활을 공식적으로 인정한다. 30년만에 돌아온 파괴신 고지라는 건물을 부수고 다리를 부수는 등 각종 악행을 저지른다, 결국 정부는 고지라에 대비해 제작한 신무기, 슈퍼 X를 출동시켜 고지라의 활동을 어느 정도 정지시키고, 방위군은 고지라를 화산으로 유도하여 화산을 폭발시키려는 작전을 세운다. 그러나 러시아는 고지라를 죽이기 위해 도쿄 본토에 핵폭탄을 떨어뜨리려 한다. 결국 러시아의 무모한 작전으로 고지라는 다시 회복되고 원자력 발전소를 부수어 에너지를 충전시킨다. 방위군은 다시 슈퍼 X를 출동시켜 고지라를 멈추려 하지만 고지라의 열선으로 정리된다. 이후 방위군은 고지라를 화산으로 유도시켜 화산을 폭발시켜 고지라를 화산에 묻어버린다.

A double suicide happens in Morioka in Iwate Prefecture. The two were employees of rival real estate companies. A prosecutor who senses a setup exposes the truth.

An office lady joins a "mistress bank", starts falling in love with her client and gets involved in a murder case.

This story is based on the novel "Jo no mai" by Tomiko Miyao which is based on the life of painter Shōen Uemura (1875–1949), the first woman to be awarded the Order of Culture. The title refers to the masterpiece bijinga ("picture of a beautiful woman") that Uemura painted at the age of 61. The main character, Tsuya Shimamura, is born in Kyoto as the second daughter of a tea trader who dies before her birth. Tsuya, who loves painting more than anything and is hopeless at housework, attends art school and at age 15 receives the name Shōsui (from the characters for "pine" and "green") from her teacher. The crown prince of England purchases one of her works, propelling her to fame overnight. The novel portrays the remainder of her stormy life, during which she is impregnated by her teacher and raises a fatherless child; through it all she devotes herself to her painting, undaunted.

Story of three people, a barber, a Christian and a graduate of the Tokyo Military Academy during the 2nd World War.

Brings Shingo face to face against Yagyu Tajima, the Shogun’s fencing instructor in a match that could save a domain near Osaka.  Meanwhile Shogun Yoshimune must face a painful decision whether or not he can finally see his son for the first time.

The president of the Japanese National Railways is found dead during a period in which train service is plagued by numerous layoffs, strikes and shutdowns. The government says that the president was murdered; the police claim it was a suicide. A quizzical reporter follows the case for years, but the basic question remains unanswered: was the victim killed by members of the burgeoning Communist movement in Japan, or was the death stage-managed by the authorities in hopes of discrediting the Communists?

A detective goes out of his way to crack the case of a serial killer who specialises in murdering police officers.

A lavish retelling of the true story of the final voyage and ultimate destruction and sinking of the battleship Yamato, Japan's greatest flagship during the Second World War.

A tragic love story between a prostitute and a young trainee monk.

Mariko is living the life of a typical Japanese college student in the 70's, spending far more of her time balancing boyfriends and part-time jobs than on her schoolwork. She finds herself torn between a former boyfriend who's the tough, insensitive-but-sexy, type, and a new acquaintance who's more sensitive to her feelings, but who still acts childishly selfish at times. Will she choose one of them, or decide to go her own way?

Samonji, a reporter, receives a message on his answering machine from his friend Takada that says "stop it... zero plan! February." Learning that Takada is dead, Samonji begins an investigation. He and his younger sister Fumiko investigate major events happening in February but cannot find anything relevant. Meanwhile, Kanzaki, a doctor who works at a clinic on a remote island, is working on a plan to extort two billion yen.

This is the story of "The Forty-Seven Ronin." Based on historical events in 1701-2, the movie tells the tale of the Asano clan's downfall and the revenge of its former samurai on the perpetrator of the catastrophe. Lord Asano was goaded, or tricked, into drawing his sword inside the Shogun's palace -- a crime which carried the death penalty. The newly installed Shogun was furious at Asano and ordered all his clan's assets seized, meaning some 20,000 samurai and commoners were unemployed and landless at a stroke. Forty-seven of these ronin (masterless samurai) banded together to take attempt revenge on Lord Kira, who had goaded Asano into drawing his sword.

평화로운 제루시아 행성은 야만스러운 가바나스 제국의 침략에 의해 완전히 폐허가 된 상태. 간신히 살아남은 사람들의 앞날은 위태롭기만 하다. 현명한 지도자는 8개의 성스러운 리아베 씨앗을 우주에 뿌린다. 이 씨앗들은 우주를 떠돌며 자신의 주인으로 합당한 영웅들을 선택해야 한다. 과연 제루시아 행성의 운명은 어떻게 될 것인가. (2003년 제7회 부천국제판타스틱영화제)

A nurse is framed for her involvement in the hospital murder of a politician who was threatening to expose corrupt practices. She escapes from jail but is captured and sent back, resulting in the rest of the inmates being punished, added to which of a new, tougher, head of security arrives to take up her new job....

In the setting of the Hokuriku region, where the snow and cold winds rage, for the first time in true-life yakuza film history, director Kinji Fukasaku shows battles among yakuza who value land over tradition. Hiroki Matsukata stars as Noboru Kawada, a Hokuriku yakuza who will use any measure for survival, disregarding parents, brothers, and tradition.

A yakuza leader must balance his violent tactics necessary for the rough streets of 1960s Tokyo with the domestic needs of his daughters.

A police investigator cracks down on yakuza business, but once he realizes the police are in negotiations with certain factions, he sides with his own syndicate of choice.

Chiba, looking gnarly, and acting as animalistic as ever, stars alongside Matsukata as violent gangsters battling their way through fight after bloody fight with rival yakuza on the streets of Okinawa.

The eighth sequel of the series by the successful “Fukasaku and Bunta” collaboration revolves around the men of a lesser organization that are constantly bullied by the upper organization and “bleed in vain” in gang wars.

Amidst Japan's postwar economic boom, yakuza factions in Osaka fight for survival when Japan's largest crime syndicate plans a hostile takeover.

The seventh in the shocking "Jingi Naki Tatakai" movie series, which exposes the true lives of the yakuza that is hidden by a mask of "jingi". The next stage of this continuing drama is the Kanmon Channel where the Owada and the Kyoei groups are battling for territorial rights and drug smuggling. The Owada sends their man, Tetsu, and his friend Shuji to kill the Kyoei boss. With the promise of fame and riches, Shuji takes the fall and goes to jail for 7 years. But when he's released, he discovers that he and Tetsu have been all but forgotten by the Owada. Feeling betrayed, Shuji takes natters into his own hands and becomes an unsuspecting pawn in an internal conflict and an assassination attempt on the Owada boss. And now angered, Shuji seeks revenge...

Based on a true story, an elderly woman resiliently spends nine months attempting to retrieve her husband's dead body, fighting government bureaucracy and indifference all along the way.

While Hirono is in prison, his rival Takeda turns his own crime organization into a political party, whose two executives stir up new tensions in their thirst for power.

On the road again, Torajiro meets a kindred spirit in Lily, a lounge singer.

A man who survived the war carries the will of his comrades in arms, walking across the country visiting the bereaved families.

A detective is charged with investigating a bank corruption scandal.

Kiba Okaminosuke finds himself entangled with a group of prisoners being transported to their executions, one of whom oddly looks exactly like his dead father. There are crooked gold miners, a beautiful girl who is unfortunately a complete lunatic and a dojo master who is obsessed with killing Kiba just to prove that his school's sword style is the best.

This is the story of a vagrant samurai – the solitary, savage and scrupulous Kiba – who arrives at a village to defend a beautiful, blind woman against a sinister plot. Her assailants then send against him another samurai, named Sana, who is without scruples. The fight between them will become personal, for the honor and love of the blind woman.

Bungo becomes a single parent when his wife leaves him because of his drinking and gambling. Deciding to quit his vices, he works menial jobs, drifting from city to city. However, not completely losing his gambling tastes, he became a hunted man and must escape to Tokyo after he was found cheating at dice. Bungo and his son Kenichi comes upon the Kizaki Family in Asakusa, where more troubles are awaiting them...

Loyal samurai Samanosuke is attacked, mutilated, and left for dead while carrying out a mission for his clan. He recovers but has lost an eye and an arm. Taking a new identity as Tange Sazen, he searches for a stolen urn which has hidden significance to his clan. But Tange Sazen has his own reasons for seeking the urn.

Hidejiro is a wandering yakuza with a ‘karashi botan’ (Chinese lion and peony) tattoo. Owing a favor to the Soda Family, he kills the boss of the rival Sakaki Family. When the Soda attacks the Sakaki and double-crosses him, with sword in hand, Hidejiro seeks brutal retribution.

고이즈미 야쿠모의 괴기담 중에서 4편의 에피소드를 영상으로 옮긴 옴니버스 영화. 출세를 위해 아내를 버리고 떠났던 무사(‘흑발’), 눈보라 속에서 설녀를 만나 목숨을 건진 청년(‘설녀’), 귀신을 피하기 위해 불경을 몸에 써넣는 맹인 악사(‘귀 없는 호이치’), 찻잔 속에서 기묘한 얼굴을 본 무사(‘찻잔 속’)의 이야기가 오싹한 공포와 함께 펼쳐진다. 환상적인 색채와 표현적인 세트를 이용한 뛰어난 미술과 촬영이 돋보이며, 다케미쓰 도루의 실험적인 음악 또한 탁월하다. 에 이어 두 번째로 칸영화제 심사위원특별상을 수상했다.

The first film with Tetsuro Tamba as a detective. An exciting drama about the pursuit of a criminal, which takes place in Yokohama. Tamba enthusiastically plays a police inspector who pursues a criminal who kidnapped his sister.

This tragic drama shows a young man fettered by Bushido, the way of the Samurai, who tried to escape the chains of his position, but was being forced to die. When the Tokugawa Shogunate ruled the land, Tatsuno castle in Wakisaka Clan's home of Harima held an established custom, the inspection of the arms warehouse. The Government Inspector Okuno Magodayu found a slight bit of dirt on the point of a spear and mentioned it with disdain. Ezaki Shinpachi heard it and started an argument with him. Magodayu then sent a a letter of challenge to him because he felt insulted by a low-ranking underling without a title. As it turned out Magodayu was killed. Since then, Shinpachi and the Okuno family have had continuous revenge duels. The tension mounts as this story builds to an extremely violent climax, when blood must pay for blood if the clan is to survive!

Assassination begins with the events of 1853 when "four black ships" anchored at Edo Bay, sparking civil unrest and the major political manoeuvring that saw the end of the Tokugawa Shogunate. At a time when assassination had become a disturbing political tool, Shinoda's film follows Hachiro Kiyokawa, an ambitious, masterless samurai whose allegiances drift dangerously between the Shogunate and the Emperor.

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.

3인의 사무라이는 방앗간이라는 한정된 공간을 중심으로 이야기가 진행이 된다. 지주의 딸을 납치한 소작농들은 뒷일이 어찌 될지도 모르는 단순 무식한 사고에서 자신들의 처우 개선을 요구한다. 목숨을 담보로 한 처절한 투쟁이었지만 그들은 힘도 지혜도 없다. 단지 그렇게 하지 않고는 더 이상 살아 갈수 없는 처절한 환경 속에서 나름대로 방법이라고 찾은 게 지주 딸을 납치하여 그 딸의 생명을 담보로 잡고 자신들의 생계가 걸린 조항들을 요구하는 것 이었다. 물론 관철시켜 주면 딸을 풀어 주려고 하지만 지주 계급은 이들의 저항을 일거에 무시해 버리고 무력으로 진압하려 한다. 며칠 뒤 영주의 순시가 있을 예정이어서 그 이전에 이 반란 아닌 반란을 진압해야 한다는 강박 관념까지 앞서서 그들은 무리하게 감옥에 수감되어 있던 죄수들에게 미끼를 던져 그들을 해치우게 하는 전략을 쓰지만 투옥되어 있던 죄수 중 하나가 소작농의 처지를 알게 되고는 오히려 그들 편으로 돌아선다. 한편 방앗간을 우연히 들렀던 나그네 무사는 여인을 인질로 잡은 그들을 오해하여 공격하려 하다가 그들의 이야기를 듣고는 참여도 방관도 못하는 입장에 처하지만 딱한 그들의 앞일을 염려하여 떠나지 못하고 합세하게 되고 만다. 보냈던 자객들이 소작농과 무사에게 무참하게 당하고 말자 이번엔 소작농의 가족을 볼모로 그들과 맞서지만 소작농의 가족은 스스로 자결하여 이들의 투쟁을 돕는다. 결국 서로 물러설 길이 없어진 두 세력 간에 화합점이 나온다. 인질을 풀어주는 대신 소작농에게 죄를 묻지 않겠다는 것, 그러나 처벌을 받아야 한다는 것. 그 처벌은 태형 100대였고 소작농에게 가세했던 무사는 싸워봤자 결국 소작농들이 모두 죽고 말 것 이라는 걸 알고 대신하여 그 처벌을 받겠다고 자진하여 나서지만 지주 계급은 무사를 처벌하고 나머지 주동세력을 모두 사살한다. 이에 회의를 품은 지주 측의 고용 무사가 이들에게 반기를 들고 소작농 측으로 가세하여 3명의 무사가 결성되고 이들은 지주가 불러들인 당대의 무사와 대결을 하게 된다.

Director Jun'ya Satô's debut film focuses on the inhuman training of recruits, the brutal drill system that reigned in the Japanese army during World War II, where in the first two years of training, ordinary people were turned into inhuman killers. For his first film, the director was awarded the Blue Ribbon Awards in the Debutant of the Year nomination.

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

Two rival gangs of gangsters clash for dominance of a neighborhood.

Film about the 2-26 Incident.

A touching story about a young boy, Genta, who bravely takes on life's challenges in hopes of finding a better life for himself and his sickly mother.

The lives of several Japanese families are shattered as the USA and the USSR move toward war, Japan finds itself caught in the middle, and Tokyo is ultimately evacuated as the two superpowers invoke the 'nuclear option'.

Sheriff Goro goes undercover to investigate drug smugglers.

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.

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."

After discovering a slaughtered corpse, the investigating team of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department began canvassing the area around the crime scene. As a result, they found a wallet with bloodstains that seemed to belong to the victim, a woman's wallet that did not fit the field, earrings, and other valuable materials, which led them on a foot search. The woman's purse had been picked up by a male prostitute on the subway, and from the prostitute's testimony, they were able to identify the pickpocket's face, but the next day, the man was found dead in a road accident, apparently murdered.

Junai Monogatari AKA Story of Pure Love is about two poor youths, Mitsuko and Kando, rebelling against society in various ways, who are desperately trying to be together despite tortuous circumstances. The film depicts their lives as thieves, menial laborers who can get little pay, society outcasts, and of course, lovers. Junai Monogatari depicts, mostly, their struggles within the Japanese reformatory system and Mitsuko's worsening sickness.

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.

Police beat a murder confession out of four innocent men who are then sentenced to death. Based on a true story.

두 아이의 어머니인 후미코는 지금까지 가정에 충실한 삶을 살아왔다. 하지만 시인이 되고 싶다는 마음을 품은 채 후미코는 계속해서 시를 쓴다. 그런 후미코에게 또다른 기회가 찾아오려고 할 때, 후미코는 남편의 불륜과 유방암이라는 고난을 맞는다. 여성 극작가로 활발하게 활동한 다나카 스미에(1908~2000)와 다나카 기누요의 협업이 빛나는 작품.

Masaki Kobayashi directs this romantic drama concerning a family of florists.

A movie that depicts the tragic fate of many Yokaren flight-academy pilots.

Onna Hitori Daichi wo Yuku (A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land, Kinuta Production, 1953) was the second feature film directed by Kamei Fumio, who is known as a master of documentary films, and followed his “Haha Nareba Onna Nareba(Become a Mother, Become a Woman)” (1952).