Hiroo Ikeda movie
After Japan's loss in the war, the wealthy, cultured, liberal Anjo family have to give up their mansion and their way of life. They hold one last ball at the house before leaving. The seemingly cold, cynical son secretly grieves for his defeated father and the values that the war destroyed, while the daughter tries to prevent father from taking his life and to find her own place in the new Japan.
Japanese propaganda film about the Normanton Incident.
Jûnai Onodera
Este é um filme dividido em duas partes.
A primeira parte foi lançada originalmente no Japão antes do ataque a Pearl Harbor. O filme foi adaptado a partir da peça de Seika Mayama. A película desenvolve a crônicas do final da vida dos 47 Ronin, que tornaram-se (baseado historicamente) uma lenda na história japonesa.
Kimura, Private 2nd Class
Following a young man through his childhood ambition to follow his father into the military to losing his life in combat in China.
A village romantic drama. (Now lost.)
A story of a servant girl whose life is upturned by her doomed love for a spineless young man.
Kinjo no ko
A silk factory worker is persuaded to support her son's education up to a college level despite their poverty. Many years later, she travels to Tokyo to visit her son.
Sono shounen-jidai (Childhood Sadao)
The film tells of the strained relationship between a mother and her two sons after the death of the family patriarch.
Tomio's classmate
Two Tokyo co-workers come across a destitute young lady in search of a place to live.
Kodomo
Neste filme do início de carreira de Yasujiro Ozu, acompanhamos o drama de um jovem estudante que reprova no exame de sua faculdade, enquanto seus colegas conseguem a aprovação.
A short concerning an impoverished insurance salesman and his scrappy son, whose fisticuffs with the other boys of their village put his father’s livelihood in jeopardy.
Second son
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.
Ghost of Kantaro
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.
