Haruko Sugimura

A retired actress whose husband has recently died visits her summer home. There she has encounters with old friends and acquaintances who bring various stories and news of death and the past

A story of Japanese writer Kafu Nagai (1879-1959), a man about sixty with a huge reputation of seducer who falls madly in love for a young geisha named Oyuki. Meticulous and smartly dressed, Nagai patiently wrote in his diary his thoughts during many years. A melancholy reflection on the passage of time and a brilliant interpretive exercise.

A documentary about the lives of actors in the Sakura-tai theatrical troupe, which had arrived in the island of Hiroshima to begin preparations for the staging of a play just before the atomic bombing.

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..

An industrialist is diagnosed with terminal cancer. He is on a trip to Europe at the time, and a glimpse of a Japanese woman in that setting causes him to fantasize about her as the personification of his impending death. As his dialogue with his imagined mortality continues, he actually meets the living woman who is the template for his fantasy, and together they tour rural churches. Gradually he comes to some kind of peace about the diagnosis. When he returns to Japan, he is met with a series of challenges which profoundly test the lessons he has learned.

Follows a young med student's relationships with two women: a dangerous affair with a childhood friend and his mother's struggle to rebuild their estranged relationship.

The disturbing story of a physician who conducted the first operation with general anaesthetic, and the women in his life who are both so determined to win his love that they volunteer as subjects for his experiments

Four sisters are all named after flowers. While the two youngest are married, the eldest two remain single, much to the annoyance of their long-suffering mother. The mother and her brother try various schemes to find husbands for them.

Young widow Ine is suffering under the harsh treatment of her mother in law. As a former Geisha, Ine had struggled to be accepted into the well-established Rokujo family from the beginning. With the support of Jiro, a young man Ine's late husband had saved from homelessness as a young boy, Ine tries to keep the family's heritage of silk processing alive. Their close relationship soon causes gossip among the villagers and threaten Ine's position in the family even further ...

No Japão do século 19 , em um hospital de caridade o Dr. Niide (Toshiro Mifune), um médico duro mas honrado, conduz um jovem estagiário sob sua orientação ao longo de inúmeros casos difíceis. Ambientado em tempos feudais, médico novato, Yuzo Kayama, é enviado para uma enfermaria pobre esperando ser apenas passageiro, mas está furioso ao saber que ele deve ficar. Ele tenta provocar sua dispensa, mas é frustrado pelo médico-chefe "Barba Vermelha" (Toshiro Mifune), um homem cujos métodos são tão carinhosos quanto imprevisíveis.

When the man who seduced the famous painter Otoko as a teenager--and then wrote a bestselling novel about it--reappears in her life, her pupil--and lesbian lover--hatches a plot to destroy the man and his family.

Japan, 1860. The men of the Mito clan, victims of the Ansei purge, anxiously prowl around the Sakurada Gate of Edo Castle with the intention of assassinating Naosuke Ii of Hikone, tairō of the Tokugawa shogunate and responsible for their misfortune.

Produção japonesa contada em quatro histórias. Em "Black Hair", samurai divórcia-se da mulher que ama para se casar com outra pelo dinheiro; em "The Woman in the Snow", lenhador encontra mulher congelada e o espírito dela aparece para revelar detalhes de sua vida, pedindo a ele que jamais conte a ninguém - mas dez anos depois ele esquece a promessa; em "Hoichi the Earless", o jovem e cego Hoichi vive num monastério e passa a cantar para fantasmas do império; e "In a Cup of Tea" fala de um escritor que vê uma misteriosa face refletida numa xícara de chá.

After her mother runs away from home, Tomoko is raised to be a geisha. One day Tomoko meets her mother in a red-light district in Tokyo and her life deeply gets in trouble.

A divorced woman enters a marriage arranged by her mother in exchange for money to save the life of her seriously ill son.

Every day a car accident happens in the city. The involved parties are prey to the settlement agents (jidanya), mediators between the parts and the insurance companies to avoid time-consuming legal actions that could come when no settlement is reached (while cheating both parties out of some piece of the settlement pay). Genkichi is a well versed old-timer, that sees how his freshly out of collage son struggles to fit into the business, while at the same time facing one of his lowest rivals in a car crash incident.

A tale of two best friends in the WWII era Japan. Takao is a young man enthusiastic about joining the navy to fight for his country. He convinces his best friend Shinji to join him. As it turns out, however, Takao's poor health prevents him from entering the navy while his friend is chosen instead. As time goes by, Takao becomes a painter and changes his mind about the meaningfulness of war and fighting, while his friend goes the opposite path. Meanwhile Takao's sister falls in love with Shinji.

Quando o viúvo Shuhei Hirayama, um militar que lutou na Segunda Guerra Mundial como fuzileiro naval, encontra com seu velho professor, fica sabendo que sua filha ainda não se casou porque teve que ficar cuidando do pai. Com medo de que Michiko, sua filha de 24 anos, acabe com o mesmo destino, ele começa a procurar um bom homem para se casar com ela. Também preocupada com a possibilidade da moça manter-se solteira para não abandonar o pai, uma das irmãs do viúvo sugere que ele se case novamente, de modo a permitir que a filha pense sobre seu próprio casamento.

Ushimatsu's father told him never to reveal his lower-caste heritage; years later, he now contemplates confiding in an activist fighting against such discrimination.

Drama about the lives of the five daughters and daughter-in-law of a store owner.

Heitaro, who had served his firm loyally for 30 years, reaches the retirement age. He has four unmarried daughters and decides to split his retirement allowance he has received from his firm into 500,000 yen for each daughter as a wedding dowry. He considers them all old enough to handle the money, and gives them a free hand to use it as they wish.

Young lord Saburo Nobuyasu struggles to find comfort in life. His arranged marriage to Tokuhime, daughter of one-time family enemy Oda Nobunaga, provides little happiness. His manipulative mother adds further complications through her constant interference and attempts at defeating the Nobunaga family.

Um príncipe indiano deixa seu mundo de conforto e riquezas para vagar e meditar por seis anos em busca de iluminação espiritual. Siddartha (Cojoin Hong) vira as costas à velha religião quando as pessoas estão morrendo de fome desnecessariamente e os rituais sagrados incluem sacrifícios humanos. Durante suas meditações, ele é tentado por dançarinas eróticas, demônios e as maquinações malignas de seu primo criminoso. Devastate para atingir a perfeição espiritual e se tornar o Buda. Ele viaja para converter seguidores por sua bondade e sabedoria, ganhando uma multidão de crentes quando impede um elefante de esmagar um padre local. É claro que Buda se tornou um dos grandes líderes religiosos do mundo.

A família de um senhor que dirige uma pequena fábrica de saquê começa a preocupar-se com as suas finanças e a sua saúde depois que descobrem que visita uma velha amante dos tempos da sua juventude. Uma das combinações mais habilmente moduladas de comédia e tragédia de Ozu.

One of Japan's most popular stories is the tale of Kutsukake Tokijiro, a traveling gambler who finds that he must take care of the wife and child of a yakuza he had been forced by the code of the gamblers to fight man to man. In a brilliant performance from super-star Ichikawa Raizo, with strong support from two of the greats from Toho, Shimura Takashi (7 Samurai) and Aratama Michiyo (Sword of Doom) the heartfelt story reaches new heights. Tokijiro, having learned the true nature of the boss to whom he was obligated for having spent a night and eaten at the gang's headquarters takes up arms against them in a running battle fought across the back roads of the entire nation. Another powerful rendition of this superb story, it is not to be missed!

A poignant story about a young couple, Setsu and Chozo, who are torn apart to save Setsu's father's restaurant.

Detective Katahachi meets a young and beautiful pickpocket and doesn’t arrest her because she was not in the act. Instead, he listens to the story about her parents who killed himself and died for overwork to feel sorry about her.

Este filme apresenta uma grande e extensa família (e associados) ainda mais extensa do que aquela retratada por Ozu em "Fim do Verão". O personagem central é Setsuko Hara - uma mulher equilibrada de meia-idade, cujo marido rico (e prestigioso) morre no início do filme, deixando-a viúva, mais o produto de uma apólice de seguro de um milhão de ienes. Por não ter filhos, os seus sogros não poem objeções com o seu regresso a casa de família.

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

A story of an ardent young man who laid down his life for his country.

Companhia japonesa de teatro kabuki aporta numa pequena ilha de pescadores. Komajuro (Ganjirô Nakamura), um dos fundadores do grupo, passa a frequentar todos os dias a casa de sua antiga amante, Oyoshi (Haruko Sugimura), dona de um bar e mãe de Kiyoshi (Hiroshi Kawaguchi).

The legend of the birth of Shintoism. In Fourth Century Japan, the Emperor's son Ouso expects to succeed his father on the throne, but Otomo, the Emperor's vassal, prefers Ouso's stepbrother, and conspires to have Ouso die on a dangerous mission he has contrived. But Ouso prevails in the mission and returns to his father's castle under a new name, Prince Yamato Takeru. Otomo plots to have the Prince sent into even greater danger, but Otomo is unaware that the gods have favored the Prince and the outcome is far from what any of them expected.

In a rural district of Tokyo, the owner of a farm is abandoned by his two daughters who are attracted to the life of the big city.

Numa vila nos subúrbios de Tóquio, um dos vizinhos compra uma televisão - artigo de luxo para a época - e todos os garotos do local matam suas horas de estudo para irem assistir ao campeonato de sumô. Dois deles, os irmãos Minoru e Isamu, se encantam tanto que insistem que os pais comprem-lhes um televisor. Com a recusa, eles entram numa greve de silêncio, oque lhes causa problemas com a família, os vizinhos, a escola e a polícia.

Historical drama about a sleepy-eyed ronin.

A war widow with a young boy manages a farm with her bossy mother-in-law. When a reporter comes to interview her, the two begin an affair. He turns out to be married and won't leave his wife. Her older brother tries to marry off his children and hang on to/ extend his farm through an advantageous marriage in the face of threatened land confiscation and the desire of his children to get comfortable urban jobs instead of the backbreaking work in the paddy fields under parental control.

Baseado no romance teatral homônimo de Yutaka Mafune

Two sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot accept the fact that she was abandoned as a child.

Tamio Moroi, a young university graduate, works at a large brewery where he is taught to do nothing but look busy. When his father goes insane, he is told to send money for medical research into the condition. This prompts him to pay his father a visit, leading to a series of mishaps that leaves him at the bottom of the heap in what he once expected to be a promising lifetime career.

Otsuta está dirigindo a casa de gueixas Tsuta em Tóquio. Seu negócio está fortemente endividado. Sua filha Katsuyo não vê nenhum futuro no negócio de sua mãe porque está terminando os dias da gueixa. Mas Otsuta não desistirá. Este filme retrata a vida diurna da gueixa quando não está entretendo os clientes.

Um jovem assalariado e a sua esposa lutam dentro dos limites do seu relacionamento sem paixão, enquanto ele tem um caso extraconjugal.

Now an old man, Masao returns to his childhood home and begins to recall his upbringing in this abandoned sector of Japan.

Hayase, a schoolteacher, assists Sakai in editing a German-Japanese dictionary. Hayase owes much to Sakai, as Sakai raised him for 13 years after Hayase lost his parents in a war. Hayase has been secretly married to Otsuta, a former geisha, and has been unable to tell Sakai of the marriage, aware as he is that Sakai wants him to marry his daughter, Taeko. Otsuta wants Hayase to tell Sakai about her, but understands the difficulty of his position. At a festival, Otsuta is mistaken for a pickpocket and taken to the police. Because of her background as a geisha, newspaper reporters eagerly delve into her past and report that she has been married to Hayase. Unaware of what has been printed in the papers, Hayase decides to tell Sakai about his marriage. Sakai shows the newspaper to him and orders Hayase to part with Otsuta. Given no chance to explain, Hayase accepts Sakai's order.

China, século XVIII. O último Imperador da dinastia T’ang faz o luto pela morte da mulher. A família Yang quer arranjar-lhe uma nova consorte, assim consolidando a influência na corte. O general Na Lushan encontra uma parente afastada a trabalhar na cozinha, a quem é proposto ser apresentada ao Imperador, recriando a imagem da primeira mulher dele. O Imperador apaixona-se por ela, entretanto instruída e ornamentada para ser sua concubina, e ela torna-se a Princesa Yang Kwei-Fei.

Lending money, job hunting for civilians and babysitting. All these things are usually not listed on a policeman's job description. But for the officers of this local police station, it‘s part of their daily routine. One day, patrolman Yoshii (Hisaya Morishige) finds an abandoned baby and a six year old girl standing in front of the station. When he's declined by the welfare office, orphanage and local health clinic to take them in, he decides to take care of them himself.

The tragedy of the geiko girl Ume and the men who try to pursue her.

Como é a vida de uma gueixa quando sua beleza desapareceu e ela se aposentou? Okin guardou seus ganhos e tornou-se agiota, passando os dias a cobrar friamente os juros das quantias que empresta. Mesmo suas melhores amigas, ex-gueixas como ela - Otomi, Tamae e Nobu, devem-lhe dinheiro. Para todas elas, o glamour de suas vidas já passou e agora o problema é garantir o sustento nos difíceis tempos do pós-guerra. Seus filhos e amantes não aliviam a dureza de suas vidas.

The Glorious Days

Three short tales from stories by Ichiyo Higuchi. In one, a young woman is degraded by her family after an arranged marriage. Another deals with the troubles heaped upon a young servant by her family and the wealthy people who employ her. The final story tells of a prostitute and her hopes of finding a new, respectable life.

Um casal de idosos deixa sua filha no campo para visitar os outros filhos em Tóquio, cidade que eles nunca tinham ido. Porém os filhos os recebem com indiferença, e estão sempre muito atarefados para terem tempo para os pais. Apenas a nora deles, que perdeu o marido na guerra, parece dar atenção aos dois. Quando a mãe fica doente, os filhos vão visitá-la junto com a nora, e complexos sentimentos são revelados.

Young Setsuko Fujino begins a new job at Tokyo Chemical Company. She likes her boss, Ippei Hitachi, and enjoys serving him tea, despite the fact that her fellow workers think the women employees should not have to act in such a servile manner. When the women go on strike over the issue, Setsuko finds herself caught in the middle. When the heir to the company, Ryosuke Tanabe, proposes marriage to Setsuko, she is honored, but realizes that her real affection is for Hitachi.

Kazuo Miyagawa’s prizewinning black-and-white cinematography draws out the moral shadings of Nobel laureate Yasunari Kawabata’s 1952 novel Thousand Cranes, a quietly devastating story of a young man, orphaned during the war, who stumbles into a passionate yet tragic relationship with his late father’s mistress and her daughter.

Once an average and seemingly ordinary Tokyo girl, she suddenly finds herself as a TV star owing to her discovery by a casting company, which noticed photographs that her cousin had sent. When another actress falls ill she is given the role instead. Her first film is a success propelling the young actress to popularity, her own fans, money and a house. While everything looks dandy from the outside not all is well within the family however.

Kanae, who broke up with her husband and moved to her uncle's house, met two men when her father, a university professor, collapsed. Michihara, a wealthy man and Miyashita, a youth scholar. Kanae is attracted to Miyashita, but ...

Inochi uruwashi

Michiyo lives in the small place Osaka and is not happy with her marriage, all she does is cook and clean for her husband.

A fishing union depends on two brothers to make up the losses caused by the dishonest captains they replaced.

Uma família escolhe um marido para a sua filha de 28 anos Noriko, mas ela surpreendentemente tem os seus próprios planos. Noriko mora em Tóquio no pós-guerra com sua extensa família. Embora ela esteja satisfeita com sua carreira e seus amigos, a sua mais tradicional família se preocupa com o fato de ela ainda estar solteira, aos 28 anos. Quando Takako, 40 anos, faz uma proposta de casamento, a família de Noriko a pressiona para aceitar. Mas quando seu amigo de infância Kenkichi, agora viúvo retorna ao bairro, ela percebe que seu coração a está levando em outra direção. (e Livre - Estimado Livre)

Ebihara is a budding novelist entangled in a complicated web of relationships with three women from three different generations: Kazue, a coquettish teenage war orphan who tries to offer herself for money but is instead taken in by Ebihara, Koyabu, a middle-aged woman who has spent much of her life as the kept woman of a wealthy man, and Teruko, the modest daughter of Ebihara's former teacher who comes to rely on him after the death of her father.

This film is strongly anti-war film. The film is based on the collection of writings by Japanese student soldiers who died during World War II. The film is located to Burma. It shows the everyday problems of soldiers in contrast of their ideas and the cynicism of their commanders. Soldiers are also victims of military bullying by their commanders.

Saburo and Keiko fall in love with each other but the tide of war separates them.

Woman melodrama by Shiro Toyoda

Noriko tem 27 anos de idade e ainda vive com o seu velho pai, o senhor Somiya. O pai é um professor viúvo que deseja casar sua filha, que de acordo com a sociedade, está na hora de entrar em um casamento. Só que Noriko quer continuar cuidado do pai e vivendo com ele para que o velho homem não se sinta sozinho. Ele então, vai fingir estar se casando de novo para que a filha não tenha culpa de se casar e ir embora.

Part 2 starts where the first film ended, with Iemon disposing of the bodies of his wife and Kohei, marrying upward, and being blackmailed by the evil Naosuke.

Iemon Tamiya is an impoverished masterless samurai who craves a better life, which he cannot have because of his marriage to Oiwa, who is completely devoted to her husband.

The investigative unit of the Metropolitan Police Department organized a special investigative team to uncover a series of frequent gang robberies and car gangs... This is the first film in the Nippon G-Men series, of which four more films were later released.

A 1948 Japanese film.

A young lawyer falls in love with the daughter of his former professor, whom he's hired to tutor his children.

A small-town boy with a learning disability attempts to fit in with his classmates.

Slice of life film centered around a couple of years in the life of a rural high school girl.

Yukie, a filha bem-educada de um professor universitário, fica chocada quando o seu pai é dispensado do seu cargo pelos seus ensinamentos políticos e ainda mais quando o seu amante, um aluno do seu pai, é preso e executado como espião. Ela decide deixar Kyoto para viver com os pais do rapaz na aldeia camponesa. Mas a vida ainda tem muitas lições para ela... (e 12 - Estimado 12 Anos)

Reputedly based on Frank Capra’s 1939 film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, A Descendant of Tarô Urashima is about a repatriated soldier who becomes populist politician in the Japanese Happiness Party.

A Japanese family weathers much hardship after their military uncle comes to live with them during WWII.

A widow raises her sickly son to be strong enough to join the army and fight on the front lines.

Story of Jiro

Drama about a young nurse who falls in love with a disabled soldier, and based a true story.

OSHINO, the beautiful daughter of restaurant owners, is in love with SHIRASAGI the painter. But there is another young man, the son of a moneylender family, who is desperately in love with Oshino...

The year is 1936. Ôhinata-mura was a very poor village between deep valleys. Soncho, the village head is trying to collect the village taxes from the villagers but he knows full well that no one can afford to pay the village tax which has been unpaid for years...

A female doctor's story of her life in an isolated leper colony.

Twenty-year-old Yoshiko (Setsuko Hara) and her younger sister Asako (Yōko Yaguchi) struggle to accept changes in their home during the preparations of their widowed father's wedding to his chosen bride, Maki Tsuneko (Sadako Sawamura), who's anxious about her conduct as the bride.

An episodic film about life in and around a rural police station and the people it serves.

Pre-war Asakusa was a riotous district of cabarets, dance-halls and brothels - a striking backdrop for Shimazu's story of innocence and experience. Pretty, young Reiko is the new dancer in an infamous theatre troupe, and her fellow performers try to protect her virtue in a land of vice. Meanwhile, an ageing actor wants to be a hero off stage as well as on, and the troupe matriarch Marie has to keep them all together.

An early Japanese sound film, notable for being the only Japanese film ever to use the Western Electric Sound System. Contrary to most Western sources that give sole directing credit to Eizo Tanaka, it was actually co-directed by six different directors, Tanaka, Kazue Kimura, Kazuo Takimura, Ryoji Mikami and Hidekuni Ouchi.