Masuda Toshio film starring Watari Tetsuya and Mori Masayuki, about a lone-wolf type (Watari) seeking love and defending the honor of an elderly widower (Mori).
Boss Yamikubo
Zatoichi is mentored by the blind leader of a secret organization as he contends with both the Yakuza and a jealous husband.
A young man leaves his widowed mother on her improverished farm and makes his career in the Japanese navy.
Suspense drama about an assassin charged with breaking up a gold smuggling ring, and the contract subsequently purchased against him and his employer.
Prime Minister Konoe
As Japan joins in a political pact with Nazi Germany and fascist Italy, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is appointed supreme commander of the Japanese fleet. With Japan headed inexorably toward war, Yamamoto, despite his misgivings, believes the only possible victory lies in destroying the American fleet by surprise at Pearl Harbor. The attack succeeds, but fails to sink the American carrier fleet. Thus Yamamoto must lead the Japanese navy into war with ever-diminishing likelihood of success.
守屋恭吾
Moriya Tomoko, a young girl working for a publishing company, is told by a woman art dealer that her real father did not die, as everyone believes, during the revolution in Cuba, but is now living in Japan. Tomoko's mother has remarried a strict, narrow-minded university professor, whose only worry is protecting his family name from the slightest blemish.
On the day of college graduation, Mieko (Sayuri Yoshinaga) stood on stage as the valedictorian for the Department of English. During her university years she made sure that she would always come out on top, and she did. With a victorious graduation behind her, she plans out the next chapter of her life: become a successful novelist and go out with a classmate she's been secretly eyeing for the past couple of years.
Youth's Father
Kenichi Horie is determined to challenge his family, the law and the nature crossing the Pacific to America in a small sailboat. Despite his careful planning many unforeseen events will test his determination.
Lord Tambanokami Munemasa Hori
After a salary-man's fiancée attempts suicide, he recounts his gruesome family history which saw generations of his ancestors suffer and sacrifice themselves for the sake of their cruel lords.
Kuroyanagi
A woman brings her injured daughter to the hospital, only to realize that the doctor is the estranged father of her child.
One night, three wives, Matsuyo, Keiko and Mari, receive a mysterious telephone call. The voice tells them that she has their husbands with her and invites them to " P " Hotel to see for themselves. They have been married for many years and are bored with their husbands, and are about to secretly carry on affairs with the other's mates.
Professor Shiraishi
Shikiko Oba is nimble with her fingers and teaches dressmaking and designing. Among her pupils are Rinko, Katsumi and Tomie. Ginshiro, who is as shrewd as the shrewdest of the older generation of dyed-in-the-wool Osaka businessmen, steps into picture and Shikiko soon feels that he is indispensable to her. But the advent of a man in their midst breaks up the harmony that has existed among the four women, as gradually he forces himself on them with promises of love.
An employee at an oil cartel (Mihashi) is haunted by an act years before when he euthanized a fellow soldier when the two were adrift at sea during the Pacific War. Matters are complicated further when he falls in love with the soldier's younger sister (Tsukasa).
Keijiro Kouno
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.
A woman has to give up her dream of becoming an actress when her family goes into debt, but she catches the eye of a businessman while working at a nightclub. He sets her up with her own nightclub, but with expectations attached.
Father
Set in 1926 when Japanese tradition was much stronger, this drama looks at the inner workings of a small family, especially the relationship between a sister and brother.
Kumakichi
A kind of modern dress "Donzoko" "The Lower Depths", about slum life in Osaka, where a greedy widow (Mimasu) takes advantage of her poor roomers, including her own son, who makes a meagre living stripping taxicabs.
Public Corporation Vice President Iwabuchi
Um jovem vingativo se casa com a filha de um industrial corrupto, a fim de buscar justiça pelo suicídio de seu pai. Uma história de Kurosawa sobre o escândalo corporativo no Japão do pós-guerra. Um jovem tenta usar sua posição no coração de uma empresa corrupta para expor os homens responsáveis pela morte de seu pai. (e 14 - Estimado 14 Anos)
Yuichiro Sakanishi
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.
Nobuhiko Fujisaki
Mama, mais conhecida por Keiko, uma gueixa de meia-idade tem que decidir se aceita casar-se ou se abre um bar por conta própria. A família querendo dinheiro, os clientes querendo atenção, e ela está sempre endividada. A vida de uma gueixa é analisada, assim como o sistema que aprisiona, e por vezes mata, quem nele sobrevive. (e 12 - Estimado 12 Anos)
The story is about the social problems faced by Japan's indigenous Ainu, mostly centered on the reactions of the characters to their oppressed state.
Yoshikawa and Kaji are alumni - Yoshikawa leads a life loyal to his company Toho Corporation, whilst Kaji works in the underground world for Aoyama, a fixer trying to buy Toho out. One day, Yoshikawa is ordered to take a look into the information leakage which had resulted in a serious fall of the company stock price. Following his order, Yoshikawa reunites with Kaji but their relationship gets complicated through the presence of Akiko, the daughter of Kubo, chairman of Toho Corporation. There is an obvious financial conspiracy and several men are killed - Who is the true mastermind behind all the plots?
Miyaji, the drum teacher
Following a yearlong attendance upon his shogun in Edo, samurai Hikokuro makes a long-awaited return to his home and doting wife, Dane. Initially greeted by the effusive welcome of his family, spiteful whispers also reach his ear about an adulterous affair carried on, in his long absence, between his wife and a famous drummer. With Hikokuro’s honor imperiled by rumor, his family insists on a formal investigation into the veracity of the gossip. Through the combined testimony of many witnesses, a tale unwinds around the visits of a traveling musician hired to tutor the family heir, the spurned attentions of the man who started the rumor, and the ultimate truth behind the accusations. The conclusion of events prove as much an indictment of bushidō as it is of the reluctant parties involved. Adapted from a 1706 play by Chikamatsu Monzaemon and based on a true case.
Story of a family torn apart when Teiji (Mori), the father, develops intimate feelings for a runaway (Kuga) the family has taken into their home.
Setsuo Katsuragi
A sensitive young woman aged 22 fell in love with a middle aged man who was troubled by his unfaithful wife.
Hamaya, her lover
A woman marries, gives birth to a stillborn child, and divorces, falls in love with a hotel-keeper, only to find herself subordinated to his drive for success, takes up with a tailor who cannot console himself with her strong personality.
Haruki Murakami
Haruki Murakami é um homem de família de sucesso e chefe de uma empresa de câmeras. Sem o seu conhecimento, seu filho arrogante alterna entre uma amante e a cantora da boate local. Quando a filha deficiente de Murakami faz amizade com a amante, o caso amoroso abala toda a família.
Mori
Fumiko, mother of two children and wife of an unfaithful man, shares her family life with her budding vocation as a poet. The beginning of her successful literary career coincides with her divorce and her breast cancer diagnosis. In the last stage of her life, she meets a young journalist from Tokyo who wants to write a story on her life.
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.
Nobuchi
In the dying months of the Meiji era, a sympathetic student befriends a married couple, but soon realizes they share a curiously strained relationship stemming from an unknown incident in their past.
Emperor Xuan Zong
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.
Kengo Tomioka
A married Japanese forester during WWII is sent to Indochina to manage forests. He meets a young Japanese typist and promises to leave his wife. He doesn't and after the war, she turns up and the affair resumes.
A sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love letters for other people.
Doctor
Describes the oppressed life of the crab fishermen and their final revolt which is bloodily suppressed by the Royal Navy. (Set in the 1920's)
Inokichi
The eldest daughter of a rural family Mon returns home from Tokyo pregnant after an affair with a college student Kobata, which causes a scandal that will threaten the marriage prospects of the younger sister San, in her cash-strapped family. The ill-tempered eldest brother Inokichi decides to take on the role of disciplinarian, with harrowing results.
If two clouds go away, the eyes of a maiden who gets wet in tears, Tsukaman Aise who earnestly wished, and the two who cried under the harsh trials of ten years when they fell in love and fell in love, climbed the hill of memories again. Surprisingly, there was an event that turned a moment of joy into tears ...
Genjurô
No Japão do século 16, os camponeses Genjuro e Tobei vendem as suas panelas de barro para um grupo de soldados numa vila próxima, desafiando a advertência de um sábio local contra a tentativa de lucrar com a guerra. A busca de Genjuro por riquezas e a misteriosa Lady Wakasa, assim como o desejo de Tobei de se tornar um samurai, correm o risco de destruir tanto a si quanto as suas esposas, Miyagi e Ohama.
Kikuji
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.
An intellectual couple in a staid and tedious marriage are surprised when the wife’s niece, who has run away from home, turns up unexpectedly to stay with them. Their mundane lives are sent into disarray by the emotional and energetic Ako.
Kuroki no Taro
The picture belongs to the jidai gekki (historic) genre. It is a powerful story of violence and eroticism, picturing a world at once sordid and poetic, with two central themes which intermingle to compound an admirable panel of a critical period in Japanese history: the great famine in the mid 19th Century.
Kamei
Depois de vencer uma sangrenta batalha naval contra o clã rival Heike, o triunfante senhor Yoshitsune Minamoto retorna a Kyoto para assumir o comando. No entanto, seu irmão ciumento e invejoso, Shogun Yoritomo, ordena que seus homens prendam Yoshitsune e todos os seus camaradas. Devido a uma circunstância de sorte, Yoshitsune e seis de seus leais guardas samurais são capazes de escapar. Para ficarem verdadeiramente seguros, eles precisam viajar pelo país e encontrar abrigo na casa de uma única amiga, Idehira Fukiwara.
Este filme foi proibido no Japão por quase 8 anos. O lançamento original previsto foi em 1945. (e 12 - Estimado 12 Anos)
Tadao Akiyama
Set in post-war Japan, The Lady of Musashino tells the story of Michiko, a disillusioned young woman trapped in a loveless marriage. She confides in her younger cousin, Tsutomo, and the two become close, but decide not to consummate their affair. He instead becomes involved with the flirtatious Tomiko, who is also conducting an affair with Michiko's husband. When Michiko finds that her husband has abandoned her, she decides to take her fate into her own hands.
"Pure white nights" - A romantic tale that depicts love between married people and the psychology of their marriage with elegant and a controversial touch. Love, art and suffering until the tragic and absurd ending.
Kinji Kameda
Kurosawa utiliza um texto de peso do mestre Dostoiévski. Conheça a história de Kameda, que viaja para Hokkaiko e acaba se envolvendo com duas mulheres. A tragédia acontece após uma perceber que não é amada e decidir tomar providências drásticas quanto a sua situação. (e 12 - Estimado 12 Anos)
Nakanuma
Two journalists and their lovers share an uncertain future.
Takehiro
No Japão do século XI, um lenhador, um sacerdote e um camponês procuram refúgio de uma tempestade nas ruínas de pedra do Portão de Rashomon. O sacerdote conta detalhes de um julgamento que testemunhou, envolvendo o estupro de Masako e o assassinato do marido dela, Takehiro, um samurai. Em flashback é mostrado o julgamento do bandido Tajomaru, onde acontecem quatro testemunhos, inclusive de Takehiro através de um médium. Cada um é uma "verdade", que entra em conflito com as outras.
A joint project by Sojiro Motoki and Tomoyuki Tanaka, co-dramatizing the original story by Shu Sekikawa with Senkichi Taniguchi and Kenro Matsuura. The fur of a stray dog, the double-barreled gun tied to the backpack, the beard covered with tanned leather, and the bottom of the snow-burnt shining eyes, for the first time in thirteen years, these reached out to the bottom of society. Genji Iwaki dreamed of reuniting with his first love, Tsukie Shiina, with a huge amount of gold dust. To hand over half of the gold dust, he appeared in the memorable N city from the mountains of Teshio with the hope of seeing his late colleague's son, Ichiro Akutsu...
1950 Toho film directed by Senkichi Taniguchi
Taro
When the future of his construction company falls into danger, a controlling father pushes his children into unsatisfying marriages and careers in order to regain financial stability.
Kumagai
"Delinquent Girl" - A melodramatic love story, a would-be apprenticeship between the titular “bad girl” and the optimistic scholar returning from the big city.
It was the first time in six years that I was able to step on the land of my homeland, the land of my nostalgia. It was Tokyo that had turned to burnt earth. A Tokyo with no one to rely on.
Life and love in corrupt postwar Tokyo, as a young couple struggles against both the law and the mob.
Masahiko Anjo
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.
Seizo Hori, Chauffeur (uncredited)
Two sisters, one a dancer and the other a script supervisor at a big movie studio, become embroiled in union activities when a strike is called in sympathy with striking railroad workers, one of whom boards with the sisters and their parents. The girls' father argues with them about their strike, but finds his views changing when he himself loses his job.
Yoshima Dan
In this government-suggested sequel, Sugata again grows as a judo master, and demonstrates his (and by extension, all Japanese) superiority to the foreign warrior.
Kawakami
Three IJN flyers Mikami (Susumu Fujita), Kawakami (Masayuki Mori) and Murakami (Akitake Kono) are good friends, and they are all renowned for their torpedo techniques. Mikami is posted as a staff officer at a base on an island in the Pacific. Kawakami and Murakami later joins him as the base squardron is reinforced. The enemy task force approaches the island and all three of them attack the fleet, killing themselves in the process.