Ejima
In 1936 under the war clouds over the Manchurian border, 60-year-old Oshima Shozaburo is concerned about the future of his only son, Ryuji, who has refused to follow in the footsteps of his gambler father and decided to become a doctor. Ryuji leaves home to work at a clinic at a dam construction site where he finds the treatment of the laborers intolerable. But when he challenges the boss, who thinks nothing of murder, he discovers to his astonishment that he is safe because of his father's reputation. Torn between filial piety and his ideals Ryuji is told of the murder of his father by men of a rival gang. He experiences another shock when informed that the woman behind the rival gang is his true mother who was forced to leave his father due to an unwritten code among gamblers.
Japanese crime film.
Shintoho studio boss Mitsugu Okura was furious that actress Junko Ikeuchi had married against his wishes. In an act of revenge that could have come out of one of his movies, he cast her against the girl-next-door persona she had established to play a dancer who survives a great fall only to become a disfigured beast.
Two lovers lost in the mountains. In what direction do not go, they find themselves in a mysterious forest pond, as if some kind of force does not want to let them go. Once upon a time, over a century ago, there had been a crime, whose shadow still hovers over these places.
The treasures of the Aoyamas were buried at the bottom of the sea when a large earthquake occurred years before. Yumi Aoyama is the only person who knows the location, but her family dies one after another through curious incidents, as if the family were under a curse. Yumi is surprised by the ghost of a dead sister who looks the same as the grim figure who jumped into the old well alter stabbing herself with a sword. Fearful that a similar fate awaits her, Yumi seeks the help of her friend Kyoko. Later the ghost appears before Kyoko and her fiancé, Detective Nonomiya. In a haunted cave, Kyoko and Yumi are in deadly peril from those who seek treasures of the Aoyamas.
Jônen
Призрак жены самурая мстит своему мужу.
Wada, the butler
Tamio takes Itsuko to an art gallery and the two find one painting is a nude portrait of Itsuko's mother, who disappeared twenty years ago when she was just a baby. No one knows the first thing about the artist who painted it, but he goes by the name Shiro Sofue, and he's always wearing shades in the daytime...
Suizen
The descendant of the servant of a cruel and vicious samurai returns to the town where she was born, only to find that a cat who is possessed by the spirits of those murdered by the samurai is trying to kill her.
1958 jidaigeki directed by Masaki Mori for Shintoho.
Doctor Hoshina
A 1956 alien invasion tokusatsu film directed by Shinichi Sekizawa, the screenwriter noted for his immense contributions to Toho's Godzilla series by providing the screenplays/stories for the majority of the original Showa films.
Japanese comedy film.
Grandfather
Based on the novel by Kojin Shimomura. Story of a young boy and his adventures in the country. His idyllic life is shattered by the illness and death of his mother.
Tea Shop Owner
Япония. 16 век. В стране полыхает гражданская война, повсюду орудуют банды разбойников и мародеров. Бедные крестьяне нанимают для своей защиты семерых самураев, которые немного сплачивают раздробленных и малодушных жителей деревни в этой борьбе…Куросава показывает яркие, выразительные и такие достоверные персонажи, что, кажется, всему происходящему зритель был свидетелем сам.Несмотря на реалистичность и беспощадность в подаче материала, картина пронизана высокой поэтикой и лиризмом, жизнеутверждающим пониманием и человечностью. Этот фильм стал в буквальном смысле культовым для кинематографистов всего мира.
Period film about the legendary detective Umon
Jidai-geki about the life of Yasubei Nakayama, a famous ronin who did participate in the revenge against Lord Kira Yoshinaka as detailed in Japan's famous epic Chushingura
A bar girl tries to pass her three children, each from a different father, to rural relatives.
Otoyan
Сугимото пытается вести праздный образ жизни, хотя в послевоенной Японии устранили все привилегии знатных семей, и фамильный герб больше никого не защищает. Поэтому жители в глаза называют этого пьяницу именем Сёсукэ Охара.
Manager Washio
A film dealing with the comings and goings of individuals in the immediate postwar period.
Однажды в городок неизвестно откуда приезжает странная семейка. Их дни наполнены радостью, простые вещи в их руках становятся источником счастья и покоя. Что ещё нужно людям в тяжелые годы войны...
Ryohei Yamakura
A 1943 film.
Feature film.
