Kasuke Koizumi

Japan's first feature film directed by a female. The film was about the naïve, premature emotions between a young geisha-to-be and a youth destined for Buddhist priesthood; it concluded with their separation.

Based on Soseki Natsume’s 1908 novel of the same title, Poppy is an ornately complicated story of desire and ambition. Fujio is beautiful, talented, well-heeled, and engaged to Munechika, a rising young diplomat. She has promised him a gold watch, a family heirloom, as an emblem of their engagement. But she falls in love with Ono, a student employed to tutor her in English, who is attracted by her beauty and wealth. Ono is himself bound by an engagement to Sayoko, the daughter of his mentor, Professor Inoue. The self-centered Fujio is ready to forsake everything for Ono, but he is prevailed upon to go ahead with his marriage to Sayoko. Fujio then offers the watch to Munechika who, perceiving Fujio’s true feelings, hurls the watch into the sea.

Эта адаптация 1932 года — самая ранняя звуковая версия популярной и широко известной истории о верных 47-ми ронинах, которые отомстили за смерть своего господина после того, как он был вынужден совершить харакири из-за махинаций подлого придворного. Как первая звуковая версия классического повествования, фильм был в своё время большим событием, и в нём конечно же были приглашены сняться именитые звёзды тех лет. Фильм занял третье место в опросе критиков журнала Kinema Junpo того года.

This film is about the curse of a jealous woman destroying the lovers on the run.

Directed by Kensaku Suzuki.

An old potter despairs of having only two daughters and no son, hoping his apprentice will one day bring him an heir. The apprentice meets the eldest daughter but is disgusted by her. He decides to marry the younger daughter, who is in love with another man.

Фильм основан на истории из криминальной хроники начала XX века о реальном полицейском Кониси, который был убит, когда в одиночку противостоял грабителям, вломившимся в магазин кимоно.