Hisashi Yamanouchi

Asian Blue focuses on Koreans brought to Japan to work in forced-labor brigades during World War II

Though a farmer and his fellow villagers in this Japanese film resist the effort to turn the unspoiled region in which they live into a land development, they are ultimately unsuccessful.

Tsutomu Yoshioka, a Tokyo office worker, is enaged to Mariko, the niece of his company's president. But Yoshioka has a crisis of consence when he remembers his former love Mitsu, a rural girl whom he met and later left while in college. Shimako, a former friend, persuades Yoshioka to meet with Mitsu while she plots to blackmail Yoshioka by photographing the meeting to break up Mariko and Yoshioka.

The second film tells about the life of matured brothers and sister Sato. Taro became a foreman. He saves every yen to fulfill his dream of building his own house with stone gates. Jiro continues to work in the transportation office, he dreams of getting married. Saburo faces a moral problem: in order to get a good position, he must answer the questions of the entrance test differently than his conscience tells him. At the exam, Saburo does not hide his views on life and is deprived of the promised position. Orie and Suekiti believe that he did wrong and betrayed his older brothers. But the anxiety in the Sato family is not limited to these events. Orie was being asked to marry a handsome, well-established young man, but she suddenly announced her decision to marry Tozaka, who was suffering from radiation sickness. Sato's peaceful home is falling apart...

"Young People" is a story about the lives of four brothers and a sister, Sato. After the death of his parents, the older brother, Taro, who works in construction, decides to replace them. The second brother, Jiro, is a truck driver. The third, Saburo, is a student, dreams of a better future for the whole family are connected with him, with his career. Brothers and sisters are fighting to give him a higher education. And, finally, the youngest of the brothers, Suekichi, is also going to enter the university after graduation. The life of the Sato family is complicated. Taro is kind, but limited, not always able to find a common language with his brothers and sister Orie. The girl cannot stand the despotism of her brother, leaves her home and goes to work at the factory. With her departure, everything in the house goes upside down. Suekichi fails her university entrance exams, Orie is forced to return to her family.

Эдо, конец XVIII века. Страна охвачена голодом, в бедных лачугах люди из кожи лезут вон, чтобы раздобыть деньги на пропитание. Но веселый штукатур Кумагоро никогда не печалится, он всегда уверен, что ему улыбнется удача.

Little dark-eyed boy Kazuo. Yes, he dreamed of the sea. However, like everyone here in the village. Kazuo only wanted to study first, to finish school... But he failed. Mother died. The woman who replaced her brought with her affection, comfort, and warmth of mother's hands. It seemed that joy settled in their house again. But one day a storm caught the fishermen at sea. Father did not return... Father's friends, fishermen, tried to help the widow, who was left with two children. But the money was still not enough. And then Kazuo decided to become a fisherman. After all, he was now the eldest in the family...

На экране господствуют грязь, кровь, насилие, проституция. Однако есть героиня, которой удается противостоять обстоятельствам и не стать представительницей «древнейшей профессии». В этом ей помогают сила характера и твердость духа.

Terasaki, the new history teacher at the Senior High School, finds encouragement in the words of his Principal. "There are no bad children in this world. Some may be hard to handle but a teacher should never lose courage … never give up." But when put in charge of the third year class C, reputed to be the most incorrigible in the whole school, he is faced with surly opposition from the start. However, Terasaki perseveres. His greatest headaches are three students ... Sanae, who develops a "crush" on him, Nakanishi, who seeks to forget his unhappy home life in rugby, and Nire his pal.

В десятую годовщину капитуляции Японской империи пятеро не похожих друг на друга людей встречаются на железнодорожной станции. Их цель — добыть банку морфия, сейчас баснословно дорогую, которую в день капитуляции спрятал в бомбоубежище военный врач Хасимото. Им придется работать вместе.

Романтическая комедия о бродячем театре, в котором осознает себя некий молодой человек. Его герой, получивший театральное образование, по своему желанию и в поисках жизненного материала прибился к нищей актерской труппе, где набирается профессионального опыта, заодно попадая в любовные жернова. Театральная труппа, то ли актеров, то ли шарлатанов, отчаявшись найти публику в городе, открывает чес по провинции. Театр взбаламучивает жизнь селения, «сукины дети» покоряют деревню «новыми веяниями».

В последние дни сёгуната находчивый жулик пытается перехитрить конкурирующих проституток, бунтующих самураев и других обитателей борделя в попытках пережить тяжёлые времена.

Born to a prestigious family, Natsuko is not impressed by any one of her suitors. Determined to spend her life serving god, she sets off to a convent in Hakodate, Hokkaido, and meets along the way a young bear-hunter with whom she begins an adventure.

The final part of the trilogy. It is about a younger brother, Suekichi. He learned well the lessons that life taught his older brothers. Therefore, he does not think to study, but strives for material well-being alone. To make a career, he ruthlessly pushes his colleagues with his elbows. For him, the high ideals of trade union activists Jiro and Saburo are an example of old-fashioned thinking, naive behavior.