Mitsuo Hamada

Set in a village in the heart of a mountain in Japan. One day, a TV crew from Tokyo, looking to shoot some footage for a show about local cuisine visit a shrine known for being able to sever connections with evil. However, they soon get involved in a plot by the village elder...

15-year-old Aya Kito was an ordinary girl, the daughter of a family who works at a tofu shop, and a soon-to-be high schooler. However, odd things have been happening to Aya lately. She has been falling down often and walks strange. Her mother, Shioka, takes Aya to see the doctor. How will Aya react when told about her disease? And how will Aya live from now on?

A story about the friendship of the sons of two political rivals.

Story of Japanese women during the great Edo period.

An office lady joins a "mistress bank", starts falling in love with her client and gets involved in a murder case.

When a broadcasting company takes away its financial support from a symphony orchestra, some of the members refuse to admit defeat. The first violinist returns to his home and manages to get the orchestra back together for a grandiose performance, saved at the last minute by their original conductor -- and boding well for the future of the die-hard musicians.

Set in Japan's Tenpyou era (729-749 CE), four young monks are sent to China to study Buddhism and bring a high priest back to Japan with them. The film tells the tale of the four monks' youth and the life and times of the high priest Ganjin.

Созданный в 1974 году фильм «Сандакан № 8. Тоска по родине» (по документальной повести Акико Ямадзаки) вновь заставил вспомнить Кумаи лучших лет. Вновь режиссер оказался в центре внимания критики, вторично признавшей его лучшим режиссером года. В этом фильме Кумаи исследует трагическую судьбу караюки — женщин, проданных в публичные дома далеких островов Юго-Восточной Азии. Эта бесчеловечная практика началась еще в конце XIX века, в эпоху Мэйдзи. Молодая современная журналистка Кэйко Митани, собирая материал по женскому вопросу, интересуется судьбой караюки. Случайно познакомившись со старой Саки, Митани узнает, что в прошлом та была караюки. Митани напрашивается к ней в гости, надеясь разговорить гостеприимную хозяйку и из уст бывшей караюки узнать историю ее жизни.

В 1943 году, военное положение Японии становится затруднительным. Хамамура Синкичи, оставив свою возлюбленную Михо, изъявляет желание поступить в Военно-Морской Авиационный Корпус "Цучиура", несмотря на то, что его отец погиб на войне. Проходя тяжелую учебную подготовку, он становится отличным пилотом, и вместе со своими однокашниками планирует отдать свою жизнь ради спасения своей страны. Также, Акио, младший брат его возлюбленной, поступает в Юношескую Летную Школу. А в это время, в Военно-Морском Флоте идут работы по созданию управляемой ракеты, на основании немецкой ракеты V1. Но из за сложного военного времени, у создателей ракеты не остается времени на создание управляющего блока ракеты, вследствие чего принимается решение предоставить управление ракетой человеку. Эта ракета, длиною в 6 метров и имеющая вес в 1.2 тонны, получила название "Токкотай-Оока", что по-японски означает "Божественный ветер, сносящий лепестки цветущей сакуры".

A real all-star cast turns out for this modern yakuza yarn.

Kazama and three others defeated Yoshie Sangyo, but the Nishio group was disbanded due to public pressure, and the territory belonged to the Hirata group.

In 1943, critical developments in the Pacific War have placed Japan at a disadvantage, although the fiery breaths of war hadn't yet reached Okinawa Normal School for women. Nothing seemed the least bit out of the ordinary, as Kazuko and her friends enjoyed a day of sports. A year later the war takes a devastating turn, as US forces plan an amphibious attack known as "Operation Iceberg" on the Ryukyu island.

Goro had grown up in the yakuza world. As an active member of the Mizuhara family crime syndicate, he expressed his loyalty by always putting himself in the forefront of every battle. Violence never bothered him. However, after being sentenced to three years in prison for stabbing a rival gang’s hit man, he becomes disenchanted with the Yakuza life style. Goro is determined to start anew, but karma catches up. His two closest friends are murdered by his ex-boss. He is left with two options: to kill or be killed.

Romance about student-nurse interns.

It had been a year and four months since Mitsuo was last on a movie set. Welcomed back by director Ishizaki and his film crew, Mitsuo is excited to star as the lead in "My Sweetheart". One day, half way through production, he meets his friends from a popular rock group, "The Spiders". Through their discussion regarding the climax scene, they criticize that the script is too grim. In a notion to protect their friend's career, they decide to pay the scriptwriter a little visit.

Young Mariko is torn between two admirers, Natsukawa and Rikizo.

Музыкальный фильм.

Heartwarming story of an ambitious girl who becomes a concert pianist with the help of her musician father.

Musical actress Noriko feels frustrated by the futility of her affair with a married man. Then she is offered a role in a new production that appears to mirror her own private life... An excellent work that stylishly depicts its gradually evolving heroine.

A young girl in an industrial town is saving her money to enter college. But her drunken father loses his job, her mother cannot make ends meet, and then the boy she likes loses everything when his factory fails. She takes all her savings out of the bank and offers them to him to make a new start. He refuses at first but eventually agrees and so she goes back to school to tell her teacher that she has decided not to continue college, that she is young and strong, and can make her own way in life.

Japanese drama film.

Three girls come to Tokyo to stay with their elder sister. Actually they are running away from home because their father has married again to a very young woman. They have many romantic adventures and one finally decides against the boy she thought she loved because he, just like her father is always away from home. But directly after her marriage to another young man, her sister runs after the former boy-friend.

4-я асадора канала NHK.

Юная Митико заболевает опасной болезнью, и не хочет связывать никакими обязательствами своего любимого Макото. Но Макото не желает расставаться с возлюбленной, и готов пройти с ней весь этот трудный путь до конца.

On a small island, inhabited by only fourteen hundred people, a young fisherman's son, Shinji falls in love with Hatsue, the daughter of the richest and most difficult man on the island. Despite their differences in class, they begin to meet and rumors spread of them having an illicit affair. Soon after, Shinji jumps into a stormy sea to help a ship in distress. The vessel turns out to be owned by Hatsue's arrogant father, who now becomes an understanding and sympathetic parent and allows the two lovers to marry.

An original warrior directed by Toshio Takagi, directed by Eisuke Takizawa of “Kiriko's Tango” by Toshio Yasumi, a comedy, cheerful widow. The photo was taken by Minoru Yokoyama from “Asakusa no Toko Odoriko Monogatari”

Today is a new day with hopes. A youth hymn that depicts a young truck driver growing up in love with a dream while being supported by his friends who are always close to him. A movie adaptation of a hit song by Kazuo Funaki.

A boy who dreams of being a yakuza leader is reformed by a girl's pure love for him.

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.

During his idle journey on the Izu Peninsula, a university student, Kawasaki, encounters a group of traveling entertainers – including Kaoru (Sayuri Yoshinaga), one of the “odoriko”. Kawasaki is taken and cannot take his eyes off her. When he is invited to stay at the same lodgings, the two grow closer. In time, the two come to learn the pain of love.

Пятнадцатилетняя сирота Вакае работает в ночном баре, где она научилась пить, курить и даже воровать. Однажды Вакае встречает своего товарища детских игр Сабуро, приехавшего из Токио, где он работал на фабрике. Теперь он безработный, получает пособие. Сабуро всячески старается помочь Вакае. Он уговаривает девочку вернуться в школу, помогает ей догнать класс, дает деньги, чтобы уплатить за учебу. Для Вакае Сабуро был единственным, кто относился к ней по-доброму. Но, поссорившись с родителями, Сабуро уезжает работать на птицеферму. Однажды вечером Вакае приезжает навестить друга, а ночью на ферме вспыхнул пожар и девушку обвиняют в поджоге. Ее отправляют в детскую исправительную колонию...

Tajima Yumi, in grade school, is overjoyed when her father says they are moving to an apartment in a big city. But the beautiful home she had imagined is in a slum area called Samurai Village, a little settlement, where people live from hand to mouth. To make things worse, a group of vagrants descends on the already crowded ragpickers' village. The sight depresses and saddens little Yumi, but when her father gives up drinking, it makes up for everything in her eyes, and when he runs past liquor shops to avoid temptation, Yumi's laughter rings out merrily again. A unique social drama depicting the growth of a new generation that confronts the world of adults full of vanity in the image of a girl living in poverty.

This is a factory area in downtown Tokyo, and Hikaru, nicknamed Pika-chan, is a nurse at the Mihara Clinic, a friend of the poor.

Jiro, a young yakuza, and Mami, a diplomat’s daughter, are two young lovers from different worlds. Having met by accident, they soon discover a new life together. But their love is ill-fated. Mami's family will not accept her choice, while leading an honest life seems like an unattainable goal for Jiro. Can there be anything else but a tragic ending?

Shinko Terasawa was always considered to be the odd ball of the bunch. At a time when romance was against school regulations, Shinko was the first to take a bite out of the forbidden fruit. Expelled from her former school, she finds herself in an all-girls school in Jokamachi, where rumors fly. One day, Shinko delivers an anonymous love letter addressed to her English teacher, Ms. Shimazaki. Convinced that the students are playing a prank, Ms. Shimazaki is adamant about getting to the bottom of this "problem”.

A high school boy and girl in the midst of their youth try to get their parents to remarry.

Промышленный пригород Токио живет совсем не так, как столица. Здесь есть работа, но есть и бедность, и конкуренция, и иммигранты из Кореи, и социалисты, и бандиты. Очень трудно вырваться из бедности и перейти на более высокий уровень жизни. Школьница Дзюн отличается работоспособностью, сообразительностью, прилежностью. Она хотела бы поступить в гимназию, хотя никто в её семье не получил законченного среднего образования. Удастся ли ей осуществить свою мечту?

Kawanishi Kyu and Tomoda Ryoji, two waifs, are inmates of a Reform School. One night, the boys succeed in a mass escape and split up. Kyu and Ryoji hear the sirens shrieking behind them and panic. Kyu pretends he has been hit by a small truck and Ryoji demands that they be taken to a hospital, little dreaming that Nagai, the driver, is the official guardian of juveniles. The next morning the two boys hear a light knock, and Nagai's daughter, Noriko enters, but surprise is changed to fear as they see her father approaching with Kume, the Juvenile Officer. Their one thought is escape but Kyu discovers his leg is stiff and it pains him to move. In the excitement, he had not realized he had really been hit by the truck. He sends Ryoji away while he waits alone for Officer Kume. Nagai takes Kyu under his wing, while Ryoji finds himself again in the hard-boiled world.

A touching story of a girl who sails away from her love to keep her family together.

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...