Masaru Kodaka
Рождение : 1928-11-03, Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan
Japanese comedy film.
Two women, an undercover cop, and a leader of the group of rude girls, defy the smuggling syndicate.
Photo seller
Freelance reporter “Scoop” Machida is hot on the trail of a prostitution ring called the Black Line, when he is framed for the murder of a young woman. Forced to clear his own name, the handsome journalist sinks deeper into the Black Line’s rotten swamp of drugs, prostitution, and murder and finds unexpected help in Maya, a steamy female gambler familiar with the neon-lit streets, shadowy alleyways, and seedy nightclubs he must navigate. The closest film in the Line series to classic American film noir, Ishii’s Black Line is a pulpy assortment of crime film conventions including the starkly expressionistic black and white cinematography by Jûgyô Yoshida, a jazzy music score by Michiaki Watanabe, and a sleazy screenplay by Ishii and Ichirô Miyagawa.
Japanese comedy film.
This time around, Sashichi is investigating a case of serial murders believed to be perpetrated by a giant bear.
Sashichi investigates the mysterious murders of four beauties, all of whom were stabbed in the chest.
Sakai
Japanese comedy film.
Tomekichi
Earlier version or Prequel to Queen Bee and the School for Dragons.
MP Corporal Karita
The year is 1937, and it has been six months since the Sendai Infantry left for Manchuria. The rotted corpse of a young woman is found at the bottom of a well, but her face and limbs are gone. The military police begin an investigation and search fervently for the person responsible, but they can't even determine the victim's identity, much less find any clues. However, the incident is made public when newspapers give wide coverage to the story, so Staff Sergeant Kosaka is dispatched from Tokyo to solve the case. Eventually, General Tsunekichi is taken into custody by local infantrymen because of the testimony of another unit, but the spirit of the dead woman appears before Staff Sergeant Kosaka, who continues to investigate on his own...
A samurai rescues a mischievous tanuki from hunters and sets it free. When the samurai's wastrel son hatches a plot to kill his father for his fortune, the magical tanuki is determined to protect its rescuer.
Meiji Tenno portrayed the ramp up to the Russo-Japan War. In addition to showing the political events that led to war, it also showed the era from the story of a farm family in rural Japan who sent their son off to war. As such, it could be considered an anti-war movie, showing how, while war is devised by governments, the people do not really understand what war is, and it's combatants often do not know what they are fighting for.
Japanese comedy film.
Japanese comedy film.
Japanese sports comedy film about kendo.
Japanese comedy film.
Officer Matsumoto
Japanese war film.
У семьи Фукухара была прачечная, но она сгорела во время воздушного налета. Напряженным трудом всей семьи удается снова открыть прачечную. Дочь Тосико подружилась с соседским юношей. В это время умирает отец. Непривычные деловые заботы ложатся тяжелым грузом на плечи матери. Ей приходится заботиться о своих двух дочерях и племяннике. Вести дело ей помогает ученик мужа Кимура. Об отношениях матери и Кимура начинают перешептываться, и эти слухи больно ранят девичье сердце Тосико. Ее младшую сестру в качестве приемной дочери берет другая семья. Спустя некоторое время мать уже в состоянии вести дело своими силами, и Кимура тоже покидает дом Фукухара, чтобы основать свое собственное дело. Теперь, когда мать осталась одна с дочерью, их жизнь потекла спокойно. Но в глубине души Тосико часто возникает сомнение - действительно ли счастлива ее мать?
Obscure Japanese movie by director Kyotaro Namiki
На землях замка Набэсима происходят странные вещи: люди напуганы криками страшной кошки, неизвестно откуда появляется доска для игры в го, которая становится причной раздоров и ссор, люди бесследно исчезают. Кто во всем этом повинен, призраки из иного мира или реальные злоумышленники, которые специально сеют панику и раздор?
Ichirô
This film focuses on Koreans living in Japan. The filmmaker’s humanism comes across in the portrayal of a girl living in a shabby tenement, the warmth of a Korean girl she meets, and the friendliness of this Korean girl’s family.
Фильм агитационной направленности снят по заказу Военно-морского Флота. В фильме подробно показана подготовка юных лётчиков Ёкарэн, которые в первую очередь стремились стать камикадзэ. Всё население восхищается их подвигом. Учителя и командиры относятся к ним как к сыновьям.
1928 год. До начала войны ещё далеко, но из-за финансового краха компании герой лишается выгодной работы. Как теперь ему содержать жену и сына-школьника? В такой ситуации каждый может впасть в депрессию. Причин беспокоиться у героя предостаточно, к тому же его жена неважно себя чувствует. Где взять маленькому человеку силы, чтобы преодолеть все трудности?
A 1942 Jidaigeki by the veteran jidaigeki filmmaker Kunio Watanabe about the legendary warrior Musashibo Benkei
with Hideko Takamine portraying Minamoto no Yoshitsune (who is, of course, a man).
The film climaxes in the famous encounter/fight btw Benkei and Yoshitsune at the Gojo Bridge.
Shin-chan
A Fond Face from the Past is also set in a rural community, specifically a village outside Kameoka, near Kyoto. In some ways this short, thirty-six-minute film is Naruse's most moving negotiation of the militarist restrictions of the time, perhaps because it is also his most direct engagement with the culture of war. When a newsreel comes to Kameoka featuring a local man named Yoichi, it causes some excitement in the community and, of course, in Yoichi's own family. First of all his mother makes the newsreel (Nippon News, no. 14), which begins with the same marching music that opens his own film, followed by a curious baby judging context in Los Angeles featuring two hundred Japanese babies. Released in January 1941, almost a year before the pacific war begins, this “found footage” is indicative of Japanese imperialist ambitions beyond Asia long before Pearl Harbor.
Masa, Hideko's friend
Hideko, a young Baseball fan, determined to cheer for her favourite baseball team by creating a new song for them.
Chocolate and Soldiers (チョコレートと兵隊, Chokorēto to Heitai) is a 1938 Japanese war film directed by Sato Takeshi and one of the most effective Japanese propaganda films of the late 1930s. The American director Frank Capra said of Chocolate and Soldiers "We can't beat this kind of thing. We make a film like that maybe once in a decade. We haven't got the actors. It shows the common Japanese soldier as an individual and as a family man, presenting even enemy Chinese soldiers as brave individuals. It is considered to be a "humanist" film, paying close attention to the human feelings of both the soldier and his family. Cinema theorist Kate Taylor-Jones suggests that Chocolate and Soldiers provided "a vision of the noble, obedient and honourable Japanese army fighting to defend the emperor and Japan.
Minoru
13-летняя Масако живет в бедном районе на окраине Токио. Её перспективы, как и у остальной семьи, не очень радужны. Однако учитель отмечает её способности и побуждает её продолжать учиться, чтобы иметь возможность пройти дополнительное обучение и повысить свои шансы в жизни. Семья Масако еле-еле находит средства на пропитание, мать даже от безысходности подумывает продать дочку в дом гейш, все эти невесёлые перспективы угрожают дальнейшему образованию девочки.