Noboru Itô

A comedy about two salarymen who routinely degrade themselves for their boss.

Состоит из трёх новелл, поставленных разными режиссёрами. В центре сюжета одной из них — история двух сестёр, одна из которых актриса, а другая — редактор сценариев. Они доказывают своему отцу, начальнику, большое значение профсоюза.

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.

Considered the first animated feature film from Japan. Although it's short, it was billed as a main attraction. This government funded propaganda film features the classic folklore character Momotaro and his animal friends as they attack Pearl Harbor which is defended by characters strikingly similar to Bluto and Olive Oil from the Popeye cartoons. The animation is mixed with real video footage from the attack on Pearl Harbor supplied by the military.

What is marriage? Young couple in match-making wanted to know before they decide. They visited married couples of sisters and brothers. Love comedy in 1942.

The title might sound shocking, but the red hands mean, the hands which drag fishnets. Ohama, 15 or 16 years old girl lost her family and lived alone in a fishermen's village. She is a strong-minded girl and very popular among young children. I guess that this story is one of the origins of girl's manga in the 1950s in which I belonged to the first generation of Japanese story manga.

The film tells about the life of the former vassal of the Ako clan - Fuwa Katsuemon Masatane.

Друзья Чом-ён и Вон-джин снимают квартиру на двоих. Чом-ён работает машинистом и его мечта - водить военные поезда. Вон-джин влюблен в сестру товарища, которая вынуждена работать гейшей, чтобы оплатить образование брата. Можно было бы уже говорить о предстоящей свадьбе, но хозяйка потребовала 2000 вон за право невесты уйти с этой работы.

Part 2 of a 2-part romance (fist part - Kafuku zempen) based on a story by noted author Kikuchi Kan. In the second half, we discover that Toyomi is pregnant -- and while Shintaro and Yurie are on their extended honeymoon, she bears his child, a girl named Kiyoko. She is supported in adversity by Michiko -- and gets considerable moral support from not only her own mother but also from Shintaro's mother and siblings. Even more surprisingly, Yurie strikes up a friendship of sorts with her. When Yurie learns that the child is Shintaro's, she convinces Toyomi that it would be best to let Shintaro (and her) raise Kiyoko, so Toyomi can get on with making a proper life for herself. Tearfully, Toyomi agrees. Sometime later, Michiko goes to visit Toyomi -- and sees her at work, as a kindergarten teacher.

The prewar film Haha no kyoku (Mother's Melody, 1937) is known for its place in Japanese film history as one of the top three melodramas as well as for its authorship: Yamamoto Satsuo is an auteur not usually associated with filming melodramas. Yamamoto made the film right after he moved, along with his mentor Naruse Mikio, to the Toho film company. A number of subsequent postwar mother's films adopted some of its essences, making it a genre-defining moment in Japanese cinema. This great melodrama is atypical of Yamamoto's output, much of which deals with political corruption and inequities within social institutions and offers a strong anti-establishment appeal.

As suggested by the title, this film takes up the theme of the city, beginning with a series of traveling shots from Chiyo's point o view on a bus leaving the countryside and entering the metropolitan cityscape. After some fruitless job hunting in downtown Tokyo, Chiyo accepts a job as a bar hostess in Shiba ward. Well away from glamorous Asakusa and Ginza, this is a neighborhood bar where the women are dirt poor, each having only one kimono to their name....

The otherwise promising young man Asaji (Heihachirô Ôkawa) and his younger brother Yuji (Hideo Saeki) face blighted lives because of society's disapproval of their illegitmacy and déclassé family.

В фильме представлен эпизод их жизни известнейшего исполнителя в стиле рокёку Кумоэмона Тотюкэна (1873 – 1916). Сценарий написал сам Нарусэ на основе произведения Сэйка Маяма (1878 - 1948). Все восхищаются искусством исполнителя и вынуждены терпеть его слабости и недостатки. Больше всех страдает его жена и соратница по сцене О-Цума и Сэнтаро, сын артиста от первого брака.

Кэнкити — владелец магазина торгующего сакэ, но его бизнес приходит в упадок. Он вдовец и имеет двух дочерей, которые вряд ли похожи. Кимико — младшая из его дочерей, одета в западном стиле, беззаботна и непреклонна перед существующими обычаями. Она на самом деле дочь Оё, любовницы Кенкити, но пока ещё не знает об этом. Старшая дочь Куниэ одевается в традиционном японском стиле, застенчива и старомодна. Она помогает отцу управлять домом и магазином, и готова принять предложение руки и сердца, устроенное её дядей, не зная, что предполагаемый жених на самом деле уже увлечён Кимико. Она также хочет, чтобы Оё переехала и жила с ними. Когда Кенкити раскрывает Кимико личность её настоящей матери, полиция арестовывает его за фальсификацию сакэ, которым он торговал...

Kimiko, a Tokyo white-collar working girl, lives with her serious, intellectual, haiku-writing mother. Kimiko seeks to marry her boyfriend but needs her absent father to act as the go-between and negotiate the marriage. Kimiko travels and finds her father living with a second family.

Among the tight-knit neighbours are a poet, his actress wife, a bachelor budding author, a tobacco shop owner-cum-landlady, an insurance salesman and his nosy and greedy wife. Enter a young and seemingly high-class couple who just so happens is open to purchasing life insurance from their swift neighbour. In the meantime, life is imitating art across the street, which may end up providing for either a happy ending or a rude split - eventually that is.