Hiroyuki Nagaoka

During the early days of the war a young student, Makito (Kazuo Funaki), falls in love with Yuko (Mayumi Ozora), the widow of a naval officer. She, however, is living with the memories of her husband and it is her younger sister, Yumiko (Nana Ozaki), who grows fond of the student. Then, one day, a young naval officer, Tadayuki (Ken Ogata), a friend of her late husband, comes to see the widow and she becomes attracted to him. Though Makito is inspired to study for the navy, he is much upset when he learns that Yuko and Tadayuki are to marry.

Трагическая любовь на фоне знаменитого военного переворота 26 февраля 1936 года, который неоднократно привлекал внимание кинематографистов Японии. В этой версии лирические и эротические переживания затмевают политические дискуссии и философские идеи.

Тора Ёсида счастлива. Она вырастила одиннадцать детей. Некоторые уехали в другие города, но все образованны и материально обеспечены. Раз в году, когда начинаются летние каникулы и отпуска, все они собираются вместе, сообща помогают матери и отцу по хозяйству, обсуждают важные семейные вопросы. Однажды вечером Тора рассказала младшей дочери Мияко о своей многотрудной жизни. Использовав рассказ матери, Мияко написала о ней сочинение, за которое получила премию премьер-министра на всеяпонском конкурсе студентов.

One day a company executive learns that his younger brother, whom he recommended, embezzled company funds. To save the situation he withdraws his life savings and gives money to his younger brother. He then suddenly disappears…

Assistant Police Inspector Saburo Tatsuno, a former jazz pianist, is assigned to uncover a narcotics ring. But he falls victim to the seductive wiles of Maki, the beautiful night club singer and one of the leaders of the ring. One by one, Maki's discarded lovers vanish and Tatsuno faces a similar fate. Tatsuno confesses to his identity under torture and this leads to the murder of his undercover colleague. He realizes that his career is ruined and this, plus Maki's charm, induces him to join the smugglers. Before submitting his resignation, however, he leads the police on a wild-goose chase while a big narcotics transaction is taking place in another part of town, and this puts him among the leaders of the underworld. When Maki turns her attention to a youthful singer, Tatsuno realizes that he has gambled his whole life and lost. So he stabs the tantalizing beauty, and is in turn shot down in a gangland revenge killing.

A father and son are both heavy drinkers. However, the son dies in an accident at a bar, leaving behind a fiance…. A unique social satire that focuses on why people drink alcohol.

The university professor Ozeki Hitoshi (Ryu Chishu) is regarded as an eccentric by people in his surroundings. When his daughter Tokiko is asked to marry a colleague, she and her mother are overjoyed, but Hitoshi is not satisfied with the situation.

A promising dancer asks her professor to write a libretto for a Nō play. He then introduces her to a student of classical literature, but also a classical theatre student in the hope that the latter will marry Senya..

The common-law wife and daughter of a wealthy old man plot to murder him and steal his fortune, with the help of their male acquaintances.

Действие происходит в небольшой деревушке вблизи Токио в середине XX века. До сих пор живут в маленькой общине нерушимые законы и обычаи, установленные в давние времена и передаваемые из поколения в поколение. Невыполнение этих обычаев строго наказуется. Всё решает в общине староста и два—три близких ему богача. Бедный крестьянин Тэцудзи нарушил обычай, решив пожаловаться в полицию на произвол старосты. За это от него отвернулись все, и даже, когда умерла дочь, никто не пришёл на её похороны. Одинокий, всеми покинутый Тэцудзи всё же верит — люди поймут, что он прав, и придут к нему.

Tane, the lady proprietor of an inn for amorous couples, lives there with her three children. When her eldest daughter loses her fiancé due to the fact her mother is a mistress, her despair drives her to become a cabaret hostess.

A neighborhood labors under postwar hardships.

Christ in Bronze is a 1955 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Minoru Shibuya. It was entered into the 1956 Cannes Film Festival.

In this four part mystery-adventure, detective Kogoro Akechi and the members of the Boy Detectives Club must capture the Bronze Monster, a giant metal monster that steals valuable clocks.

Having completed the first year at his new medical practice, a doctor plans to relax on his day off. However, it is not to be: on this hectic day a man just back from the war front visits the doctor with a medical emergency, followed by a woman who claims to have been molested. Then a yakuza arrives to ask the doctor to cut his finger off...

Корабль контрабандистов уходит от погони. Стечение обстоятельств приводит банду пиратов на маленький остров, где разместилась метеорологическая станция.

A young yakuza student is led back to the straight and narrow path by his uncle.

Approaching their graduation ceremony, Saegusa, Sanae, and their classmates go on an overnight trip to Hakone with their teacher Ms. Kawahara, who will soon leave school. They thank her doing so and go on their respective paths, ending soon their student life.

Episode in the life of a composer of a popular Japanese song.