05-02-1905
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Tokyo Prefecture, Japan
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05-02-1905
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Tokyo Prefecture, Japan
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Floating Weeds
When a theater troupe's master visits his old flame, he unintentionally sets off a chain of unexpected events with devastating consequences. A remake of Ozu's own silent film The Story of Floating Weeds (1934).Year:
1959
Love in the Mountains
A mother and her daughter who run a quiet mountain hotel, and guests who visit the hotel. A girl who does not know what a broken heart is, the attractive joy of first love, and separation is like parting with life. The mother-daughter duet with Isuzu Yamada attracted a lot of attention at that time. Haruko Wanibuchi, demonstrated rare attractiveness and pure charm by playing a heroine living in a beautiful and pure first love.Year:
1959
The Big Ambition
Year:
1955
Hana to ryû - Dai-ichi-bu: Dôkai-wan no rantô
Dai-ichi-bu: Dôkai-wan no rantô - Kiyoshi Saeki directed movie.Year:
1954
Kyūkon sannin musume
1954 Japanese movieYear:
1954
男の哀愁
Year:
1951
Homecoming
A former naval officer returns to Japan after the Second World War ends, encounters the former mistress who ratted him out, and reconnects with his daughter.Year:
1950
Kekkon Sanjûshi
Year:
1949
Record of a Tenement Gentleman
An errant salaryman's son gets lost until a man from the Tokyo tenements brings him to vendor Tane, who's reluctant to let the kid board.Year:
1947
The Fellows Who Ate the Elephant
The film is set during the days of the scarcity of food after World War II, during which five men ate an elephant that died in a zoo. The elephant's corpse however, was infested with deadly bacteria and the men have only 30 hours left to live...Year:
1947
Izu no musumetachi
Year:
1945
Army
Though plagued by ill health all his life, a young Japanese man is obligated to fulfill his family's longstanding military tradition.Year:
1944
Middle-Aged Man
The story of a boy who befriends a lonely middle-aged man.Year:
1943
A Certain Woman
Pretty Oshige is deceived by her first love. After this, she lives a hard lifestyle, working at a number of jobs. Her only pleasure is her nephew, who eventually becomes a merchant marine. When Oshige meets her old love ten years later, she is able to forgive him and even thank him for the path her life has taken.Year:
1942
South Wind 2
In this comic sequel to Yoshimura Kozaburo's original, Minami no Kaze, ex-baron (Saburi Shin) is in Singapore where he meets an old friend who proposes a scam to make some quick cash. It involved inventing the story that Saigo Takamori didn't actually die in the Satsuma Rebellion but escaped to Southeast Asia to start a new religion and in the process fathered a son who is now the founder. But when they bring the supposed heir and his aide to Japan, chaos ensues...Year:
1942
South Wind
Amusing masterpiece from director Yoshimura Kazusabu divided in two parts taken from the newspaper serial novel of Shishiko Shishi. Like in "Warm Current", Shin Saburi, Mieko Takamine and Mitsuko Mito are appearing, but this is a fresh comedy very unusual for wartime.Year:
1942
There Was a Father
Shuhei Horikawa, a poor schoolteacher, struggles to raise his son Ryohei by himself, despite neither money nor prospects.Year:
1942
Flower
Most of the students studying Ikebana with Kozoe Iemoto are daughters of rich Tokyo families. Kozoe meets and grows close to a doctor who proposes marriage but whose mother harbours ill feeling towards her because of an incident in the mountains where a child got into difficulties. Kozoe rejects the proposal but falls ill and when she recovers, decides to devote herself entirely to the world of flower arranging.Year:
1941
Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family
After the death of her husband, an elderly woman and her youngest, unmarried daughter are forced to sell their house to cover his debts and decide to move in with one of the former's children, each of whom is scarcely happy to accommodate.Year:
1941
Okinu and Banto
A story of a store that makes Tabi socks.Year:
1940
Kinuyo's First Love
Kinuyo is a daughter of rice cracker shop in downtown. She fell in love with her sister's boyfriend. It is a story whose theme is warm human relationships in a town of customs and manners.Year:
1940
Warm Current
Adaptation of Kishida Kunio's novel. Set against the backdrop of a power struggle within a hospital, depicts the love lives of the director's daughter, the administrative director, a doctor, and a nurse.Year:
1939
Family Diary
Two childhood friends go their own ways but meet again some years later after they have both married. They get re-acquainted, meet each others’ families, and all is well. Then the disagreements start...Year:
1938
The Lights of Asakusa
Pre-war Asakusa was a riotous district of cabarets, dance-halls and brothels - a striking backdrop for Shimazu's story of innocence and experience. Pretty, young Reiko is the new dancer in an infamous theatre troupe, and her fellow performers try to protect her virtue in a land of vice. Meanwhile, an ageing actor wants to be a hero off stage as well as on, and the troupe matriarch Marie has to keep them all together.Year:
1937
Don't Tell Your Wife About It
A Japanese screwball comedy about the battle between the sexes: two timid men, egged on by their wives, end up in a bitter duel over an expensive lace handkerchief.Year:
1937
Lady Doctor Kinuyo
Kinuyo is a daughter of doctor of Chinese medicine, and Yasuo is a son of surgeon. Their families always fight like cat and dog. This relationship is ancestral. Although Kinuyo and Yasuo love each other, they have different thoughts toward treatments.Year:
1937
Vermilion and Green
A businessman’s daughter falls in love with one of her father’s employees.Year:
1937
The Only Son
A silk factory worker is persuaded to support her son's education up to a college level despite their poverty. Many years later, she travels to Tokyo to visit her son.Year:
1936
Men vs. Women
A musical film made for the inauguration of Shochiku's Ofuna Studio, with an all-star cast of the era.Year:
1936
Woman in the Mist
Otoku asks her brother Bunkichi to speak with her son Seiichi, a young man for whom sacrificed everything but who now seems to be headed for a wastrel life. Bunkichi admonishes the boy to study harder, but it seems his uncle's advice may already be too late.Year:
1936
Family Meeting
A melodrama about a businessman's relations with the three women in his life.Year:
1936
An Inn in Tokyo
An unemployed Japanese man and his two sons wander the industrial flatlands of Depression-era Tokyo, until he chances upon an old friend and befriends a woman and her daughter, who are in a similar predicament.Year:
1935
Mother's Love Letter
Domestic comedy involving a strong wife and a "henpecked" husband taking place in a family-run judo school.Year:
1935
An Innocent Maid
In a back alley of the Shitamachi district of Tokyo, Kihachi bears witness to a series of romantic complications involving the inhabitants of the neighborhood. Considered to be a lost film.Year:
1935
Lumberjack and Lady
A Japanese comedy from the end of the silent era (it has music) from a popular series. A feud, a practical joke and romance are the set up for some great comedy and drama from a team of distinctive appearance who are exploiting their silent cinema styles to the full.Year:
1935
Lumberjack and Lady
A Japanese comedy from the end of the silent era (it has music) from a popular series. A feud, a practical joke and romance are the set up for some great comedy and drama from a team of distinctive appearance who are exploiting their silent cinema styles to the full.Year:
1935
A Story of Floating Weeds
An aging actor returns to a small town with his troupe and reunites with his former lover and illegitimate son, a scenario that enrages his current mistress and results in heartbreak for all.Year:
1934
A Mother Should Be Loved
A young man discovers that the woman who raised him is his stepmother. His stepbrother, who is unaware of the revelation, resents his mother for always punishing him more severely than his stepsibling.Year:
1934
Happy Times
A young couple is harrased by an uncle.Year:
1933
Happy Times
A young couple is harrased by an uncle.Year:
1933
Passing Fancy
In Depression-era Tokyo, a struggling middle-aged single father with a young son comes across a homeless young lady and convinces a bar owner to take her in.Year:
1933
Every-Night Dreams
In Depression-era Tokyo, the life of a single mother and her young son are disrupted by the return of her ex-husband, who fathered the child and walked out on her years earlier.Year:
1933
Dragnet Girl
A gangster tries to find redemption with the inadvertent help of an innocent shop girl and his jealous girlfriend will do anything to keep him.Year:
1933
Woman of Tokyo
Ryoichi and Chikako, brother and sister, live together. Chikako toils during the day and, at night, prostitutes herself to fund his college tuition.Year:
1933
The Sorrow of the Beautiful Woman
Two people are fascinated by a sculptor's statue. The film is lost.Year:
1931
Nikutai no bōfū
The love of an older sister who worked as a geisha but decided to open a bar under the auspices of a millionaireYear:
1931
Young Lady
Two reporters find that they are repeatedly beaten to the scoop by a new female journaist, 'young miss'. They decide to team up with her to investigate a secret club for wealthy voyeurs. Considered to be a lost film.Year:
1930
A Buddhist Mass for Goemon Ishikawa
The adventures of a modern day descendant of a famed Edo era thief are the basis for this short supernatural comedy romp.Year:
1930
Walk Cheerfully
Kenji is a small-time thief who likes drinking and fighting. When he falls in love with sweet and simple Yazue, and she finds out what kind of guy he really is, she leaves him "until he becomes an honest person." Kenji soon finds it's not easy to get rid of one's past.Year:
1930
A Straightforward Boy
A kidnapped boy proves to be more than his abductor can handle.Year:
1929
The Foster Mother
A human drama about the bond between parents and a child and family love. The daughter leaves her foster parents and ends up with her mother in Kyoto, who divorced her father, but her father in Tokyo, who has another family, takes her to himself out of guilt for breaking up with her. How does the daughter feel?Year:
-
Spring Comes from the Ladies
A student comes up with various schemes to avoid paying a tailor the money he owes him. Considered to be a lost film.Year:
1932
Modan kaidan: 100,000,000 yen
A young couple flee their disapproving parents, get lost of Mt. Akagi and find a cache of gold protected by the ghost of a gangster.Year:
1929
