Kakuko Chino

結婚式・結婚式

Noboru Nakamura

Mariko Okada, Shima Iwashita

悪人志願

Tsutomu Tamura

Kayoko Honoo, Fumio Watanabe

Two outsiders start a relationship in a mining town.

Akitsu Springs

Yoshishige Yoshida

Mariko Okada, Hiroyuki Nagato

Yoshida’s first big-budget production and colour film is a haunting tale of unrequited love and postwar disillusion. The story of the fatal attraction between a spineless intellectual and a strong woman is conventional, but its enactment is radically new.

愛と希望の街

Nagisa Ōshima

Fumio Watanabe, Yuki Tominaga

A young man runs a scam selling pigeons that always return to his home. He falls under the wing of Kyoko, an older student whose heart is touched after Masuo sells his pigeons to her. However, after his scam is revealed, can these feelings truly remain the same?

古都

Noboru Nakamura

Shima Iwashita, Hiroyuki Nagato

In this Japanese drama, a dry goods merchant's daughter is surprised to discover that she has a twin sister. In rural Japan it was thought that twins bring bad luck, so the sister was abandoned at birth. Later her parents tell her that her sister was kidnapped. The woman doesn't believe this and when she eventually meets her twin, both women are involved in love affairs. The merchant's daughter is seeing an educated fellow. Trouble ensues when she begins suspecting that he may be more interested in her sister.

ろくでなし

Yoshishige Yoshida

Masahiko Tsugawa, Yūsuke Kawazu

Yoshida's first feature follows the lives of young students against a background of jazz, emptiness and boredom. The plot is fairly simple: a "good-for-nothing" from a poor background falls in love with the young secretary of his rich friend's father. The woman senses good in him and tries to lead him on the right path.

彼女だけが知っている

Osamu Takahashi

Akiko Koyama, Fumio Watanabe

A young woman is attacked by a serial rapist and murderer whom her detective father is investigating. Though she survives, the impact of the event creates increasing discord and agony for her and her loved ones.

雪国

Hideo Oba

Shima Iwashita, Mariko Kaga

This movie is based on an immortal literary work "The Snow Country," a story about a life of geisha Komako who lives in a region with heavy snowfalls.

女舞

Hideo Oba

Mariko Okada, Keiji Sada

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..

明日の太陽

Nagisa Ōshima

Yukiyo Toake, Toyozô Yamamoto

A playful short film made in the style of a trailer for a fictional feature film that seems to be a spoof of films that were popular in Japan at the time.

蟻の街のマリア

Heinosuke Gosho

Kakuko Chino, Kôji Nanbara

Alongside Tokyo's Sumida River is a ragpickers' settlement known as Ant Village. One night, a young Catholic girl, Satoko Kitahara, who has been baptized under the name of Maria, comes to offer her services. However, Ant Village is not just an ordinary vagrants' community but a fine autonomous organization, and as the municipal authorities have long been demanding that the people of Ant Village leave the site, Satoko is utilized to publicize the Village and win public sympathy. While being utilized in this manner, Satoko is nevertheless glad to be able to help the people of Ant Village, especially the children, and when the summer vacation comes she decides to take the children on an excursion to Hakone. To raise funds for this purpose she becomes a rag-picker herself.

ふりむいた花嫁

Yoshiaki Banshō

Junzaburō Ban, Chieko Baisho

Japanese comedy film.

女体

Hideo Onchi

Reiko Dan, Yûko Kusunoki

A young woman (Dan) who worked as a prostitute in the days following World War II finds herself sexually dissatisfied with her husband and contemplates returning to an old lover who comes back into her life.