
Reikichi Kawamura
1897 - 1952Stray Dog
Akira Kurosawa
Toshirō Mifune, Takashi Shimura
A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded bus. Desperate to right the wrong, he goes undercover, scavenging Tokyo’s sweltering streets for the stray dog whose desperation has led him to a life of crime. With each step, cop and criminal’s lives become more intertwined and the investigation becomes an examination of Murakami’s own dark side.
Stray Dog
麗人
Yasujirō Shimazu
Sumiko Kurishima, Yukichi Iwata
Немой фильм «Прекрасная» (иной вариант перевода — «Красавица») является примером жанра кэйко-эйга (так называемых «тенденциозных фильмов») левого толка и продвигает социальную критику через несправедливые переживания женщины.
Reijin
宗方姉妹
Yasujirō Ozu
Kinuyo Tanaka, Hideko Takamine
Setsuko is unhappily to Mimura, an engineer with no job and a bad drinking habit. She had always been in love with Hiroshi but both of them failed to propose when Hiroshi left for France a few years ago. Now he is back and Mariko (Setsuko's sister) tries to reunite them. She too is secretly in love with Hiroshi.
The Munekata Sisters
歌女おぼえ書
Hiroshi Shimizu
Yaeko Mizutani, Ken Uehara
Uta’s mother died when she was six years old; her father she never met. She was forced to adopt a traveller’s life when her grandmother died, and now she is a dancer and part of a family of actors who travel from town to town, setting up street performances. A way of escape from this marginal existence arises when she gets the chance to move to tea merchant Hiramatsu’s place, where she is asked to teach his daughter to dance.
Notes of an Itinerant Performer
東京の恋人
Yasuki Chiba
Setsuko Hara, Toshirō Mifune
Following the Second World War, the lives of various people in a poverty-stricken area of Tokyo are entertwined. Pachinko parlor girls, shoeshine boys, a maker of costume jewelry, and a streetcorner artist all struggle to make their livings and to find happiness in difficult surroundings.
Tokyo Sweetheart
朧夜の女
Heinosuke Gosho
Toshiko Iizuka, Shin Tokudaiji
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.
Woman in the Mist
子供の四季
Hiroshi Shimizu
Teruo Furuya, Masao Hayama
A follow-up to Children in the Wind, Four Seasons of Children(a.k.a. Kodomo no Shiki) is also based on a Tsubota Joji novel. The film is divided into two chapters, following the young protagonists' minor adventures and real-world awakenings over spring and summer, then autumn and winter.
Four Seasons of Children