Reikichi Kawamura

肉体の暴風

Tsutomu Shigemune

Emiko Yagumo, Reikichi Kawamura

The love of an older sister who worked as a geisha but decided to open a bar under the auspices of a millionaire

ラッキーさん

Kon Ichikawa

Keiju Kobayashi, Hiroshi Koizumi

Stray 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.

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.

長屋紳士録

Yasujirō Ozu

Chōko Iida, Hohi Aoki

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.

山のかなたに

Yasuki Chiba

Ryō Ikebe, Yûji Hori

Adaptation of a novel by Yojiro Ishizaka, originally released in two parts.

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.

風の中の子供

Hiroshi Shimizu

Reikichi Kawamura, Mitsuko Yoshikawa

On vacation's eve, a boy is sent to the countryside to live with his uncle after his father is imprisoned and accused of embezzlement.

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.

有りがたうさん

Hiroshi Shimizu

Ken Uehara, Michiko Kuwano

In Depression-era Japan, a courteous bus driver carries an eclectic group of passengers from the mountainous Izu to Tokyo,

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.

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.

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.

戸田家の兄妹

Yasujirō Ozu

Hideo Fujino, Fumiko Katsuragi

After the death of her husband, Mrs Toda and her youngest daughter receive a frosty welcome from the extended family.

婚約三羽烏

Yasujirō Shimazu

Shūji Sano, Ken Uehara

Three men vying for the same job end up chasing the same girl in this comedy-drama from noted Japanese director Yasujiro Shimazu.

君と別れて

Mikio Naruse

Mitsuko Yoshikawa, Akio Isono

An aging geisha, whose angry teenage son is ashamed of her profession, works alongside a young geisha, resentful of her family for forcing her into a life of ignominy.