Chieko Murata

高校三年生

Yoshio Inoue

Isao Kuraishi, Michiko Sugata

In 1963, Funaki Kazuo's debut song of the same name was released and then it was adapted to a movie based on Kenji Tomishima 's novel “Shake to Tomorrow” with the same title, produced by Daiei with this song as a motif. Singer and actor Funaki Kazuo also appears in the movie, which depicts the fun, love and heartbreak in a Japanese school.

愛情について

Yasuki Chiba

Rentaro Mikuni, Hiroshi Koizumi

Michiko Asakura was married to the eldest son of the Sakuma family, an unsealed family in Shinshu, but died from her husband and returned to her parents' house in Tokyo with her five-year-old daughter Yoshiko.

左近捕物帖　鮮血の手型

Kenkichi Hara

Tsumasaburō Bandō, Kogiku Hanayagi

幸せなら手をたたこう

Noriaki Yuasa

Ken Utsui, Michiko Sugata

Japanese comedy directed by Noriaki Yuasa.

母のおもかげ

Hiroshi Shimizu

Chikage Awashima, Jun Negami

下町

Yasuki Chiba

Isuzu Yamada, Toshirō Mifune

A woman struggles to raise her young son on her own in postwar Japan, finding companionship with a kind laborer while still hoping for the return of her missing husband.

うるさい妹たち

Yasuzō Masumura

Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Miki Nakasone

Obscure Masamura film shot in 1961

続高校三年生

Tarô Yuge

Michiko Sugata, Isao Kuraishi

A story full of youthful vigor and spirit as high school students try to work out their problems, realize the awakening of love and growing maturity and find fun and happiness in helping others.

Lightning

Mikio Naruse

Hideko Takamine, Mitsuko Miura

The story of Kiyoko, a young woman who has successfully managed to make a break with her dysfunctional family who have been trying to arrange a marriage for her with a disagreeable man whom she has rejected.

裸の町

Tomu Uchida

Ryo Akaboshi, Mitsuru Date

A 1937 Japanese language film directed by Tomu Uchida, starring Ryo Akaboshi, Mitsuru Date and Hisao Furutani.

風の中の牝鶏

Yasujirō Ozu

Kinuyo Tanaka, Shūji Sano

Tokiko is a mother patiently waiting for her husband's return from the war when her 4-year old son becomes ill. She takes him to the doctor for treatment but has no way of paying. She resorts to prostitution. One month later her husband returns from WWII to find his desperate wife, who tells him the truth. Together they must deal with the consequences.

女は二度生まれる

Yūzō Kawashima

Ayako Wakao, Jun Fujimaki

A young girl is rigorously trained in the feminine arts so that she can become a geisha. As she struggles through life, she learns to live not just as a woman but as a complete person.

安城家の舞踏会

Kōzaburō Yoshimura

Setsuko Hara, Yumeko Aizome

After Japan's loss in the war, the wealthy, cultured, liberal Anjo family have to give up their mansion and their way of life. They hold one last ball at the house before leaving. The seemingly cold, cynical son secretly grieves for his defeated father and the values that the war destroyed, while the daughter tries to prevent father from taking his life and to find her own place in the new Japan.

偽れる盛装

Kōzaburō Yoshimura

Machiko Kyō, Keiju Kobayashi

Clothes of Deception initiated Yoshimura’s most characteristic vein. This geisha story is often described as a loose remake of Mizoguchi’s pre-war masterpiece Sisters of Gion (1936), but this is inexact. Whereas in Mizoguchi’s study of two sisters, both women had been geisha, in Yoshimura’s film only Kimicho (Kyo Machiko) is, while her sister works in the Kyoto tourist office. Juxtaposing a traditional Kyoto profession with a modern one, Yoshimura shows how life in the old capital was changing in the wake of wider transformations in Japanese society.

Miyamoto Musashi: Showdown at Hannyazaka Heights

Tomu Uchida

Kinnosuke Nakamura, Wakaba Irie

The remake of Yoshikawa's novel continues with the second installment in which Takezo, soon to be Miyamoto Musashi, emerges from the Himeji Castle after three years of intense contemplation and philosophical study and starting on his epic quest to complete his skill in the Way.

忠臣蔵　天の巻・地の巻

Masahiro Makino, Tomiyasu Ikeda

Chiezō Kataoka, Tsumasaburō Bandō

The vassals of the Asano clan, who surrendered the castle & became wanderers, deceive the enemy and the public, wait for an opportunity to avenge their master and his family.