Hiroko Machida

母を求める子等

Hiroshi Shimizu

Nao Abe, Keiji Aoyoma

While working in an education center for lonely children, a mother seeks her missing son.

天保水滸伝 大原幽学

Satsuo Yamamoto

Mikijiro Hira, Ruriko Asaoka

幸せなら手をたたこう

Noriaki Yuasa

Ken Utsui, Michiko Sugata

Japanese comedy directed by Noriaki Yuasa.

密約　外務省機密漏洩事件

Koji Chino

Kazuo Kitamura, Kazuko Yoshiyuki

TV film about the "Nishiyama Incident", a scandal surrounding the 1972 return of Okinawa to Japan. Produced to commemorate the 20th anniversary of TV Asahi in 1978 and released theatrically by Office Henmi in 1988.

赤線地帯

Kenji Mizoguchi

Machiko Kyō, Aiko Mimasu

The lives of five prostitutes employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation is debating the passage of an anti-prostitution law.

雁

Shiro Toyoda

Hideko Takamine, Hiroshi Akutagawa

A young woman, who must support her father as a middle-aged man's mistress, finds herself falling in love with a student closer to her age.

あゝ野麦峠

Satsuo Yamamoto

Shinobu Ōtake, Mieko Harada

The story of the silk industry and the young girls who worked as silk spinners in the early 1900s in Japan. The silk mills were located in Okaya which lies just beyond the Nomugi Pass. The women and girls worked in a hot, humid atmosphere without rest, and endured those conditions and sexual harassment to earn money for their poor families. Across the ocean, it was the great depression in America.

静かなる決闘

Akira Kurosawa

Toshirō Mifune, Miki Sanjo

Toshirō Mifune plays a young idealistic doctor who works at his father's (Takashi Shimura) clinic in a small and seedy district. During the war, he contracts syphilis from the blood of a patient when he cuts himself during an operation. Treating himself in secret and tormented by his conscience, he rejects his heartbroken fiancée without explanation.

Love and Greed

Yasuzō Masumura

Jirō Tamiya, Ayako Wakao

Namiko gets a crush on Ishizuka, a young CEO of a nightclub, but he was plotting to destroy her husband’s company by greenmail.

青空娘

Yasuzō Masumura

Ayako Wakao, Keizô Kawasaki

Yuko is sent to the coastal regions to be raised away from the rest of her sophisticated family where she finds out from her ill grandmother that she is not who she thought she was.

巨人と玩具

Yasuzō Masumura

Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Hitomi Nozoe

Nishi is an advertising executive for a caramel company that is planning to launch a new product, in fierce competition with two other companies.

踊子

Hiroshi Shimizu

Chikage Awashima, Machiko Kyō

In Asakusa, Tokyo, a couple of a violinist Yamano and a revue dancer Hanae lives in poverty. One day Hanae’s little sister rolls into their apartment and begins to stir things up with her riotousness.

Маленький беглец

Eduard Bocharov, Teinosuke Kinugasa

Chiharu Inayoshi, Makiko Ishimaru

During a Soviet circus tour in Japan, a small street musician, Ken, meets a clown, Yuri Nikulin. Upon learning that his sick father is being treated in the Soviet Union, Ken sets off in search of him. The friendship of the great clown and the boy continues in Moscow.

Black Test Car

Yasuzō Masumura

Jirō Tamiya, Junko Kano

Two car manufacturers spy on each other to try to find out details and prices of a new sports car each is about to launch.

母の旅路

Hiroshi Shimizu

Tadashi Date, Murasaki Fujima

黒の超特急

Yasuzō Masumura

Jirō Tamiya, Yukiko Fuji

A man operates a small real estate business near Osaka. A man from Tokyo asks for help in buying a large tract of land in order, he says, to build an automobile factory. But by accident the realtor learns that the Tokaido Railway Line is going to be built directly across the land just acquired.