Hideko Okiyama
1945 - 2011
Dodes'ka-den
Akira Kurosawa
Yoshitaka Zushi, Kin Sugai
This film follows the daily lives of a group of people barely scraping by in a slum on the outskirts of Tokyo. Yet as desperate as their circumstances are, each of them—the homeless father and son envisioning their dream house; the young woman abused by her uncle; the boy who imagines himself a trolley conductor—finds reasons to carry on.
Dodes'ka-den
十九歳の地図
Mitsuo Yanagimachi
Yūji Honma, Keizo Kanie
A 19-year-old newspaper delivery boy begins collecting information on the households in his neighborhood and keeping a journal of why he doesn't like them. Declaring himself a 'right-winger' and calling in bomb threats against the neighbors he doesn't like, the 19-year-old begins a war of psychological terror against the families in his neighborhood.
The Nineteen-Year-Old's Map
赤目四十八瀧心中未遂
Genjiro Arato
Shinobu Terajima, Shima Onishi
A man is trying to flee from his past, and he ends up in an underworld filled with strange characters. He finds a job skewering meat in a dirty old room in a shabby old house filled with prostitutes, gangsters and a weird old tattoo master. He clearly doesn't fit in to this new world, and the inhabitants of it immediately despise him.
Akame 48 Waterfalls
黒木太郎の愛と冒険
Azuma Morisaki
Kunie Tanaka, Mitsuko Baisho
Taro Kuroki, 42, is a stuntman with a samurai's heart. He loves adventures, plays pranks with the police, tries to cure a cat lady by reversing her trauma, and finally, rescues his niece who is about to be lured into prostitution.
The Love and Adventures of Kuroki Taro
