Satoko Date
1910 - 1972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
朝の並木路
Mikio Naruse
Sachiko Chiba, Heihachirô Ôkawa
As suggested by the title, this film takes up the theme of the city, beginning with a series of traveling shots from Chiyo's point of view on a bus leaving the countryside and entering the metropolitan cityscape. After some fruitless job hunting in downtown Tokyo, Chiyo accepts a job as a bar hostess in Shiba ward. Well away from glamorous Asakusa and Ginza, this is a neighborhood bar where the women are dirt poor, each having only one kimono to their name....
Morning's Tree-Lined Street
朗かに歩め
Yasujirō Ozu
Minoru Takada, Hiroko Kawasaki
Kenji is a small-time thief who likes drinking and fighting. When he falls in love with sweet and simple Yazue, and she finds out what kind of guy he really is, she leaves him "until he becomes an honest person." Kenji soon finds it's not easy to get rid of one's past.
Walk Cheerfully
七つの海・前篇・処女篇
Hiroshi Shimizu
Joji Oka, Ureo Egawa
The film is a lengthy work interweaving characters from different backgrounds and social strata in a narrative centered around the experiences of its heroine, Yumie Sone. Over two hours long, Seven Seas was released theatrically in two parts, with the first part entitled "Virginity Chapter" coming out in December 1931, while the second part, "Chastity Chapter," followed in March 1932. Near the beginning of the narrative, at a garden party given by the wealthy Yagibashi family in Tokyo, Yumie meets Takehiko, the Yagibashis' playboy son and the brother of Yumie's fiancé, Yuzuru. Yumie, a young middle-class woman, lives with her ailing father, a retired ministry official, an older sister, and a younger sister still a child (played by a very young Hideko Takamine). Takehiko, who has just returned from a trip to Europe, is attracted to Yumie and contrives to have her stay overnight at his family's mansion where he takes advantage of her.
Seven Seas: Virginity Chapter
