Shin Saburi

慟哭

Shin Saburi

Shin Saburi, Michiyo Kogure

風雪二十年

Shin Saburi

Eiji Okada, Hatae Kishi

The Stormy Era of Twenty Years

女医絹代先生

Hiromasa Nomura

Kinuyo Tanaka, Takeshi Sakamoto

Kinuyo is a daughter of doctor of Chinese medicine, and Yasuo is a son of surgeon. Their families always fight like cat and dog. This relationship is ancestral. Although Kinuyo and Yasuo love each other, they have different thoughts toward treatments.

娘十八嘘つき時代

Hiroshi Shimizu

Shinichi Himori, Hisayo Hirano

暁の合唱

Hiroshi Shimizu

Michiyo Kogure, Takeshi Sakamoto

Late Autumn

Yasujirō Ozu

Setsuko Hara, Yôko Tsukasa

A woman and her daughter are each forced to contend with an increasing pressure to marry, particularly from three men who knew her late husband.

彼岸花

Yasujirō Ozu

Shin Saburi, Kinuyo Tanaka

A man clashes with his daughter over her choice of fiancé.

Kuro-obi sangokushi

Senkichi Taniguchi

Toshirō Mifune, Shin Saburi

Masahiko Koseki, a judo master, gets in several fights as a result of protecting a young woman. Despite his success, Koseki is expelled from his judo school because of his propensity for street fighting. He goes to work for a gangster named Joji, but when he realizes that Joji is mixed up in the slave trade, Koseki helps the police in their attempts to foil Joji.

朝やけの詩

Kei Kumai

Tatsuya Nakadai, Kinya Kitaoji

Though a farmer and his fellow villagers in this Japanese film resist the effort to turn the unspoiled region in which they live into a land development, they are ultimately unsuccessful.

お茶漬けの味

Yasujirō Ozu

Shin Saburi, Michiyo Kogure

Takeo, a capricious wife from Tokyo high society, is bored by her dull husband, a quiet and reliable company executive raised in the country. After a crisis, she understands better his true value. A parallel sub-plot shows her niece rebelling against the tradition of arranged marriages.

父ありき

Yasujirō Ozu

Chishū Ryū, Shūji Sano

Shuhei Horikawa, a poor schoolteacher, struggles to raise his son Ryohei by himself, despite neither money nor prospects.

華麗なる一族

Satsuo Yamamoto

Shin Saburi, Yumeji Tsukioka

Adaptation of the novel by Toyoko Yamasaki.

あなたと私の合言葉　さよなら、今日は

Kon Ichikawa

Ayako Wakao, Shin Saburi

化石

Masaki Kobayashi

Shin Saburi, Keiko Kishi

An industrialist is diagnosed with terminal cancer. He is on a trip to Europe at the time, and a glimpse of a Japanese woman in that setting causes him to fantasize about her as the personification of his impending death. As his dialogue with his imagined mortality continues, he actually meets the living woman who is the template for his fantasy, and together they tour rural churches. Gradually he comes to some kind of peace about the diagnosis. When he returns to Japan, he is met with a series of challenges which profoundly test the lessons he has learned.

The Castle of Sand

Yoshitaro Nomura

Tetsurō Tamba, Gō Katō

Two detectives are tasked to investigate the murderer of an old man, found bludgeoned to death in a rail yard.

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.