Yukiko Inoue
1915 - 2012The Man Who Stole the Sun
Kazuhiko Hasegawa
Kenji Sawada, Bunta Sugawara
A high school science teacher is the butt of all his students' jokes, until their bus is hijacked on a school trip. But something more sinister lurks beneath the surface: he's building an atomic bomb in his apartment.
The Man Who Stole the Sun
港の日本娘
Hiroshi Shimizu
Michiko Oikawa, Yukiko Inoue
Set in the port city of Yokohama, two girls, Sunako and Dora who attend a Christian school, pledge to be friends. But when a youth named Henry appears on his motorcycle and offers to take Sunako for a ride, we know that this friendship won't last and that the lives of both girls will change in ways they are barely able to comprehend, and can do little to change.
Japanese Girls at the Harbor
カナリア
Akihiko Shiota
Hoshi Ishida, Mitsuki Tanimura
Two children, each abandoned by their families, come together in the wake of the Sarin gas attack in Tokyo. Based on the true events of the deadly gas attacks perpetrated by members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult on the Tokyo subway system.
Canary
限りなき舗道
Mikio Naruse
Setsuko Shinobu, Akio Isono
Mikio Naruse’s final silent film is a gloriously rich portrait of a waitress, Sugiko, whose life, despite a host of male admirers and even some intrigued movie talent scouts, ends up taking a suffocatingly domestic turn after a wealthy businessman accidentally hits her with his car.
Street Without End
