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本日休診 (1952)
Character: N/A
Having completed the first year at his new medical practice, a doctor plans to relax on his day off. However, it is not to be: on this hectic day a man just back from the war front visits the doctor with a medical emergency, followed by a woman who claims to have been molested. Then a yakuza arrives to ask the doctor to cut his finger off...
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三羽烏三代記 (1959)
Character: N/A
The story tells of Tsuchiya, a university professor and a widower who is in love with a widow who runs a small restaurant, and his son is in love with a runaway girl who turns out to be the leader of a religious sect. Kusano is the henpecked proprietor of a rice biscuit shop who dreams of owning a bird and dog shop and his daughter is in love with a boarder, employed by the private detective agency searching for the runaway girl. The agency head has his own dream of arranging thirty marriages and has already accomplished twenty-seven. Tatsumi is a newspaper reporter who dreams of a big scoop to enable him to marry a girl TV producer and his friend a mountain climbing enthusiast who dreams of joining a Himalayan expedition but is opposed by his wife. His love of the mountains is shared by a boarder in their home and by a fishmonger's son.
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真実一路 (1954)
Character: N/A
Each one of us lives differently. So, there are many tragedies and comedies in our lives. She feels many conflicts in living her life between truth and love.
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海の地図 (1959)
Character: Tonomura
Akiko Mizushina, a university student, is in love with Keisuke Okazaki, a member of the rugby team at the same university. Sugiura, a brilliant scholarly student, also has feelings for Akiko. During the summer vacation, Akiko thought she was enjoying the joys of youth, but she was filled with a feeling that something was missing.
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愛染かつら (1962)
Character: N/A
1962 Japanese movie. Remake of the 1939 movie
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いろはにほへと (1960)
Character: N/A
The anonymous partnership Investment Economic Association, led by its president Ryuichi Amano, collected money from many ordinary people and paid out large dividends, making it famous as "Japan's only investment bank for ordinary people." On the other hand, Detective Muneharu Matsumoto of the Metropolitan Police Department's Second Investigative Division has suspicions about this organization, and has been spying on the business association for many years. However, Matsumoto was having a hard time getting any solid proof of the nature of the incident...
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渦 (1961)
Character: N/A
1961 Japanese movie
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春を待つ人々 (1959)
Character: Western-style painter Nishiwaki
This drama centers on an elderly politician and depicts how humans can return to their true selves when they are freed from selfish desires and self-interest.
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泉 (1956)
Character: N/A
A botanist woos the secretary of an industrialist whose company threatens the local water supply.
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女舞 (1961)
Character: N/A
A promising dancer asks her professor to write a libretto for a Nō play. He then introduces her to a student of classical literature, but also a classical theatre student in the hope that the latter will marry Senya..
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雲がちぎれる時 (1961)
Character: N/A
A provincial bus driver plans to marry his conductress, but one night he glimpses the woman he once loved, which throws him into turmoil.
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ハイ・ティーン (1959)
Character: N/A
Terasaki, the new history teacher at the Senior High School, finds encouragement in the words of his Principal. "There are no bad children in this world. Some may be hard to handle but a teacher should never lose courage … never give up." But when put in charge of the third year class C, reputed to be the most incorrigible in the whole school, he is faced with surly opposition from the start. However, Terasaki perseveres. His greatest headaches are three students ... Sanae, who develops a "crush" on him, Nakanishi, who seeks to forget his unhappy home life in rugby, and Nire his pal.
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涙 (1956)
Character: N/A
A young woman marries someone else, but cannot forget her first lover.
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正義派 (1957)
Character: N/A
The obstinate black market trader Okyo lives together with her son Seitaro, who works as a mechanic for a bus company. She also looks after her son's colleague, the bus driver Fujita. When he causes an accident one day, Seitaro testifies against him due to his moral scruples, thus getting his company into trouble.
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鐘の鳴る丘 第一篇 隆太の巻 (1948)
Character: N/A
The adventures of a demobilised soldier and a group of war orphans under his care on Ringing Bell Hill. First installment of a wartime film trilogy.
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鐘の鳴る丘 第二篇 修吉の巻 (1949)
Character: N/A
The adventures of a demobilised soldier and a group of war orphans under his care on Ringing Bell Hill. Second installment of a wartime film trilogy.
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鐘の鳴る丘 第三篇 クロの巻 (1949)
Character: N/A
The adventures of a demobilised soldier and a group of war orphans under his care on Ringing Bell Hill. Third installment of a wartime film trilogy.
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女の坂 (1960)
Character: Saburo Yaoi
Tradition and modernity clash when a young woman inherits a sweet-making firm in Kyoto.
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新釈四谷怪談 後篇 (1949)
Character: Kohei
Part 2 starts where the first film ended, with Iemon disposing of the bodies of his wife and Kohei, marrying upward, and being blackmailed by the evil Naosuke.
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オンボロ人生 (1958)
Character: N/A
Live-action adaptation of Yoshiro Kato’s manga.
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モダン道中 その恋待ったなし (1958)
Character: Tsurukawa Matsuo
A road trip comedy set against the backdrop of the famous historical sites of Tohoku and Hokkaido.
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四萬人の目撃者 (1960)
Character: Takayama
Prosecutor Takayama investigates the sudden death of a third baseman in the middle of a game.
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踊りたい夜 (1963)
Character: N/A
Follows the lives of three sisters who have a dance act together.
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自由学校 (1951)
Character: N/A
Minamimura, who had always wanted to be free, suddenly quits his job. His hardworking wife is surprised and angry, and throws him out of the house. Confused by his sudden freedom, Iosuke ends up living as a vagrant under a bridge. His wife, Komako, also finds herself freed and is unable to ignore her confusion.
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遠い雲 (1955)
Character: Shunsuke, Fuyuko's brother-in-law
A young widow, made world weary by her abusive, neglectful husband, finds herself in a minor scandal when she's seen with her intense, no-nonsense childhood sweetheart.
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風の視線 (1963)
Character: N/A
Based on the novel of the same name by Seichō Matsumoto.
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日日の背信 (1958)
Character: N/A
Hiroyuki, a married executive, falls madly in love with Ikuko, the mistress of a ruthless jeweler. The two arrange to meet at a hot spring, but Hiroyuki becomes torn between his love for Ikuko and his duty towards his sick wife.
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花嫁のおのろけ (1958)
Character: Denshichi Kumazawa
A multifaced portrayal of ordinary life, revealing its hidden aspects! The second film in the "Bride Series" following "The Embraced Bride" is an Ofuna-style comedy.
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暁の地平線 (1959)
Character: Kazuo
This action drama depicts the conflict between orthodox and new yakuza gangsters.
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不死鳥 (1947)
Character: Shinichi Yasaka
A Japanese war widow recalls her love affair with her deceased husband.
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おぼろ駕籠 (1951)
Character: Shinnosuke Koyanagi
A period mystery in which an unconventional priest exposes the truth behind the bizarre death of a maid in the shogun's harem. Kinuyo Tanaka stylishly plays a constantly intoxicated geisha in this all-star entertainment film.
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暗殺 (1964)
Character: N/A
In 1863, when American warships approach Japan, an enigmatic ronin becomes an important figure in a complex game of power between the Shogunate and the empire.
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お嬢さん乾杯！ (1949)
Character: Goro
A matchmaker looks to unite a young woman from a wealthy Tokyo family with the humble owner of an auto garage.
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無宿人別帳 (1963)
Character: Yajuro
This suspense drama set in the mid 1700's depicts the plan of the Tokugawa rulers to send a number of homeless men to a remote island Sado to perform forced labor. Living conditions on the island are terrible and the men soon become rebellious. Based on a short story by Seichō Matsumoto.
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妻あり子あり友ありて (1961)
Character: Yonesaku Nihei
Japanese life during the past thirty-five turbulent years is depicted in this film through the eyes of two police detectives. One is Henmi, who comes to Tokyo in 1926 from faraway Kagoshima to join the Tokyo police force. His closest friend is Nihei, a farmer's son from Tohoku who becomes the steadying influence on headstrong Henmi.
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風前の灯 (1957)
Character: Kaneshige
The plans of a trio of burglars are continually thwarted by the arrival of visitors to the house they plan to rob.
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君の名は 第二部 (1953)
Character: N/A
Machiko and Haruki’s drama continues. Two meet again in Hokkaido only to be separated again.
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君の名は 第三部 (1954)
Character: N/A
Machiko and Haruki’s drama continues. Machiko is not allowed to see Haruki. They finally meet again, but Haruki departs to Europe.
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人間の條件 第３部望郷篇／第４部戦雲篇 (1959)
Character: Kageyama Shôi
Kaji, sent to the Japanese army labeled Red, witnesses cruelties in the army and revolts against the abusive treatment against a fellow recruit. He also sees his friend Shinjô defecting to the Russian border, and he ends in the front to fight a lost battle against the Russian tanks division.
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秋日和 (1960)
Character: Shotaru Goto
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.
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しのび逢い (1962)
Character: N/A
A painfully sad woman's heart cries from forbidden love. A love triangle drawn by three stars of Japanese cinema: Keiji Sada, Miyuki Kuwano and Keiko Awaji.
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君の名は (1953)
Character: N/A
Machiko Ujiie and Haruki Atomiya first meet and fall in love on Ginza’s Sukiyabashi Bridge during the Great Tokyo Air Raid in March 1945. Machiko and Haruki pledge to meet again at the bridge in six months but part without asking each other’s names.
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彼岸花 (1958)
Character: Masahiko Taniguchi
Wataru Hirayama's outwardly liberal views on marriage are severely tested when his daughter declares that she is in love with a coworker and is adamant to live life her own way, instead of agreeing to an arranged marriage. Outwitted by his female relatives, Hirayama stubbornly refuses to admit defeat.
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美わしき歳月 (1955)
Character: Nakao
A romantic drama depicting the lives of two generations of a family who run a Tokyo florist shop.
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永遠の人 (1961)
Character: Takashi
A young woman is forced by circumstance into a loveless marriage while still in love with another. This episodic tale follows their story through three decades of bitter conflict which engulfs their children and those around them.
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お嬢さん社長 (1953)
Character: N/A
A President of the confectionery company announced his retirement, and his sixteen year old granddaughter, Madoka was ordered to be a new head. But Madoka wants to be a stage dancer, so she won't concentrate her office job. Madoka meets Akiyama, a stage director. Akiyama introduce her to his neighbors. In among poor but open minded people, Madoka has changed. Her new ambition is her company provide nice sweets for children. She decide to focus on the office job. But she doesn't know that company executives has conspiracy against her...
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悪の紋章 (1964)
Character: Takazawa Shigeharu
A Jonan Station detective, Kikuchi, is framed for smuggling drugs and sent to prison. When he is paroled, he joins a private detective agency, where he is asked to investigate Mitsue Takazawa, the wife of a local trading firm president. While secretly conducting his own research, he finds out that Takazawa's husband is the one, responsible for Kikuchi's imprisonment, who also have set sights on Setsuko, a woman Kikuchi becomes romantically involved with.
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海の花火 (1951)
Character: Tamihiko Kujirai
A fishing union depends on two brothers to make up the losses caused by the dishonest captains they replaced.
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この広い空のどこかに (1954)
Character: Ryoichi Morita
A Tokyo family running a liquor store overcome impotence and dysfunction as they induce an understanding through each other of how to deal with their individual problems.
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二人で歩いた幾春秋 (1962)
Character: Yoshio Nonaka, Torae's husband
A demobilized soldier becomes a day laborer with a road construction gang, and his wife goes to work to bolster their income. Their modest dream is to see their son grow and to be happy as a family.
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人間の條件 第１部純愛篇／第２部激怒篇 (1959)
Character: Kageyama
After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labour chief at a large mining operation in Manchuria, which also grants him exemption from military service. He accepts and moves with his newlywed wife Michiko, but when he tries to put his ideas of more humane treatment into practice, he finds himself at odds with scheming officials, cruel foremen, and the military police.
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亡命記 (1955)
Character: Shaochang
A Chinese medical student named Gan Shosho finds himself cut off from his homeland as he is studying in Japan during the outbreak of the war. Despite his difficult circumstances, he finds love in the form of Sachiko and the two marry. They later travel to Nanjing to live a new life together where Sachiko and Shaochang cooperate with the Japanese-backed government. Their ultimate hope is to secure peace but their idealism is not enough to keep them together through brutal times and with the end of the war the two find themselves facing a divorce... --Osaka Asian Film Festival
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新釈四谷怪談 前篇 (1949)
Character: Kobotoke Kohei
Iemon Tamiya is an impoverished masterless samurai who craves a better life, which he cannot have because of his marriage to Oiwa, who is completely devoted to her husband.
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惜春鳥 (1959)
Character: Eitarô Makita
Five longtime friends get back together, but are disappointed to find that their bonds are not as strong as they once were.
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あなた買います (1956)
Character: Daisuke Kishimoto
A talent scout moves sharply, dead-set on signing a promising baseball player to The Toyko Flowers.
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台風騒動記 (1956)
Character: N/A
A group of shady politicians want to make money after a typhoon by claiming the schoolhouse has been destroyed and then cashing in on building a new one.
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猟銃 (1961)
Character: Reiichiro Kadota
Story of a woman, Saiko, who divorces her doctor husband when she is given a baby by a stranger who claims it is the husband's child. Saiko embarks on an affair with her cousin's husband, but a crisis threatens when she discovers that her ex-husband is about to remarry.
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土砂降り (1957)
Character: Kazuo
Tane, the lady proprietor of an inn for amorous couples, lives there with her three children. When her eldest daughter loses her fiancé due to the fact her mother is a mistress, her despair drives her to become a cabaret hostess.
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㐂びも悲しみも幾歳月 (1957)
Character: Shiro Arisawa
The story of the trials and tribulations of a lighthouse keeper and his wife.
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我が家は樂し (1951)
Character: Saburo Uchiyama, Tomoko's boyfriend
The Ueki family may not be wealthy, but smiles are never in short supply. The father is awarded prize money for 25 years of service to his workplace, but has it stolen on the way home from the ceremony...
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青春放課後 (1963)
Character: Ichirô Hasegawa
"Youth After School" takes Tokyo and Kyoto as the stage, and tells the story of a family that develops around the daughter's marriage. The play was broadcast on NHK TV in 1963, but the program recording technology was not mature at that time, and relevant people called it "phantom TV drama (幻のドラマ)". However, this TV series that was originally thought to be lost has been rediscovered after 50 years.
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お早よう (1959)
Character: Heiichiro Fukui
A lighthearted take on director Yasujiro Ozu’s perennial theme of the challenges of intergenerational relationships, Good Morning tells the story of two young boys who stop speaking in protest after their parents refuse to buy a television set. Ozu weaves a wealth of subtle gags through a family portrait as rich as those of his dramatic films, mocking the foibles of the adult world through the eyes of his child protagonists. Shot in stunning color and set in a suburb of Tokyo where housewives gossip about the neighbors’ new washing machine and unemployed husbands look for work as door-to-door salesmen, this charming comedy refashions Ozu’s own silent classic I Was Born, But . . . to gently satirize consumerism in postwar Japan.
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秋刀魚の味 (1962)
Character: Koichi
Shuhei Hirayama is a widower with a 24-year-old daughter. Gradually, he comes to realize that she should not be obliged to look after him for the rest of his life, so he arranges a marriage for her.
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血は渇いてる (1960)
Character: Takashi Kiguchi
An employee in an assurance company threatens to commit suicide when management announces a massive layoff, the company uses this threat to its own advantage by turning the incident into an advertising campaign. With the success of the campaign, however, he is no longer a desperate man pointing a gun to his head, but a potential leader who wishes to take advantage of his failed suicide.
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続 拝啓天皇陛下様 (1964)
Character: Ryosuke Kurumiya
Based on Muneta Hiroshi's military novel. The main character, Yamaguchi Zensuke, is a military dog soldier. He joins the army and winds up sent overseas to China as a part of the military dog unit. He's ridiculed by others due to his inability to advance.
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眼の壁 (1958)
Character: N/A
Based on the novel of the same name by Seichô Matsumoto.
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カルメン故郷に帰る (1951)
Character: Mr. Ogawa
A rural village elder plans an event on the return of a farmer's daughter from the city, unaware that she has become a Westernized burlesque artist.
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歌え若人達 (1963)
Character: Keiji Sada
A story about four best friends and their lives inside and outside college. Then suddenly one of them receives a surprising offer to be a movie star.
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肖像 (1948)
Character: Nakajima
The mistress of a crook real estate broker comes to terms with her soulless existence after an artist paints her portrait.
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ひばりのサーカス 悲しき小鳩 (1952)
Character: N/A
Mariko studies at a missionary school in Shinshu. She drops out of school and joins her father on a circus tour when she discovers that her father, Ryutaro, whom she always thought was an agricultural and forestry engineer, was a circus clown. Over time, Mariko's singing attracted the attention of the public.
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日本の悲劇 (1953)
Character: Tatsuya
At the close of the war in Japan, a widowed mother makes every possible sacrifice to bring up her ungrateful son and daughter who are unimpressed with their poor standard of living at home. They gradually reject her in search of the material comforts that working as a maid cannot provide. The mother's despair becomes interminable.
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かあさん長生きしてね (1962)
Character: N/A
After finishing the course of junior high school, Kazuo comes up to Tokyo, leaving his mother alone in the unproductive northern district. He finds a job in a small laundry in downtown Tokyo and works hard till late at night. At a nearby restaurant a brother and sister are working, and Kazuo becomes friendly with the girl, Yoneko. Love blossoms between the two. However, Yoneko's brother objects to his sister marrying Kazuo.
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甘い汗 (1964)
Character: Tatsuoka
This film by Toyoda depicts the hard life of an unmarried mother in Tokyo. Umeko (Machiko Kyo), at 36, is working in a bar, struggling valiantly to keep her family together. Her 17-year-old daughter Takeko becomes increasingly upset by her mother's constant drinking and yakuza boyfriend, and runs away from home. Kyo's performance was highly praised.
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