|
こんにちは赤ちゃん (1964)
Character: Keisuke Yomoyama
A young Tokyo couple’s blissful newlywed life is turned upside down when an unexpected pregnancy arrives, sending them on a whirlwind quest for support from eccentric relatives and well-meaning neighbors.
|
|
|
|
|
牟田刑事官事件ファイル(25)洞爺湖温泉に泊った女 (1998)
Character: N/A
An attorney from Yokohama is found murdered at Lake Toya in Hokkaido. Uematsu (Noi Yasuo), of the Hokkaido police goes to Yokohama in search of Konno Shizuka (Watanabe Azusa), a woman who may know something about the case. He tries to take her in to the station for questioning. Muta (Kobayashi Keiju) happens to be there as well. Muta learns that Konno has a debt with a moneylender in Hokkaido.
|
|
|
へそくり社長 (1956)
Character: N/A
A new third-class president wins an appointment thanks to his marriage with the former president's daughter.
|
|
|
社長紳士録 (1964)
Character: Tsutomu Harada (President's Secretary)
A lighthearted satire of Japan’s postwar corporate elite, The Executive Gentleman’s Register blends farce, romance, and boardroom comedy with the polished charm of 1960s salaryman cinema. When mild-mannered secretary Tsutomu Harada’s wedding is postponed yet again due to the sudden promotion of his matchmaker, Reitarō Koizumi, to company president, chaos ensues in the world of business and matrimony alike. At a raucous nightclub party, a game of musical chairs leads to injury, scandal, and rivalry with a competing paper-bag tycoon. Limping through his first day as president, Reitarō faces corporate sabotage, eccentric clients, and a disastrously comic “business trip” that tangles together love, liquor, and misplaced ambition.
|
|
|
恋の応援団長 (1952)
Character: Mr. Gan
Directorial debut by Umetsugu Inoue, the famous director of Musicals
|
|
|
幻の殺意 (1971)
Character: N/A
Adaptation of the Shôji Yuki novel.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
重慶から来た男 (1943)
Character: 中原精一
Mysterious incident at a secret factory! Important documents lost! What is the true identity of the enemy's invisible spy?
|
|
|
社長漫遊記 (1963)
Character: N/A
It is the 16th series of the call series with the highest masterpiece among the "President" series. The president of the U. s.solar paint, heitaro Domoto (Morishige), has become completely American, and plans to rationalize the company to the American style and prohibit the company's entertainment. Members of the Taiko Kyushu Branch Company (Ryohei Miki), who were living in the banquet, were hit by a big blow, and the company and the meeting club were very annoying. After that, the president who went to the business trip to Kyushu met with a sexy Geisha (Junko Ikeuchi) on the way to the tour, and he felt like a fool.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
土曜日の天使 (1954)
Character: N/A
The story follows a dysfunctional family whose daily life is thrown into chaos when an English tutor from abroad moves into their home. Her presence awakens hidden desires, jealousy, and emotional conflicts among the father, mother, and children, gradually transforming the entire household. At its heart, the film explores love, rivalry, and the longing for a new beginning.
|
|
|
山猫令嬢 (1948)
Character: N/A
The first in a series of 31 "mother films" produced by Daiei in the post-war period.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
花の中の娘たち (1953)
Character: N/A
Girls in the Orchard (1953) is about tension between the life of a family in a rural area with all the traditions (continuing family business, taking care of the land)-- and the modernity and lure of a life in the city.
|
|
|
ここに泉あり (1955)
Character: N/A
The story of a group of young people who organise their own travelling symphony orchestra to provide music for people living in remote villages shortly after the war.
|
|
|
Yawara! (1989)
Character: Jigoro inokuma
Yawara Inokuma is a girl who aspires to an ordinary life but due to her innate talent is forced to practice judo by her authoritarian grandfather, Jigorou Inokuma, with the aim of achieving the championship in Japan and the gold medal in the Barcelona 1992 Olympic Games. Because of the pressure from her grandfather she has a generally bad attitude about judo, avoiding it as much as she can. However, over time she comes to understand why her grandfather loves judo and appreciates it more.
|
|
|
父ちゃんのポーが聞える (1971)
Character: Takashi Sugimoto
Tells of the feelings and sufferings of a young girl with an incurable paralytic disease.
|
|
|
|
|
河のほとりで (1962)
Character: N/A
A dark family secret sends a 21-year-old French student (Hoshi) on a journey of self-discovery.
|
|
|
美貌の都 (1957)
Character: N/A
Melodrama about a young factory girl who "chooses riches over chastity".
|
|
|
夜間中学 (1956)
Character: Night time teacher
Senta lives with his mother and little brother and supports them by working at day at a factory and attending eighth grade in the evening. One day he finds a letter on his desk, left by Ryohei, a day school student who has lost his pencil case and asks his night-school counterpart to return it…
|
|
|
続思春期 (1953)
Character: (uncredited)
A story of unhappy youths and the perils of lack of sex education.
|
|
|
沈丁花 (1966)
Character: Ooka (Umeko's husband)
Four sisters are all named after flowers. While the two youngest are married, the eldest two remain single, much to the annoyance of their long-suffering mother. The mother and her brother try various schemes to find husbands for them.
|
|
|
若者よ挑戦せよ (1968)
Character: Junpei Namikawa
A story depicting the challenges faced by today's youth in working to build a better tomorrow, based on the theme of Toshiba's progress as one of Japan's leading manufacturers of electronic and electric goods.
|
|
|
赤線基地 (1953)
Character: School Teacher Uenishi
Story about a poor Japanese woman living near an American army base who resorts to prostitution.
|
|
|
東京の休日 (1958)
Character: N/A
May Kawaguchi is a famous Japanese fashion designer. Returning to Tokyo from her home in New York, she travels incognito with a tour group, in hopes of having a quiet vacation without being noticed. But she is spotted and the press has a field-day with the returning celebrity. Her hopes of rest shattered, she agrees to put on a large-scale fashion show.
|
|
|
首 (1968)
Character: Hiroshi Masaki
It is based on the story "The Lawyer" by attorney Hiroshi Masaki and his account of Japan's "Headless Murder Case" in which a police officer beat a suspect to death during the Pacific War.
|
|
|
|
|
窓から飛び出せ (1950)
Character: Yûji Tokuyama
The movie "Jump Out of the Window" is a heartwarming work that depicts the interaction between two families. Shusuke Tokuyama (Den Obinata) runs an agricultural and livestock industry, and has his father Ritaro (Hiroshi Shiomi), younger brother Yuji (Keiju Kobayashi), wife Fujiko (Kiko Todoroki), and four children (three of whom are Obinata's sons). They lived in a large family of 8 people, including 2 children and 2 daughters. The Fujieda family next door is Chieko (Ayako Okamura), whose husband, a captain, died in a shipwreck at sea, her daughter Mariko (Kyoko Kagawa), and her son Michio (Oohinata's son), who has a leg disability and is undergoing rehabilitation. ) We were a family of three. Through the interaction between the Tokuyama family and the Fujieda family, the importance of family and the kindness of people are reflected on the screen.
|
|
|
|
|
「動物園物語」より 象 (1957)
Character: Head of Animal Care Division, Higashi
The fifth film in the Toho Diamond series, following "The Hateful Thing." Based on the true story of "Zoo Story" by author Fukuda Saburo. During the Tokyo air raids of World War II, Zen-san, an elephant keeper at Ueno Zoo, is faced with the heartbreaking task of euthanizing Tonki, a beloved elephant, due to food shortages and wartime pressures. Unable to carry out the order, Zen-san secretly feeds Tonki, but the elephant is ultimately shot by the military police. The film poignantly captures Zen-san’s despair and the devastation of war, as he reflects on his powerlessness amid the chaos.
|
|
|
風流温泉日記 (1958)
Character: Officer Furuyama
At a coastal hot spring inn, a group of women navigate work, personal struggles, and unexpected scandals. When a guest threatens to expose one maid's past, she must decide whether to run or face it—with help from a kind local officer.
|
|
|
われらサラリーマン (1963)
Character: Head of Sales, Seihō Electric
Eiichiro, a talented young salesman, grows disillusioned with office politics and returns to his family’s traditional tofu business, applying skill and rational planning to modernize it. Alongside his siblings, he transforms the shop into a thriving company, while his sister Atsuko overcomes social obstacles to marry.
|
|
|
婚約三羽烏 (1956)
Character: Miki
When corruption spreads through a real estate company, president Hiyoshi brings in his honest friend Ryūtarō to reform it. Facing union unrest and betrayal from within, Ryūtarō exposes an embezzlement scheme and helps restore order. After the company stabilizes, he quietly leaves for Kyushu, urging his colleagues to carry on without him.
|
|
|
|
|
|
ぶらりぶらぶら物語 (1962)
Character: Junpei Shishido
Story of a resourceful hobo (Kobayashi), a con woman (Takamine) who pretends to be a victim of the Nagasaki A-bomb, and two orphaned children who become a most atypical Japanese family.
|
|
|
東京のえくぼ (1952)
Character: Policeman
Buntaro, the president of a food trading company got tired of the day-to-day routine of life. The new secretary, Nobuko, suggested her "shacho-san" (the president) run away from the job. Nobuko took Buntaro to her home and introduced him to her own family as friend, "Sachio-san"...
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
続 へそくり社長 (1956)
Character: N/A
The president learns that the company's biggest stockholder is also a friend of his singing teacher and spies on his movements.
|
|
|
社長忍法帖 (1965)
Character: N/A
The 22nd film in the Shacho comedy series.
|
|
|
はりきり社長 (1956)
Character: N/A
The third installment in the Shacho Series.
|
|
|
続・社長三代記 (1958)
Character: N/A
The fifth entry in the Company President Series
|
|
|
社長太平記 (1959)
Character: N/A
Sixth entry in the Company President Series.
|
|
|
|
|
大番 (1957)
Character: Policeman
A young country boy leaves his village for Tokyo, where he begins to work as a stock trader. First part (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku Shishi's novel, Oban.
|
|
|
|
|
社長道中記 (1961)
Character: Kuwabara Takeshi
A straight-laced employee is tasked with supervising his impulsive CEO during a business trip intended to revive struggling sales.
|
|
|
男性飼育法 (1959)
Character: N/A
Three wives launch a sex strike to put their domineering husbands in their place!
|
|
|
やぶにらみニッポン (1963)
Character: Narrator & Matchmaker
Comedy about a Japanese-American professor, a nuclear scientist, who returns to Japan to search for a typically subservient Japanese wife.
|
|
|
田舎刑事 時間よ、とまれ (1977)
Character: N/A
A family murder case that occurred in Hita City, Oita Prefecture. A murderer whose statute of limitations is about to expire is shown on TV, and detective Kiyoshi Atsumi heads to Tokyo, but... The upstart Keiju Kobayashi, his old friend Etsuko Ichihara, and Atsumi. The postwar experiences of three people who were tossed about by the war overlap. The screenplay by Satoru Hayasaka, the music by Kousuke Kanno, and above all, the performances of Atsumi and Ichihara make this a masterpiece in the history of TV dramas. A two-hour version was later created as an art festival award-winning work.
|
|
|
黒澤明～創ると云う事は素晴らしい～隠し砦の三悪人 (2002)
Character: Self
Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "The Hidden Fortress" (1958).
|
|
|
|
牟田刑事官事件ファイル 横浜～釧路湿原 マリモが知る三重殺人の謎… (2001)
Character: Inspector Muta
A woman is discovered strangled inside a car, and Inspector Muta of the Yamashita police station hurries to the scene! The relationship between the murdered woman and a suspect whom the new Assistant Inspector, Iwaki, has been pursuing for one year will soon become clear...
|
|
|
くちづけ (1955)
Character: N/A
Portmanteau film about young lovers.
|
|
|
マライの虎 (1943)
Character: Hassan
A band of guerrillas fight against occupying British forces in Malaya.
|
|
|
続・社長太平記 (1959)
Character: N/A
7th film in the President series and the first entry in color.
|
|
|
続 社長外遊記 (1963)
Character: Hiroshi Nakamura (Chief Secretary)
As Marukyū Department Store plans its Hawaii expansion, company executives become sidetracked by local pleasures and personal entanglements. By the time they resume business, the target property is lost to a rival—forcing an abrupt return to Japan with both deals and relationships unresolved.
|
|
|
社長千一夜 (1967)
Character: Nobuyoshi Kimura (Development Director)
In this outing, Shoji (Morishige) and his employees plan to build a hotel for Expo 70.
|
|
|
続 社長えんま帖 (1969)
Character: Saijō Takashi (PR manager)
A cosmetics executive promoted to chairman faces chaos at home and work as his company undergoes major changes and internal power shifts.
|
|
|
続 社長学ABC (1970)
Character: Tanba Hisashi
A food company undergoes leadership changes, with younger staff rising to key roles.
|
|
|
昭和ひとけた社長対ふたけた社員 (1971)
Character: Shinsuke Narada
After a major corporate merger, a middle-aged executive is demoted but unexpectedly appointed president of a small subsidiary.
|
|
|
狐と狸 (1959)
Character: Goichi Yufune
A group of hustling peddlers swindle rural towns with fake goods, facing betrayals, close calls, and constant setbacks as they chase survival and dream of a better future.
|
|
|
続サラリーマン出世太閤記 (1957)
Character: Kinoshita Hideyoshi
After a transfer to a rural factory, salesman Hideyoshi faces blunders, schemers, and rivalries but proves his integrity, winning respect and a return to headquarters.
|
|
|
社長えんま帖 (1969)
Character: Takashi Saijō (PR and Planning Manager)
A cosmetics company president launches an aggressive new business strategy while balancing corporate pressure, romantic entanglements, and a high-profile international partnership.
|
|
|
愛する (1997)
Character: Kamijo
Mitsu works in a factory and has a crush on Tsutomu, a young man she met on the Tokyo streets. One day the two go out, and after some deception, Tsutomu manages to have his way with her. Coming from a broken home, he is frightened by love, so he cruelly allows her to wake up alone. A month passes and a more grown-up Tsutomu returns. The lovers joyously reunite and move in together. All is blissful until both notice a strange sore on Mitsu's arm. The doctors diagnose it as leprosy. Without telling Tsutomu, Mitsu checks into a leper sanitarium. Hanging out with society's pariahs gives her much insight. She discovers the old lepers to be wonderful people. In turn, Mitsu becomes their source of joy and renewed hope. Still, she misses her Tsutomu. One day, the doctors inform her that they erred and that the sore is not leprosy. Happily she heads back to her true love until she realizes with a guilty pang that to return to him would mean unhappiness for her newfound friends
|
|
|
栄光への挑戦 (1966)
Character: N/A
A young ex-boxer has become a successful businessman, running his various enterprises with his best friend, another boxer whom he accidentally injured in a match. When the latter is found dead, he cannot believe it is suicide and decides to investigate. Sure enough, a group of gangsters is behind his death and, resenting his intrusion, try to ruin him and to pin the murder of his young friend's fiancee on him. At the last minute he shoots it out with the villains and emerges with his reputation intact.
|
|
|
裸の大将 (1958)
Character: N/A
A film about the life of Kiyoshi Yamashita, a Japanese painter with disabilities.
|
|
|
新・三等重役 (1959)
Character: Namiyoshi Yashiro
At an Osaka electronics company, power struggles, corporate schemes, and personal agendas collide when the boss is away. As tensions rise around a meddling heiress and a collapsing business deal, one quiet employee steps up to set things right.
|
|
|
新・三等重役 旅と女と酒の巻 (1960)
Character: Namikichi Yashiro (Employee)
A struggling salesman at World Electric finds his major deal blocked by internal politics and pressure from all sides. During a company trip to Beppu, personal entanglements and old company secrets surface, forcing difficult choices and quiet compromises.
|
|
|
新・三等重役 当るも八卦の巻 (1960)
Character: Namiyoshi Yashiro
World Electric's top ad model disappears, throwing the company into disarray. A fortune-teller’s influence spreads through upper management, sending staff on a misguided search. Misinformation, internal friction, and unexpected revelations push the company to its limits.
|
|
|
新・三等重役 亭主教育の巻 (1960)
Character: Namikichi Yashiro
Amid management shakeups and arranged marriage plans at Sekai Electric, an executive couple tries to support a young woman’s relationship with an academic over a business heir.
|
|
|
続 社長道中記 (1961)
Character: Takeshi Kuwabara
After a promotion brings new professional challenges, a diligent employee is pulled into corporate matchmaking and a high-stakes business conflict over a critical eel supply.
|
|
|
続 社長漫遊記 (1963)
Character: Susumu Kimura (Chief Secretary)
While on a business trip to Kyushu, a paint company president competes with a rival firm for a key overseas client, only to face setbacks both in work and in the personal affairs of his team.
|
|
|
社長外遊記 (1963)
Character: Nakamura Hiroshi (Chief Secretary)
Executives from a Japanese department store travel to Hawaii to acquire land for expansion but become entangled in romantic distractions and miscommunication. By the time they act, the property is lost to a rival, forcing an abrupt return to Tokyo and uncertain outcomes.
|
|
|
続 社長忍法帖 (1965)
Character: Takashi Ishikawa (Technical Manager)
Iwato Construction secures a major project in Hokkaido and promotes a key employee, but chaos follows—personal conflicts, missed deals, and a lost hotel contract. Redemption comes when they restore a fire-damaged department store, earning overdue payment and a morale boost.
|
|
|
社長行状記 (1966)
Character: Kojima Keigo (Chief of Secretary)
A clothing manufacturer president tries to revitalize his company during a business downturn by securing new sales partners and chasing a deal with a world-renowned fashion designer.
|
|
|
続 社長行状記 (1966)
Character: Keigo Kojima
As his fashion company rides a wave of post-recession success, President Kurihara seeks to expand into women’s apparel through a deepening partnership with a French firm.
|
|
|
続 社長千一夜 (1967)
Character: Shingo Kimura
In this continuation of Discover Japan with the 5 Gents (Shacho sen ichiya, 1967), Shoji (Morishige) and his employees plan to build a hotel for Expo 70.
|
|
|
社長繁盛記 (1968)
Character: Kenichi Honjo (Takayama Trading 1st Sales Manager)
"Shacho" comedy about the president of a salt manufacturing company.
|
|
|
続 社長繁盛記 (1968)
Character: Kenichi Honjō
An aging company president pushes a youth-focused corporate fitness campaign but struggles to keep up himself.
|
|
|
社長学ABC (1970)
Character: Hisashi Tamba
A food company president is promoted to chairman, but his continued involvement creates leadership confusion.
|
|
|
昭和ひとけた社長対ふたけた社員 月月火水木金金 (1971)
Character: Shinsuke Narada, President of Yoyo Industries
After a highway accident forces a motel stay, a company president devises a plan to create spring-based beds, sparking unexpected business deals, romantic entanglements, and corporate hurdles.
|
|
|
続々・サラリーマン出世太閤記 (1958)
Character: Hideyoshi Kinoshita
A clumsy but determined car salesman, Hideyoshi, faces rivalry, romance troubles, and job setbacks, but through persistence and humor, he wins a big deal and earns a long-awaited promotion.
|
|
|
サラリーマン出世太閤記 (1957)
Character: Kinoshita Hideyoshi
Optimistic student Hideyoshi struggles to land a job at Japan Motors, facing setbacks and rivalry but winning his way in through persistence—and a mix of charm, luck, and chaos in both work and love.
|
|
|
団地七つの大罪 (1964)
Character: 1st Sin & 7th Sin
An omnibus comedy set in a newly built housing complex, the film follows seven interconnected stories about the everyday vices simmering behind thin apartment walls. The film observes the lives of ambitious young couples, suspicious spouses, self-styled rationalists, overworked husbands, and gossiping neighbors navigating the promises of modern apartment living.
|
|
|
のんき裁判 (1955)
Character: N/A
A spectacular comedy with a star-studded cast that depicts unusual trials and unexpected verdicts regarding the five deadly sins: the crime of beauty, the crime of a terrifying wife, the crime of taking the wrong course, the crime of seducing, and the crime of killing with laughter.
|
|
|
サラリーマン御意見帖 男の一大事 (1960)
Character: Isshin Tarō
A university graduate determined to become a fishmonger defies his mother's wishes, tangles with bar hostesses and a beer company heiress, and—after misunderstandings, brawls, and a second chance—discovers that maybe the salaryman life isn’t so bad after all.
|
|
|
サラリーマン御意見帖 出世無用 (1960)
Character: Isshin Tarō
A beer salesman with a passion for fishmongering stumbles through mishaps, rivalries, and gangster trouble while chasing a big contract, winning the deal through quick thinking—then turns down a promotion to keep working his own way.
|
|
|
大学の侍たち (1957)
Character: Yamaoka
Three college friends support swimmer Okubo through family and financial troubles. Junko, a woman he helped, develops feelings for him, while a former classmate reappears. With his friends’ quiet help, Okubo regains focus and wins a major student swimming competition.
|
|
|
青い果実 (1955)
Character: N/A
In a seaside town, local boys run each morning to glimpse wealthy Miyako, sparking a prank-filled rivalry with the shopgirls. Hoping to impress her idealistic crush, Miyako starts working at a daycare, and the town’s youth soon get swept into lighthearted mix-ups and new romances.
|
|
|
戦場にながれる歌 (1965)
Character: N/A
Near the end of the war, a number of young Japanese join an army band hoping to avoid the front lines, but instead are sent to the Chinese Front.
|
|
|
南の島に雪が降る (1961)
Character: N/A
Japanese soldiers stranded in Manokwari, New Guinea, improvise a theater play to keep their spirits up and endure the extremely difficult conditions.
|
|
|
Tidal Wave (1975)
Character: Dr. Tadokoro
Two hundred million years ago, Earth had a single continent. As the millennia progressed, the single continent slowly split off into smaller continents and islands. Thirty million years ago, the country of Japan was part of the continent of Asia, and has since split off into its own archipelago. Another landmass shift is about to occur...
|
|
|
虹男 (1949)
Character: Ryôsuke Akashi
When a young woman is named as the prime suspect in a murder, her girlfriend and her girlfriend's boyfriend set out to prove her innocence. Their investigation leads them to an isolated, creepy house in the middle of nowhere, where sinister goings-on abound.
|
|
|
NAGASAKI 1945 アンゼラスの鐘 (2005)
Character: Narrator
August 1945. In a converted theological seminary on the outskirts of Nagasaki, a young doctor works to help his patients, as unsettling news comes of a new weapon used by the Americans on the city of Hiroshima. When the second nuclear weapon is dropped on Nagasaki, the hospital staff must work to save lives in the midst of the concentric circles of death that their city has become.
|
|
|
紙芝居昭和史 黄金バットがやって来る (1972)
Character: Tokuhei Kyojima
The dramatized tale of the 1935 creation of Japan's first superhero, the "Golden Bat", alongside the changes during and after the Second World War, not just to the hero himself, but the art of "kamishibai" picture stories that he originated from.
|
|
|
音楽の二十扉 (1948)
Character: N/A
A love story about a dressing room attendant and a dancer who work at theater.
|
|
|
一等女房と三等亭主 (1953)
Character: Heima Sakamoto
Natsuko Kayama, an authority in the beauty industry and once known as Miss Tokyo, is a first-class wife. Her husband, Senkichi, on the contrary, is a good-natured man and slow-witted. They are rarely seen together, and others often criticize them for being too boring and uninteresting.
|
|
|
|
|
金の卵 (1952)
Character: N/A
Once an average and seemingly ordinary Tokyo girl, she suddenly finds herself as a TV star owing to her discovery by a casting company, which noticed photographs that her cousin had sent. When another actress falls ill she is given the role instead. Her first film is a success propelling the young actress to popularity, her own fans, money and a house. While everything looks dandy from the outside not all is well within the family however.
|
|
|
幕末 (1970)
Character: Yoshinosuke Saigo
The story of Ryoma Sakamoto, considered to be the architect behind the downfall of the Tokugawa shogunate. He was considered an outlaw by his own clan, hunted by his government, and was despised by supporters of the Shogun as well as the Loyalists for desiring the opening of Japan to the West in order to learn its technology, in the hopes of one day defeating the West with a modern army and navy.
|
|
|
看護婦の日記 (1947)
Character: N/A
Ren Yoshimura directed this Daiei melodrama that was based on the novel entitled "Pandora's Box" by Dazai Osamu.
|
|
|
六條ゆきやま紬 (1965)
Character: N/A
Young widow Ine is suffering under the harsh treatment of her mother in law. As a former Geisha, Ine had struggled to be accepted into the well-established Rokujo family from the beginning. With the support of Jiro, a young man Ine's late husband had saved from homelessness as a young boy, Ine tries to keep the family's heritage of silk processing alive. Their close relationship soon causes gossip among the villagers and threaten Ine's position in the family even further ...
|
|
|
小早川家の秋 (1961)
Character: Hisao
The family of an older man who runs a small sake brewery become concerned with his finances and his health after they discover him visiting an old mistress from his youth.
|
|
|
マルサの女 (1987)
Character: Ryoko's Boss
Intrepid tax investigator Ryoko Itakura sets her sights on the mysterious and philandering Hideki Gondo, a suspected millionaire and proprietor of a thriving chain of seedy hourly hotels, who has for years succeeded at hiding the true extent of his assets from the Japanese authorities. Itakura and Gondo soon find themselves engaged in a complicated, satirical battle of wits.
|
|
|
がんばれ！盤嶽 (1960)
Character: N/A
A historical drama that depicts the touching beauty of world obsession and human love in the style of light comedy, in the center of which is a young man who has a master license menkyo kaiden in the art of swordsmanship, but weak against lies and women. A remake of Bungaku no Issue, shot by Sadao Yamanaka in 1933.
|
|
|
戦後派お化け大会 (1951)
Character: N/A
In a small town, according to the homecoming of Professor Ishinaka, the youth culture group was overwhelmed to make a presentation for the summer festival, but because of lack of funds, she works part-time at the spectacle of a tour, a haunted house Especially. The ghost was a struggle amongst the people, it was a great success in filling the crowd, but in the circus hut next to it, Kenji who was supposed to have disappeared was pitiful.
|
|
|
椿三十郎 (1962)
Character: The Spy
Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifully composed "Sanjuro." In this companion piece and sequel to "Yojimbo," jaded samurai Sanjuro helps an idealistic group of young warriors weed out their clan's evil influences, and in the process turns their image of a proper samurai on its ear.
|
|
|
剣 (1964)
Character: Eri Itami
Kokubu, captain of his university's kendo team, is a mystery to those who know him: An ascetic dedicated to a point of obsession with the simplicity and beauty of the sword arts. Kagawa, a promising but arrogant kendo student, is attracted to Kokubu's devout leadership but kept at a distance by his standoffish nature. With the national championships fast approaching, the pair clash as Kokubu drives his students with increasingly rigorous training and Kagawa tests Kokubu's grip on the class.
|
|
|
新選組 (1969)
Character: Toshizo Hijikata
Near the end of the nineteenth century, as the balance of power shifts from Shogunate towards the Emperor, Japan restlessly awaits the dawning of a new age. But not all are content...The Shinsengumi, a small army of samurai, farmers and peasants, band together to do battle against the tide of history. Their leader, Isami Kondo is a man who rises from farmer to fighter to head the fierce Shinsengumi brigade. Using a stern hand and a heart of gold, he rallies his men in defense of the tottering Shogunate. But bloodshed and treachery lurk around every corner.
|
|
|
あの、夏の日 とんでろ じいちゃん (1999)
Character: Kenshiro Ooi
Veteran filmmaker Nobuhiko Obayashi rounds out the second of his two trilogies about his hometown of Onomichi with this film about the budding relationship between a young lad and an eccentric old man. Fifth-grader Yuta (Takuro Atsugi) is a typical city child looking forward to a summer of reading comic books and playing video games. Instead, he is bundled off to his grandparent's house on the Inland Sea. His grandfather, Yuta's parents explain, has been acting strangely as of late -- he eats the offerings in the family altar and once tried to lead attendants at a funeral in a rousing round of calisthenics. Since his mother and father are swamped with work, and his elder sister (Nana Sano) is studying for college entrance exams, Yuta has been asked to look after Grandpa. The old man takes Yuta on a tour of Onomichi, regaling him with 70 years of its history. Along the way, Grandpa slips in and out of the past, increasingly unable to discern between the two.
|
|
|
大日本スリ集団 (1969)
Character: Tomizô Funakoshi
A crime story (with strong elements of comedy) that pits a determined detective against a gang of pickpockets in Osaka. The detective (played by Keiju Kobayashi) and the leader of the gang (played by Norihei Miki) have an interesting wartime backstory together that fuels much of the story.
|
|
|
弥次喜多道中記 (1958)
Character: Kitahachi Kitariya
Two residents of Edo city Yaji and Kita make a journey to the temple of Ise, as part of a religious pilgrimage, but actually to get away from their wives for a little while. As they travel, they are constantly beset by complications involving women, mistaken identity, and misunderstood events. Another film adaptation of the famous novel Ikku Jippensha Footing It Along the Tokaido (Tokaidochu Hizakurige)
|
|
|
鰯雲 (1958)
Character: Hatsuji
A war widow with a young boy manages a farm with her bossy mother-in-law. When a reporter comes to interview her, the two begin an affair. He turns out to be married and won't leave his wife. Her older brother tries to marry off his children and hang on to/ extend his farm through an advantageous marriage in the face of threatened land confiscation and the desire of his children to get comfortable urban jobs instead of the backbreaking work in the paddy fields under parental control.
|
|
|
ホワイト・ラブ (1979)
Character: Keisuke Uemura
Kobasashi was learning Spanish so that she could go to Spain to look for her father who had left the family. She fell in love with her language teacher Ken. Finally she found her father in Madrid and she also met Ken's ex-girl friend Taeko there. Ken came to Madrid and learned of their meeting. He wanted her to help to look for Taeko. Ken was caught in between the past and the present.
|
|
|
名もなく貧しく美しく (1961)
Character: Michio Katayama
The story is of two people. One is deaf, the other deaf and mute. They marry after meeting at a school reunion, and the film follows their trials and tribulations ... and joys.
|
|
|
落葉樹 (1986)
Character: Hatsu-rojin
Haru, an aging scriptwriter, has isolated himself somewhere in the woods of Nagano to work on his first novel. As the last surviving member of his kin, he intends to chronicle the family he grew up in.
|
|
|
タスマニア物語 (1990)
Character: N/A
Eiji Kawano (Kunie Tanaka) has recently broken from the Japanese company he used to work for. As an immigrant to Tasmania, he has been won over by the island's immense natural beauty, and he is conscience-bound to oppose his former employer's ecologically unsound practices. He is also estranged from his grown son, who still resides in Japan. When his son comes to Tasmania for a visit, he must face the challenge of renewing their relationship.
|
|
|
スリランカの愛と別れ (1976)
Character: N/A
A Japanese businessman is sent to Sri Lanka and meets a beautiful Japanese woman with a past. They befriend an old Japanese-Indian widow who has an estranged son in Japan.
|
|
|
死美人事件 (1948)
Character: N/A
A dead beauty is found in the trunk. Kubota (Miaki), Okayama (Kawazu) and Tsuji (Funakoshi) begin investigating this mysterious crime at the investigation headquarters. Since the cause of death was poison gas, he asked Yusaku Tominaga (Tsukigata), a now retired drug crime specialist, to cooperate. Kubota and his friends soon find the house of the murdered beauty and upon entering, they are surprised to find another corpse, this time of a man…
|
|
|
黒澤明～創ると云う事は素晴らしい～椿三十郎 (2002)
Character: Self
Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Sanjuro" (1962).
|
|
|
男はつらいよ 葛飾立志篇 (1975)
Character: N/A
Tora-san is inspired to pursue an education after a visit to the grave of a woman he met years ago. When he returns to Shibamata with the intent to study, he falls for Toraya's new tenant instead.
|
|
|
めし (1951)
Character: Shinzo Murata
Michiyo lives in the small place Osaka and is not happy with her marriage; all she does is cook and clean for her husband.
|
|
|
忠臣蔵 花の巻・雪の巻 (1962)
Character: Awajinokami Wakisake
After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their honor.
|
|
|
Godzilla 1985 (1985)
Character: Prime Minister Mitamura
Originally released in Japan as "The Return of Godzilla" in 1984, this is the heavily re-edited, re-titled "Godzilla 1985". Adding in new footage of Raymond Burr, this 16th Godzilla film ignores all previous sequels and serves as a direct follow-up to the 1956 "Godzilla King of the Monsters", which also featured scenes with Burr edited into 1954's "Godzilla". This film restores the darker tone of the original, as we witness the nuclear destruction of giant lizard terrorizing Japan.
|
|
|
日本のいちばん長い日 (1967)
Character: Chamberlain Yoshihiro Tokugawa
Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the Allies for unconditional surrender. Minister of the Army Anami leads the military officers who propose to fight on, even to the death of every Japanese citizen. Emperor Hirohito, however, joins with his ministers in asking the unthinkable, the peaceful surrender of Japan. When the military plots a coup to overthrow the Emperor's civilian government, Anami must face the choice between his desires and loyalty to his Emperor.
|
|
|
山河あり (1962)
Character: N/A
In 1919, a group of Japanese immigrants arrives in Hawaii. Among them Yoshio Inoue and his wife Kishimo and Sumi, a young woman ready to get married soon. With the soil that is hard to work and the subtropical climate, the immigrants have to cope with a hard life. But after years of hard work, Yoshio finds work as a teacher while his wife manages to open a small grocery store. But with the war around the corner, life becomes more and more complicated for the Japanese immigrants in a foreign country.
|
|
|
八甲田山 (1977)
Character: N/A
Two infantry regiments of the Imperial Japanese Army—210 men overall—tackled Mt. Hakkoda in the winter of 1902 to prepare for war with Russia.
|
|
|
黒い画集 あるサラリーマンの証言 (1960)
Character: Teiichiro Ishino
Suspense drama about a married salaryman whose affair with one of his co-workers is compromised when, returning from a clandestine meeting with his lover, he runs into a neighbor who is later accused of murder. Questioned by police about the neighbor, and blackmailed by his lover's neighbor, the salaryman's lies lead him on a path to destruction.
|
|
|
プーサン (1953)
Character: N/A
A math teacher loses his job while falling in love with a local girl.
|
|
|
女の中にいる他人 (1966)
Character: Isao Tashiro
Tashiro coincidentally meets his best friend Sugimoto in a bar very close to the apartment in which Sugimoto’s wayward wife is found dead. Although Tashiro is not a suspect in the police investigation, he is racked with guilt and confesses to his wife, Masako. In an effort to further relieve his tortured sense of guilt, he then confesses to Sugimoto. Neither his wife nor his friend can believe that he could have been involved.
|
|
|
偽れる盛装 (1951)
Character: Kōji
The story of two sisters in post-war Japan. One is a geisha and the other works for the tourist board.
|
|
|
そろばんずく (1986)
Character: Mihara
Two TV salarymen uphold their duty by taking on a rival talent agency during the late-'80s bubble economy.
|
|
|
侍 (1965)
Character: Einosuke Kurihara
Japan, 1860. The men of the Mito clan, victims of the Ansei purge, anxiously prowl around the Sakurada Gate of Edo Castle with the intention of assassinating Naosuke Ii of Hikone, tairō of the Tokugawa shogunate and responsible for their misfortune.
|
|
|
ハワイ・ミッドウェイ大海空戦 太平洋の嵐 (1960)
Character: N/A
Lt. Koji Kitami is a navigator-bombardier in Japan's Naval Air Force. He participates in the Japanese raid on the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor in 1941 and is welcomed with pride in his hometown on his return. As Japan racks up victory after victory in the Pacific War, Kitami is caught up in the emotion of the time and fights courageously for the standard of Japanese honor. But his assuredness of his government's righteousness is shaken after the Japanese navy is defeated in the debacle of Midway.
|
|
|
助太刀屋助六 (2002)
Character: Undertaker
In a world where vendettas are officially sanctioned, the people sometimes needed help in carrying out their vengeance. Sanada Hiroyuki stars as Sukeroku the Helper, a ‘cool and rambling yakuza’ that has made a business out of helping victims carry out their revenge. When he returns to his hometown to pay a visit to his mother’s grave he meets a deadly ronin who carries a secret which eventually leads him into a vendetta of his own.
|
|
|
Godzilla Resurrection (2018)
Character: Prime Minister Mitamura
This is a hybrid cut of both the original Japanese version The Return of Godzilla and Godzilla 1985, meant to combine the best aspects of both. This re-edit seeks to accomplish a happy medium between the two versions. The film will still be highly critical of both the United States and the Soviet Union, and will work to marginalize the more humorous aspects of the added Pentagon scenes. Their inclusion will fit better with the bureaucratic behind-the-scenes narrative of the original cut, and most additional music from the American cut will be included. All Japanese dialogue will remain intact, with English subtitles. Finally, this cut will feature a brand new opening to the film, one that seeks to definitely tie the new Godzilla to the original beast in an eerie and unforgettable way. In short, Godzilla: Resurrection will aim to be my definitive version of the return of the King of the Monsters.
|
|
|
杏っ子 (1958)
Character: Tayama
Anzukko (Little Peach) is the daughter of a successful writer. She turns down each one of her suitors, until she marries a beginning writer named Ryokichi. Their life quickly sinks into despair.
|
|
|
驟雨 (1956)
Character: Nenkichi Imazato (the man next door)
Fumiko and Ryōtarō Namiki's marriage has gone stale, with both constantly arguing over what to do on a day off, or about her cutting out recipes from the newspaper before he finishes reading it. Their animosities are witnessed by Fumiko's niece Ayako, who visits to complain about her own husband's inattentiveness, and their new neighbours, the Imasatos.
|
|
|
激動の昭和史 沖縄決戦 (1971)
Character: General Ushijima
The Americans are swiftly closing on Okinawa, an island just south of the Japanese mainland. The Imperial command sends top generals and several army divisions to defend it at all costs. The mission quickly degenerates as vital resources and troops are diverted to other islands. After a civilian evacuation ends in tragedy most of non-combatants are forced to remain on the island. Many convert to soldier status. Tokyo sends mixed messages that squander time and resources, as when they order the defenders to build an airstrip for aircraft that never come. The truth soon becomes obvious: the high command decides that the island cannot be held and effectively abandons the Okinawan defenders. When the Americans land many troops are deployed in the wrong places. As the slaughter mounts, a suicidal attitude takes hold. Okinawa becomes a death trap, for civilian volunteers and non-combatants as well.
|
|
|
東京の恋人 (1952)
Character: N/A
Following the Second World War, the lives of various people in a poverty-stricken area of Tokyo are entertwined. Pachinko parlor girls, shoeshine boys, a maker of costume jewelry, and a streetcorner artist all struggle to make their livings and to find happiness in difficult surroundings.
|
|
|
耳をすませば (1995)
Character: Shiro Nishi (voice)
Shizuku lives a simple life, dominated by her love for stories and writing. One day she notices that all the library books she has have been previously checked out by the same person: 'Seiji Amasawa'.
|
|
|
一等マダムと三等旦那 (1954)
Character: N/A
Domestic comedy produced by Shin Toho Studios directed by Komori Kiyoshi and starring Todoroki Yukiko and Ito Yunosuke.
|
|
|
愛情の決算 (1956)
Character: Takeuchi
Living in a house that has lost its man to the war a year earlier are the widow and her child. Four of the dead man's friends gather to have an anniversary wake. Some time following the ceremony one of the attendees marries the widow. Soon another friend of the deceased and his family also make the house their home when they move to town. Everyone's life is changed quite a bit. When the newer husband sustains an injury to his leg and loses his job it leads to the wife having to work. By the time the fifth anniversary of the friend's death occurs and another reunion is held another friend is in love with the former widow.
|
|
|
放浪記 (1962)
Character: Fujiyama
Based on the life and career of novelist Fumiko Hayashi, she bitterly struggles for literary recognition in the first half of the 20th-century – her affairs with feckless men, the jobs she took to survive (peddler, waitress, bar maid), and her arduous, often humiliating attempts to get published in a male-dominated culture.
|
|
|
連合艦隊 (1981)
Character: Isoroku Yamamoto
A lavish retelling of the true story of the final voyage and ultimate destruction and sinking of the battleship Yamato, Japan's greatest flagship during the Second World War.
|
|
|
江分利満氏の優雅な生活 (1963)
Character: Eburi Toshimaru
A salaryman's drunken ravings in public attract the attention of journalists who coerce him into telling them his life's story.
|
|
|
紳士同盟 (1986)
Character: N/A
Etsuko, a female college student, tries to beat the con artists at their own game after she gets scammed one after another.
|
|
|
けものみち (1965)
Character: Detective Hisatsune
Desperate to escape her grueling life caring for her paralyzed husband, Tamiko murders him and burns down their home to start anew. She is soon entangled in the dark web of an influential, elderly power broker, becoming his mistress and a pawn in his political schemes. As she descends further into a downward spiral of moral decay, Tamiko realizes that the freedom she sought is merely a new form of entrapment.
|
|
|
太平洋の鷲 (1953)
Character: Staff Officer (uncredited)
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician, is a loyal subject of the emperor, despite his grave misgivings about leading Japan's navy into war with the United States. He opposes the attack on Pearl Harbor, but, overruled, he leads his forces to the best of his ability.
|
|
|
夫婦 (1953)
Character: Shigekichi Hayakawa
A married couple looking for an apartment move in with the husband's co-worker, a widower. The husband becomes jealous of the widower and his wife.
|
|
|
妻の心 (1956)
Character: Shinji
A young woman tries to raise money to open her own coffee shop. She arranges a loan when her rigid family won't help and then her husband becomes jealous of the loan officer.
|
|
|
女の座 (1962)
Character: Jiro Ishikawa
Drama about the lives of the five daughters and daughter-in-law of a store owner.
|
|
|
ゴジラ (1984)
Character: Prime Minister Seiki Mitamura
After a fishing boat is attacked, the sole surviving crew member realizes it is none other than a resurrected Godzilla. However, efforts to bring the story to light are suppressed by the Japanese government amid growing political tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union, who are both willing to bomb Japan to stop the monster.
|
|
|
サラリーマン 目白三平 (1955)
Character: N/A
A masterpiece of life sketches overflowing with heartwarming affection and laughter that portrays the modern common people with humor and pathos, focusing on the daily life of Sanpei Mejiro, a salaryman for over twenty years who finds a little happiness in life in his poor but joyful home.
|
|
|
新しい背広 (1957)
Character: N/A
This movie depicts poor yet kind and modest people, focusing on sibling love.
|
|
|
日本沈没 (1973)
Character: Dr. Tadokoro
A team of geophysicists investigating seismic activity on the seafloor discover that the islands of Japan, after suffering from massive volcanic eruptions and earthquakes, will be pulled into the ocean, killing millions.
|
|
