Ayako Wakao

Gen Kimura

Haruko Sugimura

Misako Watanabe

The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka

The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka (1967)

Mariko Kaga

Sô Yamamura

Long before the events of the movie Ôki, who was approaching middle age, had a relation to 16-year-old Otoko. She got pregnant, but the child was stillborn. Their relation stopped at the same time. Much later Ôki had become a famous writer, not least because of a novel about this love story. Otoko had become a famous painter. But she had never overcome the double early trauma and had become a Lesbian. Her favourite student and beloved one was the beautiful Keiko. 24 years after the early love Ôki goes from Tokyo to Kyoto to meet Otoko. The meeting is polite with secret emotional shadows. Keiko makes a plan. She intends to seduce Ôki, become pregnant, bear Ôki's child and give it to Otoko. She hopes that Otoko may thereby get rid of her trauma. But she also wants to take her revenge on the man who had harmed her beloved. Secretly she gets acquainted with Ôki's son, invites him to Kyoto and seduces him. Then she calls his parents and tells that he had promised to marry her. Horrified they take the first plane to Kyoto. Meanwhile, she takes the son on boating, arranges an accident, and drowns him. It is close that she herself would also die.—Max Scharnberg, Stockholm, Sweden

With Beauty and Sorrow

With Beauty and Sorrow (1965)

Takahiro Tamura

Chishû Ryû

Toshio Kobayashi

An old man, being rowed along a river, sees a field of daisies and thinks back to when he was fifteen. He recalls his time with, and away from, the girl cousin he grew up with and would have married, except the family and other pressures got in the way.—sharptongue

She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum

She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum (1955)

Yoshindo Yamaji

Hisako Yamane

Haruo Inoue

In this second part to The Yotsuda Phantom, Iemon's apparent success is minimized by his own feelings of guilt, the quickly mounting evidence, and Naosuke's constant hounding.

The Ghost of Yotsuya: Part II

The Ghost of Yotsuya: Part II (1949)

Kimie Hayashi

Akio Miyajima

Iemon Tamiya is an impoverished master-less samurai who craves a better life, which he cannot have because of his marriage to Oiwa, who is completely devoted to her husband.

The Ghost of Yotsuya: Part I

The Ghost of Yotsuya: Part I (1949)

Shima Iwashita

Shin Kishida

Akio Kinoshita

Medical student Himoto Haruo makes no compromises in resolving issues with his mother, his authoritarian department boss, and his girlfriend's abusive employer.

The Petrified Forest

The Petrified Forest (1973)

Eiji Okada

Yoshiko Kuga

Keiji Sakakida

Saburo is a student, who first sees Keiko in a bomb shelter during the American air raids on Tokyo in the Second World War. As a close one hits, he shelters her and she lays a gloved hand on his. He sees her again at a railroad crossing, then meets her at a publisher, where he follows her. They talk, and after other meetings, touch hands. Then, in the cold, he places her bare hand inside his jacket. She's an illustrator of war posters, but he convinces her to paint his portrait, and when he leaves, he comes back to see her in the window. Crowding into a corner when a stray bomb lands, he gives her a kiss and tells her he has been called up.—Canon y mus

Till We Meet Again

Till We Meet Again (1950)

Keiju Kobayashi

Haruo Tanaka

Michiyo moved to Osaka two years ago, when her husband Hatsunosuke who works at a stock brokerage was transfered from Tokyo. She wash, cook and clean 365 days a year. All the dreams and hopes she had when they got married five years ago seems to be gone. From here on we follow the everyday life of Mr. and Mrs. Okamoto.—MarlicOne {imdb@motechnet.com}

Repast

Repast (1951)

Seiji Miyaguchi

Three stories about suffered women in the Meiji era. Story 1: Jusan'ya/The Thirteenth Night - A young woman abandons her family, encounters a man she fancied in her adolescence, and leaves him without neither of them declaring their mutual love. Story 2: Otsugomori/On the Last Day of the Year - Forced by poverty and family needs, a maid is forced to take money from her employers, but her fault is covered by the fact the employers' only son has taken so much more money that her two yen are not found out. Story 3: Nigorie/Troubled Waters - In the red light district, a man falls into decay and poverty, and ultimately loses his honor and life for the love of geisha.—Artemis-9

Nigorie

Nigorie (1953)

Machiko Kyô

Tamao Nakamura

Tanie Kitabayashi

An Indian prince leaves his world of comfort and riches behind to wander and meditate for six years in search of spiritual enlightenment. Siddartha turns his back on the old religion when people are starving needlessly.

Buddha

Buddha (1961)

Bontarô Akemi

Ken Uehara

Chikako Hosokawa

Ageing ex-geisha has always saved her money and is now a grasping property investor and moneylender. Ex-colleagues and lovers both resent her and try to borrow from her. She grows increasingly cynical and hardbitten while the others struggle financially and turn to drink. Grown children leave home for better lives elsewhere

Late Chrysanthemums

Late Chrysanthemums (1954)

This movie takes a look at a Westernized suburban area in Japan in the late '50s. It focuses mainly on the daily lives of a small community and the way its members interact. It also demonstrates the power of oral communication and the way in which small talk acts as a lubricant for our daily lives.—

Good Morning

Good Morning (1959)

Takashi Shimura

Fusako Fujima

In 1933, in Kyoto, academic freedom is under attack and the spoiled daughter of Professor Yagihara, Yukie Yagihara, is courted by the idealistic student Ruykichi Noge and by the tolerant Itokawa. When the academic freedom movement is crushed by the fascists, Professor Yagihara and the members of the Faculty of Law resign from their positions and Noge is arrested. Five years later, Noge visits Professor Yagihara and his family under the custody of the now Prosecutor Itokawa and tells them that he is going to China. Yukie decides to move alone to Tokyo and years later, she meets Itokawa in Tokyo and tells her that Noge is living in Tokyo. Yukie visits Noge and they become lovers. In 1941, Noge is arrested accused of being the ringleader of a spy network and Yukie is also sent to prison. When she is released, she decides to move to the peasant village where Noge's parents live and are blamed of being spies by the villagers. She changes her lifestyle and works hard with Madame Noge planting rice and earning the respect of her mother and father-in-law. With the end of the war, freedom is restored in the defeated Japan and the flowers blossom again.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

No Regrets for Our Youth

No Regrets for Our Youth (1946)

Mariko Okada

Daisuke Katô

This film intends to portray a working/ living environment rather than tell a strongly plotted story. Major themes are money and the lack of it, the power of the police, the decline in geisha popularity and standards and the exploitation of girls by management.

Flowing

Flowing (1956)

Jun Usami

Setsuko Hara

Noriko is 27 years old and is still living with her father Somiya, a widower. Noriko just recovered from an illness she developed in the war, and now the important question pops up: when will Noriko start thinking about marriage? Everybody who is important in her life tries to talk her into it: her father, her aunt, a girlfriend. But Noriko doesn't want to get married, she seems extremely happy with her life. She wants to stay with her father to take care of him. After all, she knows best of his manners and peculiarities. But Noriko's aunt doesn't want to give up. She arranges a partner for her and thinks of a plan that will convince Noriko her father can be left alone.—Arnoud Tiele (imdb@tiele.nl)

Late Spring

Late Spring (1949)

Kokuten Kôdô

In postwar Tokyo, this household is loving and serene: older parents, their 28-year-old daughter Noriko, their married son, his devoted wife, and two rascally sons. Their only discontent is Noriko's lack of a husband. Society is changing: she works, she has women friends who tease and argue, her brother sees her independence as impudence, she sees it as normal. When her boss suggests that she marry a 40-year-old bachelor who is his friend, all the members of her family press her to accept. Without seeking their advice, and to their chagrin, Noriko determines her own course of action.—

Early Summer

Early Summer (1951)

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