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Jōji Ohara (September 27, 1902 – June 24, 1990) was a Japanese cinematographer, famous for his collaborations with director Heinosuke Gosho. In the silent era, Ohara was one of the key figures in establishing a cinematographic style characteristic of Shochiku films.
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02 February 1933
"The Dancing Girl of Izu" tells of the story between a young male student who is touring the Izu Peninsula and a family of traveling dancers he meets there, including their youngest girl.
07 June 1955
A little girl who falls into a lake and is saved by a god who then takes her up to the clouds and shows her what the world was like before she was born and what the world would be like if she where never born.
09 November 1933
Heinosuke Gosho evokes in this film the family conflicts engendered by the eternal problem of a father who projects his professional desires on the life of his son.
14 January 1959
Based on the famous novel by Junichiro Tanizaki, this is a story of the four sisters of the ancient and reputable Makioka family of Osaka.
14 January 1933
This pair of gentle yet witty and inventive comedies from the director of The Neighbour's Wife and Mine typify both the formal experimentation of early Japanese sound cinema and the social milieux that Shochiku tended to depict.
21 October 1950
A young woman takes up her new job as the servant of a noblewoman and soon discovers that underneath her facade of luxury lies great unhappiness.
23 July 1957
Kinichi and Akiko meet when they visit their fathers in prison. After successfully gambling on a bicycle race, they spend an enjoyable day together at the beach.
28 June 1961
Shikiko Oba is nimble with her fingers and teaches dressmaking and designing. Among her pupils are Rinko, Katsumi and Tomie.
23 January 1965
Adaptation of Seicho Matsumoto's novel of the same name.
28 August 1963
Toshiko is the madam of a bar in Osaka who tries to keep her private life private and claims not to have a lover.
13 April 1944
Young women at a precision optics factory in wartime Japan push to exceed production quotas, enduring illness, injury, and personal hardship to “serve the country.
09 August 1960
Princess Kiyo accidentally injures a local priest, Anchin, while on a hunt. She apologizes, but feels irritated by Anchin’s indifference to her in spite of her beauty.
08 August 1950
Setsuko is in an unhappy marriage to Mimura, an unemployed, alcoholic engineer. She had always been in love with Hiroshi but both failed to propose when Hiroshi left for France a few years ago.
10 December 1935
A middle-aged father has just married off his third daughter, but still has his nine year old son to raise whom he resents as he was unwanted.
20 April 1954
Follows the story of an insurance company executive from Tokyo, Mr. Mito, who is demoted to the Osaka office.
30 November 1936
The eldest daughter of a noble family is in love with an aviator while being courted by a fellow aristocrat she thinks is a dullard.
14 June 1949
A love triangle among a girl, her poor boyfriend, and a rich company president.
30 November 1954
Three young women make a suicide pact, but they grow to have a better understanding of themselves.
04 July 1964
A comedy directed by Koji Shima about a men's game. Reckless and exciting, definitely worth watching! Miyoshi Oki was born in Hokkaido and grew up in a dirty carriage that his father owned.
15 June 1968
Kuramoto, who works for a large trading company, is a skilled employee who is well-liked by the company president.
08 October 1960
A girl marries her elderly employer but in reality is in love with his son.
27 May 1959
The tragic fate of Minoru Ikeda, a talented blind boy whose only joy was playing the violin.
30 September 1962
Seventeen years after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, a newspaper reporter looks for the bomb's effects, but everyone seems to have forgotten.
21 September 1954
A great ambition to portray with sharp satire and humor the course of modern anxiety and love that is about to be driven to despair.
20 November 1956
A wealthy young man, engaged through family arrangement, meets a humble shop girl after she finds his lost ring.
16 December 1948
Akiko Hojo, a nurse at Aisei Catholic Hospital, is spending another public holiday at Kotaro Hidaka's house.
30 March 1963
Three stories about the relationship between men and women: "Playgirl" (Masumura/Shirasaka), "Company No.
15 April 1934
Sakura Ondo was a sound adaptation based on a popular 1934 song, produced at the Shochiku Kamata Studio as part of a five-studio competition to create a film based on the same tune.
13 April 1948
Machiko falls in love with a mysterious man, but her family wants something different for her.
03 August 1948
A platonic love story, the protagonist continues to love the woman he fell in love with when he was a boy for the rest of his life.
29 March 1949
Yumiko, the president's daughter, meets a suspicious woman after her wedding ceremony with Tamio.
13 January 1935
A newlywed couple faces tension when the wife, after her husband leaves for work, becomes completely unmotivated to handle household chores and goes back to sleep.
01 April 1955
A boy falls in love with a girl. Neither of them know that she's to be sold to a brothel.
11 September 1956
The woman prison has a cast all with a story of their own and with no dull or routine day. There is an employee who is divorced after her husband had an affair.
18 May 1938
At 38, Seiu marries Masako, who is emotionally distant and attempts suicide. Masako’s past includes being sold into servitude and an unrecognised pregnancy.
29 June 1957
Adapted from a poem, which was composed by poet and sculptor Kotaro Takamura, Chieko-Sho is the story of the artist's wife Chieko.
20 May 1937
A Japanese screwball comedy about the battle between the sexes: two timid men, egged on by their wives, end up in a bitter duel over an expensive lace handkerchief.
15 August 1934
Japanese movie from 1934. The final film of director Hôtei Nomura, who died from a stroke suffered at a screening of this film.
14 May 1936
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.
28 January 1967
A woman's desperate attempt to prove her husband's innocence after he has been sentenced to death for the murder of his mistress.
