Keisuke Kinoshita Trailers
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Keisuke Kinoshita (木下 惠介, Kinoshita Keisuke, December 5, 1912 – December 30, 1998) was a Japanese film director.
Hugely popular in his home country of Japan, Keisuke Kinoshita worked tirelessly as a director for nearly half a century, making lyrical, sentimental films that often center on the inherent goodness of people, especially in times of distress. He began his directing career during a most challenging time for Japanese cinema: World War II, when the industry’s output was closely monitored by the state and often had to be purely propagandistic. He refused to be bound by genre, technique, or dogma. Kinoshita excelled in almost every genre: comedy, tragedy, social dramas, period films. He shot all films on location or in a one-house set. He pursued severe photographic realism with the long take, long-shot method, and went equally far toward stylization with fast cutting, intricate wipes, tilted cameras, and even classical scroll-painting and Kabuki stage technique.
Kinoshita was highly prolific, turning out some 42 films in the first 23 years of his career. For this, Kinoshita explained that he "can’t help it. Ideas for films have always just popped into my head like scraps of paper into a wastebasket." While lesser-known internationally than contemporaries such as Akira Kurosawa, Kenji Mizoguchi and Yasujirō Ozu, he was a household figure in his home country, beloved by both critics and audiences from the 1940s to the 1960s.
Although few concrete details have emerged about Kinoshita's personal life, his homosexuality was widely known in the film world. Screenwriter and frequent collaborator Yoshio Shirasaka recalls the "brilliant scene" Kinoshita made with the handsome, well-dressed assistant directors he surrounded himself with. His 1959 film Farewell to Spring (Sekishuncho) has been called "Japan's first gay film" for the emotional intensity depicted between its male characters.
Kinoshita received the Order of the Rising Sun in 1984 and was awarded the Order of Culture in 1991 by the Japanese government. He died on December 30, 1998, of a stroke. His grave is in Engaku-ji in Kamakura, very near to that of his fellow Shochiku director, Yasujirō Ozu.
Most Popular Keisuke Kinoshita Trailers
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18 November 1943
A wealthy family will not allow the military to grow crops on their fields due to their superstitious beliefs about their son's illness.
16 September 1961
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.
11 July 1987
The story of a teacher who comes to a village on the Inland Sea and the relationship that develops between her and her 12 pupils.
01 December 1940
Following a young man through his childhood ambition to follow his father into the military to losing his life in combat in China.
29 October 1946
A young man who is unable to tell his childhood friend how he feels makes a pledge with her to reveal all of their secrets during the upcoming festival.
01 July 1950
A jewelry store president begins to fall for the doctor treating her husband's illness.
28 October 1958
Two men at an ironworks encounter roadblocks: the first does not have the grades to get a job, while the other finds himself falling for a co-worker.
15 June 1935
A period piece about the love of a wealthy blind woman, a teacher of koto and shamisen, and her devoted manservant.
09 July 1942
This was 1942, so it was a national policy film, no matter what you call it. But when the war was still on the winning side, there wasn't even a little bit of sadness in the film (as the war was getting worse and worse, the burdens on our backs were increasing day by day, and we had to keep forming a line for tomorrow with nowhere to go (Akira Kurosawa's "The Most Beautiful", Admiral Nomura's "Enemy Air Raid", etc.
30 November 1948
In the Meiji period, a schoolteacher tries to hide his lower-class upbringing as he supports a visiting liberal intellectual.
29 October 1983
An extremely lovely tribute to Ozu, on the 20th anniversary of his death. It uses a combination of footage from vintage films and new material (both interviews and Ozu-related locations) shot by Ozu's long-time camera-man (who came out of retirement to work on this).
09 March 1949
A matchmaker looks to unite a young woman from a wealthy Tokyo family with the humble owner of an auto garage.
02 December 1937
Pre-war Asakusa was a riotous district of cabarets, dance-halls and brothels - a striking backdrop for Shimazu's story of innocence and experience.
11 December 1947
A Japanese war widow recalls her love affair with her deceased husband.
18 March 1947
In postwar Japan a young woman is unable to marry her sweetheart because her family's in difficult circumstances and needs her income to keep afloat.
21 March 1951
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.
19 October 1960
In a time of continuous civil wars ravaging the fields of feudal Japan, the eldest son of a very poor peasant family, living alongside the bridge over the Fuefuki river, decides to serve a warlord to escape his miserable condition, being soon followed by his younger brothers.
12 May 1951
When a family has to relocate due to the war, they are ostracized by their new community.
15 September 1979
A man whose son has been murdered pushes to create laws to financially protect victims' families.
31 October 1970
On a Tokyo dump’s shantytown edge, interwoven vignettes follow residents scraping by: a boy who “drives” an imaginary trolley, a homeless father and son designing a dream house, a young woman brutalized at home, drunks, schemers, and saints of small kindnesses.
01 December 1957
The plans of a trio of burglars are continually thwarted by the arrival of visitors to the house they plan to rob.
29 November 1955
On the way back to his childhood home, a septuagenarian man recalls his childhood and adolescence, in particular his love for a young woman.
03 January 1960
When a wealthy, selfish family decides to take care of an elderly hobo who collapsed near their home, they are beset by visits from his numerous friends.
17 June 1953
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.
01 June 1958
In a remote village where food is scarce, elders who reach the age of 70 are carried by their children to the top of a nearby mountain to die in solitude.
01 December 1949
When the future of his construction company falls into danger, a controlling father pushes his children into unsatisfying marriages and careers in order to regain financial stability.
29 May 1976
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.
24 May 1964
After her mother runs away from home, Tomoko is raised to be a geisha. One day Tomoko meets her mother in a red-light district in Tokyo and her life deeply gets in trouble.
17 April 1956
A coming-of-age story portrayed as the loss of all youthful illusions. Sixteen-year-old Yoichi dreams of becoming a sailor.
13 May 2000
A new magistrate in the town of Horisoto—widely reputed to be the most lawless township in Japan, uses guile and his opponents' own misperceptions and prejudices to defeat his enemies and uproot corruption.
06 January 1963
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.
28 April 1959
Five longtime friends get back together, but are disappointed to find that their bonds are not as strong as they once were.
15 September 1954
From 1928 to 1946, the lives of 12 young people and their school teacher in a poor Japanese village are profoundly affected by historical events and personal circumstances.
29 July 1943
The sweet but naive denizens of a charming port town are hoodwinked by a couple of con men at the outset of World War II.
11 August 1963
A Tokyo family escaping the war relocates to a Hokkaido village; their daughter is set to marry the local leader's son, but her siblings disapprove.
03 January 1959
After surviving the double suicide pact she made with her lover, a woman gives birth to their child.
17 February 1951
The wife of an elite government official left her husband, and a young journalist is sent to investigate the case.
07 December 1944
Though plagued by ill health all his life, a young Japanese man is obligated to fulfill his family's longstanding military tradition.
16 July 1949
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.
27 September 1959
A father curries favor with his bosses to further his career, but his wife has lost faith in him. She returns to her family home while they rent out their house during the summer to pay off their mortgage, and there she meets a lonely old man.
31 August 1955
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.
05 July 1949
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.
13 December 1953
Five years after the end of the Second World War, Reikichi, a repatriated veteran, translates love letters for Japanese women to American GIs, while searching for his lost love, Michiko.
29 January 1953
A young student falls for an invalid girl whom he can only see from afar.
14 January 1962
Hikaru and Ichiro are close friends in high school. Hikaru's elder brother Tadashi fell in love with Ichiro's elder sister, Mikako at first sight.
03 August 1948
The mistress of a crook real estate broker comes to terms with her soulless existence after an artist paints her portrait.
14 November 1956
Ignoring the protests of his working-class mother, a young man becomes wrapped up in the world of delinquents and yakuza.
29 April 1988
A middle-aged man's family loses patience with him as he struggles with his seemingly directionless life.
16 September 1983
August 9, 1945. An atomic bomb drops on Urakami, Nagasaki at 11:02am. The story of Dr. Nagai and his family.
20 September 1980
A newspaper reporter investigates the lives of juvenile delinquents.
30 September 1967
A teacher in a poor island community tries to improve his students' spirits by entering them in a volleyball tournament as long-shot underdogs.
01 October 1957
The story of the trials and tribulations of a lighthouse keeper and his wife.
01 October 1966
Former playmates (Naito and Tamura), both long ago abandoned by their parents, recall their youth and fall in love.
13 November 1952
Strip dancer Carmen falls in love with Hajime, who is engaged to the daughter of a right-wing politician.
21 February 1946
A Japanese family weathers much hardship after their military uncle comes to live with them during WWII.
02 April 1948
Like many women after the war, Toshiko works as a chorus girl; her boyfriend Tadashi wishes she'd join him more frequently, but she detests his criminal involvement.
08 June 1944
The few residents left on the streets in Tokyo share their individual stories and come to understand the melancholy of saying goodbye.
16 March 1954
A student at a woman's university takes a controversial action against the school's old-fashioned doctrines.
