Noriko Honma Movie Trailers
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Seven Samurai Trailer (1954)
26 April 1954
A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six others to help him teach the people how to defend themselves, and the villagers provide the soldiers with food.
Ikiru Trailer (1952)
09 October 1952
Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades.
Rhapsody in August Trailer (1991)
25 May 1991
An elderly Nagasaki hibakusha spends a summer caring for her four grandchildren, whose curiosity about the 1945 bombing stirs buried memories and moral questions.
Zokuzoku Ôban: Dotô hen Trailer (1957)
17 December 1957
Ushinosuke returns to his hometown to become a farmer. Part three (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku Shishi’s novel, Oban.
Red Beard Trailer (1965)
04 March 1965
Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed when his first post after medical school takes him to a small country clinic under the gruff doctor Red Beard.
Dreams Trailer (1990)
11 May 1990
Eight visually rich vignettes drawn from Kurosawa’s own dreams—fox weddings and vanished orchards, a soldier’s ghosts, a walk through Van Gogh’s canvases, nuclear nightmares, and a water-mill utopia—meditate on childhood, art, mortality, and humanity’s uneasy bond with nature.
Blue Buds Trailer (1956)
03 May 1956
Outspoken student Noriko stands up to bullies and befriends pitcher Mitsuo. As their bond deepens, she impulsively declares she wants to marry him—then reconsiders, realizing both still have growing to do before love can truly begin.
Rashomon Trailer (1950)
26 August 1950
Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.
Ebirah, Horror of the Deep Trailer (1966)
17 December 1966
Searching for his brother, Ryota stows away on a boat belonging to a criminal alongside two other teenagers.
Stray Dog Trailer (1949)
17 October 1949
A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded bus.
Yojimbo Trailer (1961)
25 April 1961
A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the local gambling trade.
The Lone Journey Trailer (1955)
31 August 1955
Forced on the road by yakuza obligations, a man sets out on a reckless journey to Tsumagoi. Movie posters for local cinemas were often displayed at sento (public baths) too.
Nightshade Flower Trailer (1951)
13 January 1951
Japanese "kayo" film based on the song "Ieraishan" by Yoshiko Yamaguchi.
The Surf Trailer (1954)
20 October 1954
Lonely youth Shinji meets Hatsue, a pretty pearl diver, on the beach and the two fall in love. But Shinji has a rival for Hatsue's affections, Yasuo.
The Homely Sister Trailer (1967)
28 October 1967
In the 19th century Edo period, sisters Oshizu and Otaka have sacrificed their personal happiness to work and care for their ailing father.
Where Chimneys Are Seen Trailer (1953)
05 March 1953
Where Chimneys Are Seen focuses primarily on the interconnected lives of two couples in a lower-middle-class neighborhood in Senju, a poor industrial section of Tokyo.
Wife Trailer (1953)
29 April 1953
Ten years into a marriage, the wife is disappointed by the husband's lack of financial success, meaning she has to work and can't treat herself and the husband finds the wife slovenly and mean-spirited: she neither cooks not cleans particularly well and is generally disagreeable.
Battle of the Japan Sea Trailer (1969)
01 August 1969
Japan and Russia clash in what comes to be known as the Russo-Japanese War. An attempt by the Japanese fleet and army to take Port Arthur fails, and a Russian fleet bears down on the Sea of Japan.
A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 1 Trailer (1957)
09 July 1957
An Ishiro Honda film. The first part of A Rainbow Plays in My Heart released the same day as the second film.
Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island Trailer (1956)
03 January 1956
A humble and simple Takezo abandons his life as a knight errant. He's sought as a teacher and vassal by Shogun, Japan's most powerful clan leader.
Varan the Unbelievable Trailer (1962)
07 December 1962
In an effort to find an economic means of purifying salt water, a joint U.S.-Japanese military command is set up on an isolated Japanese island where an unusual salt water lake is situated.
G.I. Samurai Trailer (1979)
17 September 1979
A squadron of Japanese Self-Defense Force soldiers find themselves transported through time to their country's warring states era, when rival samurai clans were battling to become the supreme Shogun.
I Live in Fear Trailer (1955)
22 November 1955
An aging foundry patriarch, gripped by terror of nuclear annihilation, tries to uproot his family to Brazil.
The Ataka Family Trailer (1952)
15 May 1952
Soichi Ataka is the eldest son of Ataka family. Although mentally challenged, he's a person with a gentle heart.
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs Trailer (1960)
15 January 1960
Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She describes life's vicious cycle: acting cheerful around drunks, dressing and living well to convey confidence, needing money for these expenses and for her demanding mother and brother, and knowing she's growing older.
Madadayo Trailer (1993)
17 April 1993
In postwar Tokyo, beloved writer-professor Hyakken Uchida retires and is buoyed through hardship by the fierce devotion of his former students, who honor him each year with a raucous “Not yet!” birthday toast.
The Whole Family Works Trailer (1939)
11 March 1939
A large family scrapes by on the meager salaries of the father and three eldest sons, who left school in order to work and support the family.
Brother and Sister Trailer (1953)
19 August 1953
The eldest daughter of a rural family Mon returns home from Tokyo pregnant after an affair with a college student Kobata, which causes a scandal that will threaten the marriage prospects of the younger sister San, in her cash-strapped family.
Life of a Country Doctor Trailer (1960)
14 August 1960
A skilled country doctor's talents are such that he can even perform operations as difficult and novel as removing a patient's kidney for the first time in Japan.
Ditch Trailer (1954)
27 July 1954
Postwar Tokyo. Pin and Toku live in the squatter area of Kappanuma. Pin and Toku are avid gamblers. They take in Tsuru, a slightly demented woman who has run away from a geisha house.
The Big Boss Trailer (1959)
15 January 1959
Ryuta and Mineo Komatsu are brothers, both yakuza (gangsters). Mineo, although complicit in crime, even murder, wants out of the gangster life, hoping to become a successful singer instead.
The Blue Pearl Trailer (1951)
03 August 1951
The Blue Pearl depicts the interplay between a young man from Tokyo and two ama (pearl divers; literally “women of the sea”) in a superstitious coastal town.
Varan Trailer (1958)
14 October 1958
When a rare species of butterfly is found in a mysterious valley in Japan, a pair of entomologists go to investigate and find more.
All About Marriage Trailer (1958)
26 May 1958
Ultra-perky model likes single freedom but feels ryosai kenbo ("good wife, wise mother") pressure, exemplified by her bored-to-tears sister.
Elephant from "Zoo Story" Trailer (1957)
09 April 1957
The fifth film in the Toho Diamond series, following "The Hateful Thing." Based on the true story of "Zoo Story" by author Fukuda Saburo.
A Wife's Heart Trailer (1956)
03 May 1956
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.
Untamed Woman Trailer (1957)
28 May 1957
A woman marries, gives birth to a stillborn child, and divorces, falls in love with a hotel-keeper, only to find herself subordinated to his drive for success, takes up with a tailor who cannot console himself with her strong personality.
Anything For Success Trailer (1962)
08 December 1962
A "hustler's hustler" (Takarada), works his way up the corporate ladder at a camera company. His biggest scheme involves winning the business of a foreign visitor by setting him up with a beautiful "model" (Tsukasa), actually a bar hostess, but the plan backfires when the would-be executive falls for the woman himself.
Summer Clouds Trailer (1958)
02 September 1958
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.
Oh, Bomb! Trailer (1964)
18 April 1964
During the mayoral election, two ex-prisoners decide to replace the lucky pen of an annoying candidate with a mini-bomb.
Adolescence Part II Trailer (1953)
01 July 1953
A story of unhappy youths and the perils of lack of sex education.
The Pacific War and Himeyuri Corps Trailer (1962)
07 April 1962
The last fight put up by remaining forces and a special volunteer nursing corps in 1944-5.
Husband and Wife Trailer (1953)
22 January 1953
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.
A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 2 Trailer (1957)
09 July 1957
An Ishiro Honda film. The second part of A Rainbow Plays in My Heart released the same day as the first film.
Mother Trailer (1952)
12 June 1952
A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.
To the Ends of the Earth Trailer (1953)
20 October 1953
In this downbeat, emotionally gripping drama, a lone guardian of some small huts on one of the northernmost, small islands off Japan remembers his once happier past and the events that destroyed everyone he held dear.
Town of Violence Trailer (1950)
26 February 1950
An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chief and the local gangster bosses.
Marital Relations Trailer (1955)
13 September 1955
Ryukichi, the pampered heir to a cosmetics wholesaler, abandons his wife and child to pursue a scandalous affair with a famous geisha named Choko.
Composition Class Trailer (1938)
21 August 1938
Masako, the daughter of an impoverished itinerant tinsmith, wins a grammar school composition contest with an essay about her neighborhood.
The End of the Night Trailer (1953)
08 April 1953
Walking home late one night, a down-on-his-luck sewage worker runs into a drunk businessman with a briefcase full of cash.
Start Here Trailer (1965)
14 April 1965
Teacher Miyako Hanai, disillusioned by her sisters’ unhappy marriages, rejects love until family conflicts and her mother’s unexpected remarriage lead her to rethink happiness and relationships.
Last of the Wild Ones Trailer (1954)
08 June 1954
A legendary gangster raises himself out of a small town and gathers followers on his rise to power.
Akebono sō no satsujin Trailer (1957)
10 April 1957
A body is found poisoned in a room of a luxury apartment late at night and a beautiful mother turns herself in to protect her rebellious daughter.