Satoru Chûko Trailers
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Total trailers found: 70
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.
11 May 1944
The Way of Drama unfolds in the world of kabuki in Osaka, but also addresses the politics of popular culture and the rivalry between theatrical styles like those used by amateur actors to dramatise contemporary events.
08 August 1949
Police detective Heiji is assigned to catch the masked Maboroshi gang of robbers who have terrorized all of Edo leaving few clues as to who their leader is.
17 August 1951
The troubled relationship between a writer and his ballet teacher wife, who has for years loved another man, finally leads to the breakup of the family.
10 April 1952
A high-born woman named Okuni travels around the country with Gohei, a samurai retainer who is in service to her.
22 January 1950
Three humorous love stories set in rural Japan.
17 May 1969
A cosmetics executive promoted to chairman faces chaos at home and work as his company undergoes major changes and internal power shifts.
03 November 1954
Japan is thrown into a panic after several ships are sunk near Odo Island. An expedition to the island led by Dr.
20 March 1940
Twenty-year-old Yoshiko (Setsuko Hara) and her younger sister Asako (Yōko Yaguchi) struggle to accept changes in their home during the preparations of their widowed father's wedding to his chosen bride, Maki Tsuneko (Sadako Sawamura), who's anxious about her conduct as the bride.
05 August 1953
A family comprised of a man, woman and their only son is torn apart when the father, who is a doctor with his own clinic, is to go off to war.
27 April 1956
During an assignment, foreign correspondent Steve Martin spends a layover in Tokyo and is caught amid the rampage of an unstoppable prehistoric monster the Japanese call 'Godzilla'.
31 March 1951
Jidai-geki about the life of Yasubei Nakayama, a famous ronin who did participate in the revenge agaa
29 October 1957
A woman struggles to raise her young son on her own in postwar Japan, finding companionship with a kind laborer while still hoping for the return of her missing husband.
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.
21 May 1960
Sanae is left a widow after her prestigious husband dies, but holds the proceeds of a million yen insurance policy.
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.
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.
15 January 1964
War widow Reiko rebuilds and runs the grocery shop in the house of her husband's family. Many years later, their business is threatened by a newly built supermarket and Reiko's in-laws plan to convert their small shop into a supermarket, to her detriment.
19 May 1951
A Hibari Misora musical about an impoverished girl and her brother in Postwar Japan.
23 April 1942
A bizarre murder at a hot springs resort threatens to disrupt an Edo detective's (Hasegawa) vacation.
15 January 1955
A married Japanese forester during WWII is sent to Indochina to manage forests. He meets a young Japanese typist and promises to leave his wife.
23 November 1951
In post-WWII Osaka, a middle-aged woman is forced to examine her dreary life and marriage when her husband's young and flirtatious cousin arrives for a brief stay to escape an arranged marriage.
14 January 1956
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.
24 September 1971
Tells of the feelings and sufferings of a young girl with an incurable paralytic disease.
05 March 1957
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.
19 July 1957
Ushinosuke returns broke to his hometown, where everyone believes he's rich and successful. Part two (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku Shishi's novel, Oban.
15 January 1963
An ad campaign for a TV show called the “Male Training Contest” stirs chaos at a major electronics company.
16 April 1966
When the only son of a working class woman is fatally struck by a car driven by the adulterous wife of a company president in a hit-and-run, the victim's mother changes her identity and infiltrates the couple's home to work as their maid, plotting to murder their similarly-aged son.
29 March 1959
The story is about the social problems faced by Japan's indigenous Ainu, mostly centered on the reactions of the characters to their oppressed state.
15 June 1954
What is the life of a Geisha like once her beauty has faded and she has retired? Kin has saved, and become a wealthy money-lender, spending her days coldly collecting debts.
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.
30 May 1961
The real mother of the two children of a respectable university professor is not his wife, but his mistress, the hostess of a Ginza bar the family frequents.
14 January 1962
Drama about the lives of the five daughters and daughter-in-law of a store owner.
29 September 1962
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.
08 July 1950
Adaptation of a novel by Yojiro Ishizaka, originally released in two parts.
16 November 1963
A woman remembers her own marriage when dealing with the love life of her son.
15 January 1954
An ingratiating bride develops warm ties to her father-in-law while her cold husband blithely slights her for another woman.
12 February 1966
Tashiro coincidentally meets his best friend Sugimoto in a bar very close to the apartment in which Sugimoto’s wayward wife is found dead.
26 March 1941
A sentimental tale of the filial love between shogun Iemitsu (matinee idol Hasegawa) and his loyal old retainer Hikoza (comedian Roppa, playing somewhat against type).
01 January 1977
A re-edited Italian-language dubbed version of the original Godzilla, using as a basis the U.S. version, "Godzilla, King of the Monsters!" (1956), plus WWII newsreel footage and clips from other science fiction films.
14 April 1943
A sixteen-year-old who had been living on her own since her mother died, frequently gets in trouble with the police.
13 May 1958
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.
28 February 1970
A food company undergoes leadership changes, with younger staff rising to key roles.
14 March 1957
Obscure French version of the original Godzilla. The film combines elements of the original Toho version and the American King of the Monsters! in a unique assemblage exclusive to the Francophone market.
18 November 1967
A man is involved in a fatal car accident, and though he is blameless, his company transfers him to a remote branch in a small town.
15 January 1970
A food company president is promoted to chairman, but his continued involvement creates leadership confusion.
07 December 1944
Three IJN flyers Mikami (Susumu Fujita), Kawakami (Masayuki Mori) and Murakami (Akitake Kono) are good friends, and they are all renowned for their torpedo techniques.
20 November 1956
Otsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Her daughter Katsuyo doesn't see any future in her mother's trade in the late days of Geisha.
23 October 1965
Iwao, , Kumagai, and Konishi broke into the safe containing the wages of the employees of Ato Industries and obtained a fortune large enough to live a life of leisure.
30 October 1971
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.