Shigeharu Yasue Trailers
Kobayashi Takiji TrailerA Woman Called En TrailerThe Matsukawa Incident Trailer
Kobayashi Takiji TrailerA Woman Called En TrailerThe Matsukawa Incident Trailer
Total trailers found: 34
23 September 1958
The humorous tale of Jimbei, a miller, and his wife Osen who live in complete happiness. But Osen's beauty attracts numerous would-be lovers among whom is the local governor, a timid creature, who is dominated by his high-born and beautiful wife, who dresses in a scarlet battle-tunic, a sign of his family's military merit around which he fabricates fantastic tales of his prowess in war.
19 May 1939
This film attempts to reconstruct the tension of the Battle of Shanghai through an episode in an understated way, introducting its story in a documentary mode.
17 May 1945
During the Warring States era, Hozoin Kakuzenbo and Yagyu Tajima-no-kami, being best friends, spend their days acquiring skills of the spear, sword and martial arts.
07 October 1953
Historical fiction about the aftermath of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, on 6 August 1945, and its effects on various civilians, especially children, of that city.
23 November 1953
A Japanese woman writes down three stories she has witnessed or heard of in her diary, each about the difficult situation a young woman finds herself in.
29 December 1947
During the late Meiji period, at the beginning of the twentieth century, Sumako, a country girl, becomes a great actress with the help of Hogetsu, a scholar who brought European realism to the Japanese stage.
20 February 1974
A tribute to proletarian author Takiji Kobayashi (1903-1933)
23 April 1942
A bizarre murder at a hot springs resort threatens to disrupt an Edo detective's (Hasegawa) vacation.
29 May 1971
Set at the end of the feudal period. A woman spends most of her early life in prison, incarcerated by political opponents of her father.
25 December 1940
A Japanese army engineer (Hasegawa) on the mainland must put his personal feelings for a beautiful Chinese woman (Ri) aside if he is to succeed at building a highway through the "bandit"- (aka anti-Japanese militia-) infested hinterlands.
22 November 1954
An ethical, young tax collector new to his area encounters increasingly absurd individuals and groups coping with their post-war woes.
19 December 1956
A group of shady politicians want to make money after a typhoon by claiming the schoolhouse has been destroyed and then cashing in on building a new one.
10 April 1955
Keiko and Toshiko are sisters who leave their mountain home, where their parents live in a hydroelectric plant company house to study in the city.
20 February 1953
Onna Hitori Daichi wo Yuku (A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land, Kinuta Production, 1953) was the second feature film directed by Kamei Fumio, who is known as a master of documentary films, and followed his “Haha Nareba Onna Nareba(Become a Mother, Become a Woman)” (1952).
03 February 1961
Satsuo Yamamoto's filmic depiction of the famous 1949 Matsukawa Incident.
25 August 1937
In a slum in Edo Japan, a ronin hopes that his deceased father's former master will hire him while a disgraced hairdresser attempts to regain his pride by kidnapping the daughter of a wealthy pawnbroker, who is set to be married.
18 October 1959
Drama which shows the struggle of Fumiko, a female teacher, at work and at home.
29 March 1959
Kiku and her brother Isamu are social outcasts, children of a prostitute mother and black GI father, in postwar Japan.
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 July 1947
Two broke sweethearts wander war-scarred Tokyo on a single Sunday, stretching 35 yen as they chase housing, small pleasures, and a little hope.
15 November 1955
A travelling theater troupe, led by Umagoro Ichikawa, comes to play in a mining town, and manages to sell every seat.
30 November 1941
This epic depicts the battle between Uesugi Kenshin and Takeda Shingen. The focus of the story is the struggle by the unit leader in charge of the main supply wagons and the supply troops to transport materiel to the Uesugi army.
07 September 1956
The story of a novelist whose wife is confined in a mental hospital. His love for her drives him to write about her, though he runs into trouble when her parents accuse him of cashing in on her misfortune.
21 August 1938
Masako, the daughter of an impoverished itinerant tinsmith, wins a grammar school composition contest with an essay about her neighborhood.
04 July 1951
About the struggles of day labourers to achieve dignity and a standard of living above the starvation level.
08 November 1960
It's a story of the life of a man who advocated the necessity of sex education to children, which was unusual at the time, solely opposed to the amendment of the Peace Preservation Law, and was assassinated by a rightist prior to his opposition speech.
08 February 1958
Five boys escape from their life of bondage on an island 10 miles off Hiroshima, and are picked up in the Inland Sea, drifting in an open boat.