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Tadashi Imai (今井 正 Imai Tadashi, January 8, 1912 - November 22, 1991) was a Japanese film director known for social realist filmmaking informed by a left-wing perspective.
Total trailers found: 44
25 April 1970
Second part to "River Without a Bridge" (1969)
25 May 1944
It is 1921 and a town has a newspaper which prints urgent bulletins as required. The Washington-based CITES treaty, in which Japan participates, puts a limit on the number of warships any country can possess.
09 January 1953
A group of Okinawan high school girls are drafted as nurses during the American invasion of the island.
16 October 1976
Oshima, a rich girl married Shinzo, and her cousin girl Sawa has been jealous of Oshima deeply. Sawa cursed Oshima so Shinzo could not hold her and do anything at all.
26 July 1949
Continuation of The Blue Mountains: Part I. Released a week later.
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.
07 August 1953
Filmed soon after the end of the Allied occupation, this documentary is an extremely valuable record of the production and nationwide tour of “The Hiroshima Panels” at the time.
20 February 1974
A tribute to proletarian author Takiji Kobayashi (1903-1933)
15 October 1957
Junai Monogatari AKA Story of Pure Love is about two poor youths, Mitsuko and Kando, rebelling against society in various ways, who are desperately trying to be together despite tortuous circumstances.
12 February 1955
The story of a group of young people who organise their own travelling symphony orchestra to provide music for people living in remote villages shortly after the war.
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.
01 November 1964
An innocuous comment during a weapon inspection wounds the pride of low-ranking samurai Shinpachi, leading to an argument with his superior.
01 April 1991
An auto repairman's daughter questions him about what happened to her aunt during the war, but the father remains reticent.
05 July 1955
The film consists of three short stories. Tomiko, the heroine of the first story, "The Flower Girl" (dir.
26 March 1956
Police beat a murder confession out of four innocent men who are then sentenced to death. Based on a true story.
09 August 1981
Up in Heaven, Yuki’s grandparents decide that, having turned thirteen years old, she must go down to Earth to a village that is torn by bandits and intervene to save its people.
15 April 1958
Following a yearlong attendance upon his shogun in Edo, samurai Hikokuro makes a long-awaited return to his home and doting wife, Dane.
29 March 1959
Kiku and her brother Isamu are social outcasts, children of a prostitute mother and black GI father, in postwar Japan.
29 April 1972
A man who survived the war carries the will of his comrades in arms, walking across the country visiting the bereaved families.
15 April 1943
Stalwart soldiers of the Japanese Empire – Japanese and Korean alike – stand in defense of a military outpost threatened by "bandits.
01 May 1952
A story of a passionate teacher and his great effort for the children in a poor village.
21 March 1950
Saburo and Keiko fall in love with each other but the tide of war separates them.
04 March 1957
A touching story depicting the harsh lives of farmers in Kasumigaura. An attempt to start a fishery business to revive an ailing farming community creates friction amongst the proud residents.
26 July 1945
After facing hard times, an orphan Korean boy gets adopted to Japanese society. He meets several Japanese people who are kind to him, and grows up wanting to repay his debt to Japan, by becoming a kamikaze pilot.
09 May 1964
A sake factory worker on holiday returns to his home town, where he rapes the wife of one of his co-workers in the forest.
01 February 1969
Brothers Koji and Seitaro Hatana, belong to the "outcast" caste. Despite their personal qualities—intelligence and fairness—they encounter numerous obstacles due to their caste affiliation.
23 October 1976
Members of a country family react differently to the return of daughter Mon from a town factory.While the men are angry she is pregnant with no husband, the women show kindness.
28 April 1963
After a salary-man's fiancée attempts suicide, he recounts his gruesome family history which saw generations of his ancestors suffer and sacrifice themselves for the sake of their cruel lords.
03 January 1962
Two obaachans become fast friends listening to music in front of a record store. They both boast about their loving sons but in reality, one had just escaped a retirement home and the other was looking for an escape from her son and daughter-in-law.
12 August 1972
Japanese youngsters enduring hard training in Recruit Camp and then going to Iwo Jima in the last days of World War II.
29 June 1968
"The Time of Reckoning" transforms a screwball-comedy plot into a sober study of a successful businessman with serious relationship problems involving three women: his wife of ten years who announces she is pregnant by another man; a mistress who wants to have a baby with him; and an ex-lover who claims he fathered her son.
27 June 1946
After learning that he has accidentally killed a man in a fight, Unokichi must look after the man's pregnant widow.
19 July 1949
Teacher Yukiko finds herself in opposition to conservative faculty and villagers after defending a student for being in a relationship with a young man from Tokyo.
04 July 1951
About the struggles of day labourers to achieve dignity and a standard of living above the starvation level.
