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Zenzō Matsuyama (松山 善三 Matsuyama Zenzō, 3 April 1925 - 27 August 2016) was a Japanese script writer and film director. He was born in Kobe and grew up in Yokohama. After leaving school, he began training to become a doctor but dropped out of medical school to take up a career in films. In 1948 he became an assistant director at Shochiku studios. With the support of Keisuke Kinoshita, he also began writing film scripts. His first filmed script was Kojo no tsuki, based on the song Kōjō no Tsuki, filmed in 1954. In 1955 he married actress Hideko Takamine. He made his debut as a director with a film called Na mo naku mazushiku utsukushikuin 1961. He continued to work as a scriptwriter for films like Proof of the Man as well as a director. He also wrote the lyrics for a song Ippon no enpitsu for Hibari Misora.
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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.
07 July 1973
A beautifully told story of a woman hardened by marriage to a man she doesn't love, after giving herself to another.
01 July 1967
Based on the hit song, the story involves a young boy and girl who leave their home in Hokkaido to come and live in Tokyo.
19 February 1957
A young man and woman are determined to marry despite opposition from her parents.
04 February 1962
A father and son are both heavy drinkers. However, the son dies in an accident at a bar, leaving behind a fiance….
20 November 1966
Masako is a humble waitress who has a chance encounter with playboy Tamotsu. With the aid of his sister, Tamotsu seeks to win Masako's affection despite the disapproval of his wealthy parents and Masako's own feelings towards the working-class cabbie Noro.
15 August 1987
Foxes Ken and Chin become the proud parents of cubs, Koro and Kan, who enjoy a carefree life on the northern Japanese island of Chironup.
12 September 1981
Fictionalized account of 20-year-old Noriko Tsuji, a real-life victim of a severe birth defect which afflicted 8,000 Japanese, children whose mothers took the sedative thalidomide during pregnancy.
04 April 1961
A Hiromichi Horikawa movie
01 August 2015
A memorial to the atomic annihilation of 321 students at Hiroshima Middle School.
21 May 1960
Sanae is left a widow after her prestigious husband dies, but holds the proceeds of a million yen insurance policy.
24 April 1958
A collaborative, newsreel-style portrait of Tokyo in 1957–58, blending photography, animation, and historical imagery to capture the city’s labor, rituals, and nightlife at the moment it became the world’s largest metropolis.
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.
14 October 2000
"Home Sweet Home" deals with a family who, unable to cope with their aging grandfather's worsening dementia, abandon him at a group home for the elderly.
01 July 1962
A story about the lives of four sisters and their manipulative mother who must come to terms with each of their decisions in life.
23 November 1962
Story of a resourceful hobo (Kobayashi), a con woman (Takamine) who pretends to be a victim of the Nagasaki A-bomb, and two orphaned children who become a most atypical Japanese family.
15 January 1959
After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labour chief at a large mining operation in Manchuria, which also grants him exemption from military service.
01 October 1966
Four sisters are all named after flowers. While the two youngest are married, the eldest two remain single, much to the annoyance of their long-suffering mother.
29 April 1962
In 1919, a group of Japanese immigrants arrives in Hawaii. Among them Yoshio Inoue and his wife Kishimo and Sumi, a young woman ready to get married soon.
28 January 1961
After the Japanese defeat to the Russians, Kaji leads the last remaining men through Manchuria. Intent on returning to his old life, he faces great odds in a variety of different harrowing circumstances as he and his men sneak behind enemy lines.
09 October 1993
In 1940, Kubota Shoten, which has been in business for generations, goes bankrupt due to the debauched lifestyle of its president, Kunimitsu Kubota.
29 April 1988
From the point-of-view of the children, "Mother" tells the story of the most unappreciated, loving and giving mother, who would sacrifice her own life, and sometimes the life of others, for her loved ones.
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.
08 October 1977
When an American is murdered in a Japanese inn, Tokyo police detective Munesue follows the trail of the killer to New York.
20 November 1959
Kaji, sent to the Japanese army labeled Red, witnesses cruelties in the army and revolts against the abusive treatment against a fellow recruit.
01 September 2001
A warring Yakuza awakens to Christianity and becomes an evangelist. The film is modelled on the real-life "Mission Barabbas," a Christian evangelistic group of ex-Yakuza.
06 November 1976
Based on a children's book. Two children encounter a wooden chair that moves and speaks. The chair awaits their return, unaware the sister died in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.
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.
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.
15 January 1956
Shunji Mitamura's wife died very early and left him a young son. Shunji's sister Hideko decided to fulfill her sisterly duty and moved to the main character to take care of the boy and the house.
27 May 1962
An investigation into a drug smuggler who is assassinated in front of an insurance building sets two detectives, Sumikawa and Akine, into a sprawling investigation through Tokyo's underworld.
26 February 1956
A botanist woos the secretary of an industrialist whose company threatens the local water supply.
18 March 1962
When two sisters fall in love with the same man, one must decide to look elsewhere.
13 August 1961
The university professor Ozeki Hitoshi (Ryu Chishu) is regarded as an eccentric by people in his surroundings.
23 October 1957
A love triangle develops between a benevolent student, his innocent girlfriend, and a cruel petty criminal, all as a point of diagnosis of a social disease that had Japan slowly succumbing to lawlessness during the post-War era.
30 August 1964
Could I But Live
15 January 1973
A woman looks after her father in law.
20 May 2006
Biopic of painter Tanaka Isson
04 April 1962
1962 Japanese movie
19 February 1967
A truck driver from Toyama discovers he has contracted leukemia, a condition linked to his past exposure to nuclear fallout while working as a fisherman.
09 October 1993
Set in Edo-era Kyoto, this drama depicts the adolescent battles and the love between parents and children who are born and raised in the same tenement house.
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.
01 April 1960
A story of an ardent young man who laid down his life for his country.
21 November 1956
A talent scout moves sharply, dead-set on signing a promising baseball player to The Toyko Flowers.
16 May 1965
Driven by greed and a desire for his cousin's wife, Jiro orchestrates a complex frame-up to have his cousin arrested for murder.
15 January 1961
The story is of two people. One is deaf, the other deaf and mute. They marry after meeting at a school reunion, and the film follows their trials and tribulations .
25 May 1955
A romantic drama depicting the lives of two generations of a family who run a Tokyo florist shop.
10 October 1985
A one armed boy wants to become a football (soccer) player.
12 July 1960
A woman and her daughter are in love with the same man, a chef at the restaurant that the mother manages.
07 December 1968
Comedy with music starring the rock band The Spiders.
21 September 1955
Portmanteau film about young lovers.
06 February 1957
Pierre Marsac, a French engineer working for the Nagasaki shipbuilding yards, has fallen in love both with Japan and a charming Japanese girl named Noriko.
09 October 1965
Young widow Ine is suffering under the harsh treatment of her mother in law. As a former Geisha, Ine had struggled to be accepted into the well-established Rokujo family from the beginning.
29 October 1966
One day, Reiko, who is engaged, meets a young man named Kondo, and she likes him, although she has a fiancé.
30 June 1963
The third and final chapter of MP & GI's Toho Trilogy expands the geographical reach of the franchise, taking stars Lucilla You Min and Takarada Akira across the Pacific to Hawaii, where scenic travelogue passages add to the cross-cultural affair.
