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Directed by Kaneto ShindōGenres DramaThemes Seafaring films,
Sports films,
Transport films,
Martial arts films,
Samurai filmsActors Nobuko Otowa,
Kyōko Kishida,
Eitarō Ozawa,
Isao Kimura,
Jūkichi Uno,
Taiji TonoyamaRating71%
A bad man ("Akuto") wants to sleep with a woman (Kyoko Kishida). He spies on her with the help of Jiju (Nobuko Otowa). Then the woman's husband Rokuro decides to leave the court. He initially tells his wife to stay behind. The bad guy intends to sleep with the woman but she goes with her husband. Jiju leaves with them. The bad man orders his soldiers to follow them, and kill everyone except the woman. The bad man's soldiers catch up with them. One by one each of them combats the soldiers and dies, until finally only Rokuro is left. He fights bravely but is overwhelmed and finally dies., 1h37
Directed by Kaneto ShindōGenres DramaActors Nobuko Otowa,
Jūkichi Uno,
Denjirō Ōkōchi,
Ichirō Sugai (菅井一郎),
Ryosuke Kagawa,
Osamu TakizawaRating67%
Yamazaki, an aspiring screenwriter, played by Jūkichi Uno, is boarding with a couple and their daughter. He and the daughter become involved romantically and the father asks him to leave, and tells the daughter not to marry Yamazaki because of his insecure line of work., 1h43
Directed by Kaneto ShindōOrigin JaponGenres Drama,
HorrorThemes Seafaring films,
Sports films,
Transport films,
Martial arts filmsActors Nobuko Otowa,
Kei Satō,
Taiji Tonoyama,
Jūkichi UnoRating78%
The film is set somewhere in Japan, in the mid-fourteenth century (Hachi tells of an attack from general Takauji Ashikaga, who came to power in the 1330s).Directed by Kaneto ShindōGenres DramaThemes Seafaring films,
Transport filmsActors Nobuko Otowa,
Jūkichi Uno,
Taiji Tonoyama,
Sō Yamamura,
Kamatari Fujiwara,
Tsutomu ShimomotoRating71%
Toku, a factory worker (Taiji Tonoyama) gives food to a starving woman, Tsuru (Nobuko Otowa), who then follows him home. He shares a shack in a shanty village in Kawasaki with his friend Pin-chan (Jūkichi Uno). The two men try to get rid of her but then let her stay when she gives them money. Tsuru tells the people of the village that she lost her job due to a strike, then was robbed of her severance pay, then sold to a brothel in Tsuchiura. She ran away with a friend from Kawasaki. Toku and Pin-chan sell her to a geisha house and spend the money. She is thrown out. The owner demands his money back. Tsuru earns the money to pay their debt by working as a prostitute outside the station. The other prostitutes beat her. She fends them off with a policeman's revolver and is then shot dead by the police. Directed by Kaneto ShindōGenres Drama,
RomanceActors Naoto Takenaka,
Rinko Kikuchi,
Hideko Yoshida,
Keiko Oginome,
Nobuko Otowa,
Kaneto ShindōRating68%
The first part of the film shows Tonoyama talking to a waitress, Kimie (Keiko Oginome), in a coffee shop. He then meets her father and asks him for permission to marry Kimie. The father asks him to first divorce his existing wife, Asako (Hideko Yoshida). In fact he is not married to Asako. To prevent him marrying Kimie, Asako then registers them as married. , 2h11
Directed by Kaneto ShindōOrigin JaponGenres DramaActors Nobuko Otowa,
Isuzu Yamada,
Sumiko Hidaka,
Sō Yamamura,
Osamu Takizawa,
Tanie KitabayashiRating70%
Ginko (Nobuko Otowa) works as a geisha to support her poor family, even though she has trained as a shoemaker to work with her father (Jūkichi Uno). She works first in Tokyo, then in northern Japan, and then in Tokyo again. She catches pneumonia and is carried home to die, but in the end her younger sister Tokiko dies and she lives., 1h52
Directed by Kaneto ShindōOrigin JaponGenres DramaActors Haruko Sugimura,
Nobuko Otowa,
Toshiyuki Nagashima,
Mitsuko Baishō,
Yutaka Matsushige,
Seiyō UchinoRating67%
A retired actress, Yoko, played by Haruko Sugimura (famous for her appearance in many Ozu films), visits her summer home. Her husband, played by Masahiko Tsugawa, has recently died. Her friends Tomie, another retired actress, and her husband Fujihachiro visit the summer home as well as Toyoko. Tomie is senile and can barely hold a conversation or remember her friends' names, although she can eat with gusto.