Cast: Reikichi Kawamura

Direction Yasujirō Ozu

Cast Hideko Takamine · Chishu Ryu · Tatsuo Saito · Sanae Takasugi

Synopsis Setsuko is unhappily married to Mimura, an engineer with no job and a bad drinking habit. She had always been in love with Hiroshi but both of them failed to propose when Hiroshi left for France a few years ago....

Direction Yasujirō Ozu

Cast Choko Iida · Hohi Aoki · Eitarô Ozawa · Mitsuko Yoshikawa

Synopsis In post-war Japan, a man brings a lost boy to his tenement. No one wants to take the child for even one night; finally, a sour widow, Tané, does. The next day, complaining, she takes the boy to his neighborhood...

Direction Akira Kurosawa

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Takashi Shimura · Keiko Awaji · Eiko Miyoshi

Synopsis Murukami, a young homicide detective, has his pocket picked on a bus and loses his pistol. Frantic and ashamed, he dashes about trying to recover the weapon without success until taken under the wing of an older and wiser detective,...

Direction Hiroshi Shimizu

Cast Masao Hayama · Shinichi Himori · Reikichi Kawamura · Seiji Nishimura

Synopsis A follow-up to Children in the Wind, Four Seasons of Children is also based on a Tsubota Joji novel. The film is divided into two chapters, following the young protagonists' minor adventures and real-world awakenings over spring and summer, then...

Direction Hiroshi Shimizu

Cast Yaeko Mizutani · Ken Uehara · Hideo Fujino · Kyoko Asagiri

Synopsis The film is set in the Meiji (1868-1912) era. Uta, a wandering itinerant performer, meets Hiramatsu, a tea wholesaler from Hamamatsu, at an inn in Shinshu (Nagano), and joins his household. Hiramatsu’s sudden death causes the business to collapse and...

Direction Hiroshi Shimizu

Cast Bakudankozo · Masao Hayama · Reikichi Kawamura · Mitsuko Yoshikawa

Synopsis Based on a Tsubota Joji novel, Shimizu's 1937 faeture Children in the Wind is probably his most well-known work, helping establish his reputation as a children's film director. Brothers Zenta (Hayam Masao) and Sanpei (Bakuden Kozo) carelessly wile their summer...

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Mitsuko Yoshikawa · Akio Isono · Sumiko Mizukubo · Reikichi Kawamura

Synopsis In this gently devastating drama, a critical breakthrough for Naruse, he contrasts the life of an aging geisha, whose angry teenage son is ashamed of her profession, with that of her youthful counterpart, a lovely young girl resentful of her...

Direction Hiroshi Shimizu

Cast Michiko Kuwano · Ken Uehara · Mayumi Tsukiji · Kaoru Futaba

Synopsis Hiroshi Shimizu’s endearing road movie follows the long and winding route of a sweet-natured bus driver—nicknamed Mr. Thank You for his constant exclamation to pedestrians who kindly step out of his way—traveling from rural Izu to Tokyo. Romance and comedy...

Direction Minoru Shibuya

Cast Kinuyo Tanaka · Shûji Sano · Michiyo Kogure · Reikichi Kawamura

Synopsis Pretty Oshige is deceived by her first love. After this, she lives a hard lifestyle, working at a number of jobs. Her only pleasure is her nephew, who eventually becomes a merchant marine. When Oshige meets her old love ten...

Direction Yasujirô Shimazu

Cast Ayako Katsuragi · Reikichi Kawamura · Kaoru Futaba · Kinuyo Tanaka

Synopsis The poor novelist Yamamoto is writing his novel, determined and with a headband around his head. With him, the novelist who is always in trouble paying his bills, is the girl Saya who becomes the model for his novel. Saya...

Direction Keisuke Sasaki

Cast Yasumi Hara · Mitsuko Higashiyama · Kuniko Igawa · Fumiko Katsuragi

Direction Yasushi Sasaki

Cast Mitsuko Mito · Shin Saburi · Toru Hirose · Saburo Kashii

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Koji Mitsui · Chishu Ryu · Shûji Sano · Kyoko Asagiri

Direction Yasujirô Shimazu

Cast Hideo Fujino · Hideko Higashi · Reikichi Kawamura · Ryotaro Mizushima

Synopsis A film about a businessman’s daughter who falls in love with one of her father’s employees.

Direction Yasushi Sasaki

Cast Shirô Ôsaka · Takeshi Sakamoto · Michiko Ikuno · Toyo Takahashi

Direction Keisuke Sasaki

Cast Kiyoshi Aono · Jun Arai · Kaoru Futaba · Masao Hayama

Synopsis A Composer tours ruins of castles searching for inspiration for a composition....

Direction Yasujirō Ozu · Torajiro Saito

Cast Hikaru Kicchôji · Kunimatsu Ogawa · Kanji Kawahara · Shoichi Nodera

Synopsis Ishimatsu is out of jail and wants to rebuild his life. But his brother, Sakichi, and his old partners are not going to allow it.

Direction Kôzaburô Yoshimura

Cast Susumu Fujita · Yukiko Todoroki · Choko Iida · Chishu Ryu

Direction Yasujirô Shimazu

Cast Reikichi Kawamura · Michiko Kuwano · Kuniko Miyake · Shin Saburi

Synopsis Keisuke works late hours at his job where he doesn’t get the attention he feels he deserves. He comes home very late to a house that he and his wife share with his younger sister, Fumiko. Fumiko is a perfect...

Direction Noboru Nakamura

Cast Kyoko Asagiri · Hideo Fujino · Shinichi Himori · Reikichi Kawamura