Cast: Bakudankozo

Direction Yasujirō Ozu

Cast Choko Iida · Shinichi Himori · Masao Hayama · Yoshiko Tsubouchi

Synopsis In 1923, in the province of Shinshu, the widow and simple worker of a silk factory Tsune Nonomiya (O-Tsune) decides to send her only son to Tokyo for having a better education. Thirteen years later, she visits her son Ryosuke...

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 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 Hiroshi Shimizu

Cast Chishu Ryu · Shinyo Nara · Kuniko Miyake · Masami Morikawa

Synopsis Starring Ryu Chishu from Ozu Yasujiro's Otoko wa Tsuraiyo, Mikaheri no Tou realistically explores the nature of children's education. Set in a mountain boarding school, the film tells various stories about the school's teachers and problem students.

Direction Hiroshi Shimizu

Cast Mieko Takamine · Shin Tokudaiji · Shotaro Akagi · Bakudankozo

Synopsis A pair of blind masseurs, an enigmatic city woman, a lonely man and his ill-behaved nephew—The Masseurs and a Woman is made up of crisscrossing miniature studies of love and family at a remote resort in the mountains.

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 Hiroshi Shimizu

Cast Kinuyo Tanaka · Hiroko Kawasaki · Tatsuo Saito · Chishu Ryu

Synopsis Two bruised souls enact a tender, hesitant romance in Hiroshi Shimizu’s alternately poignant and playful wartime love story. A soldier (Chishu Ryu) is forced to prolong his stay at a rural spa when he accidentally cuts his foot on the...

Direction Hiroshi Shimizu

Cast Shûji Sano · Shinichi Himori · Toshiaki Konoe · Chishu Ryu

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Ken Uehara · Fumiko Katsuragi · Mitsuko Yoshikawa · Yasumi Hara

Synopsis A superstitious farming family is hesitant to use their prized fallow fields to grow crops to help feed the nation's troops. Kinoshita's rural drama was made to promote the war effort, but his story branches off in many directions, including...

Direction Hiroshi Shimizu

Cast Mitsugu Fujii · Mitsuko Yoshikawa · Yukichi Iwata · Michiko Kuwano

Synopsis The story focuses on the widower Nemoto, ostensibly a businessman, who has one son, Kanichi, the hero of the title. Nemoto remarries; his new wife is a widow with a son and daughter of her own. However, Nemoto’s business turns...

Direction Yasushi Sasaki

Cast Choko Iida · Koji Mitsui · Chishu Ryu · Shin Saburi

Direction Hiroshi Shimizu

Cast Tomio Aoki · Mary Dean · Hatsue Gion · Masao Hayama

Synopsis Yuki is a young, single mother supporting herself and her son, Haru, with a job as a bar hostess. Haru’s group of friends (which includes the always good Tomio Aoki) are told by their parents to avoid playing with Haru...

Direction Hideo Ôba

Cast Fumiko Katsuragi · Fusako Maki · Mitsuko Mito · Masami Morikawa