Direction: Hiroshi Shimizu

Direction Hiroshi Shimizu

Cast Gosho Shoichi · Shinichiro Kubota · Natuski Masako · Yoshikatsu Chiba

Plot The movie focuses on the plight of ten war orphans hailing from different cities across Japan. With nowhere to go, they scavenge around train stations, scratching out an existence by...

Direction Hiroshi Shimizu

Cast Kyôko Kagawa · Yukiko Shimazaki · Kenzo Kawarazaki · Jûkichi Uno

Plot A university professor and his wife have two sons with infantile paralysis. Through trial and error, they struggle to open a school for disabled children at their own expense. Based...

Direction Hiroshi Shimizu

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

Plot 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'...

Direction Hiroshi Shimizu

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

Plot 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...

Direction Hiroshi Shimizu

Cast Bakudankozo · Masao Hayama · Reikichi Kawamura · Mitsuko Yoshikawa

Plot 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...

Direction Hiroshi Shimizu

Cast Yumeko Aizome · Ureo Egawa · Yukiko Inoue · Yasuo Nanjo

Plot Shimizu’s exquisite silent drama tells of the humiliating social downfall experienced by Sunako after jealousy drives her to commit a terrible crime. With its lushly photographed landscapes and innovative visual...

Direction Hiroshi Shimizu

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

Plot 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...

Direction Hiroshi Shimizu

Cast Mieko Takamine · Shin Tokudaiji · Shotaro Akagi · Bakudankozo

Plot 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...

Direction Hiroshi Shimizu

Cast Koume Akasaka · Hiroshi Ayukawa · Shinichi Himori · Moriichi Kawabe

Plot Saheita, the final heir of a once rich and respectable family, can’t refuse the many villagers that come to him for favours and money, even though he is on the...

Direction Hiroshi Shimizu

Cast Mieko Takamine · Shinobu Aoki · Mitsuko Yoshikawa · Choko Iida

Plot Released in 1940, Nobuko stars renowned actress/singer Takamine Mieko as titular heroine Nobuko, a spirited young teacher working in a conservative school. Based on a novel by Shishi Bunroku, the...

Direction Hiroshi Shimizu

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

Plot 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...

Direction Hiroshi Shimizu

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

Plot 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...

Direction Hiroshi Shimizu

Cast Jun Arai · Satoko Date · Yôko Fujita · Shoichi Kofujita

Direction Hiroshi Shimizu

Cast Dankan · Nanako Ôkôchi · Toshinori Omi · Ippei Souda

Direction Kintarô Inoue · Kazuo Ishikawa · Minoru Matsui · Yasushi Sasaki

Cast Kazuo Hasegawa · Kôkichi Takada · Eigoro Onoe · Kotaro Bando

Direction Hiroshi Shimizu

Cast Yukichi Iwata · Yoshiko Okada · Hideko Takamine · Joji Oka

Direction Hiroshi Shimizu

Cast Yûta Hiraoka · Takahiro Miura · Kana Kurashina · Akiyoshi Nakao

Plot Set 10 years after "Kids Return." Shinji and Masaru have graduated from high school with different paths in their lives. Shinji attempted to become boxer and Masaru a yakuza. They...

Direction Hiroshi Shimizu

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

Direction Hiroshi Shimizu

Cast Michiyo Kogure · Ichirô Ryûzaki · Junko Ikeuchi · Shôji Nakayama

Plot Based on the novel by Kojin Shimomura. Story of a young boy and his adventures in the country. His idyllic life is shattered by the illness and death of his...

Direction Hiroshi Shimizu

Cast Hiroko Kawasaki · Ureo Egawa · Jun Arai · Hiroko Izumi