Direction: Heinosuke Gosho

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Heinosuke Gosho. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


An Inn at Osaka

1954 · Movie · 122 min. · Japan

7.6

97 votes

7.6

97 votes

7.3

40 votes

7.3

38 votes

Where Chimneys Are Seen

1953 · Movie · 108 min. · Japan

7.2

41 votes

7.2

41 votes

Utage

1967 · Movie · 100 min. · Japan

7.1

47 votes

7.1

47 votes

Woman in the Mist

1936 · Movie · 111 min. · Japan

Direction Heinosuke Gosho

Cast Toshiko Iizuka · Shin Tokudaiji · Choko Iida · Takeshi Sakamoto

Synopsis Otoku asks her brother Bunkichi to speak with her son Seiichi, a young man for whom she’s sacrificed everything but who now seems to be headed for a wastrel life. Bunkichi admonishes the boy to study harder, but it seems...

6.7

21 votes

6.7

21 votes

The Neighbor's Wife and Mine

1931 · Movie · 65 min. · Japan

Direction Heinosuke Gosho

Cast Atsushi Watanabe · Kinuyo Tanaka · Mitsuko Ichimura · Satoko Date

Synopsis Heinosuke Gosho's The Neighbor's Wife and Mine is a breezy and efferverscent slice-of-life comedy on a harried - and easily distracted - freelance writer (Atsushi Watanabe) whose deadline for a commission work to write a play for a theater company...

6.0

21 votes

6.0

21 votes

Ima hitotabi no

1947 · Movie · 118 min. · Japan

Direction Heinosuke Gosho

Cast Ichirô Ryûzaki · Mieko Takamine · Haruo Tanaka · Chieko Nakakita

Synopsis Before the war, Nogami, a doctor who devotes himself to the caring of the poor, meets Akiko during a theatrical representation. She's a sheltered girl from a wealthy bourgeois family who finds herself drawn to him and his humanitarian ideals.

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Niwatori wa futatabi naku

1954 · Movie · 118 min. · Japan

Direction Heinosuke Gosho

Cast Shûji Sano · Yûnosuke Itô · Akio Satake · Yoko Ozono

Synopsis Three young women make a suicide pact, but grow to have a better understanding of themselves.

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When a Woman Loves

1959 · Movie · 97 min. · Japan

Direction Heinosuke Gosho

Cast Ineko Arima · Shin Saburi · Yatsuko Tan'ami · Nobuko Otowa

Synopsis An affair between a middle-aged journalist (Saburi Shin) and a young woman (Arima Ineko).

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Yellow Crow

1957 · Movie · 104 min. · Japan

Direction Heinosuke Gosho

Cast Chikage Awashima · Yûnosuke Itô · Kinuyo Tanaka · Yoshiko Kuga

Synopsis Kiyoshi Yoshida feels estranged from both parents after his father returns from war.

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The Young Women of Izu

1945 · Movie · 74 min. · Japan

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Shinsetsu

1942 · Movie · 124 min. · Japan

Direction Heinosuke Gosho

Cast Satoko Chikamatsu · Haehiko Fuyuki · Sen Hara · Akane Hisano

Synopsis MINOWADA has his own theory of education and the daughter of his linguistics teacher becomes drawn to him. Strong-willed Kayo, a doctor is also attracted to him. A mediator tries to arrange a marriage but just at that point MINOWADA...

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Hanamuko no negoto

1935 · Movie · 72 min. · Japan

Direction Heinosuke Gosho

Cast Kazuo Hasegawa · Hiroko Kawasaki · Tokuji Kobayashi · Setsuko Shinobu

Synopsis "Another light-hearted parody of family life and at least nominally a sequel to Gosho's 1933 success, The Bride Talks in Her Sleep. This picture, too, was released for the New Year. Here, a young groom and his bride move into...

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Growing Up

1955 · Movie · 95 min. · Japan

Direction Heinosuke Gosho

Cast Hibari Misora · Shogoro Ichikawa · Takashi Kitahara · Eijirô Yanagi

Synopsis Adapted from Ichiyô Higuchi’s Meiji period novella. Tells the story of a young girl doomed from birth to a life of prostitution and her growing awareness of her fate.

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Women and Miso Soup

1955 · Movie · 95 min. · Japan

Direction Heinosuke Gosho

Cast Junko Ikeuchi · Keizo Kawasaki · Kazuo Kitamura · Masakazu Tamura

Synopsis Temari, a geisha, dreams of opening a small restaurant with her younger sister. Famous director Gosho Heinosuke's last film.

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Hana-kago no uta

1937 · Movie · 69 min. · Japan

Direction Heinosuke Gosho

Cast Kinuyo Tanaka · Shûji Sano · Shin Tokudaiji · Reikichi Kawamura

Synopsis Three men fall in love with the same young woman (Tanaka Kinuyo) who works in a tonkatsu restaurant in Tokyo's Shitamachi District.

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The New Road

1936 · Movie · 133 min. · Japan

Direction Heinosuke Gosho

Cast Kinuyo Tanaka · Hiroko Kawasaki · Shûji Sano · Ken Uehara

Synopsis The eldest daughter of a noble family is in love with an aviator while being courted by a fellow aristocrat she thinks is a dullard.

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