Akatsuki
The 3rd NHK Asadora. Starring Shin Saburi as a professor who quits the university to become a painter.
Acting
Michiko Araki (荒木道子) was born on March 6, 1917. She was an actress, known for Yakuza zesshô (1970), Red Beard (1965) and Jun'ai monogatari (1957). She died on March 24, 1989.
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The 3rd NHK Asadora. Starring Shin Saburi as a professor who quits the university to become a painter.
Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed when his fir...
The story follows the Nakamori family in Yokote, Akita Prefecture, where half of the year is buried by deep sno...
On a Tokyo dump’s shantytown edge, interwoven vignettes follow residents scraping by: a boy who “drives” an ima...
Japan, 1159. Moritō, a brave samurai, performs a heroic act by rescuing the lovely Kesa during a violent uprisi...
After a salary-man's fiancée attempts suicide, he recounts his gruesome family history which saw generations of...
When a wealthy, selfish family decides to take care of an elderly hobo who collapsed near their home, they are...
A Japanese woman writes down three stories she has witnessed or heard of in her diary, each about the difficult...
The story is of two people. One is deaf, the other deaf and mute. They marry after meeting at a school reunion,...
Natsuko’s daughter Saori is born blind in 1941, just before her father is drafted. Despite an attempted surgery...
On his return from school, young Ichiro finds his father in bed with his adopted sister, Namie. Enraged, he dec...
Set in the pleasure district of Kyoto, Tamiko (Yoshiko Mita, in her first lead role) is a young girl attending...
With World War II is coming to its end and Japan nearing defeat, Japanese military leaders step up suicide atta...
Story of loyal sailors giving their lives for their country as human torpedoes towards the end of the War.
Kazumi - whose sensitivity does not undermine her strength when she handles her second husband's emotional conf...
In a time of continuous civil wars ravaging the fields of feudal Japan, the eldest son of a very poor peasant f...
The film is dedicated to the souls of flight school graduates killed in World War II. Young boys dream about be...
A footballing law student tutors an undergraduate, developing into a romance that soon enough goes awry.
1948 Japanese drama film.
Junai Monogatari AKA Story of Pure Love is about two poor youths, Mitsuko and Kando, rebelling against society...
A man who survived the war carries the will of his comrades in arms, walking across the country visiting the be...
After her mother's funeral, Yuriko, dressed in mourning clothes, sees off her lover Shintaro as he leaves in th...
Shinichi is not only poor, he is also deaf, and leads a joyless life with his sick mother. His one happiness is...
Japanese youngsters enduring hard training in Recruit Camp and then going to Iwo Jima in the last days of World...
A tale of two best friends in the WWII era Japan. Takao is a young man enthusiastic about joining the navy to f...
Yumechiyo, a geisha house madam recently diagnosed with a terminal illness, yearns to do something constructive...
On August 9, 1945, the Americans dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki. This film, based on a story by Mitsukaru I...
Drama about two college friends, now working for the same banking firm, torn apart by jealousy over their inequ...
If You Were Young: Rage highlights the other side of post-war Japanese prosperity, focusing on the throngs of y...
1950s Japanese comedy.
Suzuko, a woman in her twenties who has a brother with political problems (due to communist reprisals), lives f...
A musical film based on the original work of Saigo Teruhiko. After leaving the juvenile detention center and re...
Young yakuza Shujiro Hanada goes to prison after losing his cool in a rigged gambling game and slashing a few o...
Part 2 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series
Woman melodrama by Shiro Toyoda