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77

8.0

/5252/

79

/114/

79

/121/

4.2

/9665/

100

/16/

93

/93/

Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She describes life's vicious cycle: acting cheerful around drunks, dressing and living well to convey confidence, needing money for these expenses and for her demanding mother and brother, and knowing she's growing older.

poster

77

63

7.6

/3535/

73

/64/

76

/100/

3.9

/6712/

83

/577/

A married Japanese forester during WWII is sent to Indochina to manage forests. He meets a young Japanese typist and promises to leave his wife. He doesn't and after the war, she turns up and the affair resumes.

poster

81

62

8.0

/2361/

75

/49/

81

/67/

4.2

/7280/

89

/36/

War widow Reiko rebuilds and runs the grocery shop in the house of her husband's family. Many years later, their business is threatened by a newly built supermarket and Reiko's in-laws plan to convert their small shop into a supermarket, to her detriment.

poster

79

61

7.7

/2329/

73

/40/

73

/62/

4.0

/4174/

94

/445/

An ingratiating bride develops warm ties to her father-in-law while her cold husband blithely slights her for another woman.

poster

81

59

7.8

/1508/

72

/21/

76

/44/

4.1

/3842/

100

/241/

A man is involved in a fatal car accident, and though he is blameless, his company transfers him to a remote branch in a small town. Before he leaves, he gives the man's widow a large sum of money that she uses to move back to her hometown.

poster

76

56

7.6

/1971/

66

/25/

75

/44/

3.9

/2877/

84

/366/

Michiyo lives in the small place Osaka and is not happy with her marriage; all she does is cook and clean for her husband.

poster

75

51

7.4

/1300/

66

/27/

73

/35/

3.8

/1810/

89

/390/

With delicate, unobtrusive strokes, Naruse evokes both the humor and bitterness of his characters’ dilemmas, in this bleak, compelling poignant portrait of a quartet of aging geishas contemplating their troubles with men and money.

poster

75

40

7.5

/921/

66

/21/

71

/25/

4.0

/2167/

83

/21/

The story of Kiyoko, a young woman who has successfully managed to make a break with her dysfunctional family who have been trying to arrange a marriage for her with a disagreeable man whom she has rejected.

poster

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39

7.5

/1286/

69

/25/

71

/33/

3.9

/2091/

88

/10/

Otsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Her daughter Katsuyo doesn't see any future in her mother's trade in the late days of Geisha. But Otsuta will not give up. This film portraits the day time life of geisha when not entertaining customers.

poster

75

38

7.1

/717/

63

/16/

69

/20/

3.7

/1555/

100

/25/

An aging geisha, whose angry teenage son is ashamed of her profession, works alongside a young geisha, resentful of her family for forcing her into a life of ignominy.

poster

73

36

7.5

/622/

65

/19/

70

/12/

3.9

/1377/

80

/5/

Kimiko, a Tokyo white-collar working girl, lives with her serious, intellectual, haiku-writing mother. Kimiko seeks to marry her boyfriend but needs her absent father to act as the go-between and negotiate the marriage. Kimiko travels and finds her father living with a second family.

poster

75

33

7.4

/413/

56

/6/

75

/14/

3.7

/572/

100

/201/

A war widow with a young boy manages a farm with her bossy mother-in-law. When a reporter comes to interview her, the two begin an affair. He turns out to be married and won't leave his wife. Her older brother tries to marry off his children and hang on to/ extend his farm through an advantageous marriage in the face of threatened land confiscation and the desire of his children to get comfortable urban jobs instead of the backbreaking work in the paddy fields under parental control.

poster

72

31

7.5

/953/

68

/16/

68

/18/

3.9

/1610/

A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.

poster

72

30

7.5

/417/

71

/15/

69

/12/

3.9

/974/

67

/205/

A single mother from the country raising a 6th grade boy comes to Tokyo, leaves the boy to live with his uncle's family, runs a struggling grocery store, and works a local inn. The boy befriends a girl, the daughter of the innkeeper.

poster

70

28

7.1

/712/

67

/12/

72

/19/

3.7

/1422/

In Depression-era Tokyo, the life of a single mother and her young son are disrupted by the return of her ex-husband, who fathered the child and walked out on her years earlier.

poster

62

24

7.0

/479/

57

/4/

61

/11/

3.6

/824/

54

/102/

A luckless geisha struggles to make a living for herself and her young son.

poster

66

24

6.7

/569/

61

/16/

68

/18/

3.5

/1158/

A short concerning an impoverished insurance salesman and his scrappy son, whose fisticuffs with the other boys of their village put his father’s livelihood in jeopardy.

poster

67

20

6.8

/510/

61

/8/

71

/15/

3.5

/890/

An actress returns to Tokyo after a successful stint in Hollywood to reclaim—with the help of her gangster brother—the daughter she abandoned years before.

poster

66

20

7.3

/542/

60

/8/

62

/18/

3.7

/780/

60

/12/

The eldest daughter of a rural family Mon returns home from Tokyo pregnant after an affair with a college student Kobata, which causes a scandal that will threaten the marriage prospects of the younger sister San, in her cash-strapped family. The ill-tempered eldest brother Inokichi decides to take on the role of disciplinarian, with harrowing results.

poster

73

17

7.3

/424/

67

/7/

65

/14/

3.8

/863/

86

/4/

A husband and wife's pet peeves and minor irritations escalate into major rifts and animosity.

poster

69

17

7.4

/519/

55

/6/

73

/13/

3.7

/621/

Tashiro coincidentally meets his best friend Sugimoto in a bar very close to the apartment in which Sugimoto’s wayward wife is found dead. Although Tashiro is not a suspect in the police investigation, he is racked with guilt and confesses to his wife, Masako. In an effort to further relieve his tortured sense of guilt, he then confesses to Sugimoto. Neither his wife nor his friend can believe that he could have been involved.

poster

66

16

6.9

/444/

61

/7/

66

/10/

3.5

/872/

Mikio Naruse’s final silent film is a gloriously rich portrait of a waitress, Sugiko, whose life, despite a host of male admirers and even some intrigued movie talent scouts, ends up taking a suffocatingly domestic turn after a wealthy businessman accidentally hits her with his car.

poster

70

16

7.4

/469/

62

/11/

71

/9/

3.8

/744/

Sanae is left a widow after her prestigious husband dies, but holds the proceeds of a million yen insurance policy. Being childless, her former in-laws have no objection to her return to her own family.

poster

71

16

7.6

/495/

61

/7/

72

/11/

3.8

/606/

Considered one of the finest late Naruses and a model of film biography, A Wanderer’s Notebook features remarkable performances by Hideko Takamine – Phillip Lopate calls it “probably her greatest performance” – and Kinuyo Tanaka as mother and daughter living from hand to mouth in Twenties Tokyo. Based on the life and career of Fumiko Hayashi, the novelist whose work Naruse adapted to the screen several times, A Wanderer’s Notebook traces her bitter struggle for literary recognition in the first half of the twentieth century – her affairs with feckless men, the jobs she took to survive (peddler, waitress, bar maid), and her arduous, often humiliating attempts to get published in a male-dominated culture.

poster

70

16

7.1

/403/

66

/9/

69

/10/

3.7

/713/

Ten years into a marriage, the wife is disappointed by the husband's lack of financial success, meaning she has to work and can't treat herself and the husband finds the wife slovenly and mean-spirited: she neither cooks not cleans particularly well and is generally disagreeable. In turn, he alternately ignores her and treats her as a servant. Neither is particularly happy, not helped by their unsatisfactory lodgers. The husband is easily seduced by an ex-colleague, a widow with a small child who needs some security, and considers leaving his wife.

poster

69

13

7.3

/263/

64

/5/

68

/11/

3.7

/495/

Kiyoko (Takamine Hideko) and her husband want to open a coffee shop. She becomes increasingly close to the bank clerk (Mifune Toshiro) she's asked for a loan.

poster

69

13

7.0

/412/

66

/3/

70

/7/

3.5

/704/

Okoma, a witty young woman working as a conductor in an old, rickety bus in Kōfu, Yamanashi (rural Japan), has a creative idea that could avert the dwindling number of passengers when her job and the bus company itself are at stake.

poster

71

11

7.7

/252/

64

/5/

70

/13/

3.7

/280/

A woman remembers her own marriage when dealing with the love life of her son.

poster

63

10

7.4

/201/

48

/5/

59

/14/

3.6

/272/

Anzukko (Little Peach) is the daughter of a successful writer. She turns down each one of her suitors, until she marries a beginning writer named Ryokichi. Their life quickly sinks into despair.

poster

62

10

7.3

/237/

40

/2/

58

/12/

3.6

/348/

When an only child is struck by a car and dies, the child's mother seeks vengeance against the driver in this thrilling drama. The car was driven by the wife of a company president who is having an affair. The woman's husband manages to buy silence about the incident, but the victim's mother discovers the identity of the driver. After she secures a job in the home of the company president and his philandering spouse, the woman plans to murder the couple's son when he reaches the age of her late son.

poster

62

8

7.2

/210/

40

/2/

66

/8/

3.6

/261/

A married couple looking for an apartment move in with the husband's co-worker, a widower. The husband becomes jealous of the widower and his wife.

poster

64

8

6.7

/177/

57

/4/

63

/10/

3.5

/207/

The troubled relationship between a writer and his ballet teacher wife, who has for years loved another man, finally leads to the breakup of the family.

poster

?

6.8

/9/

Directed by Mikio Naruse. It is presumed to be lost.

poster

?

6.5

/11/

Directed by Mikio Naruse. It is presumed to be lost.

poster

?

6.0

/17/

An Invention laboratory is working on the creation of a performance 'bomb' in the shape of a rocket that could be delivered to the front in order to entertain and amuse the national troops. Inside this rocket would be tiny performers. Once launched from the laboratory and landed amidst the Japanese troops the soldiers could enjoy the performers. The laboratory succeeds and the rocket is built. It bears the insignia, 'until the victory days.' The Japanese government began a program of shooting and disseminating propaganda and entertainment movies for its troops during World War II. It is a lost film.

poster

?

7.1

/50/

36

/3/

63

/3/

Portmanteau film about young lovers.

poster

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5.6

/56/

60

/1/

Reputedly based on Frank Capra’s 1939 film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, A Descendant of Tarô Urashima is about a repatriated soldier who becomes populist politician in the Japanese Happiness Party.

poster

?

6.6

/95/

70

/3/

59

/7/

A Fond Face from the Past is also set in a rural community, specifically a village outside Kameoka, near Kyoto. In some ways this short, thirty-six-minute film is Naruse's most moving negotiation of the militarist restrictions of the time, perhaps because it is also his most direct engagement with the culture of war. When a newsreel comes to Kameoka featuring a local man named Yoichi, it causes some excitement in the community and, of course, in Yoichi's own family. First of all his mother makes the newsreel (Nippon News, no. 14), which begins with the same marching music that opens his own film, followed by a curious baby judging context in Los Angeles featuring two hundred Japanese babies. Released in January 1941, almost a year before the pacific war begins, this “found footage” is indicative of Japanese imperialist ambitions beyond Asia long before Pearl Harbor.

poster

66

?

7.4

/242/

55

/4/

63

/7/

3.7

/310/

In "The Other Woman" the children of a distinguished professor find that the woman they have come to regard as their racy and slightly disreputable Ginza aunt is really their mother.

poster

65

?

6.9

/124/

70

/1/

60

/5/

Part 1 of a 2-part romance based on a story by noted author Kikuchi Kan. The central character here is Toyomi (played by Takako IRIE, star of Mizoguchi’s "Water Magician), a rich young woman in love with Shintaro (Minoru TAKADA), a rich young man. Unfortunately, Shintaro’s father is in the process of arranging a marriage for him with Yurie (Chieko TAKEHISA), the scion of an even wealthier family. In order to avoid this, the two young lovers flee to Tokyo to live together. When Shintaro comes back to proclaim his intent to marry Toyomi, his father browbeats him into attending the long-arranged marriage meeting with Yurie. While Shintaro is back home, Toyomi goes on a vacation trip with her closest chum, Michiko (Yumeko AIZOME). At a class reunion, Toyomi is to distressed (at not having heard from Shintaro for so long), she doesn’t go out on the town with her classmates. Michiko, however, runs into Shintaro and Yurie (also out on the town), and pulling him aside, demands an explanation.

poster

61

?

6.3

/129/

60

/1/

62

/7/

Among the tight-knit neighbours are a poet, his actress wife, a bachelor budding author, a tobacco shop owner-cum-landlady, an insurance salesman and his nosy and greedy wife. Enter a young and seemingly high-class couple who just so happens is open to purchasing life insurance from their swift neighbour. In the meantime, life is imitating art across the street, which may end up providing for either a happy ending or a rude split - eventually that is.

poster

?

6.1

/96/

60

/1/

60

/5/

A small community in wartime Japan learn how to make do with less.

poster

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6.3

/59/

60

/1/

60

/5/

The premature death of a young mother serves as inspiration for her husband and son.

poster

58

?

7.2

/136/

40

/2/

63

/6/

The story is about the social problems faced by Japan's indigenous Ainu, mostly centered on the reactions of the characters to their oppressed state.

poster

64

?

6.8

/166/

60

/1/

67

/6/

Japanese domestic drama.

poster

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6.5

/56/

60

/1/

A comedy about two salarymen who routinely degrade themselves for their boss.

poster

?

6.6

/116/

60

/1/

62

/5/

Part 2 of a 2-part romance (fist part - Kafuku zempen) based on a story by noted author Kikuchi Kan. In the second half, we discover that Toyomi is pregnant -- and while Shintaro and Yurie are on their extended honeymoon, she bears his child, a girl named Kiyoko. She is supported in adversity by Michiko -- and gets considerable moral support from not only her own mother but also from Shintaro's mother and siblings. Even more surprisingly, Yurie strikes up a friendship of sorts with her. When Yurie learns that the child is Shintaro's, she convinces Toyomi that it would be best to let Shintaro (and her) raise Kiyoko, so Toyomi can get on with making a proper life for herself. Tearfully, Toyomi agrees. Sometime later, Michiko goes to visit Toyomi -- and sees her at work, as a kindergarten teacher.

poster

66

?

6.8

/166/

72

/4/

58

/6/

In A Tale of Archery, young, timid bowmaster Kazuma (Akitake Kôno) seeks to beat the archery record set by Hoshino Kanzaemon, a mysterious figure who, it is rumored, drove the previous champion (Kazuma’s father) to suicide. Possessed of much raw talent, Kazuma is also very much a coward, holing himself up in an inn run by the kindly Okinu (Kinuyo Tanaka) and generally avoiding confrontation of any sort. Despite his clandestine manner, enough of the locals know of Kazuma’s purpose and an attempt is made on his life. He is saved by Karatsu Kanbei (Kazuo Hasegawa), a samurai who offers to help Kazuma hone his archery skills, though it soon becomes clear that this apparently selfless stranger has several potentially shady ulterior motives.

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