Chishū Ryū
Connu pour: Acting
Anniversaire: 1904-05-13
Lieu de naissance: Tachibana, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan
Aussi connu sous le nom: 笠 智衆, Chishû Ryû, Ryu Chishu, Chishuu Ryuu, Тисю Рю, 笠智众
The Fourth Lady
It was the first time in six years that I was able to step on the land of my homeland, the land of my nostalgia. It was Tokyo that had turned to...
Libération : 1948.12.23Popularité : 0.794
The Longest Tunnel
After a passenger ship sinks in 1954, Go Akutsu devises a life-saving project in the form of a tunnel under the Tsugaru Strait. While working on this...
Libération : 1982.10.16Popularité : 1.711
Red Beard
Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed when his first post after medical school takes him...
Libération : 1965.04.03Popularité : 11.522
Tora-san Takes a Vacation
Mitsuo goes to Nagoya to visit Izumi, whose father left Izumi’s sad, bar hostess mother for another woman, so together they decide to confront...
Libération : 1990.12.22Popularité : 2.06
Tora-san Confesses
When Izumi can't stand seeing her mother flirt with other men, she leaves home. She sends a letter to Mitsuo and Mitsuo goes looking for her. But...
Libération : 1991.12.23Popularité : 3.794
Crybaby Chacha
Chiaki Onoda a young assisstant sound mixer is unhappy with his job, but otherwise he is enjoying life. He loves his cat, his friends, hunting for...
Libération : 1987.02.21Popularité : 1.422
Late Spring
Noriko is perfectly happy living at home with her widowed father, Shukichi, and has no plans to marry -- that is, until her aunt Masa convinces...
Libération : 1949.09.13Popularité : 10.579
Early Spring
A young Tokyo salary man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship while he has an extramarital affair.
Libération : 1956.01.29Popularité : 6.73
Striving to Live
Yasuichiro Isa, who works in the labor section of Sone Mining Tokyo Headquarters, paid a monthly fee for his younger brother, Reiji, who was in...
Libération : 1955.02.25Popularité : 2.391
Late Autumn
A woman and her daughter are each forced to contend with an increasing pressure to marry, particularly from three men who knew her late husband.
Libération : 1960.11.13Popularité : 10.526
The Bad Sleep Well
In this loose adaptation of "Hamlet," illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi climbs to a high position within a Japanese corporation and marries the...
Libération : 1960.09.15Popularité : 10.891
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
A fictional account of the life of Japanese author Yukio Mishima, combining dramatizations of three of his novels and a depiction of the events of...
Libération : 1985.09.20Popularité : 16.799
Love in the Mountains
A mother and her daughter who run a quiet mountain hotel, and guests who visit the hotel. A girl who does not know what a broken heart is, the...
Libération : 1959.10.23Popularité : 2.14
There Was a Father
Shuhei Horikawa, a poor schoolteacher, struggles to raise his son Ryohei by himself, despite neither money nor prospects.
Libération : 1942.04.01Popularité : 7.033
The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
After the Japanese defeat to the Russians, Kaji leads the last remaining men through Manchuria. Intent on returning to his dear wife and his old...
Libération : 1961.01.28Popularité : 8.404
Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu
Part one of Shin Saburi's Theater of Life adaptation.
Libération : 1952.11.06Popularité : 1.196
Let's Go in Good Spirits
In the movies of those times, you can see young boys in the company scene often. Those boys were called kyuji (給仕), which means...
Libération : 1941.05.01Popularité : 0.989
Equinox Flower
Wataru Hirayama's outwardly liberal views on marriage are severely tested when his daughter declares that she is in love with a musician and is...
Libération : 1958.09.07Popularité : 7.432
Good Morning
A lighthearted take on director Yasujiro Ozu’s perennial theme of the challenges of intergenerational relationships, Good Morning tells...
Libération : 1959.05.12Popularité : 12.493
The End of Summer
The family of an older man who runs a small sake brewery become concerned with his finances and his health after they discover him visiting an old...
Libération : 1961.10.29Popularité : 17.484
Kaisen no Zenya
Kempeitai fights American spies in Japan
Libération : 1943.01.14Popularité : 1.749
Gekimetsu no uta
Three daughters have graduated from the music school and have gone their separate ways. On the day of the outbreak of war, the three girls meet again...
Libération : 1945.03.29Popularité : 1.044
Street Without End
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...
Libération : 1934.04.26Popularité : 5.674
The Funeral
When Wabisuke's father-in-law unexpectedly dies, the family goes through a series of random events and occurrences as the funeral unfolds over three...
Libération : 1984.11.17Popularité : 4.993
Dolls floating down the river
A touching story of pure love and tears between a boy and a girl, drawn by the innocent duo of Chieko Baisho and Shinichiro Mikami, based on "Nagashi...
Libération : 1962.03.03Popularité : 0.878
Twenty-Four Eyes
From 1928 to 1946, the lives of 12 young people and their school teacher in a poor Japanese village are profoundly affected by historical events and...
Libération : 1954.09.15Popularité : 7.529
The Rickshaw Man
A poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman's husband dies suddenly.
Libération : 1958.04.21Popularité : 6.786
Flower in a Storm
1962 Japanese movie. Remake of the 1939 movie
Libération : 1962.04.01Popularité : 1.651
Mole Alley
33-year-old poor writer Ogata was able to endure his miserable life cheerfully thanks to Yoshie, a 19-year-old innocent young wife. After graduating...
Libération : 1953.05.07Popularité : 1.658
Japan's Longest Day
Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the...
Libération : 1967.08.03Popularité : 6.499
Floating Weeds
When a theater troupe's master visits his old flame, he unintentionally sets off a chain of unexpected events with devastating consequences. A remake...
Libération : 1959.11.17Popularité : 9.158
The Soundless Cry
Shinichi is not only poor, he is also deaf, and leads a joyless life with his sick mother. His one happiness is his friendship with a girl who works...
Libération : 1965.01.30Popularité : 2.278
Tokyo Story
The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Their elder...
Libération : 1953.11.03Popularité : 22.882
That Night's Wife
In Depression-era Japan, a man commits a robbery to save his critically ill daughter and escapes with the funds, but complications arise.
Libération : 1930.07.06Popularité : 2.074
An Autumn Afternoon
Shuhei Hirayama is a widower with a 24-year-old daughter. Gradually, he comes to realize that she should not be obliged to look after him for the...
Libération : 1962.11.18Popularité : 7.935
Early Summer
A 28-year-old single woman is pressured to marry.
Libération : 1951.10.03Popularité : 7.89
The Only Son
A silk factory worker is persuaded to support her son's education up to a college level despite their poverty. Many years later, she travels to Tokyo...
Libération : 1936.09.15Popularité : 4.838
Record of a Tenement Gentleman
An errant salaryman's son gets lost until a man from the Tokyo tenements brings him to vendor Tane, who's reluctant to let the kid board.
Libération : 1947.05.20Popularité : 4.574
Tokyo Twilight
Two sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot accept the fact that she was abandoned as a child.
Libération : 1957.04.30Popularité : 7.42
The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice
The arranged marriage between a capricious woman from Tokyo high society and a quiet and rustic man is tested by a marital crisis.
Libération : 1952.10.01Popularité : 7.081
The Munekata Sisters
Setsuko is unhappily married to Mimura, an engineer with no job and a bad drinking habit. She had always been in love with Hiroshi but both of them...
Libération : 1950.08.08Popularité : 3.623
Tokyo-Ga
German director Wim Wenders tries to explore the Tokyo that was depicted in the films of Yasujiro Ozu and finds a very different city.
Libération : 1985.04.24Popularité : 7.813
Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family
After the death of her husband, an elderly woman and her youngest, unmarried daughter are forced to sell their house to cover his debts and decide to...
Libération : 1941.03.01Popularité : 5.753
Iki na fûraibô
A lost film by Masahiro Makino
Libération : 1946.02.28Popularité : 3.103
Bridge
A 1959 Yoshiaki Bansho adaptation of an Osaragi Jiro story.
Libération : 1959.03.04Popularité : 3.156
The Last War
A Japanese family is torn apart by the tensions of an avoidable nuclear world war between the superpowers.
Libération : 1961.10.08Popularité : 3.41
The Human Bullet
A soldier has been in the Japanese military for the entirety of WWII, and in that time, his dedication to the army has never faltered. However, as...
Libération : 1968.10.22Popularité : 4.975
Carmen Comes Home
A rural village elder plans an event on the return of a farmer's daughter from the city, unaware that she has become a Westernized burlesque artist.
Libération : 1951.03.21Popularité : 2.982
Battle of the Japan Sea
Japan and Russia clash in what comes to be known as the Russo-Japanese War. An attempt by the Japanese fleet and army to take Port Arthur fails, and...
Libération : 1969.08.01Popularité : 4.685
Woman of Tokyo
Ryoichi and Chikako, brother and sister, live together. Chikako toils during the day and, at night, prostitutes herself to fund his college tuition.
Libération : 1933.02.09Popularité : 3.377
Boyhood
When a family has to relocate due to the war, they are ostracized by their new community.
Libération : 1951.05.12Popularité : 3.445
Ornamental Hairpin
A Japanese mountain inn patron's foot is cut by an ornamental hairpin accidentally left behind by a former patron, leading to much curiosity among...
Libération : 1941.08.26Popularité : 3.431
She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum
On the way back to his childhood home, a septuagenarian man recalls his childhood and adolescence, in particular his love for a young woman.
Libération : 1955.11.29Popularité : 2.669
Master Fencer Sees the World
A historical drama that depicts the touching beauty of world obsession and human love in the style of light comedy, in the center of which is a young...
Libération : 1960.10.16Popularité : 2.191
Youth of the Son
The story of a father and two teenaged sons, and the rivalry between the two siblings as they begin to discover the attraction of girls.
Libération : 1952.06.25Popularité : 1.611
Passing Fancy
In Depression-era Tokyo, a struggling middle-aged single father with a young son comes across a homeless young lady and convinces a bar owner to take...
Libération : 1933.09.07Popularité : 4.935
A Mother Should Be Loved
A young man discovers that the woman who raised him is his stepmother. His stepbrother, who is unaware of the revelation, resents his mother for...
Libération : 1934.05.11Popularité : 3.063
Tora-san's Sunrise and Sunset
Tora-san arrives in Shibamata on Mitsuo's first day of school only to find that on his account, Mitsuo was embarrassed. After a fight with his...
Libération : 1976.07.23Popularité : 2.671
Tora-san's Grand Scheme
After winning big at the races, Torajiro Kuruma wants to take his aunt and uncle on a trip to Hawaii to partly pay the great filial debt he feels he...
Libération : 1970.02.26Popularité : 2.646
The Snow Flurry
After surviving the double suicide pact she made with her lover, a woman gives birth to their child.
Libération : 1959.01.03Popularité : 2.493
Army
A Japanes widow raises her sickly son to be strong enough to join the army and fight on the front lines of WW2.
Libération : 1944.12.07Popularité : 4.276
Home from the Sea
On a beautiful island in Seto Inner Sea, Seichi and Minko make their living by transporting rocks to construction sites by boat. They cherish the...
Libération : 1972.10.28Popularité : 1.837
Luminous Moss
A headmaster and a novelist, looking for inspiration, regard a strange natural phenomenon before sharing stories of their own.
Libération : 1992.04.25Popularité : 1.98
White Blaze
A masterpiece depicting the true feelings, grief and joy of a woman. An adaptation of the novel of the same name by Yasushi Inoue.
Libération : 1958.03.04Popularité : 1.438
Sailor
Shinpachi Morimura, who was born in a fusuma craftsman's house, wants to join the Japanese navy. However, his father wants him to continue in the...
Libération : 1944.05.25Popularité : 2.402
Children in the Wind
On vacation's eve, a boy is sent to the countryside to live with his uncle after his father is imprisoned and accused of embezzlement.
Libération : 1937.11.11Popularité : 1.586
Tora-san Goes Religious?
Tora-san visits brother-in-law Hiroshi's hometown to attend a memorial service for his late father. When the local temple priest becomes intoxicated,...
Libération : 1983.12.28Popularité : 3.932
The Eternal Rainbow
Two men at an ironworks encounter roadblocks: the first does not have the grades to get a job, while the other finds himself falling for a co-worker.
Libération : 1958.10.28Popularité : 1.289
A Star Athlete
During college military training exercises, the bond between two friends and athletic rivals is tested when one of them becomes involved with a woman...
Libération : 1937.05.01Popularité : 4.316
Boy Aviation Pilots
Story of two close friends who long to become pilots in the air corps. Only one succeeds in entering the service, while the other finds a job in...
Libération : 1936.07.24Popularité : 0.456
Housewife Camellia
The narrative is about a woman who faces hard times, when her husband is arrested for a crime committed by his boss. The woman also has a child to...
Libération : 1936.10.04Popularité : 0.657
Spring Dreams
When a wealthy, selfish family decides to take care of an elderly hobo who collapsed near their home, they are beset by visits from his numerous...
Libération : 1960.01.03Popularité : 3.36
Queen of the Wind
A man and his girlfriend work for a cosmetics company, but would like to open their own store. The company is planning to send someone to Paris for...
Libération : 1938.02.17Popularité : 0.594
Tora-san's Dear Old Home
While Sakura and Hiroshi struggle to save funds to build a house, Torajiro befriends three young women on vacation during his travels.
Libération : 1972.08.05Popularité : 2.524
Southern Wind
Based on the original work by Fumiko Hayashi, this is a story about a woman and two men. The lust is restrained and indifferent. The story even has...
Libération : 1939.02.15Popularité : 0.616
Flower
Most of the students studying Ikebana with Kozoe Iemoto are daughters of rich Tokyo families. Kozoe meets and grows close to a doctor who proposes...
Libération : 1941.07.15Popularité : 1.103
South Wind
Amusing masterpiece from director Yoshimura Kazusabu divided in two parts taken from the newspaper serial novel of Shishiko Shishi. Like in "Warm...
Libération : 1942.09.17Popularité : 0.851
Tora-san's Love Call
Taking a message from Hiroshi's father to heart, Torajiro attempts to give up his wandering ways.
Libération : 1971.12.29Popularité : 4.298
Love Under the Crucifix
The basic story in Love under the Crucifix is about Ogin, daughter of a tea master, who are both Christians in feudal Japan. Ogin falls in love with...
Libération : 1962.06.03Popularité : 4.391
Where Spring Comes Late
The story is set in 1970 during the time of the first EXPO in Japan. The film’s main figure is a miner who suddenly becomes unemployed because...
Libération : 1970.10.24Popularité : 2.744
Tora-san's Lovesick
After Torajiro's latest attempt to find a bride goes awry, he starts traveling again and runs into Utako (last seen in Tora-san's Dear Old Home), now...
Libération : 1974.08.10Popularité : 2.416
The Wandering Princess
Pu Zhe , the younger brother of the Emperor of Manchukuo, Pu Wen, marries Ryuko the daughter of a long-established aristocratic family - all in the...
Libération : 1960.01.27Popularité : 2.873
The Moon Has Risen
Mokichi is the widowed father of three daughters, with whom he lives on the premises of a temple since the war. All three daughters become involved...
Libération : 1955.01.08Popularité : 3.356
Tora-san's Lullaby
After Hiroshi is injured in a workplace accident, Torajiro gives Sakura the money he has saved and leaves to work as a traveling salesman once again....
Libération : 1974.12.28Popularité : 2.362
慶安水滸傳
Chikuzen, a ronin named Yoh Daisuke, after pacifying some ruffians at the theater of Onna-Kata Ogino Sawanojiki, formed a bond with the theater's...
Libération : 1954.01.21Popularité : 2.295
Tora-san, the Intellectual
Tora-san is inspired to pursue an education after a visit to the grave of a woman he met years ago. When he returns to Shibamata with the intent to...
Libération : 1975.12.27Popularité : 1.826
The Fellows Who Ate the Elephant
The film is set during the days of the scarcity of food after World War II, during which five men ate an elephant that died in a zoo. The elephant's...
Libération : 1947.04.01Popularité : 0.871
Tora-san's Pure Love
When Tora-san's infatuation with his nephew's school teacher causes family turmoil, he leaves on his travels again. When he returns, he falls in love...
Libération : 1976.12.25Popularité : 1.291
Tora-san Meets His Lordship
Tora-san befriends the descendant of a feudal lord. The man asks Tora to locate his deceased son's wife who resides somewhere in Tokyo.
Libération : 1977.08.06Popularité : 0.811
The Radish and the Carrot
One day a company executive learns that his younger brother, whom he recommended, embezzled company funds. To save the situation he withdraws his...
Libération : 1965.01.03Popularité : 2.871
Don't Tell Your Wife About It
A Japanese screwball comedy about the battle between the sexes: two timid men, egged on by their wives, end up in a bitter duel over an expensive...
Libération : 1937.05.20Popularité : 0.7
Drunkard's Paradise
A father and son are both heavy drinkers. However, the son dies in an accident at a bar, leaving behind a fiance…. A unique social satire that...
Libération : 1962.02.04Popularité : 1.364
Tora-san Plays Cupid
Tora-san becomes friends with Toraya's newest tenant, a pachinko-playing electrician that goes by the nickname Watt. Tora attempts to match Watt...
Libération : 1977.12.24Popularité : 1.709
The Lights of Asakusa
Pre-war Asakusa was a riotous district of cabarets, dance-halls and brothels - a striking backdrop for Shimazu's story of innocence and experience....
Libération : 1937.12.02Popularité : 1.971
Satan's Sword
The Dai-bosatsu toge trilogy is based on Kaizan Nakazato's unfinished long series of novels (41 books, written from 1913 to 1941). Set in the last...
Libération : 1960.10.18Popularité : 2.141
Home Sweet Home
The Ueki family may not be wealthy, but smiles are never in short supply. The father is awarded prize money for 25 years of service to his workplace,...
Libération : 1951.03.21Popularité : 2.88
Sisters
Three beautiful daughters grew up in a dog and cat care clinic. The eldest was named Takako (Keiko Tsushima), the second was Tsugumi (Keiko Awaji),...
Libération : 1953.04.29Popularité : 1.85
Youth’s Romance Seat: Sitting on the grass
The timid first love of high school students! A whisper of love between a young man and a girl! The experiences of a middle-aged couple with a child!...
Libération : 1954.06.08Popularité : 1.288
Scrap Collectors
Based on a story by Akiyuki Nosaka.
Libération : 1968.11.28Popularité : 1.204
Door of Flowers
Goto Tamiko starred in TV commercials and her father, Keisuke, was a powerful financier who is now fallen on hard times. Tamiko wants to marry her...
Libération : 1961.05.26Popularité : 1.615
The Storm
A widowed high-school teacher tries to raise his four children alone.
Libération : 1956.10.24Popularité : 1.497
Tora-san, My Uncle
Tora-san's nephew Mitsuo is exchanging letters with Izumi, a former classmate whose parents divorced and took her out of Tokyo.
Libération : 1989.12.27Popularité : 3.719
Port of Flowers
The sweet but naive denizens of a charming port town are hoodwinked by a couple of con men at the outset of World War II. But the hustlers’...
Libération : 1943.07.29Popularité : 4.438
Tora-san Makes Excuses
Tora-san Makes Excuses is a 1992 Japanese comedy film directed by Yoji Yamada. It stars Kiyoshi Atsumi as Torajirō Kuruma (Tora-san), and Kumiko...
Libération : 1992.12.26Popularité : 2.196
Freedom School
Minamimura, who had always wanted to be free, suddenly quits his job. His hardworking wife is surprised and angry, and throws him out of the house....
Libération : 1951.05.05Popularité : 0.812
Stage-Struck Tora-san
Tora-san leaves Shibamata once again after an argument with his family and finds himself at an inn where he meets Tomekichi, a young man who looks up...
Libération : 1978.08.05Popularité : 1.139
I Flunked, But...
This bittersweet comedy tells the tale of a group of college roommates attempting to cheat their way through their exams. As the title goes, things...
Libération : 1930.04.11Popularité : 1.591
Flying in the Air
The movie depicts the youth of kamikaze pilots who scattered young lives in the sky.
Libération : 1957.01.09Popularité : 1.869
Where Now Are the Dreams of Youth?
When a young man inherits his father's lucrative business, he cheats the system to set up three of his college friends with jobs.
Libération : 1932.10.13Popularité : 2.118
Dragnet Girl
A gangster tries to find redemption with the inadvertent help of an innocent shop girl and his jealous girlfriend will do anything to keep him.
Libération : 1933.04.27Popularité : 3.196
Talk of the Town Tora-san
After a chance encounter with Hiroshi's father on a bus, Tora decides to get serious and reflect on the mortality of man. His plans are derailed...
Libération : 1978.12.27Popularité : 1.879
Dreams
A collection of magical tales based upon the actual dreams of director Akira Kurosawa.
Libération : 1990.05.11Popularité : 13.868
It's Tough Being a Man
Tora-San, an itinerant peddler who is thrown out of his father's house twenty years before but reconnects with his aunt, uncle and sister Sakura....
Libération : 1969.08.27Popularité : 3.727
Monument to Holy Service
A rural high school takes part in a mountain-climbing exercise and are caught in a sudden typhoon.
Libération : 1978.09.23Popularité : 0.855
Tora-san, the Matchmaker
Tora-san helps out a runaway bride.
Libération : 1979.08.04Popularité : 2.065
The Lady and the Beard
Graduate Okajima finds his old-fashioned beard makes life difficult in a comedy exploring the tension between tradition and modernity.
Libération : 1931.02.07Popularité : 2.226
Dislikes
An old man who has spent his life being respectful, honest and married for 35 years suddenly has thoughts of cheating with a young girl. He goes on a...
Libération : 1964.03.01Popularité : 2.262
The Crowded Train
Tamio Moroi, a young university graduate, works at a large brewery where he is taught to do nothing but look busy. When his father goes insane, he is...
Libération : 1957.03.29Popularité : 1.269
Life's Simple Pleasures Pt. 4
The fourth instalment in the Life's Simple Pleasures (Salaryman Mejiro Sanpei) series.
Libération : 1960.07.05Popularité : 1.5
Life's Simple Pleasures
A masterpiece of life sketches overflowing with heartwarming affection and laughter that portrays the modern common people with humor and pathos,...
Libération : 1955.05.17Popularité : 1.811
Daughters, Wives and a Mother
Sanae is left a widow after her prestigious husband dies, but holds the proceeds of a million yen insurance policy. Being childless, her former...
Libération : 1960.05.21Popularité : 1.507
When We are Old
An old man has to move to his son's new house. His wife is hospitalized and cannot move together. A few days after moving, he decides to go back to...
Libération : 1982.11.03Popularité : 1.55
Until Spring Comes
Living with her son and aging father-in-law, the beautiful widow is bewildered by the passionate love of a middle-aged man who forcefully enters her...
Libération : 1989.04.06Popularité : 1.003
When Winter Comes
An old man cashes in all his possessions and sets off on a journey to the Tohoku region in late autumn. Along the way, he visits a friend on his...
Libération : 1985.03.30Popularité : 2.146
South Wind 2
In this comic sequel to Yoshimura Kozaburo's original, Minami no Kaze, ex-baron (Saburi Shin) is in Singapore where he meets an old friend who...
Libération : 1942.10.22Popularité : 1.387
The Woman Who Holds the Key
Shochiku melodrama about the loves of the humble people living in the poor tenament called the Ryuheiso.
Libération : 1946.08.15Popularité : 1.172
The Castle of Sand
Two detectives are tasked to investigate the murder of an old man, found bludgeoned to death in a Tokyo rail yard.
Libération : 1974.10.19Popularité : 8.13
Until the End of the World
In 1999, a woman's life is forever changed after she survives a car crash with two bank robbers, who enlist her help to take the money to a drop in...
Libération : 1991.09.12Popularité : 15.965
Always in My Heart Part 2
Machiko and Haruki’s drama continues. Two meet again in Hokkaido only to be separated again.
Libération : 1953.12.01Popularité : 2.385
Always in My Heart
Machiko Ujiie and Haruki Atomiya first meet and fall in love on Ginza’s Sukiyabashi Bridge during the Great Tokyo Air Raid in March 1945....
Libération : 1953.09.15Popularité : 2.059
Always in My Heart Part 3
Machiko and Haruki’s drama continues. Machiko is not allowed to see Haruki. They finally meet again, but Haruki departs to Europe.
Libération : 1954.04.27Popularité : 2.639
Fireworks Over the Sea
A fishing union depends on two brothers to make up the losses caused by the dishonest captains they replaced.
Libération : 1951.10.25Popularité : 1.34
The Last Kamikaze
With World War II is coming to its end and Japan nearing defeat, Japanese military leaders step up suicide attacks on Allied ships. Toei legend Koji...
Libération : 1970.10.29Popularité : 3.479
Traveling in Party
A comedy about Hikoichi, a mediocre train conductor who falls in love with a beautiful widow Sayuri.
Libération : 1967.11.12Popularité : 2.062
The Good Fairy
The wife of an elite government official left her husband, and a young journalist is sent to investigate the case. But his boss has a hidden agenda.
Libération : 1951.02.17Popularité : 1.334
Farewell to Spring
Five longtime friends get back together, but are disappointed to find that their bonds are not as strong as they once were.
Libération : 1959.04.28Popularité : 1.736
Love Letter
A sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love letters for other people.
Libération : 1953.12.13Popularité : 2.328
The First Kiss
Portmanteau film about young lovers.
Libération : 1955.09.21Popularité : 1.271
The Wiser Age
Drama about the lives of the five daughters and daughter-in-law of a store owner.
Libération : 1962.01.14Popularité : 1.739
A Story of Floating Weeds
An aging actor returns to a small town with his troupe and reunites with his former lover and illegitimate son, a scenario that enrages his current...
Libération : 1934.11.23Popularité : 3.785
An Inn in Tokyo
An unemployed Japanese man and his two sons wander the industrial flatlands of Depression-era Tokyo, until he chances upon an old friend and...
Libération : 1935.11.21Popularité : 6.397
Tora-san's Forget Me Not
On the road again, Torajiro meets a kindred spirit in Lily, a lounge singer.
Libération : 1973.01.04Popularité : 3.535
Tora-san's Salad-Day Memorial
In his travels through Japan, Tora-san meets and falls in love with a female doctor, however he is afraid of committing to a relationship.
Libération : 1988.12.24Popularité : 2.964
Tora-san's Bluebird Fantasy
During his travels, Tora-san comes across a traditional theater he used to visit, and discovers that one of his old friends has died. Tora-san and...
Libération : 1986.12.20Popularité : 2.152
Tora-san Plays Daddy
A playboy-gambler friend of Tora-san’s dies and, abandoned by his mother, his little boy suddenly turns up in Shibamata. Searching for the...
Libération : 1987.12.26Popularité : 2.363
Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san
During his travels, Tora-san gets drunk with an old man in Kyoto. Though Tora-san never fully comprehends his importance, the old man is a Living...
Libération : 1982.08.07Popularité : 1.819
Tora-san's Love in Osaka
When his travels bring him to Osaka, Tora-san falls in love with a local geisha. He helps her to track down her estranged brother, and informs his...
Libération : 1981.08.08Popularité : 1.261
Tora-san's Promise
Tora-san returns to his family's home to attend an elementary school class reunion. After he embarrasses himself by getting drunk and insulting all...
Libération : 1981.12.28Popularité : 2.248
Tora-san, the Go-Between
In Nagasaki, Tora-san and an acquaintance help an old woman who has fallen and injured herself. She invites them to her home where the three share a...
Libération : 1985.08.03Popularité : 1.477
Tora-san, the Expert
Tora-san gets into an argument with his uncle and sets out on the road again. In Kyushu he meets a young woman named Keiko and the shy zoologist...
Libération : 1982.12.28Popularité : 2.576
Tora-san's Island Encounter
Tora-san's family's neighbor, Akemi, who had been married in Marriage Counselor Tora-san (1984), runs away from her husband, who is only interested...
Libération : 1985.12.28Popularité : 2.004
Tora-san's Song of Love
Tora-san returns to his family home to learn that his brother-in-law cannot go to Mitsuo's (Tora-san's nephew) athletic event. Tora-san volunteers to...
Libération : 1983.08.06Popularité : 2.052
Foster Daddy, Tora!
After a friend and business colleague dies, Tora-san visits the man's daughter, then takes her to Tokyo so she can study for a night school exam.
Libération : 1980.12.27Popularité : 1.303
Let's Dance Bon-Odori in Hawaii
A young man longs to travel to Hawaii, the birthplace of his deceased father, against the wishes of his family, who are estranged from those...
Libération : 1964.08.01Popularité : 1.448
Stray Sheep
1955 Toho adaptation of Natsume's novel.
Libération : 1955.08.31Popularité : 0.866
Chishu Ryu and Shochiku’s Ofuna Studio
Documentary about the life and career of Japanese actor Chishu Ryu.
Libération : 1988.01.01Popularité : 0.705
Tange Sazen
In 1730, the Tokugawa Shogunate orders the Yagyu Clan to repair a huge shrine. Since it cannot refuse the Shogunate's request, the impoverished Yagyu...
Libération : 1963.11.17Popularité : 0.704
A Visage to Remember
During his summer holiday, Kawasaki Ryuichi (Ryuzaki Ichiro), a handsome engineer in his late twenties, visits his teacher and mentor, Professor...
Libération : 1948.04.04Popularité : 0.409
Internees of Kampili
In the autumn of 1945, Petty Officer Tadashi Yamaji is among the numerous war crimes suspects facing death on the gallows for maltreatment of Allied...
Libération : 1960.09.29Popularité : 1.447
Final Take: The Golden Age of Movies
Director Ogata discovers a new female star in Koharu Tanaka, who works selling candy at a studio theater and she is given a part as a bit player....
Libération : 1986.08.02Popularité : 2.292
The Golden Demon
A penniless orphan loses the woman he loves, when her family arranges a marriage to a wealthy playboy. He believes she was blinded by greed, and...
Libération : 1937.06.10Popularité : 2.051
Days of Youth
Students Watanabe and Yamamoto unknowingly compete for the same girl.
Libération : 1929.04.13Popularité : 1.815
Song of the Flower Basket
Three men fall in love with the same young girl who works in a tonkatsu restaurant in the Shitamachi district of Tokyo.
Libération : 1937.01.14Popularité : 1.197
The Black Sheep
Young female teacher Kyoko Miyake relocates to a small seaside town with her runaway little sister, but their new life is complicated by hoodlum-like...
Libération : 1967.01.03Popularité : 2.359
Four Sisters
A story about the lives of four sisters and their manipulative mother who must come to terms with each of their decisions in life.
Libération : 1962.07.01Popularité : 2.591
High-School Outcasts
Tsutomu (Kensaku Morita), an orphan who once stabbed a man, is released from a reformatory and goes to Tottori, on the Japan Sea coast, to enter a...
Libération : 1970.12.16Popularité : 0.78
I Lived, But...
An extremely lovely tribute to Ozu, on the 20th anniversary of his death. It uses a combination of footage from vintage films and new material (both...
Libération : 1983.10.29Popularité : 1.887
The Refugee
A Chinese medical student named Gan Shosho finds himself cut off from his homeland as he is studying in Japan during the outbreak of the war. Despite...
Libération : 1955.05.03Popularité : 2.071
Miyamoto Musashi
In Part I we see the young would-be swordsman setting out to achieve greatness in war, achieving nothing because fighting on the losing side, & then...
Libération : 1973.07.13Popularité : 3.349
Lanterns on Blue Waters
The story of a Japanese man who as a 16-year-old went to Maui to work in the sugar cane fields in order to support his family back in Japan. Now 89...
Libération : 1983.11.15Popularité : 2.606
Flower and Dragon
Kingoro Tamai moves with his wife and son to the port city of Wakamatsu. He organizes the Tamai-gumi, a stevedore group, to vie for work with two...
Libération : 1973.03.17Popularité : 2.35
The Waves
Nami (波 Nami) is a Japanese film directed by Noboru Nakamura. It was entered into the 1952 Cannes Film Festival.
Libération : 1952.04.03Popularité : 1.118
Tora-san's Forbidden Love
Tora-san spends several days at the home of a hard-working salaryman ("salaried worker"), who abruptly disappears. When the man's wife asks Tora-san...
Libération : 1984.12.28Popularité : 5.175
Moon Over the Ruins
Episode in the life of a composer of a popular Japanese song.
Libération : 1937.01.05Popularité : 1.514
Children Hand in Hand
A small-town boy with a learning disability attempts to fit in with his classmates.
Libération : 1948.03.30Popularité : 1.715
Eyes of Children
A man is found dead of an apparent suicide but there is speculation that he was murdered. An investigation reveals that he and his wife were at odds...
Libération : 1956.01.15Popularité : 1.689
The Face
A notorious abortion doctor fell down from a night train and he was dead. A man who knows the truth of this accident starts to chase a up-and-coming...
Libération : 1957.01.22Popularité : 1.348
Fight for the Glory
Coming of age/high school sports drama.
Libération : 1969.12.17Popularité : 2.038
Tora-san's Tropical Fever
When cabaret singer Lily writes Toraya about her illness, Tora-san rushes to Okinawa to be by her side.
Libération : 1980.08.02Popularité : 3.473
I Want to Be a Shellfish
On a post-war peaceful day in Japan, Toyomatsu Shimizu, a barber as well as a good father and husband, is suddenly arrested by the Prefectural Police...
Libération : 1959.04.12Popularité : 1.244
College Is a Nice Place
In a Tokyo boarding house a group of students and recent graduates struggle to complete their studies and find jobs. Considered a lost film.
Libération : 1936.03.19Popularité : 1.767
Physical Beauty
A hen-pecked man works as his artist wife's model and a house-husband. When her patron flirts with her and humiliates him, he decides to get revenge...
Libération : 1928.12.01Popularité : 0.628
Couple on the Move
When a woman unfairly suspects her husband of flirting with a shop assistant, she decides to flirt with their landlord to get revenge. Considered to...
Libération : 1928.09.28Popularité : 0.545
Pumpkin
Comedy about a young man juggling several girlfriends. Considered to be a lost film.
Libération : 1928.08.31Popularité : 1.184
Wife Lost
A married man falls for a dancer and his wife's uncle hires a private detective to spy on him. Considered to be a lost film.
Libération : 1928.06.15Popularité : 1.765
Tora-san's Cherished Mother
Kuruma Torajiro is discovered looking around Kyoto for someone special to him.
Libération : 1969.11.14Popularité : 3.731
Only She Knows
A young woman is attacked by a serial rapist and murderer whom her detective father is investigating. Though she survives, the impact of the event...
Libération : 1960.04.01Popularité : 2.369
Tora-san, His Tender Love
Traveling salesman Kuruma Torajirō falls in love with an inn manager as New Year's approaches.
Libération : 1970.01.15Popularité : 1.715
The Youth and His Amulet
Gen is a lonely orphan boy. His sole sense of companionship comes from an imaginary friend, the god Prince Fudo-Myo. Prince Fudo-Myo comes to the...
Libération : 1961.09.17Popularité : 0.791
Marriage Counselor Tora-san
In Shibamata, Tokyo, Tora-san's family prepares for a wedding. Meanwhile, the traveling Tora-san meets an old acqaintance in Iwate Province. Tora-san...
Libération : 1984.08.04Popularité : 1.739
And Then
Daisuke is supposed to be out looking for a respectable job and equally respectable wife. He is 30 years old and devotes his attention to music and...
Libération : 1985.11.09Popularité : 3.479
Introspection Tower
A reformatory in the remote countryside houses 200 delinquents and problem children. The teachers and caretakers face much trouble. The school is...
Libération : 1941.01.30Popularité : 1.086
The New Road: Akemi
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. This part is...
Libération : 1936.11.30Popularité : 1.246
Tora-san's Runaway
After an encounter with a dying yakuza's son and at his sister Sakura's urging, Torajiro attempts to change his vagrant lifestyle and become an...
Libération : 1970.08.26Popularité : 3.583
Come Marry Me
Masako is a humble waitress who has a chance encounter with playboy Tamotsu. With the aid of his sister, Tamotsu seeks to win Masako's affection...
Libération : 1966.11.20Popularité : 0.892
Gazing at Love and Death
A young girl knows that she is going to die and in this she is supported by the devotion of the boy who loves her. They originally met at the...
Libération : 1964.09.19Popularité : 0.752
The Greatest Man in the World
Remake of classic samurai film of 1932
Libération : 1986.10.25Popularité : 1.331
A Hen in the Wind
Tokiko is a mother patiently waiting for her husband's return from the war when her 4-year old son becomes ill. She takes him to the doctor for...
Libération : 1948.09.17Popularité : 7.744
A Taxing Woman's Return
Ryōko Itakura returns as the tough-as-nails government taxing agent. This time she must figure out a way to expose a fanatical religious cult...
Libération : 1988.01.15Popularité : 3.807
Wim Wenders in Tokyo
A documentary which follows director Wim Wenders and Sean Naughton, the high-definition-video designer on UNTIL THE END OF THE WORLD, in Tokyo, and...
Libération : 1990.12.31Popularité : 2.635
The Four Loves
A father gives his four daughters his substantial retirement allowance on the stipulation that they leave him alone, as he wants some freedom. Each...
Libération : 1965.12.28Popularité : 2.191
Tora-san Loves an Artist
Tora-San returns to Shibamata just before his family leaves on a trip for Kyushu. Later, he encounters an old school chum and begins to have feeling...
Libération : 1973.12.25Popularité : 1.946
Tora-san Meets the Songstress Again
Tora-san visits Hokkaido and is reunited with Lily. Now divorced, she plans to resume her singing career and renews her unusual relationship with...
Libération : 1975.08.19Popularité : 4.449
Tora-san's Dream of Spring
Tora-san's opinions about Americans get challenged when another wandering peddler Michael Jordan stops by Shibamata.
Libération : 1979.12.28Popularité : 1.835
Ishimatsu of the Forest
The tale of a feudal swordsman who cynically takes no responsibility for anything, relegating it to others, and then taking the credit.
Libération : 1949.06.04Popularité : 1.277
Talking with Ozu
A tribute to the legendary Japanese film director featuring the reflections of filmmakers Lindsay Anderson, Claire Denis, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Aki...
Libération : 1993.11.27Popularité : 1.11
A Brother and His Younger Sister
A man who works late hours at a deadening job lives together with his wife and his younger sister. The younger sister's a modern girl who's starting...
Libération : 1939.04.01Popularité : 2.226
Tora-san's Dream-Come-True
When Tora-san returns to visit his family, he is surprised to find an arrogant professor occupying his room. The professor and Tora-san become rivals...
Libération : 1972.12.29Popularité : 3.401
Tora-san, the Good Samaritan
After a quarrel with his mother, Torajiro sets off to find a bride.
Libération : 1971.04.28Popularité : 3.977
Tora-san's Shattered Romance
Torajiro becomes homesick during his travels after watching a television report about his hometown and meeting a young woman that reminds him of his...
Libération : 1971.01.15Popularité : 3.113
Tora-san Goes North
When his travels take him to rural Hokkaido, Tora-san helps a cantankerous old veterinarian (Mifune) in his relationships with his estranged...
Libération : 1987.08.15Popularité : 3.953
Tora-san Goes to Vienna
During his wandering throughout Japan, Tora-san meets a suicidal man. He travels with the man to Vienna, but winds up homesick for Japan.
Libération : 1989.08.05Popularité : 1.481
Spring Thunder
Eiko is an innocent young lady born into a wealthy family with nothing to offer. She was good at singing, and lived her life playing around with her...
Libération : 1939.04.13Popularité : 0.953
Machi no Hi
Chiyomatsu under the hill, also known as Choromatsu. He is a young man whose occupation is an approach shop, that is, a phony business of sex...
Libération : 1974.04.27Popularité : 1.508
Aiyoku no sabaki
Motoko Fujikawa works in the Seisen Church as an assistant to pastor Maki Inokichi. Motoko falls in love with Inokichi's virtuous character and...
Libération : 1953.05.06Popularité : 0.946
Three Sons And Two Daughters At Home
A family story in the year of 1943 during the war. The director is Shunkai Mizuho, who worked on "Hibari no Circus Sad Kobato" starring Hibari Misora...
Libération : 1943.03.11Popularité : 2.843
New Woman Question and Answer
Jie (Michiko Kuwano) attended a women's university with the financial support of her geisha sister Oha (Hiroko Kawasaki) and became a lawyer. The...
Libération : 1939.06.01Popularité : 1.784
Living Image
A film dealing with the comings and goings of individuals in the immediate postwar period.
Libération : 1948.10.12Popularité : 0.861
Love
Heinosuke Gosho evokes in this film the family conflicts engendered by the eternal problem of a father who projects his professional desires on the...
Libération : 1933.11.09Popularité : 1.173
A Good Man, A Good Day
The university professor Ozeki Hitoshi (Ryu Chishu) is regarded as an eccentric by people in his surroundings. When his daughter Tokiko is asked to...
Libération : 1961.08.13Popularité : 1.49