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Mitsuko Yoshikawa
was a Japanese actress who played in over 250 films, often under the direction of Yasujirō Ozu and Hiroshi Shimizu. She joined the Shochiku film studios in 1924 and gave her film debut in 1926 in ''Kujaku no hikari''. After the war, she became a freelancer and, besides working for Shochiku, appeared in productions of Toho, Shintoho, Daiei and other studios She gave her final performance in 1984 in Juzo Itami's '' The Funeral''. Selected filmography * 1926: ''Kujaku no hikari'' (dir. Jirō Yoshino) *1930: ''Story of Kinuyo'' (dir. Heinosuke Gosho) *1932: '' I Was Born, But...'' (dir. Yasujirō Ozu) *1933: '' Apart From You'' (dir. Mikio Naruse) *1933: ''Every-Night Dreams'' (dir. Mikio Naruse) *1934: ''A Mother Should Be Loved'' (dir. Yasujirō Ozu) * 1934: ''Eclipse'' (dir. Hiroshi Shimizu) *1935: '' Burden of Life'' (dir. Heinosuke Gosho) *1936: '' The Only Son'' (dir. Yasujirō Ozu) *1936: ''The New Road (Part one)'' (dir. Heinosuke Gosho) *1937: ''What Did the Lady Forget? ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Burden Of Life
Burden or burthen may refer to: People * Burden (surname), people with the surname Burden Places * Burden, Kansas, United States * Burden, Luxembourg Arts, entertainment, and media Films * ''Burden'' (2018 film), an American drama film * ''The Burden'' (film), a Swedish independent short film Literature *'' The Burden'', by Agatha Christie, 1956 *''The Burdens'', a play by John Ruganda, 1972 Music Songs * "Burden", a song by As I Lay Dying from the album '' Through Storms Ahead'' * "Burden", a song by Opeth from the album ''Watershed'' * "Burden", a song by Tesseract from '' War of Being'' * "Burden", a song by Keith Urban * "Burdens", a song by Kenny Wayne Shepherd from '' The Place You're In'' * "Burdens", a song by The Yawpers * "The Burden", a song by Bury Tomorrow from the album ''Earthbound'' * "The Burden", a song by Crystal Lake from the album ''Dimension'' * "The Burden", an interlude by Memphis May Fire from the album ''The Hollow'' * "The Burden", a song by Stri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Yoshishige Yoshida
, also known as Kijū Yoshida, was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. Life and career Graduating from the University of Tokyo, where he studied French literature, Yoshida entered the Shōchiku studio in 1955 and worked as an assistant to Keisuke Kinoshita, before debuting as a director in 1960 with ''Rokudenashi''. He was a central member of what came to be called the "Shōchiku Nouvelle Vague" along with Nagisa Oshima and Masahiro Shinoda, and his works have been studied under the larger rubric of the Japanese New Wave, a linkage which Yoshida himself disliked. Like many of his New Wave cohorts, he felt restricted under the studio system. After Shōchiku's re-editing of his ''Escape from Japan'' (1964), he left the studio to start his own production company, for which he directed such films as ''Eros + Massacre''. Between 1960 and 2004, Yoshida directed more than 20 films, some of which starred his wife, actress Mariko Okada. After a long absence from the screen followi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Akitsu Springs
is a 1962 Japanese drama film directed by Yoshishige Yoshida, starring Mariko Okada and Hiroyuki Nagato. Plot Shortly before the end of World War II, young soldier Shusaku, ill with tuberculosis, arrives at Akitsu, expecting to die soon. Shinko, daughter of a widow and innkeeper, helps him to recover and invigorates his will to live. They fall in love, and although she is first willing to follow him when he suggests to commit shinjū, suicide together, they eventually let go of their plan. Shinko muses to marry Shusaku, but her mother intervenes and sends him away. Over a span of 17 years, Shusaku, now married and a father, continues to meet with Shinko, but also has affairs with other women. During their last encounters, she declares that she is now ready to die with him, but Shusaku is reluctant. When he leaves Akitsu again after a visit, Shinko, who has sold her inn and is tired of living, commits suicide alone, later found by the grieving Shusaku. Cast *Mariko Okada as Shin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Takekurabe (1955 Film)
, English titles ''Growing Up'', ''Adolescence'', or ''Daughters of Yoshiwara'', is a 1955 Japanese drama film directed by Heinosuke Gosho. It is based on Higuchi Ichiyō's 1895-1896 novella ''Takekurabe''. Plot Growing up in the Yoshiwara red light district of Meiji era Edo, teenage boy Shinnyo, son of a buddhist priest, helplessly witnesses not only his sister Ohana being sold as a concubine by his money-loving father, but also the fate of Midori, a neighbourhood girl to whom he has an unspoken affection, who is destined to become a courtesan like her older sister Omaki. Cast * Hibari Misora as Midori * Keiko Kishi as Omaki * Mitsuko Yoshikawa as Orin, Midori's mother * Zeko Nakamura as Gosuke, Midori's father * Eijirō Yanagi as owner of the Daikokuya * Takashi Kitahara as Shinnyo * Setsuko Shinobu as Shinnyo's mother * Takamaru Sasaki as Shinnyo's father * Kurayoshi Nakamura as Sangoro * Yūko Mochizuki as Sangoro's mother * Takeshi Sakamoto as Sangoro's father * Akira Hatt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Keisuke Kinoshita
was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. Ronald Berganbr>"A satirical eye on Japan: Keisuke Kinoshita" ''The Guardian'', 5 January 1999. While lesser-known internationally than contemporaries such as Akira Kurosawa, Kenji Mizoguchi and Yasujirō Ozu, he was a household figure in his home country, beloved by both critics and audiences from the 1940s to the 1960s. Kinoshita's films were marked by a sense of sentimentality, purity, and beauty, and often featured experimentation in both technique and subject matter. Kinoshita entered the film industry in 1933 as a film processor. He moved on to the position of camera assistant, then assistant director. In 1943, Kinoshita was promoted to director and released his first film, ''Port of Flowers''. A prolific filmmaker, Kinoshita directed 43 films in the first 23 years of his career, and then five more after a stint in television production. Among his best known films are '' Carmen Comes Home'' (1951), '' A Japanese Tragedy'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Wedding Ring (film)
''Wedding Ring'' (婚約指環 Kon'yaku yubiwa), also known as ''Engagement Ring'', is a Japanese black and white film directed by Keisuke Kinoshita that was first released in 1950. The film depicts a love triangle involving an ill husband, his wife and his doctor. The husband (Michio) was drafted into the army for World War II shortly after the marriage, and didn't return home until 2 years after the war ended. He became ill a year after his return so the marriage bond has not had much chance to strengthen. When a handsome new doctor (Mr. Ema) begins to take care of Michio, the doctor and the wife (Noriko) begin to fall in love. Ema and Noriko have to balance their desires against their moral obligations, while Michio has to deal with his own emotions about the emerging situation. Certain objects play key roles in the narrative. For example, whether the wife wears her engagement ring symbolizes her willingness or not to commit adultery with the doctor, and whether or not the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Torajirō Saitō
was a Japanese film director known for his comedy films. Born in Akita Prefecture, he entered Shōchiku's Kamata, Ōta, Tokyo, Kamata studio in 1922 and debuted as a director in 1926. He later worked at the Shintoho and Toho studios. He became known as the "god of comedy" for directing over 200 films, many of which were nonsense comedies featuring famous clowns such as Ken'ichi Enomoto, Roppa Furukawa, and Junzaburo Ban.Joseph L. Anderson, Donald Richie ''The Japanese Film: Art and Industry'' 1982 Page 198 "One of the earliest of the postwar comedies was Torajiro Saito's The Emperor's Hat (''Tennō no Bōshi''), made in 1950 and incorporating a plot which before the war would have constituted a severe political crime. A man working in a museum ..." Filmography His works include: * ''Akeyuku Sora'' (1929) * ''Wasei Kingu Kongu'' (1933) * ''Kodakara Sodo'' (1935) * ''Akireta musume-tachi'', alternate title: (金語楼の子宝騒動) (1949) * ''Nodo jimankyō jidai'' (1949) * ''Od ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Akogare No Hawaii Kōro
is a 1950 black-and-white Cinema of Japan, Japanese film directed by Torajiro Saito. Cast * Haruo Oka * Hibari Misora * Sanae Ijita (柴田早苗) * Mitsuko Yoshikawa * Tamae Kiyokawa (清川玉枝) * Achako Hanabishi (:ja:花菱アチャコ, 花菱アチャコ) * Shintarō Kido * Robba Furukawa (古川緑波/:ja:古川ロッパ, 古川ロッパ) See also * List of films in the public domain in the United States References Japanese black-and-white films 1950 films Films directed by Torajiro Saito Shintoho films 1950s Japanese films {{1950s-Japan-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Record Of A Tenement Gentleman
is a Japanese film written and directed by Yasujirō Ozu in 1947. The film was Ozu's first after World War II. Synopsis Tashiro (Chishū Ryū), Tamekichi (Reikichi Kawamura), and O-tane (Chōko Iida) are among the residents of a poor district of Tokyo that has been severely damaged in the bombing raids of 1944-45. They live on the economic margins of a society devastated by years of war: Tashiro is a street fortune teller, Tamekichi mends pots and pans and also buys and sells whatever he can get hold of, and O-tane is a widow who sells what odds and ends she can obtain. Tashiro returns one evening to the house he shares with Tamekichi and brings with him a boy of about seven named Kōhei (Hōhi Aoki). Kōhei's home is in Chigasaki, about forty miles away, but he has become separated from his father while in Tokyo and has followed Tashiro home from Kudan, where Tashiro has been telling fortunes in the grounds of the Yasukuni Shrine. Tashiro wants to give Kōhei a bed for the night ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Teinosuke Kinugasa
was a Japanese filmmaker and actor. His best-known films include the Silent film, silent Experimental film, avant-garde films ''A Page of Madness'' and ''Crossroads (1928 film), Crossroads'' and the Academy Awards, Academy Award-winning historical drama ''Gate of Hell (film), Gate of Hell''. Biography Kinugasa was born in Kameyama, Mie, Kameyama, Mie Prefecture. He began his career as an onnagata (actor specializing in female roles) at the Nikkatsu studio. When Japanese cinema began using actresses in the early 1920s, he switched to directing and worked for producers such as Shōzō Makino (director), Shozo Makino, before becoming independent to make his best-known film, ''A Page of Madness'' (1926). It was considered lost for 45 years until the director rediscovered it in his shed in 1971. A silent film, Kinugasa released it with a new print and score to world acclaim. He also directed the film ''Crossroads (1928 film), Crossroads'' in 1928. He directed jidaigeki at the Shochiku ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Aru Yo No Tonosama
is a 1946 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa. Cast *Kazuo Hasegawa *Isuzu Yamada *Hideko Takamine * Chōko Iida * Mitsuko Yoshikawa *Ichiro Sugai * Tetsu Nakamura *Takashi Shimura *Eitarō Shindō *Susumu Fujita *Denjirō Ōkōchi Awards 1st Mainichi Film Award *Won: Best Film The following is a list of categories of awards commonly awarded through organizations that bestow film awards, including those presented by various films, festivals, and people's awards. Best Actor/Best Actress *See Best Actor#Film awards, Bes ... References External links * 1946 films Films directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa Japanese black-and-white films Japanese drama films 1946 drama films 1940s Japanese-language films Japanese-language drama films {{1940s-Japan-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |