Movie List for "japanese 2"

Kaze no naka no mendori (1948) Drama Movie

A man returns from World War II to find his desperate wife had resorted to one night of prostitution to pay for their son’s hospital bills. Year 1948.

Generes: Drama
Director: Yasujirô Ozu
Writer: Yasujirô Ozu, Ryôsuke Saitô
Actors: Kinuyo Tanaka, Shûji Sano, Chieko Murata

Kokoro (1973) Drama Movie

Kokoro is the story of a subtle and poignant friendship between two unnamed characters, a young man and an enigmatic elder scholar whom he calls Sensei. Haunted by tragic secrets that have cast a long shadow over his life, Sensei slo Year 1973.

Generes: Drama
Director: Kaneto Shindô
Writer: Soseki Natsume, Kaneto Shindô
Actors: Nobuko Otowa, Anri, Noboru Matsuhashi

Yôkirô (1983) Drama War Movie

The loves and tragedies of a geisha in 1933 Japan. Year 1983.

Generes: Drama, War
Director: Hideo Gosha
Writer: Tomiko Miyao, Kôji Takada
Actors: Ken Ogata, Kimiko Ikegami, Atsuko Asano

Beiqing chengshi (1989) Drama History Movie

The story of a family embroiled in the “White Terror” that was wrought on the Taiwanese people by the Kuomintang government after their arrival from mainland China in the late 1940s. Year 1989.

Generes: Drama, History
Director: Hsiao-Hsien Hou
Writer: T’ien-wen Chu, Nien-Jen Wu
Actors: Tony Chiu-Wai Leung, Shu-Fen Hsin, Sung-Young Chen

Kikujirô no natsu (1999) Drama Comedy Movie

A young, naive boy sets out alone on the road to find his wayward mother. Soon he finds an unlikely protector in a crotchety man and the two have a series of unexpected adventures along the way. Year 1999.

Generes: Drama, Comedy
Director: Takeshi Kitano
Writer: Takeshi Kitano
Actors: Takeshi Kitano, Yusuke Sekiguchi, Kayoko Kishimoto

Rikyu (1989) Drama History Movie

Legendary tea master Sen no Rikyu is faced with his warmongering lord’s unrealistic pretensions. Year 1989.

Generes: Drama, History
Director: Hiroshi Teshigahara
Writer: Genpei Akasegawa, Yaeko Nogami, Hiroshi Teshigahara
Actors: Rentarô Mikuni, Yoshiko Mita, Tsutomu Yamazaki

Kuroi ame (1989) Drama Movie

The story of the aftermath of the Hiroshima bombing, based on Masuji Ibuse’s novel. Year 1989.

Generes: Drama
Director: Shohei Imamura
Writer: Masuji Ibuse, Shohei Imamura, Toshirô Ishidô
Actors: Yoshiko Tanaka, Kazuo Kitamura, Etsuko Ichihara

Tôkyô boshoku (1957) Drama Movie

Two sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot take the truth of being abandoned as a child. Year 1957.

Generes: Drama
Director: Yasujirô Ozu
Writer: Kôgo Noda, Yasujirô Ozu
Actors: Setsuko Hara, Ineko Arima, Chishû Ryû

Ningen no jôken (1959) Drama History War Movie

A Japanese pacifist, unable to face the dire consequences of conscientious objection, is transformed by his attempts to compromise with the demands of war-time Japan. Year 1959.

Generes: Drama, History, War
Director: Masaki Kobayashi
Writer: Zenzô Matsuyama, Masaki Kobayashi, Jumpei Gomikawa
Actors: Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama, Chikage Awashima

Buraikan (1970) Comedy Drama Movie

An outlaw pushes the residents of Edo’s red light district to rebel against a growing number of stifling, moralistic laws. Year 1970.

Generes: Comedy, Drama
Director: Masahiro Shinoda
Writer: Mokuami Kawatake, Shûji Terayama
Actors: Tatsuya Nakadai, Shima Iwashita, Shôichi Ozawa

Ukigumo (1955) Drama Romance Movie

A tragic social drama set in post war Japan and concerns a lonely woman trying to find purpose and stability in a devastated Tokyo. Year 1955.

Generes: Drama, Romance
Director: Mikio Naruse
Writer: Fumiko Hayashi, Yôko Mizuki
Actors: Hideko Takamine, Masayuki Mori, Mariko Okada

Karumen kokyô ni kaeru (1951) Comedy Movie

A girl who had left her home village for life in Tokyo returns to her home years later, and evokes a scandal when the locals discover that she’s a stripper. Year 1951.

Generes: Comedy
Director: Keisuke Kinoshita
Writer: Keisuke Kinoshita
Actors: Hideko Takamine, Shûji Sano, Chishû Ryû

Hanaoka Seishû no tsuma (1967) Drama History Movie

The Wife of Seishû Hanaoka is set in feudal Japan. Its two central characters are based on the wife and mother of Japanese physician Seishû Hanaoka (1760-1835). Hanaoka developed a herbal general anesthetic, “Tsusensan”, some forty y Year 1967.

Generes: Drama, History
Director: Yasuzô Masumura
Writer: Sawako Ariyoshi, Kaneto Shindô
Actors: Raizô Ichikawa, Ayako Wakao, Hideko Takamine

Mekurano Oichi monogatari: Makkana nagaradori (1969) Action Adventure Drama Movie

A young blind girl is abandoned by her mother. When her guardian is killed, she learns to wield a sword from a traveling “Ronin”. She travels to seek her mother and her revenge. Year 1969.

Generes: Action, Adventure, Drama
Director: Sadatsugu Matsuda
Writer: Teruo Tanaka, Hajime Takaiwa, Ichirô Miyagawa
Actors: Yôko Matsuyama, Isamu Nagato, Akitake Kôno

Naga Bonar (1987) Comedy War Movie

Naga Bonar is a pickpocket. During the withdrawal of the Japanese occupying forces from Indonesia in 1945 he declares himself a general of the Liberation Forces. Soon a mask becomes his true self, and he becomes a true soldier and pa Year 1987.

Generes: Comedy, War
Director: M.T. Risyaf
Writer: Asrul Sani
Actors: Deddy Mizwar, Nurul Arifin, Wawan Wanisar