Kôji Shima

Melodrama based on a novel by Yukio Mishima.Read More »

This is the second of three major film adaptation of Junichiro Tanizaki’s famous novel from the 1940s, the first one being the 1950 version directed by Yutaka Abe, the latter one being Kon Ichikawa’s The Makioka Sisters from 1983. Shima’s version stars Machiko Kyo, Fujiko Yamamoto, Junko Kano and Yukiko Todoroki in the roles of the sisters. The novel (and the films) follow the lives of the wealthy Makioka family of Osaka from the autumn of 1936 to April 1941, focusing on the family’s attempts to find a husband for the third sister, Yukiko. It depicts the decline of the family’s upper-middle-class, suburban lifestyle as the specter of World War II and Allied Occupation hangs over the novel.Read More »

Haruo Kuramoto works in a company where he wants to climb by marrying the director’s daughter. But he has a problem: he maintains a secret relationship with Reiko, secretary in the same company, whom he has made pregnant and who under no circumstances intends to give him up.Read More »

Shojo Jutai (1966) is a 1966 movie directed by Koji Shima, with notable stars Ayako Wakao, Takao Ito, and Sanae Nakahara.Read More »

A young scriptwriter with a yakuza upbringing, an iron-fire dancer, a young painter, and a pure-hearted downtown girl fall in love in Asakusa in this entertaining tale of love and action.Read More »

A seventeen-year-old high school student, Fusae Nishikawa, while observing a physical education class at her menstruation class, steals her classmate Eiko Takanashi’s wallet on a whim. An anonymous love letter found in the wallet becomes a rumor among the students. Eiko is in love with an upperclassman, Kaoru Mitani. However, Kaoru’s heart has recently moved on to college student Nitta.Read More »

Shima’s 73rd film is representative of his melodramas about marriage and the relations between men and women.Read More »

Aya successfully stages a fashion show in Osaka and in the train on her way home to Tokyo accidentally treads on a man’s foot. The man whose name is Rentaro is not amused. Just afterwards she notices that he is reading a magazine which carries her picture which he crushes and throws under his seat. One of her customers in Tokyo is a pretty girl named Kana for whom she had designed a dress which at first seems quite satisfactory. But a few days later Kana brings it back. It seems her brother thinks it terrible. But when Kana brings the dress back she meets Aya’s brother, Takeshi, with whom she becomes friendly and Takeshi gives her a new dress which he smuggles out of his sister’s office. When Aya finds Kana’s discarded dress and misses one belonging to another customer she goes to see Kana’s brother, and to her surprise finds him to be the fellow whose foot she’d stepped upon in the train…Read More »

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It was 230 years after the foundation of the temple that a woman killed a pilgrim monk in Dojoji. The accident was recorded in a literature in 11th century and revised into a couple of picture scrolls “Dojoji Engi” in 15th century. Since then, the preachers in Dojoji have repeated ‘etoki’ or picture sermon with an aid of long picturesque scrolls.
The accident became one of the most well-known folklore in Japan. Let’s see the story accordhing to the picture scrolls called “Dojoji Engi”.Read More »