Kanae, who broke up with her husband and moved to her uncle’s house, meets two men when her father, a university professor, collapses. Michihara, a wealthy man and Miyashita, a youth scholar. Kanae is attracted to Miyashita, but …

The Wind Blows Twice (1952) 1080p HDTV MPEG-2 AAC2.0-JPTV.club-mN.mkv

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Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English, Russian

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This film by Toyoda depicts the hard life of an unmarried mother in Tokyo. Umeko (Machiko Kyo), at 36, is working in a bar, struggling valiantly to keep her family together. Her 17-year-old daughter Takeko becomes increasingly upset by her mother’s constant drinking and yakuza boyfriend, and runs away from ho…

Shiro Toyoda - Sweet Sweat [1964].mkv

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Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:Japanese

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This film by Toyoda depicts the hard life of an unmarried mother in Tokyo. Umeko (Machiko Kyo), at 36, is working in a bar, struggling valiantly to keep her family together. Her 17-year-old daughter Takeko becomes increasingly upset by her mother’s constant drinking and yakuza boyfriend, and runs away from ho…

Sweet Sweat 1964 HDTV 1080i AAC MPEG2-JPTVclub.mkv

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Subtitles:Japanese

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Not much info on this film out there, but here is a nice little rundown by Keiko McDonald from her book, From Book to Screen: Modern Japanese Literature in Films:

“Uguisu (The Nightingale) drew on a story of the same title published that year by Einosuke Ito. Here the frame of reference is a subgenre that called itself agrarian literature. Ito’s tale is an episodic account of peasants responding to poverty and depravation with cunning, simplicity, and often woeful ignorance.

Toyoda gave Ito’s episodic structure the benefit of methods Edmund Goulding used so beautifully in his 1932 classic, Grand Hotel. The Goulding-Garbo magic spell was woven within the confines of a single hotel, with events spanning just two days. The various episodes focused on the comings and goings of people whose victories and defeats created a microcosm of the world at large.

The setting of The Nightingale is worlds away from any grand hotel. This story plays out in a rural police station in northern Honshu. Poor peasants come and go, a class of petty criminal created by the need to survive times of cruel deprivation.

The film was shot at record speed, in eleven days. Toyoda had no Garbo or Barrymore to work with, only a supporting cast borrowed from the shingeki (New Drama) stage. Haste and casting together give this film the look of a sketchy stage drama. Even so, it offers a fascinating glimpse of rural hardship as seen by writer, director, and actors themselves caught up in the toils of that difficult time.”

Nightingale (1938, Japan, d. Shiro Toyoda).avi

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Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English

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Story about a woman who looks after her father in law.

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Subtitles:Japanese

The post Shirô Toyoda – Kôkotsu no hito AKA The Twilight Years (1973) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Shiro Toyada is known for his literary adaptations and this is an early adaptation of Fumiko Hayashi’s work, the second after Sotoji Kimura’s A Wanderer’s Notebook from three years ealier. Like Toyoda’s later 50s masterpieces it features strong minded woman and weak, feckless men.

Crybaby Apprentice tells of four sisters, the eldest, the widowed Sadako, has a failed businessman as a lover and two children, eleven year old Keikichi and his younger sister. The boy’s sullen demeanour gets on “uncle’s” nerves and after moving in to save money he threatens to move out again. During the course of the film Keikichi is passed from one sister to the next, unwanted either as a nuisance or through poverty.

Hiroko, the second sister is married to a failed writer Kanzo, unable to find a publisher for his “A Life with Scrofula”. After receiving the child, she orders Kanzo to palm the boy off onto youngest sister Renko who lives out in the suburbs with a struggling painter. Her plan comes to grief when crafty Renko cadges money off him to pay the electricity arrears and he trails off with the boy again in tow. Pawning a kimono to bury his sorrows in drink, he loses the boy, who is looked after for the night by a shakuhachi player, who teaches the crybaby to sing in order to overcome his tears.

The only stable sister is Sugako, a single comapany woman on a steady salary. After doing the rounds Keikichi ends up back with his non-too-excited mother.

Made in 1938, the year after the formation of the nationalstic Great Japan Youth Party, modeled on Hitler Youth and as The National Mobilization Law came into effect, following the start of the Second Sino-Japanese War. It seems to be a time of gas and electric outages. Renko wishes there could be a six month blackout, to cover the shame of her house’s enforced darkness with unpayable bills due.

375MB | 1h 20m | 720×480 | mkv

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The post Shirô Toyoda – Nakimushi kozo AKA Crybaby Apprentice (1938) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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This film depicts the delicate relationship between Keiko, who was born an illegitimate child and was regarded as a problem child at the mission school, and her teacher Mazaki, who understands her, and Hashimoto, a female teacher with whom he has a close relationship. One day, Keiko becomes pregnant, and rumors spread that the partner is Mazaki… A film that gave Toyoda Shiro the opportunity to show his talent in literary works. Later, the film was adapted by Kon Ichikawa, Katsumi Nishikawa, and Keisuke Kawasaki.

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