PLOT: 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.Read More »
Chôko Iida
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Yasujirô Ozu – Nagaya shinshiroku AKA Record of a Tenement Gentleman (1947)
Yasujiro Ozu1941-1950ClassicsDramaJapan -
Yasujirô Ozu – Ukikusa monogatari AKA A Story of Floating Weeds (1934)
Yasujiro Ozu1931-1940DramaJapan
Ukikusa monogatari (1934) PLOT: A kabuki actor’s mistress hatches a jealous plot to bring down her lover’s son.Read More »
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Yasujirô Shimazu – Joriku dai-ippo AKA First Steps Ashore (1932)
Drama1931-1940JapanRomanceYasujirô Shimazu
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Fascinating remake of Sternberg’s “Docks of New York.” The geometric and pictorial aspects, as in the case of many Japanese films, and especially those of this time period, fascinate as much as the story. The push/pull, attraction/repulsion dynamic of the romance between the lowly ship stoker and the “fallen woman” he rescues from drowning gives a charge to the claustrophobic confines of their scenes together. The fight scenes between the men fascinated me also: a chaotic melange of sprawling limbs, bodies leaping over one another, sharp jabs and uppercuts.Read More » -
Miyoji Ieki – Ibo kyoudai AKA Stepbrothers (1957)
Miyoji Ieki1951-1960ClassicsDramaJapan
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The children of the maid in the house of an army officer (fathered by him) are forced to live unacknowledged life and develop great anger against their half-brother…Japanese family relationship melodrama starring Rentaro Mikuni, Kinuyo Tanaka, Choko Iida, Tomo’o Nagai, and Katsuo Nakamura.Read More »