Jûkichi Uno

Joji Kawai was an engineer at an electric company. He was a serious and well-behaved man by nature, and was nicknamed “Kimiko” at work. He had one ideal in mind when it came to women. In order to fulfill this ideal, he took in a beautiful young woman named Naomi, who was working at a café in the middle of nowhere, and took care of her as if she were his sister or daughter. However, his unbalanced love and education resulted in Naomi growing up to be an arrogant woman. By the time Joji realized this, it was already too late…Read More »

Postwar Tokyo. Pin (Jukichi Uno) and Toku (Taiji Tonoyama) live in the squatter area of Kappanuma, also known as “The Ditch”. Pin and Toku are avid gamblers. They take in Tsuru (Nobuko Otowa), a slightly demented woman who has run away from a geisha house. In order to rip Tsuru off, Pin lies that he’s a student who can’t afford his school fees. Tsuru willingly whores herself to support Pin. Eventually the neighbours start to exploit Tsuru as well.Read More »

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Based on the novel by Torahiko Tamiya.
Kiichi and Sakie, a couple who ran a barbershop, and their cousin, Shutaro. However, the war forced Kiichi and Jutaro to go off to war. Kiichi’s death is reported to Sakie, and she is reunited with her cousin, who has been demobilized. The two embraced each other with the hope of starting anew, and three years passed. Then, Kiichi suddenly returned.Read More »

In the wake of Watergate, the scandal surrounding then Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka’s dealings with construction companies in Japan caused a similar political upheaval. Director Yamamoto chose as the subject for his film a scandal that had taken place some ten years prior to the Tanaka disclosure, to let the Japanese people know that such corruption had long been part of their politicians’ lives.Read More »

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Daigo Fukuryū Maru (第五福龍丸?, Lucky Dragon 5) was a Japanese tuna fishing boat, which was exposed to and contaminated by nuclear fallout from the United States’ Castle Bravo thermonuclear device test on Bikini Atoll, on March 1, 1954. Kuboyama Aikichi, the boat’s chief radioman, died half a year later, on September 23, 1954, suffering from acute radiation syndrome. He is considered the first victim of the hydrogen bomb of Operation Castle Bravo.Read More »