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…

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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.

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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.

Gin shinju AKA Love is Lost (1956) 480p AMZN WEB-DL DD+2.0 H.264.mkv

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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.

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(1975, SATSUO YAMAMOTO) How to bankroll an epic 1964 battle for the Prime Ministership? Why, hit up dentally-challenged old school moneylender Jukichi Uno for a mammoth loan, then pay it off with a kickback-stoked sweetheart deal to build a gigantic river dam. No problem for cold-blooded Cabinet Secretary Nakadai — except for the resentment of the crafty Uno and the scandal-mongering of Rentaro Mikuni. Based on the actual Kuzuryu Dam Case, from ace muckraker Yamamoto (The Family, The Corporation, etc.).

“Nakadai makes for a persuasive political snake in this drama torn right from Japan’s headlines.” – Time Out New York

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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.
Five years after the accident, the Japanese film director Shindo Kaneto made a film titled Daigo Fukuryu Maru. The actor Uno Jukichi played the role of Kuboyama Aikichi. Director Kaneto Shindo spoke at a screening of his 1959 film ”Daigo Fukuryu Maru” (Lucky Dragon No. 5), emphasizing the need to abolish nuclear weapons and to continue educating youth about the devastation they cause. ”Nuclear arms have been an issue since World War II,” the 91-year-old told an audience of over 90 people, citing this week’s multilateral talks in Beijing on North Korea’s nuclear ambitions. ”They can wipe out the human race.”
Shindo, whose film is a reconstruction of the events that befell the Lucky Dragon, also criticized nuclear nations who talk about eliminating weapons but do nothing. In the audience were Yuko Teramura, 56, and her sister Tomoko, 53. They played the young daughters of crewman Kuboyama Aikichi, who died soon after the fallout, in Shindo’s film when they were 6 and 3 years old respectively. ”I believe film is the best medium to teach children about the destructiveness of nuclear weapons,” Tomoko Teramura told Kyodo News. ”It has a greater impact than just spoken or written words.”

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