Kiriô Urayama

Original title: 青春の門　自立篇
This is the second film adaptation of Hiroyuki Itsuki’s epic novel of the same title, following the previous film “The Gate of Youth. Ibuki Shinsuke (Tanaka Ken) was born in the Chikuho coal mine in Kitakyushu and moved to Tokyo to enter university. Through his friendship and love with his drama club friends, a prostitute in Shinjuku, and his childhood friend Orie (Shinobu Otake), the film depicts the adolescent life of a dedicated young man.
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Tsutomu Yoshioka, a Tokyo office worker, is enaged to Mariko, the niece of his company’s president. But Yoshioka has a crisis of consence when he remembers his former love Mitsu, a rural girl whom he met and later left while in college. Shimako, a former friend, persuades Yoshioka to meet with Mitsu while she plots to blackmail Yoshioka by photographing the meeting to break up Mariko and Yoshioka.Read More »

Nikkatsu’s big prestige film of the year, however, was Kiriro Uryama’s Foundry Town – a drama about the troubled family life of a bright, spunky teenage girl in a rough factory town. Urayama’s first film, w/ a script by Shohei Imamura, Foundry Town was ranked 2nd in the Kinema Jumpo magazine’s annual critics poll. Sayuri Yoshinaga, who played the lead, became a major Nikkatsu star, appearing in a series of teen romances with Mitsuo Hamada.Read More »