Poor, pathetic mother Ose (Kumeko Urabe) has four children, three daughters and a son, by four different men.Read More »
Mikio Naruse
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Mikio Naruse – Inazuma AKA Lightning (1952)
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Mikio Naruse – Kafuku kôhen AKA Learn from Experience, Part Two (1937)
1931-1940DramaJapanMikio NaruseRomance
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In the second half, we discover that Toyomi is pregnant and while Shintaro and Yurie are on their extended honeymoon, she bears his child, a girl named Kiyoko.Read More » -
Mikio Naruse – Kafuku zempen AKA Learn from Experience, Part One (1937)
1931-1940DramaJapanMikio NaruseRomance
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Toyomi, a rich young woman is in love with Shintaro, a rich young man. Unfortunately, Shintaro’s father is in the process of arranging a marriage for him with Yurie, the scion of an even wealthier family. In order to avoid this, the two young lovers flee to Tokyo to live together.Read More » -
Mikio Naruse – Saakasu goningumi AKA Five Men in a Circus (1935) (HD)
Drama1931-1940JapanMikio Naruse
Five poor musicians make up the worst traveling brass band in Japan. For a few days they hook up with an awful circus whose male performers are on strike.Read More »
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Mikio Naruse – Otome-gokoro – Sannin-shimai AKA Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts (1935)
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Mikio Naruse – Tsuruhachi Tsurujirô AKA Tsuruhachi and Tsurujiro (1938)
1931-1940DramaJapanMikio Naruse
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Almost a caricature of the classic backstage story of the stars who battle even though “they’re made for each other” — this time with duo legends Isuzu Yamada and Kazuo Hasegawa — but with an emotional restraint rare even for Japanese films of the period.Read More » -
Mikio Naruse – Kotan no kuchibue AKA Whistling in Kotan AKA A Whistle in My Heart (1959) (HD)
Drama1951-1960JapanMikio Naruse
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A film about the problems faced by Japan’s indigenous Ainu people in the northern island of Hokkaido.Read More » -
Mikio Naruse – Musume tsuma haha AKA Daughters, Wives and a Mother (1960)
1951-1960ClassicsDramaJapanMikio Naruse
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The story of a family in Tokyo who live under the same roof in a large house and include the widowed sixty-year-old mother, older son and his wife, the youngest daughter and the older daughter who, while being married, is experiencing domestic problems and has moved back in. The latter woman’s husband soon dies however making the move permanent. With life insurance money flowing in she not only can afford to pay rent, but also loan some cash to her brother who unbeknownst to his mother has taken on a loan from the bank with the house as collateral. The loan was needed as his wife’s aunt’s factory needs an infusion of funds.Read More » -
Mikio Naruse – Iwashigumo AKA Summer Clouds (1958) (HD)
1951-1960DramaJapanMikio Naruse
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The country makes an unusual setting for Naruse, known for his city films, and the lyrical, open-air feeling of this color, ’Scope film almost hides the defeat that permeates the story of a woman trying to be independent of her traditional farming family.Read More »
