Synopsis:
Masako Izumi gives a celebrated performance as Wakae the eponymous 15-year old heroine who is branded by her rural community. The developing relationship between her and Saburo and their possibilities for escape are portrayed in this film which celebrated critic Tadao Satoh included in his 1980s best 300 Japanese films list.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 »
Autotranslated from Japanesse:
Seven male students of the English literature department who have endured among 33 female students for four years of college life. After the graduation party, Nosaka visited Mieko’s house to deliver a bag of things left behind. Mieko broke up with Nosaka and she broke up with a bese without any promise. And the busy days passed by the members who went out to the society.Read More »
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Based on the moving true story of a senior high school student named Michiko (Sayuri Yoshinaga) who contracted a terminal illness and spent the following three years exchanging over 400 letters with her boyfriend Makoto (Mitsuo Hamada).Read More »
Lonely youth Shinji meets Hatsue, a pretty pearl diver, on the beach and the two fall in love. But Shinji has a rival for Hatsue’s affections, Yasuo. Yasuo spreads unpleasant gossip about his rival, and Hatsue’s father forbids her to see Shinji. But when the boy saves the passengers on a boat owned by Hatsue’s father, his luck in love begins to change.Read More »
Lonely youth Shinji meets Hatsue, a pretty pearl diver, on the beach and the two fall in love. But Shinji has a rival for Hatsue’s affections, Yasuo. Yasuo spreads unpleasant gossip about his rival, and Hatsue’s father forbids her to see Shinji. But when the boy saves the passengers on a boat owned by Hatsue’s father, his luck in love begins to change.Read More »