Yōtarō Katsumi
Jubilation Street
(1944)
The few residents left on the streets in Tokyo share their individual stories and come to understand the melancholy of saying goodbye. (more)
The few residents left on the streets in Tokyo share their individual stories and come to understand the melancholy of saying goodbye. (more)
Hideko the Bus Conductor (1941)
Okoma, a witty young woman working as a conductor in an old, rickety bus in Kōfu, Yamanashi (rural Japan), has a creative idea that could avert the dwindling number of passengers when her job and the bus company itself are at stake. (more)
Okoma, a witty young woman working as a conductor in an old, rickety bus in Kōfu, Yamanashi (rural Japan), has a creative idea that could avert the dwindling number of passengers when her job and the bus company itself are at stake. (more)
Fuyu no yado (1938)
Spring on Leper's Island (1940)
A female doctor's story of her life in an isolated leper colony. (more)
A female doctor's story of her life in an isolated leper colony. (more)
1941 Toho adaptation of Natsume's novel. (more)
The Girl I Loved
(1946)
A young man who is unable to tell his childhood friend how he feels makes a pledge with her to reveal all of their secrets during the upcoming festival. (more)
A young man who is unable to tell his childhood friend how he feels makes a pledge with her to reveal all of their secrets during the upcoming festival. (more)
Red Peony of Night (1950)
A romantic melodrama about the shifting relationship between Ryosuke and Miki as their precarious employment and social circumstances shift around them. (more)
A romantic melodrama about the shifting relationship between Ryosuke and Miki as their precarious employment and social circumstances shift around them. (more)
Nightingale (1938)
An episodic film about life in and around a rural police station and the people it serves. (more)
An episodic film about life in and around a rural police station and the people it serves. (more)
An early film by Kon Ichikawa (more)