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Machinoenkashi

Family Meeting

Shigezumi is a young stock broker from Tokyo. He is in love with young Taiko who lives in Osaka. The marriage seems impossible as Shigezumi had a difficult relationship to Taiko' father who bankrupted and drove Shigezumi's…

I Am a Cat

6.5

It describes the life of a teacher, his family and neighbors, in a Japanese middle-class town of the Meiji Era, as viewed by the family cat. (Source: IMDb) ~~ Adapted from the novel "I Am a Cat" (吾輩は猫である)…

Daibosatsu Touge: Suzuka Yama no Maki ~ Mibu Shimabara no Maki

2.0

Man of the House

6.5

This film is based on a real Meiji era performer -- and tells of Tochuken's partnership with his wife ,who played shamisen for his songs/recitations), his affair with a geisha , and the deterioration of his partnership…

Soshu Kyokakuden

Kochiyama Soshun

6.8

The story follows two men who reside in a tavern. Living day to day, the sweet sake shop owner's daughter, Onami, becomes their solace. One day, when Sozun and Ichinojo learn that Onami is being sold off due to her delinquent…

Klua Mia

Dong Tan

Chindonya no Musume

Ofumi no Hyoban

Woman in the Mist

5.5

Otoku asks her brother Fumikichi to speak with her son Seiichi, a young man for whom sacrificed everything but who now seems to be headed for a wastrel life. Bunkichi admonishes the boy to study harder, but it seems…

Yataro Ryu: Zenpen

Arirang 3

Tae Joon, seeing the beauty of Young Hee, was inflamed with passion for her. However, her brother Young Jin prevented him from approaching the girl. By placing Young Jin in a mental hospital, Tae Joon finally has free…

Kantaro Tsuki no Uta

7.0

~~Adapted from Hasegawa Shin's (長谷川伸) work

Osaka Elegy

7.3

Ayako Murai is a young woman working as a telephone operator in 1930s Osaka. In order to pay the debts of her father, unemployed and threatened with arrest after embezzling 300 yen, she agrees to become the mistress…

A Fisherman's Girl

A brother and a sister live in a boat people community. They are abandoned by their parents. The brother is adopted by a rich family while the sister is left to live on the streets. The brother falsely incriminates the…

Gagamba

Five Springs

The Story of Hong Gil Dong 2

In the second part of the dilogy about the brave fighter for justice, Hong Gil Dong, it is shown how he cracks down on a gang of criminals led by the Black Hood. (Source: Letterboxd)