Mr. Thank You is a delightful film about a kind-hearted bus driver who embarks on a trip from a rural village to Tokyo. Along the way, he encounters various passengers and experiences the beauty and challenges of the countryside. Through his interactions, he learns valuable lessons about love, kindness, and the importance of gratitude.
In post-war Japan, the Toda family must come to terms with the changing society and the tensions that arise within their own family. As the siblings and their spouses gather for a family meeting, long-held resentments and buried secrets come to the surface, testing the bonds of their familial relationships.
What Did the Lady Forget? is a 1937 comedy-drama film that follows the story of a forgetful lady and the hilarious and chaotic situations that arise from her forgetfulness. It explores themes of memory, relationships, and the consequences of forgetfulness. Set in Japan, the film showcases the interactions and dynamics among different characters, including a schoolboy, a professor, a maid, and a chauffeur. As the story unfolds, the forgetful lady's memory lapses lead to misunderstandings, comedic mishaps, and unexpected surprises. With its witty dialogue and charming characters, What Did the Lady Forget? is a delightful and entertaining film.
Sabu Toshinobu is an archaeologist who has taken a liking to Kinuyo Tanaka, the daughter of an archaeologist at an inn in Izu, where he is visiting to conduct an excavation. Sabun gets along well with his childhood friend Michiko Kuwano, but his mother (Fumiko Okamura) is against her, so he gives up easily and ends up being married to Kinuyo Tanaka.
A musical film made for the inauguration of Shochiku's Ofuna Studio, with an all-star cast of the era.
Sabu Toshinobu is an archaeologist who has taken a liking to Kinuyo Tanaka, the daughter of an archaeologist at an inn in Izu, where he is visiting to conduct an excavation. Sabun gets along well with his childhood friend Michiko Kuwano, but his mother (Fumiko Okamura) is against her, so he gives up easily and ends up being married to Kinuyo Tanaka.
A young doctor, Kozo Tsumura, falls for young nurse Katsue Takaishi. But she's got a secret: she's a widow with a son. Kozo and Katsue decide to run away to Kyoto, but her child suddenly became sick and she just missed the train and Kozo. She makes it to Kyoto finally, but is unable to meet him. Plus she isn't accepted into Kyoto society. She goes back to her hometown and tries to forget him. She quits the hospital to concentrate on her singing. She makes her professional debut with the hit "Aizen Katsura". Kozo is in the audience.
Yuki is a young, single mother supporting herself and her son, Haru, with a job as a bar hostess.
A man who works late hours at a deadening job lives together with his wife and his younger sister. The younger sister's a modern girl who's starting to receive romantic attention from one of her co-workers.
Representing a destitute mother in an infanticide trial, a female lawyer attempts to convince a conservative prosecutor of the benefits of Japan's democratized post-war legal system.
1939 Japanese movie
Two childhood friends go their own ways but meet again some years later after they have both married. They get re-acquainted, meet each others’ families, and all is well. Then the disagreements start...
A Japanese wartime film directed by Yasushi Sasaki.
The story is centered around the devastating experiences of two villagers, Osaki Shuichi, and his cousin, Nishimiura Kinue, when they leave their hometown for the metropolis of Tokyo. They are in love with each other, but Kinue is expected to marry the lawyer Kanda Seiji. In consequence, Shukichi leaves for Tokyo, where he becomes tutor to the son of the rich Iwaki family. The heartbroken Kinue also makes her way to the capital, where she becomes a bar hostess.
The story focuses on the widower Nemoto, ostensibly a businessman, who has one son, Kanichi, the hero of the title. Nemoto remarries; his new wife is a widow with a son and daughter of her own. However, Nemoto’s business turns out to be out a shady scam, and he disappears, leaving his wife to raise the three children alone. In order to support the family, she is obliged to become a bar hostess. She conceals this shameful employment from the children, but the truth comes out years later, after her daughter is rejected by her husband’s family when they investigate her background.
Japanese propaganda film about the Normanton Incident.
Approaching their graduation ceremony, Saegusa, Sanae, and their classmates go on an overnight trip to Hakone with their teacher Ms. Kawahara, who will soon leave school. They thank her doing so and go on their respective paths, ending soon their student life.
Jie (Michiko Kuwano) attended a women's university with the financial support of her geisha sister Oha (Hiroko Kawasaki) and became a lawyer. The aim. Michiko (Kuniko Miyake), one of the seven best friends from the same women's college, is getting married. The man she's marrying is her sister's lover.
Kotobuki-za is a story of the Naniwa-bushi singer Baichuken Tsurumaru.