Kaneto Shindō — Playwright (112)
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The Rainbow-Colored Flower (1950)
七色の花 IMDb TMDB
Masahisa Sunohara actor: Setsuko Hara / Haruko Sugimura …
other title: 七色の花
Ebihara is a budding novelist entangled in a complicated web of relationships with three women from three different generations: Kazue, a coquettish teenage war orphan who tries to offer herself for money but is instead taken in by Ebihara, Koyabu, a middle-aged woman who has spent much of her life as the kept woman of a wealthy man, and Teruko, the modest daughter of Ebihara's former teacher who comes to rely on him after the death of her father.
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Boryoku (1952)
暴力 IMDb Douban
吉村公三郎 actor: 更多...
other title: 大阪屋檐下(台) / Glykeia zoi …
Set in post-WWII Osaka, a young woman trapped working in a sordid lodging house run by her abusive stepfather falls for a visiting criminal in hopes of escaping the slums.
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Women of Ginza (1955)
銀座の女 IMDb TMDB
Kōzaburō Yoshimura actor: Yukiko Todoroki / Nobuko Otowa …
other title: 銀座の女
At Shizumoto, a geisha shop not far from Ginza, a group of geisha are going about their day, putting up a modest resistance to the tragedies of life. The proprietress, Ikuyo, is a ridiculously good-natured woman who gives money to a poor but brilliant young man, Eisaku Yanoguchi, to attend college on the condition that he will take care of her in the future.
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Wedding Day (1956)
嫁ぐ日 IMDb TMDB
Kōzaburō Yoshimura actor: Keiko Tsushima / Masami Taura …
other title: 嫁ぐ日
Shinsaku was once a renowned playwright, has now been left behind by journalism and is living a lethargic life in Oiso. His family is concerned with Shinsaku regaining his old vigor as a writer and Sakie, his daughter, finding a suitable match, while the family is struggling with the losses of war.
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On This Earth (1957)
地上 WikiData IMDb TMDB
Kōzaburō Yoshimura actor: Hiroshi Kawaguchi / Hitomi Nozoe …
other title: 地上
Ichiro’s family used to be a large landowner, but now he is living in poverty with his mother. His mother works hard to get her son through school. Under such circumstances, Ichiro meets Wakako, the daughter of a wealthy man, and they fall in love with each other, but they are opposed by those around them because of their different social status.
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Sakura-tai Chiru (1988)
さくら隊散る WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
新藤兼人 actor: 古田将士 / 未来贵子 …
other title: 散落的樱花队 / さくら隊散る …
A documentary about the lives of actors in the Sakura-tai theatrical troupe, which had arrived in the island of Hiroshima to begin preparations for the staging of a play just before the atomic bombing.
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The Gambling Samurai (1960)
国定忠治 IMDb TMDB
Senkichi Taniguchi actor: Toshirō Mifune / Michiyo Aratama …
other title: 国定忠治 / 國定忠治
Chuji Kunisada returns to his home village to find that Jubei Matsui, the corrupt magistrate, has been responsible for virtually destroying Kunisada's family. A final tragedy leads Kunisada to join with a band of rogues living in the forest in robbing from the rich and giving to the poor, always with an eye toward avenging himself on Magistrate Matsui.
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Love and Duty (1954)
真実一路 IMDb Douban
川岛雄三 actor: 山村聪 / 淡岛千景 …
other title: 真实一路 / 真実一路 …
Each one of us lives differently. So, there are many tragedies and comedies in our lives. She feels many conflicts in living her life between truth and love.
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The Navy (1963)
海軍 IMDb Douban
村山新治 actor: 北大路欣也 / 三田佳子 …
other title: 海軍
A tale of two best friends in the WWII era Japan. Takao is a young man enthusiastic about joining the navy to fight for his country. He convinces his best friend Shinji to join him. As it turns out, however, Takao's poor health prevents him from entering the navy while his friend is chosen instead. As time goes by, Takao becomes a painter and changes his mind about the meaningfulness of war and fighting, while his friend goes the opposite path. Meanwhile Takao's sister falls in love with Shinji.
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A Grain of Wheat (1958)
一粒の麦 IMDb Douban
吉村公三郎 actor: 菅原謙二 / 若尾文子 …
other title: Hitotsubu no mugi / 一粒麦 …
The film depicts a group of boys and girls who graduate from a local junior high school and head to Tokyo to find employment, and the teachers who watch over them. Co-written by newcomer Shigeki Chiba and Kaneto Shindo, the film was directed by Kozaburo Yoshimura.