A 1984 Japanese film directed by Kon Ichikawa. It is based upon a same titled novel by Chiyo Uno.Read More »
Sayuri Yoshinaga
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Kon Ichikawa – Ohan (1984) (HD)
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Kô Nakahira – Hikaru umi AKA Bright Sea (1963)
Kô Nakahira1961-1970DramaJapanAutotranslated 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 » -
Kiriô Urayama – Yumechiyo nikki AKA Yumechiyo’s Diary (1985)
1981-1990AsianDramaJapanKirio UrayamaYumechiyo Nikki is the story of a woman who is suffering from leukemia, the result of exposure to the atomic blast when she was still unborn. In the last three years of her life, she returns home, a small hot spring resort in the San-in Region and runs a geisha house inherited from her mother.Read More »
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Buichi Saito – Ai to shi o mitsumete AKA Gazing at Love and Death (1964)
1961-1970Buichi SaitoClassicsDramaJapanQuote:
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 » -
Kenjirô Morinaga – Shiosai AKA The Sound of Waves (1964) (HD)
1961-1970AsianDramaJapanKenjirô MorinagaLonely 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 »
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Kenjirô Morinaga – Shiosai AKA The Sound of Waves (1964)
1961-1970AsianJapanKenjirô MorinagaRomanceLonely 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 »
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Isao Yukisada – Kita no zeronen aka Year one in the north (2005)
Drama2001-2010AsianIsao YukisadaJapanQuote:
In 1868, after the fall of the Shogun-dominated Japan, the new government orders people from Awaji, near Kobe, to re-locate to the northern part of Hokkaido. These people once supported the now displaced Samurais of the older days. After two years, over 500 of them settled in their new land under the leadership of Hideaki, husband of Shino. However, as crops fail he is to go to Sapporo to learn new techniques of farming, leaving his wife and daughter for 5 years. All this time, the new community is constantly watched by the government which choose to again uproot them from their new homes.[imdb]Read More » -
Satsuo Yamamoto – Kôtei no inai hachigatsu AKA August without Emperor (1978)
1971-1980JapanPoliticsSatsuo YamamotoThrillerTaking the Chilean coup as an example, a group of young officers plan to overthrow the Japanese government on V-J Day. They aim to abolish the post-war constitution, restore the national army and revive the traditional spirit of Japan. As the conspiracy is exposed, the coup squadrons are wiped out one by one. The remaining squadron takes over a night train bound for Tokyo.Read More »
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Kon Ichikawa – Sasame-yuki AKA The Makioka Sisters (1983)
Drama1981-1990JapanKon IchikawaThis lyrical adaptation of the beloved novel by Junichiro Tanizaki was a late-career triumph for director Kon Ichikawa. Structured around the changing of the seasons, The Makioka Sisters (Sasame-yuki) follows the lives of four siblings who have taken on their family’s kimono manufacturing business, in the years leading up to the Pacific War. The two oldest have been married for some time, but according to tradition, the rebellious youngest sister cannot wed until the third, conservative and terribly shy, finds a husband. This graceful study of a family at a turning point in history is a poignant evocation of changing times and fading customs, shot in rich, vivid colors. (~Criterion)Read More »
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