Yuriko Hanabusa

  • Kôzaburô Yoshimura – Totsugu hi AKA Wedding Day (1956)

    1951-1960DramaJapanKôzaburô Yoshimura

    Shinsaku was once a renowned playwright who has now been left behind by critics and is living a lethargic life in Oiso. His family is concerned for 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.Read More »

  • Sotoji Kimura – Ani imôto AKA Older Brother, Younger Sister (1936)

    1931-1940AsianDramaJapanSotoji Kimura

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    It was directed by Sotoji Kimura, a completely obscure, yet fairly successful Shochiku director, who by account on his few films that are available today apparently was associated with the 1930’s jun-bungaku (“pure literature”) movement, an attempt to strengthen the reputation of Japanese cinema by translating reputable high-brow literature for the screen.Read More »

  • Seijun Suzuki – Blood-Red Water In The Channel (1961)

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    Nikkatsu finally responds to Suzuki’s growing discontentment by giving him a bigger budget and a better script. This episodic collection of “real coast guard action stories” was the perfect vehicle for Koji Wada. Whatever negative press he had received for Tokyo Knights was quickly forgotten.

    He became the new “teen star.” And Suzuki: “the director to watch.”Read More »

  • Kajirô Yamamoto – Wagahai wa neko de aru AKA I am a Cat (1936)

    1931-1940AsianDramaJapanKajirô Yamamoto

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    It’s the first film adaptation of Natsumi Soseki’s novel “I Am a Cat”, but I was a little disappointed when I saw it with high expectations, because it’s less than 90 minutes long and there’s no monologue about the cat, so it’s just me in the middle of the human drama. Before that, there are only a few scenes in which I appear.

    The world situation at the time of the Russo-Japanese War has been replaced by that of World War I (the attack on Qingdao is shown in a newspaper article. However, since it was filmed before the war, the scenery has a certain feel to it. This atmosphere is something you can’t get in a postwar film.Read More »

  • Shirô Toyoda – Wakai hito aka Young People (1937)

    1931-1940AsianDramaJapanShirô Toyoda

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    This film depicts the delicate relationship between Keiko, who was born an illegitimate child and was regarded as a problem child at the mission school, and her teacher Mazaki, who understands her, and Hashimoto, a female teacher with whom he has a close relationship. One day, Keiko becomes pregnant, and rumors spread that the partner is Mazaki… A film that gave Toyoda Shiro the opportunity to show his talent in literary works. Later, the film was adapted by Kon Ichikawa, Katsumi Nishikawa, and Keisuke Kawasaki.Read More »

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