Tag Archives: Keisuke Kinoshita

With no practical skills and being slightly scatterbrained, Kin Aoyama ran away Read More »

Kinoshita’s first film after the end of World War II is a wrenching, superbly wrought Read More »

A young man decides to become a warrior, causing trouble for his clan. Read More »

A young woman who has been evacuated to Hokkaido with her family during Read More »

The sweet but naive denizens of a charming port town are hoodwinked Read More »

In postwar Japan a young woman is unable to marry her sweetheart because her family’s in difficult circumstances and needs her income to keep afloat. Read More »

Set in a rural village in the Shinshu region, this melodrama about lovers of different social classes spans two generations: that of a mother, and her son. Read More »

A demobilized soldier becomes a day laborer with a road construction gang, and his wife goes to work to bolster their income. Read More »

Kinoshita’s ambitious and intensely moving film begins as a multi-generational epic about the military legacy of one Japanese family Read More »

The year is 1932, and a woman, whose tenant-farmer fiancé is fighting in China, is raped by the landowner’s son (Nakadai) Read More »

Alternating in time, between the end of World War II and 1953, Haruko, a widow Read More »

Two of Japan’s finest actors, Kinuyo Tanaka and Toshiro Mifune, come together in this touching seaside melodrama Read More »

Schoolteacher Hisako Oishi struggles to imbue her students with a positive view of the world and their place in it Read More »

In Kabuki style, the film tells the story of a remote mountain village where the scarcity of food leads to a voluntary but socially-enforced policy Read More »

An old man, being rowed along a river, sees a field of daisies (or Wild Chrysanthemums, as they are described in the title, or starworts, as they are referred to in the subtitles), and thinks back to when he was fifteen. Read More »