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Tag Archives: Masayuki Mori
Love Letter AKA Koibumi (1953) Kinuyo Tanaka, Masayuki Mori, Yoshiko Kuga, Jûkichi Uno
This valiant melodrama is the brilliant debut as a moviemaker of the great Japanese actress Kinuyo Tanaka Read More »
The Bad Sleep Well AKA Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru (1960) Akira Kurosawa, Toshirô Mifune, Masayuki Mori, Kyôko Kagawa
It is a high-profile wedding: the daughter of Mr Iwabuchi, a wealthy businessman Read More »
The Sun Above, Death Below AKA Sogeki (1968) Hiromichi Horikawa, Yûzô Kayama, Ruriko Asaoka, Masayuki Mori
Suspense drama about an assassin charged with breaking up a gold smuggling ring Read More »
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs AKA Onna ga kaidan wo agaru toki (1960) Mikio Naruse, Hideko Takamine, Tatsuya Nakadai, Masayuki Mori
This is the story of Mama, a.k.a. Keiko, a middle-aged bar hostess who must choose to either get married or buy a bar of her own. Read More »
Elegy of the North AKA Banka (1957) Heinosuke Gosho, Yoshiko Kuga, Masayuki Mori, Mieko Takamine
A young woman falls for a middle aged business man, but things get complicated when she also starts having feelings for his wife. Read More »
Daughters, Wives and a Mother (1960) Mikio Naruse, Setsuko Hara, Masayuki Mori, Hideko Takamine
The story of a family in Tokyo who live under the same roof in a large house Read More »
Older Brother, Younger Sister (1953) Mikio Naruse, Machiko Kyô, Masayuki Mori, Yoshiko Kuga
The eldest daughter of a rural family Mon returns home from Tokyo pregnant after an affair with a college student Kobata Read More »
Night drum (1958) Tadashi Imai, Rentarô Mikuni, Ineko Arima, Masayuki Mori
When a married woman has an affair with a young musician, feudal Japanese law requires that both offenders pay with their lives. Read More »
Yokihi / Empress Yank Kwei Fei (1955) Kenji Mizoguchi, Machiko Kyô, Masayuki Mori, Sô Yamamura, Drama, History, Romance
Tsuma to shite onna to shite / As a Wife, As a Woman (1961) Mikio Naruse, Hideko Takamine, Chikage Awashima, Masayuki Mori, Drama
The children of a distinguished professor find that the woman they have come to regard as their racy and slightly disreputable Ginza aunt is really their mother. Read More »
Kokoro / The Heart (1955) Kon Ichikawa, Masayuki Mori, Michiyo Aratama, Tatsuya Mihashi, Drama
Kon Ichikawa’s rich adaptation of Natsume Soseki’s classic novel depicts a complex relationship between a student and an older man he calls “sensei.” Read More »
Rashômon / Rashomon (1950) Akira Kurosawa, Toshirô Mifune, Machiko Kyô, Masayuki Mori, Crime, Drama
A priest, a woodcutter and another man are taking refuge from a rainstorm in the shell of a former gatehouse called Rashômon.
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Ugetsu monogatari / Ugetsu (1953) Kenji Mizoguchi, Masayuki Mori, Machiko Kyô, Kinuyo Tanaka, Drama, Fantasy, War
In the beginning of the springtime in the period of the Japanese Civil Wars of the Sixteenth Century in Lake Biwa in the Province of Omi, the family man farmer and craftsman Genjurô travels to Nagahama to sell his wares and makes a small fortune.
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Arakure / Untamed Woman (1957) Mikio Naruse, Hideko Takamine, Ken Uehara, Masayuki Mori, Drama
Set in the Taish? period of Japan (dating from 1912 to 1926), Untamed follows the fiery Oshima (in a superbly eccentric performance by Takamine) as she passes from one suitor to another, a series of calamities befalling her along the way. Characteristic of Naruse’s work, urban and rural settings are juxtaposed: the moody Tokyo streets against a majestic mountain village. At each point, the various situations Oshima is caught in seem uncannily bound up with her surroundings. It’s worth noting that the film, while not widely known, is singled out for praise by critic Chris Fujiwara.
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