Yusaku, whose nickname is “Tonkatsu Taisho” (General Pork Cutlet), is a popular young children’s doctor. Read More »
Tag Archives: Yûzô Kawashima
A Room for Rent AKA Kashima ari (1959) Yûzô Kawashima, Furankî Sakai, Nobuko Otowa, Ikio Sawamura
The story follows the various tenants living in a multi-room tenement on a hill overlooking the city of Osaka. Read More »
Tales of Ginza AKA Ginza 24 chou (1955) Yûzô Kawashima, Tatsuya Mihashi, Yumeji Tsukioka, Mie Kitahara
When she was a little girl, Wakako Kyoguku’s portrait was painted by a talented young artist. Read More »
Till We Meet Again AKA Ashita kuru hito (1955) Yûzô Kawashima, Sô Yamamura, Yumeji Tsukioka, Tatsuya Mihashi
Sonejiro sacrifices all comfort to devote himself to research. Young housewife Yachiyo is disappointed with her husband Kappei Read More »
Women Are Born Twice AKA Onna wa nido umareru (1961) Yûzô Kawashima, Ayako Wakao, Sô Yamamura, Jun Fujimaki
Koen is a geisha who has intimate relationships with several men at once. Read More »
The Sun Legend of the End of the Tokugawa Era (1957) Yûzô Kawashima, Furankî Sakai, Sachiko Hidari, Yôko Minamida
Set in the last few years of the shogun’s rule, this period/ensemble movie depicts the lives of the young and the restless at a whorehouse. Read More »
The Balloon (1956) Yûzô Kawashima, Shirô Amakusa, Michiyo Aratama, Izumi Ashikawa
Haruki Murakami (Masayuki Mori), once lionized as a master painter Read More »
Suzaki Paradise Red Light (1956) Yûzô Kawashima, Michiyo Aratama, Yukiko Todoroki, Seizaburô Kawazu
A couple stand indecisively on a bridge in Asakusa. Tsutae and Yoshiji have lost confidence and passion for their future as they get on the bus for Tsukishima and get off at Suzaki. Read More »
The Temple of the Wild Geese (1962) Yûzô Kawashima, Ayako Wakao, Masao Mishima, Isao Kimura, Drama, Romance
Kawashima excelled in portraying latent psychological anxieties and their incursion to associations. Read More »
The Graceful Brute (1962) Yûzô Kawashima, Ayako Wakao, Yûnosuke Itô, Hisano Yamaoka, Comedy, Drama
A greedy, materialistic family tries to cover-up that the embezzlement committed by the child when keeping their other strategies busy. Read More »
Yoru no nagare / Evening Stream (1960) Yûzô Kawashima, Mikio Naruse, Yôko Tsukasa, Isuzu Yamada, Akira Takarada, Drama
A woman and her daughter are in love with the same man, a chef at the restaurant that the mother manages. Read More »