This movie takes a look at a Westernized suburban area in Japan in the late ’50s. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1950s
The Great Jesse James Raid (1953) Reginald Le Borg, Willard Parker, Barbara Payton, Tom Neal
Jesse James, retired and living under an assumed name in St. Joseph, Missouri, agrees over the protests Read More »
Madame White Snake / Byaku fujin no yoren (1956) Shirô Toyoda, Ryô Ikebe, Shirley Yamaguchi, Kaoru Yachigusa
Lavish Japanese-Chinese coproduction based on an ancient Chinese legend about a man who falls in love with a snake goddess in human form. Read More »
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves AKA Ali Baba et les quarante voleurs (1954) Jacques Becker, Fernandel, Samia Gamal, Dieter Borsche
Rich oriental lord Cassim’s cheeky servant Ali Baba was sent to buy a meaty girl-slave Read More »
Beyond Oblivion AKA Más allá del olvido (1956) Hugo del Carril, Laura Hidalgo, Pedro Laxalt
A man who deeply loves his wife, tears before his death by disease. Read More »
Comedians AKA Cómicos (1954) Juan Antonio Bardem, Elisa Galvé, Fernando Rey, Emma Penella
Ana Ruiz, a young actress who works in a traveling theater company, performs only small roles Read More »
Samurai Saga AKA Aru kengo no shogai (1959) Hiroshi Inagaki, Toshirô Mifune, Yôko Tsukasa, Akira Takarada
Edmund Rostand’s play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an oversized nose (matched only by his great heart) loves a lady. Read More »
Ordet (1955) Carl Theodor Dreyer, Henrik Malberg, Emil Hass Christensen, Preben Lerdorff Rye
How do we understand faith and prayer, and what of miracles? August 1925 on a Danish farm. Read More »
Violent Saturday (1955) Richard Fleischer, Victor Mature, Richard Egan, Stephen McNally
A number of otherwise insignificant small-town stories erupt into drama when a gang of hoodlums decides to rob the local bank. Read More »
Spring Reunion (1957) Robert Pirosh, Dana Andrews, Betty Hutton, Jean Hagen
The class of 1941 at Carson High School is holding its 15th reunion. Read More »