In this adaptation from Kawabata, a young student becomes friends with a brother Read More »
Tag Archives: Heinosuke Gosho
Once More AKA Ima hitotabi no (1947) Heinosuke Gosho, Mieko Takamine, Ichirô Ryûzaki, Haruo Tanaka
A romance with political overtones about the relationship of a sheltered bourgeois woman Read More »
Love AKA Aibu (1933) Heinosuke Gosho, Michiko Oikawa, Jun Arai, Tadao Watanabe
Heinosuke Gosho evokes in this film the family conflicts engendered by the eternal problem Read More »
Growing Up Twice AKA Takekurabe (1955) Heinosuke Gosho, Hibari Misora, Kôshirô Matsumoto, Takashi Kitahara
The story here is about boys and girls on the boundary between childhood and adulthood, living in Yoshiwara Read More »
A Visage to Remember AKA Omokage (1948) Heinosuke Gosho, Yuriko Hamada, Chishû Ryû, Ichirô Ryûzaki
During his summer holiday, Kawasaki Ryuichi (Ryuzaki Ichiro), a handsome engineer in his late twenties Read More »
Yellow Crow AKA Kiiroi karasu (1957) Heinosuke Gosho, Chikage Awashima, Yûnosuke Itô, Kinuyo Tanaka
A young boy has formed an idealized image of his father, who has yet to be repatriated from Russia. 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 »
Madame and Wife AKA Madamu to nyôbô (1931) Heinosuke Gosho, Atsushi Watanabe, Kinuyo Tanaka, Mitsuko Ichimura
A writer struggles to finish his story against many distractions, but the jazz party next door proves to be too much. Read More »
Ryôjû / Hunting Rifle (1961) Heinosuke Gosho, Yoshie Minami, Mariko Okada, Nobuko Otowa, Drama
Story of a woman, Saiko, who divorces her doctor husband when she is given a baby by a stranger who claims it is the husband’s child. Read More »
Entotsu no mieru basho / Where Chimneys Are Seen (1953) Heinosuke Gosho, Kinuyo Tanaka, Ken Uehara, Hideko Takamine, Drama
Where Chimneys Are Seen focuses primarily on the interconnected lives of two couples in a lower-middle-class neighborhood in Senju, a poor industrial section of Tokyo. Read More »
Ôsaka no yado / An Inn at Osaka (1954) Heinosuke Gosho, Shûji Sano, Nobuko Otowa, Mitsuko Mito, Drama
An Inn at Osaka, rarely seen outside Japan, follows the story of an insurance company executive from Tokyo, Mr. Mito, who is demoted to the Osaka office. Read More »