Tag Archives: Hiroshi Shimizu

Two blind masseurs Toku and Fuku walk to a mountain retreat to work for the season. Read More »

On vacation’s eve, a boy is sent to the countryside to live with his uncle after his father is imprisoned and accused of embezzlement. Read More »

In the heart of Asakusa, Tokyo, a struggling couple—Yamano, a violinist, and Hanae, a revue dancer—lives in poverty. Read More »

Saheita, the final heir of a once rich and respectable family, can’t refuse the many villagers Read More »

Described by David Bordwell as ‘probably the greatest revelation’ of the retrospective of Shochiku’s Read More »

A little girl named Michiko gets lost from her mom in the neighborhood of Ginza. Read More »

A poor mother leaves behind three children,whom she had with different fathers Read More »

Yamazaki has spent a lot of time plotting a robbery of a local bank Read More »

Problem kids come to a reformatory school where they live, study and work. Read More »

The lives of unhappy children and women, particularly mothers Read More »