The story is centered around the devastating experiences of two villagers, Osaki Shuichi Read More »
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Four Seasons of Children / Kodomo no shiki (1939) Hiroshi Shimizu, Teruo Furuya, Masao Hayama, Shin’ichi Himori
A follow-up to Children in the Wind, Four Seasons of Children is also based on a Tsubota Joji novel. Read More »
The Boss’s Son at College AKA Daigaku no wakadanna (1933) Hiroshi Shimizu, Mitsugu Fujii, Harurô Takeda, Yoshiko Tsubouchi
The story deals with Fuji, nicknamed Waka-danna (Young Master), the star athlete on his university’s rugby team. Read More »
The Shiinomi School AKA Shiinomi Gakuen (1955) Hiroshi Shimizu, Kyôko Kagawa, Yukiko Shimazaki, Jûkichi Uno
A university professor and his wife have two sons with infantile paralysis. Read More »
Kids Return: The Reunion AKA Kizzu ritân: Saikai no toki (2013) Hiroshi Shimizu, Yûta Hiraoka, Takahiro Miura, Bengal
Set 10 years after “Kids Return.” Shinji and Masaru have graduated from high school with different paths in their lives. Read More »
Japanese Girls at the Harbor AKA Minato no nihonmusume (1933) Hiroshi Shimizu, Michiko Oikawa, Yukiko Inoue, Ureo Egawa
A bad boy can win their hearts and drive them apart even in the 1930s and even in Japan Read More »
Mr. Thank You (1936) Hiroshi Shimizu, Ken Uehara, Ryuji Ishiyama, Einosuke Naka
Mr. Thank You is the kindly young driver of a local bus traveling from poverty stricken coastal villages, over the mountains, to the town. Read More »
Suicide Bus (1998) Hiroshi Shimizu, Dankan, Nanako Ôkôchi, Toshinori Omi, Comedy, Drama
A young girl named Mitsuki receives a ticket for a bus tour from his uncle. Read More »
Hachi no su no kodomotachi / Children of the Beehive (1948) Hiroshi Shimizu
The movie focuses on the plight of ten war orphans hailing from different cities across Japan. With nowhere to go, they scavenge around train stations, scratching out an existence by means of black market work for a one-legged tramp whilst avoiding being picked up by the police for vagrancy. Soon however, they find a more inspiring role model in the figure of a nameless soldier just repatriated after the war. An orphan himself, the soldier also has no home to return to, and so sets out across the country with the kids in tow in search of work before settling on the goal of leading them to the orphanage where he himself grew up.
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