A student at a woman’s university takes a controversial action against the school’s old-fashioned doctrines. Read More »
Tag Archives: Keisuke Kinoshita
Kyo mo mata kakute ari nan / Thus Another Day (1959) Keisuke Kinoshita, Teiji Takahashi, Yoshiko Kuga, Kanzaburô Nakamura, Drama, Romance
A young wife looses patience with her career-minded husband and returns to her parents’ home Read More »
Yorokobi mo kanashimi mo ikutoshitsuki / Times of Joy and Sorrow (1957) Keisuke Kinoshita, Hideko Takamine, Keiji Sada, Takahiro Tamura
Covering the years from 1932 through 1957, this is the story of the trials and tribulations of lighthouse keeper Keiji Sada and his wife Hideko Takamine. Read More »
Nogiku no gotoki kimi nariki / She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum (1955) Keisuke Kinoshita, Noriko Arita, Chishû Ryû, Haruko Sugimura
An old man, being rowed along a river, sees a field of daisies and thinks back to when he was fifteen. Read More »
Kono ko wo nokoshite / Children of Nagasaki (1983)
In Nagasaki, Japan, on 09 August 1945, at 11:02 AM, 80.000 dead and thousand of persons wounded Read More »
Yabure-daiko / Broken Drum (1949) Keisuke Kinoshita
When the future of his construction company falls into danger, a controlling father pushes his children Read More »
Ikite iru Magoroku / The Living Magoroku (1943)
A superstitious farming family is hesitant to use their prized fallow fields to grow crops to help feed the nation’s troops. Read More »
Marriage (1947) Keisuke Kinoshita, Kinuyo Tanaka
In postwar Japan a young woman is unable to marry her sweetheart because her family’s in difficult circumstances and needs her income to keep afloat. Read More »
Carmen Comes Home (1951) Keisuke Kinoshita, Hideko Takamine
With no practical skills and being slightly scatterbrained, Kin Aoyama ran away Read More »
Ballad of a Worker (1962) Keisuke Kinoshita, Hideko Takamine
A demobilized soldier becomes a day laborer with a road construction gang, and his wife goes to work to bolster their income. Read More »