Set in a rural village in the Shinshu region, this melodrama about lovers of different social Read More »
Tag Archives: Keisuke Kinoshita
Hakai / Apostasy (1948) Keisuke Kinoshita, Ryô Ikebe
Segawa, a teacher in a small village, decides to break with his cowardice after discovering their pariah origin. Read More »
Morning for the Osone Family / Ôsone-ke no ashita (1946) Keisuke Kinoshita, Haruko Sugimura, Toshinosuke Nagao, Shin Tokudaiji
Kinoshita’s first film after the end of World War II is a wrenching, superbly wrought Read More »
The River Fuefuki / Fuefukigawa (1960) Keisuke Kinoshita, Hideko Takamine, Takahiro Tamura, Kôshirô Matsumoto
A young man decides to become a warrior, causing trouble for his clan. Read More »
Legend of a Duel to the Death / Shitô no densetsu (1963) Keisuke Kinoshita, Shima Iwashita, Mariko Kaga, Gô Katô
A young woman who has been evacuated to Hokkaido with her family during Read More »
Port of Flowers / Hana saku minato (1943) Keisuke Kinoshita, Eitarô Ozawa, Ken Uehara, Mitsuko Mito
The sweet but naive denizens of a charming port town are hoodwinked Read More »
The Army (1944) Rikugun – Keisuke Kinoshita
Kinoshita’s ambitious and intensely moving film begins as a multi-generational epic about the military legacy of one Japanese family Read More »
Immortal Love AKA Eien no hito (1961) Keisuke Kinoshita, Hideko Takamine, Keiji Sada, Tatsuya Nakadai
The year is 1932, and a woman, whose tenant-farmer fiancé is fighting in China, is raped by the landowner’s son (Nakadai) Read More »
A Japanese Tragedy AKA Nihon no higeki (1953) Keisuke Kinoshita, Yûko Mochizuki, Yôko Katsuragi, Masami Taura
Alternating in time, between the end of World War II and 1953, Haruko, a widow Read More »
Wedding Ring / Konyaku yubiwa (1950) Keisuke Kinoshita, Jûkichi Uno, Kinuyo Tanaka, Toshirô Mifune
Two of Japan’s finest actors, Kinuyo Tanaka and Toshiro Mifune, come together in this touching seaside melodrama Read More »