A young woman tries to raise money to open her own coffee shop. Read More »
Tag Archives: Mikio Naruse
Wife AKA Tsuma (1953) Mikio Naruse, Mieko Takamine, Ken Uehara, Rentarô Mikuni
Tokyo. Mihoko and Toichi Nakagawa’s ten year marriage is crumbling out of inertia. Read More »
Flowing AKA Nagareru (1956) Mikio Naruse, Kinuyo Tanaka, Isuzu Yamada, Hideko Takamine
Otsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Read More »
Floating Clouds AKA Ukigumo (1955) Mikio Naruse, Hideko Takamine, Masayuki Mori, Mariko Okada
A tragic social drama set in post war Japan and concerns a lonely women Read More »
The Whole Family Works AKA Hataraku ikka (1939) Mikio Naruse, Musei Tokugawa, Noriko Honma, Akira Ubukata
Father of nine children cannot find a job. Despite their aspirations, the children Read More »
Hideko, the Bus Conductor AKA Hideko no shashô-san (1941) Mikio Naruse, Hideko Takamine, Kamatari Fujiwara, Daijirô Natsukawa
Okoma, a young lady working as a conductor with a bus company in Kofu Yamanashi Read More »
The Road I Travel with You AKA Kimi to yuku michi (1936) Mikio Naruse, Heihachirô Ôkawa, Hideo Saeki, Naoyo Yamagata
“The Road I Travel With You” concerns two brothers of marriageable age and their mother Read More »
A Woman’s Sorrows AKA Nyonin aishû (1937) Mikio Naruse, Takako Irie, Hideo Saeki, Heihachirô Ôkawa
The irresolute heroine marries without love and finds herself regarded Read More »
The Actress and the Poet AKA Joyû to shijin (1935) Mikio Naruse, Hiroshi Uruki, Sachiko Chiba, Kamatari Fujiwara
Ryuji Nagami’s script mandates a fairly straightforward comedy of nonconformism Read More »
Late Chrysanthemums AKA Bangiku (1954) Mikio Naruse, Haruko Sugimura, Ken Uehara, Sadako Sawamura
What is the life of a Geisha like once her beauty has faded and she has retired? Read More »
Her Lonely Lane AKA Hôrô-ki (1962) Mikio Naruse, Hideko Takamine, Akira Takarada, Daisuke Katô
Fumiko struggles to get her literary work published, spending years working Read More »
Travelling Actors AKA Tabi yakusha (1940) Mikio Naruse, Kamatari Fujiwara, Kan Yanagiya, Minoru Takase
Story about a group of actors mostly based on the guys playing the horse. Read More »
Okuni to Gohei (1952) Mikio Naruse, Michiyo Kogure, Tomoemon Otani, Sô Yamamura
Kogure is the widow of an assassinated samurai and Otani was that man’s pupil. Read More »
Both You and I AKA Ore mo omae mo (1946) Mikio Naruse, Entatsu Yokoyama, Achako Hanabishi, Hisako Yamane
A comedy about two salarymen who routinely degrade themselves for their boss. Read More »
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs AKA Onna ga kaidan wo agaru toki (1960) Mikio Naruse, Hideko Takamine, Tatsuya Nakadai, Masayuki Mori
This is the story of Mama, a.k.a. Keiko, a middle-aged bar hostess who must choose to either get married or buy a bar of her own. Read More »