
The stage director Shimamura, who is bringing western theatre to Japan, falls in love with the outspoken Read More »
Tag Archives: Sô Yamamura
Utsukushisa to kanashimi to / With Beauty And Sorrow (1965) Masahiro Shinoda, Kaoru Yachigusa, Mariko Kaga, Sô Yamamura

Long before the events of the movie Ôki, who was approaching middle age, had a relation to 16-year-old Otoko. Read More »
Till We Meet Again (1955) Yûzô Kawashima, Sô Yamamura

Sonejiro sacrifices all comfort to devote himself to research. Young housewife Yachiyo is disappointed with her husband Kappei Read More »
Hole in One / Ana (1957) Kon Ichikawa, Machiko Kyô, Eiji Funakoshi, Sô Yamamura

A clever reporter gets involved with a bank embezzlement case. Read More »
The Woman in the Typhoon Area / Taifuken no onna (1948) Hideo Ôba, Sô Yamamura, Setsuko Hara, Takashi Kanda

A gang of 4 pirates, down on their luck, head for a weather-tracking station on an outlying island Read More »
Akitsu Springs / Akitsu onsen (1962) Yoshishige Yoshida, Mariko Okada, Hiroyuki Nagato, Sô Yamamura

The day before Japan announces its defeat in WW2, a very ill Shusaku arrives in Okayama. Read More »
Shinobi No Mono 2: Vengeance / Zoku shinobi no mono (1963) Satsuo Yamamoto, Raizô Ichikawa, Sô Yamamura, Shiho Fujimura

Confident that he has destroyed the Iga Ninja, the evil Oda Nobunaga Read More »
Diary of a Mad Old Man / Fûten Rôjin nikki (1962) Keigo Kimura, Sô Yamamura, Ayako Wakao, Keizô Kawasaki

Diary of a Mad Old Man is the journal of Utsugi, a seventy-seven-year-old man of refined tastes who is recovering from a stroke. Read More »
Tokyo Story / Tôkyô monogatari (1953) Yasujirô Ozu, Chishû Ryû, Chieko Higashiyama, Sô Yamamura

Elderly couple Shukishi and Tomi Hirayama live in the small coastal village of Onomichi 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 »