Goteken — Director (45)
Movie
Flame of My Love (1949) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
わが恋は燃えぬ
director:
Goteken
actor:
Kinuyo Tanaka
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Mitsuko Mito
other title:
我的爱在燃烧
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わが恋は燃えぬ
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A woman's struggle for equality in Japan in the 1880s. Eiko Hirayama leaves Okayama for Tokyo, where she helps the fledgling Liberal Party and falls in love with its leader Kentaro Omoi, just as the party is being disbanded by the government. Eiko and Omoi are jailed because of a fire at a factory instigated by Chiyo, a servant girl from Eiko's home in Okayama, who was sold to slavery. A few years later the 1889 constitution is proclaimed, Eiko, Omoi, and Chiyo are pardoned, and the Liberal Party is reinaugurated. However Omoi does not campaign for women's rights.
Movie
The Downfall of Osen (1935) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
折鶴お千
other title:
折纸鹤的阿千
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折鶴お千
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In Tokyo, Osen is the servant girl of an unscrupulous antiques dealer, Kumazawa, who takes in the penniless Sokichi Hata. Kumazawa mistreats Sokichi and Osen, while swindling some Buddhist monks out of their temple treasures. When Kumazawa is arrested, Osen agrees to help Sokichi finance his dream of going to medical school. They live in a humble room, and eventually the only way Osen can find enough money for them is to prostitute herself during the day, without Sokichi knowing. (Will Gilbert)
Movie
Poppies (1935) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
虞美人草
other title:
虞美人草
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Gubijinsô
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Fujio is beautiful, talented, well-heeled, and engaged to up-and-coming diplomat Munechika. She has promised him a gold watch, a family heirloom, as an emblem of their engagement. However, she becomes enamoured with Ono, a student employed to tutor her in English, who is attracted by her beauty and wealth. Ono himself is bound by an engagement to Sayoko, daughter of his mentor, Professor Inoue.
Movie
Loyal 47 of the Genroku Era (1941) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban Eggplant.place +2
元禄忠臣蔵 前篇
other title:
元禄忠臣藏 前篇
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元禄忠臣蔵 前篇
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In 1701, Lord Takuminokami Asano has a feud with Lord Kira and he tries to kill Kira in the corridors of the Shogun's palace. The Shogun sentences Lord Asano to commit suppuku and deprives the palace and lands from his clan, but does not punish Lord Kira. Lord Asano's vassals leave the land and his samurais become ronin and want to seek revenge against the dishonor of their Lord. But their leader Kuranosuke Oishi asks the Shogun to restore the Asano clan with his brother Daigaku Asano. One year later, the Shogun refuses his request and Oishi and forty-six ronin revenge their Lord.
Movie
Miss Oyu (1951) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
お遊さま
other title:
阿游小姐
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お遊さま
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Shinnosuke is introduced to Shizu as a prospective marriage partner, but he falls in love with her widowed sister Oyu. Convention forbids Oyu to marry because she has to raise her son as the head of her husband's family. Oyu convinces Shinnosuke and Shizu to marry so that she can remain close to Shinnosuke.
Movie
Princess Yang Kwei Fei (1955) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
楊貴妃
other title:
杨贵妃
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楊貴妃
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In eighth century China, the Emperor is grieving over the death of his wife. The Yang family wants to provide the Emperor with a consort so that they may consolidate their influence over the court. General An Lushan finds a distant relative working in their kitchen whom they groom to present to the Emperor. The Emperor falls in love with her and she becomes the Princess Yang Kwei-fei. The Yangs are then appointed important ministers, though An Lushan is not given the court position he covets. The ministers misuse their power so much that there is a popular revolt against the Yangs, fueled by An Lushan.
Movie
The Lady of Musashino (1951) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
武蔵野夫人
director:
Kenji Mizoguchi
actor:
Kinuyo Tanaka
/
Yukiko Todoroki
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other title:
武蔵野夫人
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Lady Musashino
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In post-war Japan, Michiko, a disillusioned young woman trapped in a loveless marriage, confides in her younger cousin, Tsutomo, and the two become close, but decide not to consummate their affair. He instead becomes involved with the flirtatious Tomiko, who is also conducting an affair with Michiko's husband. When Michiko finds that her husband has abandoned her, she decides to take her fate into her own hands.
Movie
The Water Magician (1933) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban Eggplant.place +2
滝の白糸
other title:
白绢之瀑
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滝の白糸
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Taki no Shiraito is a very independent young woman with a famous water juggling act in a travelling carnival troupe. She falls in love with an orphaned carriage driver Kinya Murakoshi, and pledges to put him through law school in Tokyo. She always encloses money in her letters to him, until one hard winter there is no work to be found.
Movie
Sisters of the Gion (1936) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
祇園の姉妹
other title:
祇园姊妹
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祇園の姉妹
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A geisha in the Gion district of Kyoto feels obliged to help her lover when he asks to stay with her after going bankrupt and leaving his wife. However, her younger sister opposes this, thinking that they should both find wealthy patrons to support them.
Movie
Tales of Ugetsu (1953) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban Min reol +2
雨月物語
other title:
雨月物语
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雨月物語
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In 16th century Japan, peasants Genjuro and Tobei sell their earthenware pots to a group of soldiers in a nearby village, in defiance of a local sage's warning against seeking to profit from warfare. Genjuro's pursuit of both riches and the mysterious Lady Wakasa, as well as Tobei's desire to become a samurai, run the risk of destroying both themselves and their wives, Miyagi and Ohama.
Movie
The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum (1939) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
殘菊物語
other title:
마지막 국화 이야기
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残菊物語
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In late 19th century Tokyo, Kikunosuke Onoue, the adopted son of a legendary actor, himself an actor specializing in female roles, discovers that he is only praised for his acting due to his status as his father's heir. Devastated by this, he turns to Otoku, a servant of his family, for comfort, and they fall in love. Kikunosuke becomes determined to leave home and develop as an actor on his own merits, and Otoku faithfully follows him.