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Family Diary (1938) IMDb TMDB
家庭日記
director: Hiroshi Shimizu actor: Ken Uehara / Michiko Kuwano …
other title: 家庭日記 / Journal d'une famille
Two childhood friends go their own ways but meet again some years later after they have both married. They get re-acquainted, meet each others’ families, and all is well. Then the disagreements start...

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Woman in the Mist (1936) Douban
director: 五所平之助 actor: 飯塚敏子 / 飯田蝶子 …
other title: Oboroyo no onna / 朧夜の女
As the film begins, Bunkichi (Takeshi Sakamoto), an affable ne'er-do-well who married late (after sowing quite a few wild oats in his own youth) is approached by members of the community to head a collection drive for a commemorative lantern, a level of responsibility for which his wife Okiyo teasingly calls into question his suitability. Bunkichi further proves his irresponsibility when his widowed sister Otoku asks him to speak her son Seiichi in order to advise him to concentrate on his studies (instead of frittering his time reading novels) and instead, takes the young man out for a night of drinking. However, when Seiichi becomes involved in an even more serious - and potentially life-altering - predicament, Bunkichi takes him under his wing and assumes responsibility to mitigate the consequences of the young man's indiscretion. Gosho's richly textured home drama is a refined and seemingly effortless examination of duty, sacrifice, and maturity. The film's curious title, a reference to the out-of-favor geisha turned Ginza bar hostess Terue, provides an evocative and haunting metaphor for human transience.

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Woman in the Mist (1936) IMDb
朧夜の女
director: 五所平之助 actor: 飯塚敏子 / 飯田蝶子 …
other title: Oboroyo no onna / 朧夜の女
As the film begins, Bunkichi (Takeshi Sakamoto), an affable ne'er-do-well who married late (after sowing quite a few wild oats in his own youth) is approached by members of the community to head a collection drive for a commemorative lantern, a level of responsibility for which his wife Okiyo teasingly calls into question his suitability. Bunkichi further proves his irresponsibility when his widowed sister Otoku asks him to speak her son Seiichi in order to advise him to concentrate on his studies (instead of frittering his time reading novels) and instead, takes the young man out for a night of drinking. However, when Seiichi becomes involved in an even more serious - and potentially life-altering - predicament, Bunkichi takes him under his wing and assumes responsibility to mitigate the consequences of the young man's indiscretion. Gosho's richly textured home drama is a refined and seemingly effortless examination of duty, sacrifice, and maturity. The film's curious title, a reference to the out-of-favor geisha turned Ginza bar hostess Terue, provides an evocative and haunting metaphor for human transience.

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Warm Current (1939) Douban
director: 吉村公三郎 actor: 佐分利信 / 水戸光子 …
other title: 暖流 / Danryu
引自“艾麗絲謝影話隨筆交匯處”:

《暖流》講述三位年青人的愛情關係. 年輕醫生日匹祐三 (舊版: 佐分利信/ 新版: 根上淳) 是醫院院長的繼任人選. 日匹受到老院長的賞識的同時, 院長女兒志摩啟子 (舊版: 高峰三枝子/ 新版: 野添曈) 也非常傾慕他. 但日匹正面臨為了前途而犧牲個人意願的抉擇. 此時, 日匹遇上一位善解人意的護士石渡吟 (舊版: 水戶光子/ 新版: 左幸子) , 彼此有著共同進退的信念. 而阿吟正是啟子的小學同學. 兩位女性代表著主角對未來的取向: 是飛黃騰達, 但不由自主? 還是從頭做起, 但歷盡艱辛? 戰前《暖流》大受女性觀眾的歡迎. 觀眾為主角的選擇, 分成"時代女性/志摩啟子" 和"傳統女性/ 石渡吟"兩派, 作出熱烈的討論.

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家族会议 (1936) Douban
家族會議
director: 岛津保次郎 actor: 佐分利信 / 高田浩吉 …
other title: 家族會議
横光利一の同名小説を池田忠雄が脚色し、島津保次郎が監督した恋愛ドラマ。及川道子の最後の出演作としても知られる。現在見ることができるのは、カットされた短縮版のみとされている。1954年に中村登がリメイク版を監督した。  東京・兜町で活躍する株屋の重住高之。大阪に住む仁礼泰子と恋仲だが、泰子の父親とは昔から因縁があり、彼女と結婚できずにいた。泰子の父も株の売買を生業としており、高之の父は彼のせいで破産し自殺に追い込まれたのだった。そして泰子の父は、今度は高之に大して熾烈な仕手戦を仕掛けてきた。

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The Lights of Asakusa (1937) Douban
浅草の灯
director: 島津保次郎 actor: 上原謙 / 高峰三枝子 …
other title: 浅草之灯 / 浅草の灯 …
大正時期淺草劇場後台的一幅青春群像。純情可憐的歌女麗子(高峰三枝子)遭財雄勢大的豪客相迫為妾,劇團上下守望相助,救她出困境。影片活現淺草舞榭歌台之地,極富舊時代氣息,人物肌理豐富,有深受西方藝術影響的窮畫家,有給柴台後考慮退休的歌劇台柱,有街頭擺檔的義氣女小販,有見慣世面的歌舞女郎。杉村春子在台上飾演卡門又歌又舞,難得一見。上原謙化身淺草的正氣強人,好打不平,連愛情也不敢存私心,此片也是其代表作。

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Don't Tell Your Wife (1937) IMDb Douban
奥様に知らすべからず
director: 渋谷実 actor: 斎藤達雄 / 岡村文子
other title: 奥様に知らすべからず
While Fumiko was buying at cosmetic store, she met Mr and Mrs Kawada. As Mr Kawada is too kind to Mrs Fumiko, both women scrambled for the only one handkerchief. Finally their husbands have to duel...

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A Mother Should Be Loved (1934) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
母を恋はずや
★ 7.2 (8 ratings) director: 小津安二郎 actor: 笠智众 / 饭田蝶子 …
other title: 我们要爱母亲 / 母を恋はずや …
A young man discovers that the woman who raised him is his stepmother. His stepbrother, who is unaware of the revelation, resents his mother for always punishing him more severely than his stepsibling.

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An Inn in Tokyo (1935) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
東京の宿
★ 8.0 (7 ratings) director: 小津安二郎 actor: 坂本武
other title: 东京之宿 / 東京の宿 …
An unemployed Japanese man and his two sons wander the industrial flatlands of Depression-era Tokyo, until he chances upon an old friend and befriends a woman and her daughter, who are in a similar predicament.