Kyōko Kagawa — Actor (60)
The Outsiders (1958) [Movie] Douban
森と湖のまつり
other title:
森林与湖的祭祀
/
森と湖のまつり
…
One of the major joys of writing about Japanese movies is that whenever you begin to get that tired, jaded feeling that you think you’ve seen it all and that there’s nothing left that’s ever going to set your pulse racing, you stumble across a whole previously hidden seam of movies that completely revolutionises any ideas of what Japanese cinema is. I remember getting this feeling watching the works of Hiroshi Shimizu at the 2003 Tokyo FILMeX, and I got it again at the same festival exactly one year later, during a 13-film retrospective of Tomu Uchida, which travelled to the Rotterdam Film Festival in a slimmed-down version a couple of months later.
In English-language film circles, not much is really generally known about Japanese cinema prior to the 1960s. Anderson and Richie’s The Japanese Film: Art and Industry is still the bible for those who want to find out more, but more recent non-academic publications are limited by the films that are available for viewing. It’s a catch-22 situation, which DVD is slowly overcoming. Yet still, outside of the work of a few major directors like Kurosawa and Ozu, recent releases have tended to stick with products from more recent years, more often than not focused around the twin poles of art and exploitation.
It is therefore really difficult to get any broader picture of what the industry was doing before the days of yakuza movies and Roman Porno. Yet the 1950s were the decade when the Japanese cinema had reached full maturity and cinema attendances were at a peak, the so-called Golden Age when the major companies were between them turning out around 500 films a year, all made by directors with several decades of experience behind them, at long-established studios with a large highly-trained professional team of technicians. Far from being the bastion of conservativeness that Oshima and the New Wave directors labelled it to be, I am coming to look at the decade as a vast lucky dip with some fabulous treasures still waiting to be found – such as The Outsiders, for example, an epic outdoor adventure in which an embittered Ken Takakura fights for the rights of Hokkaido’s oppressed Ainu population.
Tomu Uchida was one of those names I’d heard bandied about a lot, most often in conjunction with the film Earth (Tsuchi) made in 1939. A seminal piece of social-realism made by a director noted for his leftist inclinations, Earth focused on the harsh lives of a community of farmers at a time when rapid urbanisation was bleeding the countryside dry. It was a political film in that it confronted the swelling ranks of the emergent urban middle classes who made up the large bulk of cinema audiences with the plight of the rural poor, paralleling the release of John Ford’s adaptation of John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath in America around the same time in 1940.
Remember, long before the days of television, cinema was the only way of seeing how the other half lived, and in today’s image-saturated mass-media culture it is easy to overlook the power and immediacy of what people saw on the big screen. Uchida’s film was all the more political because it was made at the time when the lion’s share of agricultural production was being put towards Japan’s wartime expansion. Needless to say, it went bang in the face of the type of films the government was promoting at the time.
Earth was filmed over the course of a year with a documentarist’s attention to detail, taking in each of the seasons and focusing very much on man’s relationship with the soil. This approach of drawing out the realism and charting the passage of time through the use of the four seasons much later became a staple of the documentary films made by the collective centred around Shinsuke Ogawa, such as Magino Village – A Tale (Sennen Kizami no Hidokei: Magino-Mura Monogatari, 1987), or more recently in the documentary-styled fictional work of Naomi Kawase, specifically the films Suzaku and Hotaru.
Uchida’s film, by the way, is not to be confused with the German-Japanese co-production, The New Earth (Atarashii Tsuchi), directed by Mansaku Itami, the father of Tampopo director Juzo Itami. This film, released in 1941, was a nationalist propaganda work made under the instigation of Dr Arnold Fanck, the German director who sparked off the peculiar genre of the “Mountain Film” as typified by The Holy Mountain (Der Heilige Berg, recently released on DVD in the UK by Eureka). As written by Fanck, its goal was to portray “unity of the Nazi group-spirit and the racial spirit of the Japanese as opposed to the weak spirit of the democracies”, but there was conflict between the Japanese and the German creative elements throughout the production due to the way in which Fanck constantly misrepresented elements of Japanese culture in service of the film’s higher propagandist purpose (The Last Samurai, anyone?). Released overseas at the time as The Daughter of the Samurai, one of the first co-productions Japan ever made with the West thus ended up a classic textbook example of orientalist filmmaking.
Much of what has been written about Uchida’s career in the English language – basically in Anderson and Richie’s book – has focused on his pre-war career. But as the FILMeX retrospective clearly demonstrated, this was only half of the story. In 1945, the left-leaning director travelled to the formerly Japanese-occupied area of Manchuria in China to join the Manchuria Film Association, or Man’ei, and was not to come back until 1953. Upon his return he continued for almost two decades to produce a wide range of films that fit into every genre conceivable, from traditional kabuki adaptations to melodrama and yakuza movies.
The diversity of his oeuvre therefore means that getting a grip on what elements typify an Uchida picture is a difficult task, but on the evidence of The Outsiders, one of the original program that tellingly did not go over to the Rotterdam festival, perhaps it is fruitful to turn once again to the parallel with John Ford. The film’s mixture of heroic action, making full use of one of the top macho icons of its day, an expansive sense of location, masterful use of colour and composition and a focus on social injustice meted out on large sectors of the nation’s indigenous people had me thinking in terms of The Searchers. In what seems like another unlikely case of synchronicity, Ford’s film was released just two years previously in 1956.
The Outsiders is something of a revelation. It certainly looks nothing like what you’d expect from a Japanese movie made around the mid-50s, which is perhaps the reason why it is completely unknown outside of Japan. Opening with a lengthy pan across the barren mountaintops of Hokkaido, Uchida’s third film in colour, after the two parts of the jidai-geki Daibosatsu Pass (Daibosatsutoge, 1957/58) is an undeniably exhilarating visual experience, making full use of the Toeiscope widescreen format to capture Japan’s northernmost territory in all its rugged beauty. It also is of particular interest for drawing attention to the destruction of the culture and the discrimination against the indigenous Ainu people, a dwindling race faced with danger of extinction since the Japanese nation began its concerted push northwards with the government extending administration over all parts of the landmass in 1868.
Screen legend Ken Takakura is Ishitaro Kazamori, known as Byakki “the Phoenix” by the local Ainu population, as he whisks from village to village on horseback delivering supplies and educational books to the locals, an outcast Robin Hood character working for the future of his people. But Byakki’s rough methods aren’t to everyone’s tastes. Money has been going missing from the funds raised by the chairman of the Ainu Society, Dr. Ike (Kitazawa), a well-meaning “shamo” (non-Ainu) who has dedicated much of his life to researching the history and culture of Japan’s aboriginal people.
When Dr Ike brings a young landscape painter Yoshiko Saeki (Kagawa) from Tokyo with him on his field trips to sketch the local landscapes, there is initially resentment of another outsider treating the local populations as her own pet project. But Yoshiko soon befriends Mitsu (Fujisato), an Ainu girl who was jilted years ago on the eve of the holy Bekanbe Festival by her “shamo” lover who couldn’t go through with the stigma of marrying into this ostracised class. Mitsu may also hold the key to Byakki’s whereabouts.
Meanwhile, as the next Bekanbe Festival approaches, tension is growing between the Ainu and the Japanese settlers in the coastal town of Nanbetsu due to Byakki’s increasingly unruly antics. One local who steadfastly refuses to pitch in to Dr. Ike’s project is Oiwa (Mikuni), who runs the local fishery with his old father (Susukida), and runs a strict policy of not hiring any Ainu workers. Oiwa bears Byakki a particular enmity, because Byakki knows that Oiwa is living in denial, masquerading as a “shamo” and keeping his real Ainu ancestry well hidden. But Oiwa also knows a few secrets about Byakki.
Hokkaido is in many ways Japan’s northernmost frontier, its own equivalent to the Wild West, and The Outsiders, though based on the novel Mori to Mizuumi no Matsuri by Taijun Takeda, most clearly resembles an American western, a gripping action film letting forth a righteous cry against social injustice against the indigenous population and unfolding against an epic landscape. Such genre appropriations can’t be coincidental. As could be seen as early back as Uchida’s own 1933 silent, The Police Officer (Keisatsukan), which also played at FILMeX, Japanese filmmakers were certainly not above borrowing heavily from typically American staples such as the cops-and-robbers film. I can’t say whether Uchida consciously modelled his film on the western, but the crucial fact about The Outsiders is that the story makes sense and works in its own right, rather than just being noteworthy as a cross-cultural hybrid curio.
The main drawing point is of course Hokkaido itself, shot beautifully by cinematographer Shoe Nishikawa, picking out the autumnal russet-tinged hues of the majestic countryside of lakes, plains and woods, as the camera glides and tracks through a series of mainly exterior locations. But aside from this vibrant use of colour, also used to great effect in the matsuri (festival) scenes and the coloured fabrics of the traditional costumes, The Outsiders is also unique for revealing a facet of Japanese culture almost completely disregarded in its cinema. Bold, beautiful, and packing a powerful dramatic punch, there is little else quite like it. We can only hope that some adventurous DVD company will pick it up soon, because this is a film that could change people’s perceptions and prejudices about Japanese film for good. from midnighteye
In English-language film circles, not much is really generally known about Japanese cinema prior to the 1960s. Anderson and Richie’s The Japanese Film: Art and Industry is still the bible for those who want to find out more, but more recent non-academic publications are limited by the films that are available for viewing. It’s a catch-22 situation, which DVD is slowly overcoming. Yet still, outside of the work of a few major directors like Kurosawa and Ozu, recent releases have tended to stick with products from more recent years, more often than not focused around the twin poles of art and exploitation.
It is therefore really difficult to get any broader picture of what the industry was doing before the days of yakuza movies and Roman Porno. Yet the 1950s were the decade when the Japanese cinema had reached full maturity and cinema attendances were at a peak, the so-called Golden Age when the major companies were between them turning out around 500 films a year, all made by directors with several decades of experience behind them, at long-established studios with a large highly-trained professional team of technicians. Far from being the bastion of conservativeness that Oshima and the New Wave directors labelled it to be, I am coming to look at the decade as a vast lucky dip with some fabulous treasures still waiting to be found – such as The Outsiders, for example, an epic outdoor adventure in which an embittered Ken Takakura fights for the rights of Hokkaido’s oppressed Ainu population.
Tomu Uchida was one of those names I’d heard bandied about a lot, most often in conjunction with the film Earth (Tsuchi) made in 1939. A seminal piece of social-realism made by a director noted for his leftist inclinations, Earth focused on the harsh lives of a community of farmers at a time when rapid urbanisation was bleeding the countryside dry. It was a political film in that it confronted the swelling ranks of the emergent urban middle classes who made up the large bulk of cinema audiences with the plight of the rural poor, paralleling the release of John Ford’s adaptation of John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath in America around the same time in 1940.
Remember, long before the days of television, cinema was the only way of seeing how the other half lived, and in today’s image-saturated mass-media culture it is easy to overlook the power and immediacy of what people saw on the big screen. Uchida’s film was all the more political because it was made at the time when the lion’s share of agricultural production was being put towards Japan’s wartime expansion. Needless to say, it went bang in the face of the type of films the government was promoting at the time.
Earth was filmed over the course of a year with a documentarist’s attention to detail, taking in each of the seasons and focusing very much on man’s relationship with the soil. This approach of drawing out the realism and charting the passage of time through the use of the four seasons much later became a staple of the documentary films made by the collective centred around Shinsuke Ogawa, such as Magino Village – A Tale (Sennen Kizami no Hidokei: Magino-Mura Monogatari, 1987), or more recently in the documentary-styled fictional work of Naomi Kawase, specifically the films Suzaku and Hotaru.
Uchida’s film, by the way, is not to be confused with the German-Japanese co-production, The New Earth (Atarashii Tsuchi), directed by Mansaku Itami, the father of Tampopo director Juzo Itami. This film, released in 1941, was a nationalist propaganda work made under the instigation of Dr Arnold Fanck, the German director who sparked off the peculiar genre of the “Mountain Film” as typified by The Holy Mountain (Der Heilige Berg, recently released on DVD in the UK by Eureka). As written by Fanck, its goal was to portray “unity of the Nazi group-spirit and the racial spirit of the Japanese as opposed to the weak spirit of the democracies”, but there was conflict between the Japanese and the German creative elements throughout the production due to the way in which Fanck constantly misrepresented elements of Japanese culture in service of the film’s higher propagandist purpose (The Last Samurai, anyone?). Released overseas at the time as The Daughter of the Samurai, one of the first co-productions Japan ever made with the West thus ended up a classic textbook example of orientalist filmmaking.
Much of what has been written about Uchida’s career in the English language – basically in Anderson and Richie’s book – has focused on his pre-war career. But as the FILMeX retrospective clearly demonstrated, this was only half of the story. In 1945, the left-leaning director travelled to the formerly Japanese-occupied area of Manchuria in China to join the Manchuria Film Association, or Man’ei, and was not to come back until 1953. Upon his return he continued for almost two decades to produce a wide range of films that fit into every genre conceivable, from traditional kabuki adaptations to melodrama and yakuza movies.
The diversity of his oeuvre therefore means that getting a grip on what elements typify an Uchida picture is a difficult task, but on the evidence of The Outsiders, one of the original program that tellingly did not go over to the Rotterdam festival, perhaps it is fruitful to turn once again to the parallel with John Ford. The film’s mixture of heroic action, making full use of one of the top macho icons of its day, an expansive sense of location, masterful use of colour and composition and a focus on social injustice meted out on large sectors of the nation’s indigenous people had me thinking in terms of The Searchers. In what seems like another unlikely case of synchronicity, Ford’s film was released just two years previously in 1956.
The Outsiders is something of a revelation. It certainly looks nothing like what you’d expect from a Japanese movie made around the mid-50s, which is perhaps the reason why it is completely unknown outside of Japan. Opening with a lengthy pan across the barren mountaintops of Hokkaido, Uchida’s third film in colour, after the two parts of the jidai-geki Daibosatsu Pass (Daibosatsutoge, 1957/58) is an undeniably exhilarating visual experience, making full use of the Toeiscope widescreen format to capture Japan’s northernmost territory in all its rugged beauty. It also is of particular interest for drawing attention to the destruction of the culture and the discrimination against the indigenous Ainu people, a dwindling race faced with danger of extinction since the Japanese nation began its concerted push northwards with the government extending administration over all parts of the landmass in 1868.
Screen legend Ken Takakura is Ishitaro Kazamori, known as Byakki “the Phoenix” by the local Ainu population, as he whisks from village to village on horseback delivering supplies and educational books to the locals, an outcast Robin Hood character working for the future of his people. But Byakki’s rough methods aren’t to everyone’s tastes. Money has been going missing from the funds raised by the chairman of the Ainu Society, Dr. Ike (Kitazawa), a well-meaning “shamo” (non-Ainu) who has dedicated much of his life to researching the history and culture of Japan’s aboriginal people.
When Dr Ike brings a young landscape painter Yoshiko Saeki (Kagawa) from Tokyo with him on his field trips to sketch the local landscapes, there is initially resentment of another outsider treating the local populations as her own pet project. But Yoshiko soon befriends Mitsu (Fujisato), an Ainu girl who was jilted years ago on the eve of the holy Bekanbe Festival by her “shamo” lover who couldn’t go through with the stigma of marrying into this ostracised class. Mitsu may also hold the key to Byakki’s whereabouts.
Meanwhile, as the next Bekanbe Festival approaches, tension is growing between the Ainu and the Japanese settlers in the coastal town of Nanbetsu due to Byakki’s increasingly unruly antics. One local who steadfastly refuses to pitch in to Dr. Ike’s project is Oiwa (Mikuni), who runs the local fishery with his old father (Susukida), and runs a strict policy of not hiring any Ainu workers. Oiwa bears Byakki a particular enmity, because Byakki knows that Oiwa is living in denial, masquerading as a “shamo” and keeping his real Ainu ancestry well hidden. But Oiwa also knows a few secrets about Byakki.
Hokkaido is in many ways Japan’s northernmost frontier, its own equivalent to the Wild West, and The Outsiders, though based on the novel Mori to Mizuumi no Matsuri by Taijun Takeda, most clearly resembles an American western, a gripping action film letting forth a righteous cry against social injustice against the indigenous population and unfolding against an epic landscape. Such genre appropriations can’t be coincidental. As could be seen as early back as Uchida’s own 1933 silent, The Police Officer (Keisatsukan), which also played at FILMeX, Japanese filmmakers were certainly not above borrowing heavily from typically American staples such as the cops-and-robbers film. I can’t say whether Uchida consciously modelled his film on the western, but the crucial fact about The Outsiders is that the story makes sense and works in its own right, rather than just being noteworthy as a cross-cultural hybrid curio.
The main drawing point is of course Hokkaido itself, shot beautifully by cinematographer Shoe Nishikawa, picking out the autumnal russet-tinged hues of the majestic countryside of lakes, plains and woods, as the camera glides and tracks through a series of mainly exterior locations. But aside from this vibrant use of colour, also used to great effect in the matsuri (festival) scenes and the coloured fabrics of the traditional costumes, The Outsiders is also unique for revealing a facet of Japanese culture almost completely disregarded in its cinema. Bold, beautiful, and packing a powerful dramatic punch, there is little else quite like it. We can only hope that some adventurous DVD company will pick it up soon, because this is a film that could change people’s perceptions and prejudices about Japanese film for good. from midnighteye
一切为了爱 (1955) [Movie] Douban
愛すればこそ
other title:
愛すればこそ
/
正是为了爱
〔花売り娘〕バー・クラルテの雇われマダム道江は、今宵ひどく不機嫌で、花売りの少女民子にもつらく当った。道江は旦那を刑務所に行かさないために二十万円つくる必要があるのだが、その金をマスターから出させるためにはマスターに身をまかせなければならぬ。銀座の夜は雨になった。道江はしょんぼりと雨宿りしている民子を哀れに思い、売れ残りを買いあげ千円札を与えた。民子は喜んで帰ったが、病気の姉は死んでいた。数日後、お礼を云うために、民子は道江の家を訪れた。あの日道江は折角二十万円つくったのに旦那は自殺していた。それ以来クラルテも止め、悲観して寝てばかりいたが、民子との再会で再び生きる力を見出した。 〔とびこんだ花嫁〕河野は朝っぱらからアパートのおばさんにたたきおこされた。前に故郷のお袋から写真を送って来ていた花嫁が、突如やって来たのだ。河野はキモをつぶし、その谷くに子という女を置いて工場へ出掛け、同僚の森川や古野に相談した。だが昼めしどき、やはり気になるので部屋へ帰ってみると、くに子はいましがた去ったところだと云う。方々探してみたが見つからず又部屋へ戻ってみると、河野のお袋からことずかったチャンチャンコやくに子の兄の御土産たる二つのタネ芋を渡すのを忘れていたと、くに子が彼を待っていた。さてそれからイモやアズキについての珍問答を繰り返すうちに、二人の心はほぐれてくるのだった。 〔愛すればこそ〕競輪場の臨時雇をしている母八重子と、姉娘とし子、妹娘みち子とは貧しい生活を送っていた。而も一人息子の茂は思想犯で牢に入っている。ところが、二十七才のとし子は、いい部屋が見つかったので、須藤という男と結婚しようとした。母も妹もとし子がこの際家を出ることを喜ばない。がその時訪れた伯父の五郎は、とし子の幸福は祈ってやって、その代り茂に帰ってもらえばよいのだと主張した。後ろ髪ひかれる思いだが、とし子は家を出て行った。翌日、八重子は刑務所の茂に面会に行ったが、茂は自分のえらんだ道をまげるわけにいかないと云うのだった。その後、ゆみ子という女性が来ている。八重子はこれは茂の何だろうかと気づかいつつ帰途につくと、背後からゆみ子が「お母さん、お母さん」と呼んで追って来た。息子たちの明るい明日を思えば、苦しい生活にも耐えられると八重子は思う。
生为女人 (1958) [Movie] Douban
女であること
other title:
女であること
製作＝東京映画 配給＝東宝
1958.01.15
10巻 2,738m 100分 白黒
朝日新聞に連載された川端康成の原作を「夜の鴎」の田中澄江、「続青い山脈」の井手俊郎、「幕末太陽伝」の川島雄三の三人が共同脚色、川島雄三が東京映画と新たに契約、監督した文芸篇。撮影は「一本刀土俵入(1957)」の飯村正が担当した。主演は「続々大番 （怒涛篇）」の原節子、「挽歌(1957)」の久我美子、森雅之、「地上」の香川京子、「その夜のひめごと」の三橋達也「気違い部落」の石浜朗。ほかに、太刀川洋一、中北千枝子、丹阿弥谷津子、荒木道子などが助演している。
1958.01.15
10巻 2,738m 100分 白黒
朝日新聞に連載された川端康成の原作を「夜の鴎」の田中澄江、「続青い山脈」の井手俊郎、「幕末太陽伝」の川島雄三の三人が共同脚色、川島雄三が東京映画と新たに契約、監督した文芸篇。撮影は「一本刀土俵入(1957)」の飯村正が担当した。主演は「続々大番 （怒涛篇）」の原節子、「挽歌(1957)」の久我美子、森雅之、「地上」の香川京子、「その夜のひめごと」の三橋達也「気違い部落」の石浜朗。ほかに、太刀川洋一、中北千枝子、丹阿弥谷津子、荒木道子などが助演している。
小津安二郎・没後50年 隠された視線 (2013) [Movie] Douban
director:
舩桥淳
actor:
吉田喜重
/
筱田正浩
…
other title:
Ozu Yasujiro botsugo 50 nen kakusareta shisen
今年12月に生誕110年・没後50年を迎える映画監督の小津安二郎。その最高傑作と称される「東京物語」が2012年、英国映画協会が行った「映画監督が選ぶ世界の映画NO1」に輝いた。小津映画は、今もなぜ世界の人々を惹きつけるのか？
今年7月、小津監督と脚本家野田高梧との脚本執筆の日々を綴った「蓼科日記」が刊行された。派手なシーンもなく淡々と家族の物語を描く「小津調」の作品がどのように編み出されたのか、その創作のプロセスに迫る。
また、「東京物語」「秋刀魚の味」「秋日和」などに出演した司葉子、岡田茉莉子、香川京子という往年の名女優や、吉田喜重、篠田正浩など当時の助監督たちに、小津作品の魅力を聞いていく。
さらに、松竹大船撮影所の美術デザインを新たな視点で見つめることで、日本映画の黄金期といわれた撮影所のスタジオシステムが生んだ集団芸術の素晴らしさと、現代につながる普遍的な映画の味わいを再発見する。
番組では、小津監督ゆかりの人々の証言や本人の日記などを手掛かりに、いまなお世界で広く見られている小津作品独自の映像世界の魅力を浮き彫りにしていく。
今年7月、小津監督と脚本家野田高梧との脚本執筆の日々を綴った「蓼科日記」が刊行された。派手なシーンもなく淡々と家族の物語を描く「小津調」の作品がどのように編み出されたのか、その創作のプロセスに迫る。
また、「東京物語」「秋刀魚の味」「秋日和」などに出演した司葉子、岡田茉莉子、香川京子という往年の名女優や、吉田喜重、篠田正浩など当時の助監督たちに、小津作品の魅力を聞いていく。
さらに、松竹大船撮影所の美術デザインを新たな視点で見つめることで、日本映画の黄金期といわれた撮影所のスタジオシステムが生んだ集団芸術の素晴らしさと、現代につながる普遍的な映画の味わいを再発見する。
番組では、小津監督ゆかりの人々の証言や本人の日記などを手掛かりに、いまなお世界で広く見られている小津作品独自の映像世界の魅力を浮き彫りにしていく。
Shozo, a Cat and Two Women (1956) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
猫と庄造と二人のをんな
director:
Shirō Toyoda
actor:
Hisaya Morishige
/
Isuzu Yamada
…
other title:
猫和庄造和两个女人
/
猫と庄造と二人のをんな
…
Shozo is plagued by the needs of his ex-wife and his current one, but prefers the company of his cat.
Daredevil in the Castle (1961) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
大坂城物語
director:
Hiroshi Inagaki
actor:
Toshirō Mifune
/
Danko Ichikawa
…
other title:
大阪城物语
/
大坂城物語
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During the raging war between the Toyotomi and Tokugawa clans, the swordsman Mohei (whose family has been completely decimated) is recruited by Toyotomi to overcome the seat of power, Osaka Castle. Mohei's daredevil skills will be put to severe tests.
The Shiinomi School (1955) [Movie] IMDb TMDB Douban
しいのみ学園
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しいのみ学園
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しいのみ学園
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A university professor and his wife have two sons with infantile paralysis. Through trial and error, they struggle to open a school for disabled children at their own expense. Based on a true story, it features natural child performances under Hiroshi Shimizu’s skillful direction.
Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create (2002) [TV] Douban
黒澤明～創ると云う事は素晴らしい
迈向光明方向：童谣诗人金子美铃 (2001) [Movie] Douban
明るいほうへ 明るいほうへ -童謡詩人 金子みすゞ-
Mothra (1961) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban Eggplant.place Skybridge +3
モスラ
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摩斯拉
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モスラ
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Shipwreck survivors are found on Beiru Island (Infanto tô), which was previously used for atomic tests. The interior is amazingly free of radiation effects, and they believe that they were protected by a special juice that was given to them by the island's residents. A joint expedition of Rolisican and Japanese scientists explores Beiru and discovers many curious things, including two women only one foot (30 centimeters) high. Unscrupulous expedition leader Clark Nelson abducts the women and puts them in a vaudeville show. But their sweet singing contains a telepathic cry for help to Mothra, a gigantic moth that is worshiped as a deity by the island people. The giant monster heeds the call of the women and heads to Tokyo, wreaking destruction in its path.