Weed with Flowers

Tane, the lady proprietor of an inn for amorous couples, lives there with her three children. When her eldest daughter loses her fiancé due to the fact her mother is a mistress, her despair drives her to become a cabaret hostess.

The film is set during the days of the scarcity of food after World War II, during which five men ate an elephant that died in a zoo. The elephant's corpse however, was infested with deadly bacteria and the men have only 30 hours left to live...

During college military training exercises, the bond between two friends and athletic rivals is tested when one of them becomes involved with a woman who may be a prostitute.

Saheita, the final heir of a once rich and respectable family, can't refuse the many villagers that come to him for favours and money, even though he is on the brink of bankruptcy. Around town he is better known by his nickname Mr. Shosuke Ohara.

A pair of blind masseurs, an enigmatic city woman, a lonely man and his ill-behaved nephew—The Masseurs and a Woman is made up of crisscrossing miniature studies of love and family at a remote resort in the mountains. With delicate and surprising humor, Hiroshi Shimizu paints a timeless portrait of loneliness and the human need to connect.

Uta’s mother died when she was six years old; her father she never met. She was forced to adopt a traveller’s life when her grandmother died, and now she is a dancer and part of a family of actors who travel from town to town, setting up street performances. A way of escape from this marginal existence arises when she gets the chance to move to tea merchant Hiramatsu’s place, where she is asked to teach his daughter to dance.

A Tokyo family running a liquor store overcome impotence and dysfunction as they induce an understanding through each other of how to deal with their individual problems.

昭和初年的某个秋天，青年学生水原（石濱朗 饰）游山玩水，调养身心。在伊豆汤岛的旅途中，他邂逅了一名梳着旧式发髻的舞女阿薰（美空ひばり 饰），她恬美清新的模样在水原的心中激起淡淡的涟漪。许是命运的安排，水原又在接下来的日子里多次和舞女及其伙伴相逢，加上他有意识地接近，学生最终和舞女及其伙伴们熟捻起来。在此后的日子里，他和这群江湖艺人一同旅行，品味一段清纯爱恋的甜美，以及残酷生活现实的无可奈何。旅途中会结束，一份情感该如何安置…… 本片根据日本作家川端康成的同名短篇小说改编，是该小说第2次被搬上银幕。

传奇女星李香兰，“满映”时期粉饰之作。 中国东北三、四十年代中，伪满洲国一个东京的花花公子来到了满洲，他在中国的期间学会节约、责任、友善等，并有李香兰在内的一中、一日两个女孩都爱上他，展开了一段三角恋情。 这是一部令了解中日历史的观者感情复杂的怪胎式的电影，创作者竭尽全 力地创造出了一幅伪满洲国和谐安康的美丽图景，大家熟悉的老一辈电影人凌元、蒲克都在里面饰演配角，一个是女主角的母亲，一个是女主角的同事。 女主角李香兰放到今天看仍然是一顶一的大美女，歌声动听，有些象宫泽理惠，冰滑得非常好，落落大方，健康美丽，中文日文都极流利。 男主角是个日本演员，有些象蓝马，但比蓝马要胖，憨憨的样子，包括李香兰在内的一中、一日两个女孩都爱上他，仅从形象上说，无以服人。 写的都是东北三、四十年代中、日百姓融为一体的生活中的点点滴滴，黑白胶片上映照出来的街道、院落、餐馆均为当时当地的外景，不经意间记录下了那个年代中国东北的风貌，很象老北京，看着非常亲切，而哈尔滨的教堂、冰冻的松花江、冰雕十字架、冬泳的白俄们，令观者倍感新鲜。 由于影片刻意营造的是所谓“大东亚共荣圈”最为理想的水乳交融的状态，因此，日本人努力融入“满洲”生活就成了故事的最核心，透过一个来自东京的花花公子在满洲学会节约、责任、友善等的故事，赞美了不少中国人的美德，也对中国的围棋、字画等，仰慕与夸赞。 片中的所有中国角色对日本人都是微笑欢迎、热情款待的，表现得既纯朴善良又谦和有礼，没有丝毫矛盾和冲突，这在对那段历史略知一二的中国观众看来，就显得过于粉饰了。 片中，日语与中文杂陈，处理得挺自然，特别是国语对白，比同时期上海片中的道白来得自然舒服得多，表演也都很自然大方，没有特别令人笑场的间离感--只有在李香兰面对男主角的一瞬间，表现出一低头不胜娇羞的样子，稍稍有点儿戏过的感觉，但，还好，总体说来，已经是一部非常自然的电影了，给人非常清新、大方的感觉，丝毫不矫情，颇令人意外。 迎春花（1942年） 監督　佐々木康 出演　李香蘭　白麗（社員） 木暮実千代　八重（支社長令嬢） 近衛敏明　村川武雄（支社長の甥） 浦克　王學民 藤野秀夫　河島支社長 吉川満子　支社長夫人 那威　白大人 張敏　その夫人 日守新一　山森 載剣秋　楊大人 袁敏　その夫人 曹佩箴　美玲 干延江　その弟 周凋　ハルビンの外交員 王宇培　　　〃 関操　安藤課長 三和佐智子　女給仕 路政霖　ホッケー部員 江雲逵　　　〃 宮紀久子　タイピスト 下田光子　　　〃 瀧見すが子　河島家女中 満州映画協会と松竹の提携作品。満州国建国10周年慶祝映画。

1950 film by Akira Kurosawa

A silk factory worker is persuaded to support her son's education up to a college level despite their poverty. Many years later, she travels to Tokyo to visit her son.

1942 film by Yasujirō Ozu

Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life.