
Acting
Masao Hayama
Born 1925-08-01 · Yokohama, Japan
Acting credits
7.4A rural widow sends her only son to Tokyo to receive a better education. Years later, she visits him and finds he has become a night school teacher struggling to support his wife and son.
The Only Son
1936
7.5Brothers Keiji and Ryoichi move to a new neighborhood in the Tokyo suburbs after their father, an office clerk, is promoted. The boys join the local gang as lowly new kids and emerge as natural leaders after defeating a bully. While visiting the home of their father's boss, the brothers witness the ridicule their father endures to please his superior. Angry and embarrassed, the boys find their naive ideas about power being challenged.
I Was Born, But...
1932
7.0Shuhei Horikawa, a poor schoolteacher, struggles to raise his son Ryohei by himself, despite neither money nor prospects.
There Was a Father
1942
NRNaomi Tazawa (Hiroko Kawasaki), who works at Isetan Department Store, was told by an executive at a film company (Ken Uehara), that he was going to make a film about her. She was scouted to become an actress, but she held strong. Around that time, her adoptive father dies, and at the time of his death, she learns that her real father was a man of high rank.
Women at War
1939
7.1In Depression-era Japan, a courteous bus driver carries an eclectic group of passengers from the mountainous Izu to Tokyo.
Mr. Thank You
1936
10.0A story of a store that makes Tabi socks.
Okinu and Banto
1940
7.0Yuki is a young, single mother supporting herself and her son, Haru, with a job as a bar hostess.
Forget Love for Now
1937
10.0The story of the role played by Japanese-American soldiers from Hawaii in the Korean War of the 1950s.
Pineapple Butai
1959
NRThe movie follows a young woman (Kinuyo Tanaka), a daughter of a high-ranking businessman and his neglected mistress, as she struggles to ease her mother's loneliness, while also having an affair with her father's subordinate.
Mother and Child
1938
8.4The brothers of Children In The Wind deal with declining family fortunes: they must work when the father becomes sick, and eventually live with their grandfather, which means making new friends and struggling with a different environment.
Four Seasons of Children
1939
8.0A businessman runs afoul of the law and commits suicide, leaving behind a wife and five children. The eldest son takes the family to Tokyo and labors to restore its name and fortune
Five Siblings
1939
NRShinpachi Morimura, who was born in a fusuma craftsman's house, wants to join the Japanese navy. However, his father wants him to continue in the family business and refuses to accept it.
Sailor
1944
7.5During 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.
A Star Athlete
1937
6.3A professor, Komiya, and his bossy wife, Tokiko, are to look after Setsuko, their high-spirited niece from Osaka. Despite being a minor, Setsuko is a liberated woman who does whatever she wants, including smoking. She even convinces Koyima to take her to a geisha house. When she gets rather tipsy, the professor calls Okada, one of his students, to take her home. The wife becomes suspicious of Setsuko when she sees Okada bringing her home.
What Did the Lady Forget?
1937
NR1960 version of Lion Festival of Echigo
Echigo jishi-sai
1960
6.6A middle-aged father has just married off his third daughter, but still has his nine year old son to raise whom he resents as he was unwanted.
Burden of Life
1935
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Our Planes Fly South
1943
6.9After the death of her husband, an elderly woman and her youngest, unmarried daughter are forced to sell their house to cover his debts and decide to move in with one of the former's children, each of whom is scarcely happy to accommodate.
Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family
1941
7.4On vacation's eve, a boy is sent to the countryside to live with his uncle after his father is imprisoned and accused of embezzlement.
Children in the Wind
1937
NRA boy aviator endures rigorous training and a sad fate, and grows into a strong man with his eyes set on becoming an eagle.
You Are the Next Eagle
1944
No synopsis available yet.
Surging Waves
1939
Episode in the life of a composer of a popular Japanese song.
Moon Over the Ruins
1937
NRBased on the original work by Fumiko Hayashi, this is a story about a woman and two men. The lust is restrained and indifferent. The story even has an elegance to it, which is the charm of the 30 year old Kinuyo Tanaka. There was a time when Tanaka was adorable... Shin Saburi was young and Chishu Ryu was young too. It is a promise of melodrama that the rival or friend is prettier than the heroine Kinyo.
Southern Wind
1939
NRJapanese Warmovie
Sinking the Unsinkable
1944