Writing

Matsuo Kishi

Born — Died

1906-09-18 — 1985-08-17

Place of birth

Nihonbashi Ward, Tokyo City, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan

Known for

Writing

Credits

17 titles

Japanese film critic, journalist, screenwriter, and film director.

Known for

Ginza Cosmetics poster
6.5

A few days in the life of a quiet geisha, single mother of a smart young boy, in the lively Tokyo quarter of Ginza. A woman devoted to others' needs, she'll end by taking part herself in one of the many disguises of Ginza.

Ginza Cosmetics

1951

Mr. Shosuke Ohara poster
6.2

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.

Mr. Shosuke Ohara

1949

Young Teacher poster
NR

A novice city-based teacher's first assignment is to a fishing village's grade school. The young teacher's first week with her new students is enjoyable, but she gradually notices that many of the students are skipping school. Visiting her students after class, she realizes that many of them are charged with work and tasks like making money, toiling on the farm, doing housework or tending to their younger siblings. Many of them live in unhygienic homes due to poverty or overwork. She not only reports and explains the situation to the school's principal, but also attempts to improve the conditions by making textbooks, teaching cleanliness, and making her classes relevant.

Young Teacher

1942

Victory Song poster
5.7

An anthology of thirteen patriotic stories about Japanese citizens contributing to the war effort.

Victory Song

1945

Master Fencer Sees the World poster
9.0

A historical drama that depicts the touching beauty of world obsession and human love in the style of light comedy, in the center of which is a young man who has a master license menkyo kaiden in the art of swordsmanship, but weak against lies and women. A remake of Bungaku no Issue, shot by Sadao Yamanaka in 1933.

Master Fencer Sees the World

1960

No artwork available
NR

A bar girl tries to pass her three children, each from a different father, to rural relatives.

A Mother's Love

1950

Behind the camera

Ginza Cosmetics poster
6.5

A few days in the life of a quiet geisha, single mother of a smart young boy, in the lively Tokyo quarter of Ginza. A woman devoted to others' needs, she'll end by taking part herself in one of the many disguises of Ginza.

Ginza Cosmetics

1951

Mr. Shosuke Ohara poster
6.2

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.

Mr. Shosuke Ohara

1949

Mr. Shosuke Ohara poster
6.2

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.

Mr. Shosuke Ohara

1949

Young Teacher poster
NR

A novice city-based teacher's first assignment is to a fishing village's grade school. The young teacher's first week with her new students is enjoyable, but she gradually notices that many of the students are skipping school. Visiting her students after class, she realizes that many of them are charged with work and tasks like making money, toiling on the farm, doing housework or tending to their younger siblings. Many of them live in unhygienic homes due to poverty or overwork. She not only reports and explains the situation to the school's principal, but also attempts to improve the conditions by making textbooks, teaching cleanliness, and making her classes relevant.

Young Teacher

1942

Victory Song poster
5.7

An anthology of thirteen patriotic stories about Japanese citizens contributing to the war effort.

Victory Song

1945

Master Fencer Sees the World poster
9.0

A historical drama that depicts the touching beauty of world obsession and human love in the style of light comedy, in the center of which is a young man who has a master license menkyo kaiden in the art of swordsmanship, but weak against lies and women. A remake of Bungaku no Issue, shot by Sadao Yamanaka in 1933.

Master Fencer Sees the World

1960

No artwork available
NR

A bar girl tries to pass her three children, each from a different father, to rural relatives.

A Mother's Love

1950

It's Paradise When One Sings poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

It's Paradise When One Sings

1941

Keshô yuki poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Keshô yuki

1940

Children Seeking a Mother poster
NR

While working in an education center for lonely children, a mother seeks her missing son.

Children Seeking a Mother

1956

Yamitarô henka poster
NR

No introduction

Yamitarô henka

1955

Half Virgin poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Half Virgin

1953

Ōma no tsuji poster
NR

Set in the late Edo period of the assassination of Dairo Ii, the sword and emotional romance that depicts the murderous world. The turmoil of the end of the Edo period is depicted through the nameless Ichii people, centering on the main character of the Hatamoto collapse that is drunk by the waves of the end of the Edo period.

Ōma no tsuji

1938

Return poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Return

1949

Enoken's Home Run King poster
NR

Postwar! Baseball! Comedy! Enoken plays a superfan of the Yomiuri Giants – the real Tokyo team, with many of its star players "acting" as themselves – who, despite his utter lack of athletic abilities, becomes embroiled in their successes, and their personal lives. Will Enoken help the Giants take the pennant?

Enoken's Home Run King

1948

Under the Blossoming Peach poster
NR

A picture-story-show operator, accompanies her son, Akira, who lives apart from her, to a hot-spring medical treatment and spend a moment of brief happiness together, but eventually the time comes to say goodbye. The portrayal of the children and the atmosphere of the hot spring resort shine through in this film about a mother by master filmmaker Hiroshi Shimizu.

Under the Blossoming Peach

1951

Hibarigaoka Showdown poster
NR

Kyôko Yashiro's film debut for Shintoho.

Hibarigaoka Showdown

1957