Yoshiaki Banshō

A masterpiece depicting the true feelings, grief and joy of a woman. An adaptation of the novel of the same name by Yasushi Inoue.

The story tells of Tsuchiya, a university professor and a widower who is in love with a widow who runs a small restaurant, and his son is in love with a runaway girl who turns out to be the leader of a religious sect. Kusano is the henpecked proprietor of a rice biscuit shop who dreams of owning a bird and dog shop and his daughter is in love with a boarder, employed by the private detective agency searching for the runaway girl. The agency head has his own dream of arranging thirty marriages and has already accomplished twenty-seven. Tatsumi is a newspaper reporter who dreams of a big scoop to enable him to marry a girl TV producer and his friend a mountain climbing enthusiast who dreams of joining a Himalayan expedition but is opposed by his wife. His love of the mountains is shared by a boarder in their home and by a fishmonger's son.

Japanese comedy film.

1962 Japanese movie

No synopsis available yet.

A 1959 Yoshiaki Bansho adaptation of an Osaragi Jiro story.

A masterpiece depicting the true feelings, grief and joy of a woman. An adaptation of the novel of the same name by Yasushi Inoue.

The story tells of Tsuchiya, a university professor and a widower who is in love with a widow who runs a small restaurant, and his son is in love with a runaway girl who turns out to be the leader of a religious sect. Kusano is the henpecked proprietor of a rice biscuit shop who dreams of owning a bird and dog shop and his daughter is in love with a boarder, employed by the private detective agency searching for the runaway girl. The agency head has his own dream of arranging thirty marriages and has already accomplished twenty-seven. Tatsumi is a newspaper reporter who dreams of a big scoop to enable him to marry a girl TV producer and his friend a mountain climbing enthusiast who dreams of joining a Himalayan expedition but is opposed by his wife. His love of the mountains is shared by a boarder in their home and by a fishmonger's son.

Japanese comedy film.

1962 Japanese movie

No synopsis available yet.

A 1959 Yoshiaki Bansho adaptation of an Osaragi Jiro story.

The proprietress of a long-established sushi restaurant in Asakusa is a war widow who has raised three children. A film that lightheartedly depicts a generational battle between a mother who is anxious about the issue of an heir and her modern children.

Otami and daughter Yuri run the Matsuoka, a 150-year-old Japanese-style inn in Tokyo which they plan to renovate into a modern hotel before the ‘64 Tokyo Olympics. Maki, the son of the owner of the Benten Hotel, likes Yuri and wants to get closer to her. So, he asks Milton, an American exchange student, to stay at her inn so he can get closer to her. But Yuri is in love with Shin, a cook at her inn. And although Shin likes her too, the two are constantly bickering. Complicating matters more, is that every other available girl also likes Shin including Chikako, who lives at his boarding house, and Chikoma, who is a geisha. One day when Yuri gets a phone call, she suspects that her mother might be having an affair. But it turns out that Otami reunited with her old flame Tomo, who also used to work as a chef at the inn but left because he feared that their class backgrounds were too different. When Shin learns that Yuri is going to marry...will history repeat itself?

1962 Japanese movie

1962 Japanese movie

Japanese comedy film.

Live-action adaptation of Yoshiro Kato’s manga.

Adapted from a novel by Kaoru Funayama

1961 Japanese movie

No synopsis available yet.

The Nagasaki flagship store of a long-established castella bakery versus its Tokyo branch. Amid a sudden clash between the old and the new, a young chorus group finds itself caught up in the twists and turns of romance… Set against the exotic backdrop of Nagasaki, Yoshiaki Bansho skilfully weaves together the lively romantic adventures of these young people.

No synopsis available yet.

No synopsis available yet.

The story of a young couple deeply in love with each other but, because of complications and misunderstandings created by the people surrounding them, they find it very difficult to achieve happiness.

No synopsis available yet.

1958 Shochiku adaptation of Natsume's novel.

A couple of sculptors who caused a traffic accident and changed their lives are led to a crime. The lives of the up-and-coming sculptor Sugio Nishikawa and Maiko have changed completely since the traffic accident. Sugio was forced to live in a wheelchair, and the quality of his work deteriorated. One day, Sugio insured Maiko for 50 million life insurance and forced her to cooperate with insurance fraud.

1956 Japanese movie

1956 Japanese movie

A romance that follows the men in the life of Kyoko a Travel Agent working for New Japan Travel Service.

No synopsis available yet.

A countryside woman working as a maid gets scouted for a model job.

In a corner of Tokyo, an old apartment housed the couple Sakaguchi Koyasu, a construction engineer, and Midori. According to Midori, Koyasu was a bland, insipid presence in this neurotic age, like a plain roll. Based on Nakano Minoru's original work, which humorously depicts the daily life of a low-paid salaryman.