Directing

Ren Yoshimura

Born — Died

1903-01-28 — 1988-01-21

Place of birth

Saga, Japan

Known for

Directing

Credits

32 titles

Known for

Behind the camera

Shirayuki sensei to kodomo tachi poster
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The film centers a compassionate teacher (Setsuko Hara) who teaches at a Tokyo grade school where students curse and gamble. The school has a pond on-premises that she's in charge of and cares for. The pond holds a number of carp, but someone is snatching them. The teacher forms a special bond with a child who lives in abject poverty.

Shirayuki sensei to kodomo tachi

1950

Bibō no kaoyaku poster
NR

Ken Uehara plays the role of a prominent figure in the red-light district and portrays his violent personality.

Bibō no kaoyaku

1949

Machi no kotengu poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Machi no kotengu

1952

No artwork available
NR

A lively, energetic film featuring a cast of up-and-coming actors, depicting the worries and joys of youth, friendship, and romance.

Hatachi zengo

1950

Boshisen poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Boshisen

1951

Kiri ni Kieta Hito poster
NR

The movie depicts the complicated romantic feelings of a woman who is attracted to a man other than her fiancé.

Kiri ni Kieta Hito

1963

City Boys, City Girls poster
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No synopsis available yet.

City Boys, City Girls

1958

Yobiko hoshi poster
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No synopsis available yet.

Yobiko hoshi

1952

Diary of a Nurse poster
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Ren Yoshimura directed this Daiei melodrama that was based on the novel entitled "Pandora's Box" by Dazai Osamu.

Diary of a Nurse

1947

Kenji to onnakanshu poster
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Deep down, a dark shadow always lingered in the heart of Ushio, a young prosecutor who had made a name for himself by cracking down on organized crime. In the bribery case involving his old college friend Ayao, he had sought a two-year prison sentence in accordance with the law. Ayao took his own life, and his family was torn apart by the world’s persecution.

Kenji to onnakanshu

1949

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Kenrantaru fukushū

1946

A Female Doctor's Examination Room poster
NR

A doctor is surprised when her long-lost love is transferred to the same hospital, and even more surprised to discover that he has a wife and child. Will she be able to confess her feelings to him before her worsening heart disease claims her life?

A Female Doctor's Examination Room

1950

Toki no teizo: Sōshūban poster
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A silk mill worker living through a dark and twisted youth… What is chastity? A powerful work that speaks to society through the anguished expression of a woman twisted by torment.

Toki no teizo: Sōshūban

1952

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Red Camellia

1953

Saigo no kikyō poster
NR

1945 Japanese movie

Saigo no kikyō

1945

Acacia no Ame ga Yamu Toki poster
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Hideo Ishizaki, who was painting on the shore of the lake, saves a woman named Keiko.

Acacia no Ame ga Yamu Toki

1963

Dai Nihon hattari-den poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Dai Nihon hattari-den

1965

Densuke no senden kyō poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Densuke no senden kyō

1956

Tokyo Romance Way poster
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1959 Japanese movie

Tokyo Romance Way

1959

Drums Love and Dreams poster
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A side show snake man who dreams of becoming a drummer tries to save a blind flower girl.

Drums Love and Dreams

1956

Aishū no sono poster
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Tatsuya Hayami, an employee of Nitto Wool Textile, will soon leave the company. His girlfriend, Miyuki, had to work due to her family's poor business performance. At that time, a hired car driven by Michitaka Komatsubara, vice president of Nitto Worsted, and his mistress, Saeko Eguchi, hits Miyuki's father, Shintaro...

Aishū no sono

1957

The Stars Know Everything poster
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Saga Shiori, who had been held up as a genius writer, runs away to a nightclub to deceive her manager's eyes. She is no longer the genius writer she once was, but is now having a good time with Goro, the man who saved her from running away without money. He is surprised to find that it is his childhood friend Masahiko Hirato who is singing on stage at a jazz cafe.

The Stars Know Everything

1958

No artwork available
NR

Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Tokyo baka odori" by Haruo Oka and Chiyoko Shimakura.

The Happy Dancers

1956

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Otôsan no uta dokei

1937

お月さん今晩は poster
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No synopsis available yet.

お月さん今晩は

1958

The Beautiful Teenager poster
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A boy who dreams of being a yakuza leader is reformed by a girl's pure love for him.

The Beautiful Teenager

1964

Shōnen shikeishū poster
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No synopsis available yet.

Shōnen shikeishū

1955

Shōjo to fūsen poster
NR

1958 Japanese movie

Shōjo to fūsen

1958

Mother of a Baby Eagle poster
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Story about a boy who volunteers to join the youth air force and his mother.

Mother of a Baby Eagle

1944

Sararīman monogatari: Teki wa ikuman aritotemo poster
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Japanese comedy film.

Sararīman monogatari: Teki wa ikuman aritotemo

1962

The Way of Youth poster
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1957 Japanese movie

The Way of Youth

1957

Tōkyō no otenba musume poster
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1961 Japanese movie

Tōkyō no otenba musume

1961