Acting
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Early feature film by Hiroshi Shimizu.
A woman becomes dissatisfied with her marriage and joins a political theater troupe to protest the U.S. Security Pact.
Japanese war movie.
A Japanese wartime film directed by Yasushi Sasaki.
A spirited young teacher challenges the conservative school employing her with liberal thinking and teaching methods.
An actress returns to Tokyo after a successful stint in Hollywood to reclaim—with the help of her gangster brother—the daughter she abandoned years before.
Ryoichi and Chikako, brother and sister, live together. Chikako toils during the day and, at night, prostitutes herself to fund his college tuition.
A young man discovers that the woman who raised him is his stepmother. His stepbrother, who is unaware of the revelation, resents his mother for always punishing him more severely than his stepsibling.
Representing a destitute mother in an infanticide trial, a female lawyer attempts to convince a conservative prosecutor of the benefits of Japan's democratized post-war legal system.