Movies: Hideo Fujino

This was 1942, so it was a national policy film, no matter what you call it. But when the war was still on the winning side, there wasn't even a little bit of sadness in the film (as the war was getting worse and worse, the burdens on our backs were ...

1939 Japanese movie...

Inoue was something of a rarity in the sense, that he was a Shochiku house director who seems to have worked mostly in period films, often with big stars like Hasegawa or Bando. "Sumidagawa", named after the river that runs through Tokyo, is also a p...

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The Siege of Osaka...

Directed by Mikio Naruse. It is presumed to be lost....

Film by Hiroshi Shimizu, featuring an early role for frequent Ozu and Naruse collaborator Hideko Takamine....

The ambiguous relationship between a woman musician and her young student....

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A musical film made for the inauguration of Shochiku's Ofuna Studio, with an all-star cast of the era....

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Directed by Yasujirô Shimazu....

A farmer’s boy, obsessed with his balsa-and-paper flying models and with dreams of real aircraft, develops a friendship with the daughter of the local squire, who introduces the lad to her pilot brother and his flying officer friends; through hard wo...

An early Japanese film...

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A modern girl suddenly intrudes into a widower's family home....

The three-hour Ai yo jinrui to tomo ni are / Love, Be with Humanity (1931) starts as a satire of alienation in the world of money, develops into a lumberland epic with a forest fire on Sakhalin Island, turns into a tragedy of King Lear dimensions, an...

A film adaptation of the play by Leo Tolstoy....