Hideko Takamine – MRQE

Na mo naku mazushiku utsukushiku

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The story is of two people. One is deaf, the other deaf and mute. They marry after meeting at a school reunion, and the film follows their trials and tribulations … and joys.

Burari burabura monogatari

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Story of a resourceful hobo (Kobayashi), a con woman (Takamine) who pretends to be a victim of the Nagasaki A-bomb, and two orphaned children who become a most atypical Japanese family.

Gan

Sat, 30 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A young woman, who must support her father as a middle-aged man’s mistress, finds herself falling in love with a student closer to her age.

Musume tsuma haha

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Sanae is left a widow after her prestigious husband dies, but holds the proceeds of a million yen insurance policy. Being childless, her former in-laws have no objection to her return to her own family.

Nagareru

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Otsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Her daughter Katsuyo doesn’t see any future in her mothers trade in the late days of Geisha. But Otsuta will not give up. This film portraits the day time life of geisha when not entertaining customers.

Arakure

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A woman marries, gives birth to a stillborn child, and divorces, falls in love with a hotel-keeper, only to find herself subordinated to his drive for success, takes up with a tailor who cannot console himself with her strong personality.

Midareru

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

After a bombing raid destroys the family store and her husband, Reiko rebuilds and runs the shop out of love stopped short by destruction.

Nijûshi no hitomi

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Schoolteacher Hisako Oishi struggles to imbue her students with a positive view of the world despite the fact that war is looming.

Hanaoka Seishû no tsuma

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The disturbing story of a physician who conducted the first operation with general anaesthetic, and the women in his life who are both so determined to win his love that they volunteer as subjects for his experiments

Hourou-ki

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Considered one of the finest late Naruses and a model of film biography, A Wanderers Notebook features remarkable performances by Hideko Takamine Phillip Lopate calls it probably her greatest performance and Kinuyo Tanaka as mother and daughter living from hand to mouth in Twenties Tokyo. Based on the life and career of Fumiko Hayashi, the novelist whose work Naruse adapted to the screen several times, A Wanderers Notebook traces her bitter struggle for literary recognition in the first half of the twentieth century her affairs with feckless men, the jobs she took to survive (peddler, waitress, bar maid), and her arduous, often humiliating attempts to get published in a male-dominated culture.