Fumiko Katsuragi

A Tale of Archery at the Sanjusangendo (1945)

Young, timid bowmaster Kazuma seeks to beat the archery record set by Hoshino Kanzaemon, a mysterious figure who, it is rumoured, drove the previous champion—Kazuma's father—to suicide. Possessed of much raw talent, Kazuma is very much a coward, holing ...

Otome no iru kichi (1945)

Japanese war movie. ...

The Living Magoroku (1943)

A wealthy family will not allow the military to grow crops on their fields due to their superstitious beliefs about their son's illness. ...

Dancing with a Mask (1943)

Japanese propaganda film about the Normanton Incident. ...

Air Raid of the Enemy Plane (1943)

Japanese war movie. ...

Flowers of Patriotism (1942)

A nurse's tale of self-sacrifice during wartime. The title is borrowed from a patriotic song made popular by singer Hamako Watanabe during the Second Sino-Japanese War. ...

A Certain Woman (1942)

Pretty Oshige is deceived by her first love. After this, she lives a hard lifestyle, working at a number of jobs. Her only pleasure is her nephew, who eventually becomes a merchant marine. When Oshige meets her old love ten years later, she is able to forg ...

South Wind 2 (1942)

In this comic sequel to Yoshimura Kozaburo's original, Minami no Kaze, ex-baron (Saburi Shin) is in Singapore where he meets an old friend who proposes a scam to make some quick cash. It involved inventing the story that Saigo Takamori didn't actually die ...

South Wind (1942)

Amusing masterpiece from director Yoshimura Kazusabu divided in two parts taken from the newspaper serial novel of Shishiko Shishi. Like in "Warm Current", Shin Saburi, Mieko Takamine and Mitsuko Mito are appearing, but this is a fresh comedy very unusual ...

The Flower is not False (1941)

Hana wa itsuwarazu (1941) is the second directorial work by Shochiku's Oba Hideo. Oba had previously worked as an assistant director to Shimizu Hiroshi and penned films for Shimazu Yasujiro. In this early effort, he is not stylistically very far from eithe ...

Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family (1941)

After the death of her husband, an elderly woman and her youngest, unmarried daughter are forced to sell their house to cover his debts and decide to move in with one of the former's children, each of whom is scarcely happy to accommodate. ...

Torrent of a Big City (1940)

A young yakuza student is led back to the straight and narrow path by his uncle. ...

Seisen aiba fu: Akatsuki ni inoru (1940)

Kinuyo's First Love (1940)

Kinuyo is a daughter of rice cracker shop in downtown. She fell in love with her sister's boyfriend. It is a story whose theme is warm human relationships in a town of customs and manners. ...

Mother is Strong (1939)

Cannot find any synopsis of this film. ...

Warm Current (1939)

Adaptation of Kishida Kunio's novel. Set against the backdrop of a power struggle within a hospital, depicts the love lives of the director's daughter, the administrative director, a doctor, and a nurse. ...

Daini no shuppatsu (1939)

Zoku aizen katsura (1939)

1939 Japanese movie ...

Spring Thunder (1939)

Eiko is an innocent young lady born into a wealthy family with nothing to offer. She was good at singing, and lived her life playing around with her cronies, organizing music concerts and so on. However, things change when her father's business fails and s ...

Okayo's Preparedness (1939)

A young student of traditional dance falls in love with a handsome young man who visits the dance school in order to take photographs. ...

The Tree of Love (1938)

A young doctor, Kozo Tsumura, falls for young nurse Katsue Takaishi. But she's got a secret: she's a widow with a son. Kozo and Katsue decide to run away to Kyoto, but her child suddenly became sick and she just missed the train and Kozo. She makes it to K ...

Mother and Child (1938)

The movie follows a young woman (Kinuyo Tanaka), a daughter of a high-ranking businessman and his neglected mistress, as she struggles to ease her mother's loneliness, while also having an affair with her father's subordinate. ...

Hotaru no hikari (1938)

Approaching their graduation ceremony, Saegusa, Sanae, and their classmates go on an overnight trip to Hakone with their teacher Ms. Kawahara, who will soon leave school. They thank her doing so and go on their respective paths, ending soon their student l ...

So Goes My Love (1938)

Shigeo is an aspiring writer living with his girl friend Minako and hoping for success and a better tomorrow every day. Both live on what Minako earns from working in a café. Shigeo is not happy with the situation and neither is his family who do not appr ...

Queen of the Wind (1938)

A man and his girlfriend work for a cosmetics company, but would like to open their own store. The company is planning to send someone to Paris for special training and the man tries to get the general manager to send his girlfriend since this training wou ...

The Trio's Engagements (1937)

Three men vying for the same job end up chasing the same girl in this comedy-drama from noted Japanese director Yasujiro Shimazu. ...

Okoto and Sasuke (1935)

A period piece about the love of a wealthy blind woman, a teacher of koto and shamisen, and her devoted manservant. Based on a novella by Tanizaki Junichiro. ...

Mother's Love Letter (1935)

Domestic comedy involving a strong wife and a "henpecked" husband taking place in a family-run judo school. ...

Eclipse (1934)

The story is centered around the devastating experiences of two villagers, Osaki Shuichi, and his cousin, Nishimiura Kinue, when they leave their hometown for the metropolis of Tokyo. They are in love with each other, but Kinue is expected to marry the law ...

Osayo Koi Sugata (1934)

The poor novelist Yamamoto is writing his novel, determined and with a headband around his head. With him, the novelist who is always in trouble paying his bills, is the girl Saya who becomes the model for his novel. Saya however is in love with a young dr ...

Our Neighbor, Miss Yae (1934)

Keitaro is a law student and Yaeko is a high school girl. They are neighbors, and their friendship is starting to develop into something more romantic. Then, Yaeko's sister Kyouko has a breakup with her husband and returns home. Kyouko is clearly intereste ...

Street Without End (1934)

Mikio Naruse's final silent film is a gloriously rich portrait of a waitress, Sugiko, whose life, despite a host of male admirers and even some intrigued movie talent scouts, ends up taking a suffocatingly domestic turn after a wealthy businessman accident ...

The Genealogy of Women (1934)

A melodrama by noted auteur and father of director Yoshitaro Nomura, Hotei Nomura. This is apparently the first adaptation of Izumi Kyoka's The Romance of Yushima. ...

No Blood Relation (1932)

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. ...

Where Now Are the Dreams of Youth? (1932)

When a young man inherits his father's lucrative business, he cheats the system to set up three of his college friends with jobs. ...

Love, Be with Humanity: Part 1 (1931)

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, and mana ...

Love, Be with Humanity: Part 2 (1931)

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, and mana ...

The Lady and the Beard (1931)

Graduate Okajima finds his old-fashioned beard makes life difficult in a comedy exploring the tension between tradition and modernity. ...