Kinji Fujiwa

Yurusareta ichiya (1946)

The Woman Who Holds the Key (1946)

Shochiku melodrama about the lives of the humble people living in the poor tenement called the Ryuheiso. ...

Morning for the Osone Family (1946)

A Japanese family weathers much hardship after their military uncle comes to live with them during WWII. ...

Mother Never Dies (1942)

The premature death of a young mother serves as inspiration for her husband and son. ...

Story of Leadership (1941)

In this semi-documentary, an older locomotive driver is tasked with training younger ones and is currently training two in particular. The old man is finding the task overwhelming as it is hard work with practical lessons and classroom components. His wife ...

Schoolgirl Records (1941)

A "slice-of life" film about a group of high school girls in 1940s Japan. ...

A Fond Face from the Past (1941)

A Fond Face from the Past is also set in a rural community, specifically a village outside Kameoka, near Kyoto. In some ways this short, thirty-six-minute film is Naruse's most moving negotiation of the militarist restrictions of the time, perhaps because ...

Ōhinata-mura (1940)

The year is 1936. Ōhinata-mura was a very poor village between deep valleys. Soncho, the village head is trying to collect the village taxes from the villagers but he knows full well that no one can afford to pay the village tax which has been unpaid for ...

Keshô yuki (1940)

Hikari to kage (Zenpen) (1940)

Part one of two. ...

Hikari to kage (Kōhen) (1940)

Part two of two. ...

China Night (1940)

Wartime propaganda filmed by the Japanese in occupied China, Shirley Yamaguchi portrays an orphan rescued from the streets by a kindly Japanese merchant marine officer. Part spy thriller and part Shanghai travelogue, it was part of a popular series known a ...

Song of the White Orchid (1939)

Song of the White Orchid was a co-production of Toho and Mantetsu, the railway that served the colonial region of Manchuria, and the first film in the Kazuo Hasegawa/Shirley Yamaguchi (Ri Koran) "Continental Trilogy." Handsome Hasegawa (representing Japan) ...

Women in Tokyo (1939)

This is the story of a woman who enters the world of sales. She works at a company in Ginza as a typist. She determines that she needs money for her family and herself and asks her co-worker, who is a salesman, for guidance on sales. Armed with the informa ...

Ichiyo Higuchi (1939)

Japanese film based on the life of writer Ichiyo Higuchi (1872-1896). ...

Shanghai Landing Party (1939)

This film attempts to reconstruct the tension of the Battle of Shanghai through an episode in an understated way, introducting its story in a documentary mode. In the film story, Japan's marine regiment protects Japanese residents and Chinese refugees-wome ...

The Whole Family Works (1939)

A large family scrapes by on the meager salaries of the father and three eldest sons, who left school in order to work and support the family. The fourth eldest is soon to graduate and follow in their footsteps, though he'd rather continue schooling. The e ...

Nightingale (1938)

An episodic film about life in and around a rural police station and the people it serves. ...

Winter Inn (1938)

A film that begins with wit and comedy when a husband tries to hide and mask his drinking, which his Jesus freak and very Christian wife dislikes, by gargling and other methods, turns somber when the man loses his job after being fired. He attempts to keep ...

Children of the Sun (1938)

At 38, Seiu marries Masako, who is emotionally distant and attempts suicide. Masako's past includes being sold into servitude and an unrecognised pregnancy. Seiu learns the truth and accepts Masako and the unborn child, embracing his roles as husband and f ...