Masami Taura

Different Sons (1961)

In the middle of the period of high economic growth in Japan, a family is thrown into disarray over work, money, and romance. Their father's sudden unemployment later in life causes friction among the siblings of the Akagi family. Kensuke, a salaryman at a ...

Kita kamigawa ereji (1961)

Aces Wild (1961)

Keisuke Morita, a man with dark glasses standing on the Shibaura pier, a descendant of an illegitimate descendant left behind in Osaka and a brother of the Otorigumi, returned from South America for the first time in 15 years. When he stepped on the soil o ...

Hunting Rifle (1961)

Story of a woman, Saiko, who divorces her doctor husband when she is given a baby by a stranger who claims it is the husband's child. Saiko embarks on an affair with her cousin's husband, but a crisis threatens when she discovers that her ex-husband is abo ...

Chikuhō no kodomotachi (1960)

A drama film based on Ken Domon's photography of the children around the Chikuho coal mines. ...

The Izu Dancer (1960)

Love story between a student and girl whose parents are itinerant entertainers. Set in Japan in the 1920's. ...

One Step to Happiness (1958)

The Adorable Trio (1957)

Japanese romantic comedy film. ...

Love du Jour (1957)

The proprietress of a long-established sushi restaurant in Asakusa is a war widow who has raised three children. A film that lightheartedly depicts a generational battle between a mother who is anxious about the issue of an heir and her modern children. ...

When It Rains, It Pours (1957)

Tane, the lady proprietor of an inn for amorous couples, lives there with her three children. When her eldest daughter loses her fiancé due to the fact her mother is a mistress, her despair drives her to become a cabaret hostess. ...

Tokyo Twilight (1957)

Two sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot accept the fact that she was abandoned as a child. ...

A Case of Honor (1957)

The obstinate black market trader Okyo lives together with her son Seitaro, who works as a mechanic for a bus company. She also looks after her son's colleague, the bus driver Fujita. When he causes an accident one day, Seitaro testifies against him due to ...

Flying in the Air (1957)

The movie depicts the youth of kamikaze pilots who scattered young lives in the sky. ...

Ai to chie no wa (1956)

Ma no kisetsu: Haru no mizuumi (1956)

Wedding Day (1956)

Shinsaku was once a renowned playwright, has now been left behind by journalism and is living a lethargic life in Oiso. His family is concerned with Shinsaku regaining his old vigor as a writer and Sakie, his daughter, finding a suitable match, while the ...

Early Spring (1956)

A young salaryman and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship while he embarks on an extramarital affair. ...

Next Door to Happiness (1955)

The Nakata family, father, mother, son Hideo, and daughters Taeko and Akiko live in the poorer section of modern Tokyo. Their troubles start when the father leaves with another woman, returns after he is rejected, and leaves again with the family's money. ...

The Tattered Wings (1955)

A young widow, made world weary by her abusive, neglectful husband, finds herself in a minor scandal when she's seen with her intense, no-nonsense childhood sweetheart. ...

Mother's Ambition (1955)

The Kumakichi Ishida family lived happily in a small house in Shibuya while their mansion in Azabu was requisitioned by the occupation forces. When the residence is released to them, Mrs. Ishida wants to turn it into a Western style hotel to recoup their f ...

Every Wife Cannot Stand Still (1955)

A Woman's Life (1955)

The film adaptation of Yuzo Yamamoto's novel tells the story of the difficult fate of a single mother in pre-war Japan. ...

Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky (1954)

A Tokyo family running a liquor store overcome impotence and dysfunction as they induce an understanding through each other of how to deal with their individual problems. ...

Kenkagarasu (1954)

Historical drama about two samurai who fight over everything yet unite together to fight an evil lord. ...

Youth’s Romance Seat: Sitting on the grass (1954)

The timid first love of high school students! A whisper of love between a young man and a girl! The experiences of a middle-aged couple with a child! A cheerful work depicting the problems between three generations of men and women in a bright and healthy ...

The Garden of Women (1954)

A student at a woman's university takes a controversial action against the school's old-fashioned doctrines. ...

Sunny house (1954)

On the outskirts of Tokyo, a family of Mitsu Nakahara lives in one of the small huts surrounded by barracks and tin pens. Mitsu's husband died in the war, and she was left alone with four children and works as a day laborer. The eldest daughter Haruko, who ...

A Japanese Tragedy (1953)

At the close of the war in Japan, a widowed mother makes every possible sacrifice to bring up her ungrateful son and daughter who are unimpressed with their poor standard of living at home. They gradually reject her in search of the material comforts that ...