Masao Hayama

Echigo jishi-sai (1960)

1960 version of Lion Festival of Echigo ...

Pineapple Butai (1959)

The story of the role played by Japanese-American soldiers from Hawaii in the Korean War of the 1950s. ...

You Are the Next Eagle (1944)

A boy aviator endures rigorous training and a sad fate, and grows into a strong man with his eyes set on becoming an eagle. ...

Sailor (1944)

Shinpachi Morimura, who was born in a fusuma craftsman's house, wants to join the Japanese navy. However, his father wants him to continue in the family business and refuses to accept it. ...

Sinking the Unsinkable (1944)

Japanese Warmovie ...

Dancing with a Mask (1943)

Japanese propaganda film about the Normanton Incident. ...

Our Planes Fly South (1943)

Mother and Child Grass (1942)

Mother and younglings ...

There Was a Father (1942)

Shuhei Horikawa, a poor schoolteacher, struggles to raise his son Ryohei by himself, despite neither money nor prospects. ...

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. ...

Okinu and Banto (1940)

A story of a store that makes Tabi socks. ...

Surging Waves (1939)

Five Siblings (1939)

A businessman runs afoul of the law and commits suicide, leaving behind a wife and five children. ...

Southern Wind (1939)

Based on the original work by Fumiko Hayashi, this is a story about a woman and two men. The lust is restrained and indifferent. The story even has an elegance to it, which is the charm of the 30 year old Kinuyo Tanaka. There was a time when Tanaka was ado ...

Women at War (1939)

Naomi Tazawa (Hiroko Kawasaki), who works at Isetan Department Store, was told by an executive at a film company (Ken Uehara), that he was going to make a film about her. She was scouted to become an actress, but she held strong. Around that time, her adop ...

Four Seasons of Children (1939)

The brothers of Children In The Wind deal with declining family fortunes: they must work when the father becomes sick, and eventually live with their grandfather, which means making new friends and struggling with a different environment. ...

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. ...

Children in the Wind (1937)

On vacation's eve, a boy is sent to the countryside to live with his uncle after his father is imprisoned and accused of embezzlement. ...

Forget Love for Now (1937)

Yuki is a young, single mother supporting herself and her son, Haru, with a job as a bar hostess. ...

A Star Athlete (1937)

During college military training exercises, the bond between two friends and athletic rivals is tested when one of them becomes involved with a woman who may be a prostitute. ...

What Did the Lady Forget? (1937)

A professor, Komiya, and his bossy wife, Tokiko, are to look after Setsuko, their high-spirited niece from Osaka. Despite being a minor, Setsuko is a liberated woman who does whatever she wants, including smoking. She even convinces Koyima to take her to ...

Moon Over the Ruins (1937)

Episode in the life of a composer of a popular Japanese song. ...

The Only Son (1936)

A rural widow sends her only son to Tokyo to receive a better education. Years later, she visits him and finds he has become a night school teacher struggling to support his wife and son. ...

Mr. Thank You (1936)

In Depression-era Japan, a courteous bus driver carries an eclectic group of passengers from the mountainous Izu to Tokyo. ...

Burden of Life (1935)

A middle-aged father has just married off his third daughter, but still has his nine year old son to raise whom he resents as he was unwanted. ...

I Was Born, But... (1932)

Brothers Keiji and Ryoichi move to a new neighborhood in the Tokyo suburbs after their father, an office clerk, is promoted. The boys join the local gang as lowly new kids and emerge as natural leaders after defeating a bully. While visiting the home of th ...