Movies: Teruko Kishi

  • 1949
    Stray Dog

    Stray Dog (1949)

    Stray Dog

    7.51949HD

    A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded bus. Desperate to right the wrong, he goes undercover, scavenging Tokyo’s sweltering streets for the stray dog whose desperation has led him to a lif...

    Stray Dog
  • 1959
    The Human Condition I: No Greater Love

    The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (1959)

    The Human Condition I: No Greater Love

    8.11959HD

    After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labor chief at a large mining operation in Manchuria, which also grants him exemption from military service. He accepts, and moves to Manchuria with his...

    The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
  • 1963
    The Insect Woman

    The Insect Woman (1963)

    The Insect Woman

    7.31963HD

    A woman, Tome, is born to a lower class family in Japan in 1918. The title refers to an insect, repeating its mistakes, as in an infinite circle. Imamura, with this metaphor, introduces the life of Tome, who keeps trying to change her poor life....

    The Insect Woman
  • 1974
    Sandakan No. 8

    Sandakan No. 8 (1974)

    Sandakan No. 8

    7.61974HD

    A young journalist interviews an elderly woman about being forced into prostitution in Borneo at a brothel called Sandakan No. 8....

    Sandakan No. 8
  • 1951
    Fireworks Over the Sea

    Fireworks Over the Sea (1951)

    Fireworks Over the Sea

    51951HD

    A fishing union depends on two brothers to make up the losses caused by the dishonest captains they replaced....

    Fireworks Over the Sea
  • 1958
    Chance Meeting

    Chance Meeting (1958)

    Chance Meeting

    01958HD

    Aya successfully stages a fashion show in Osaka and in the train on her way home to Tokyo accidentally treads on a man's foot. The man whose name is Rentaro is not amused. Just afterwards she notices that he is reading a magazine which carries her pi...

    Chance Meeting
  • 1957
    Untamed Woman

    Untamed Woman (1957)

    Untamed Woman

    7.31957HD

    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....

    Untamed Woman
  • 1966
    Violence at Noon

    Violence at Noon (1966)

    Violence at Noon

    6.11966HD

    Two young women must come to terms with the fact that a man they're deeply linked to is a murdering rapist....

    Violence at Noon
  • 1961
    The Catch

    The Catch (1961)

    The Catch

    6.31961HD

    Towards the end of the Second World War, a downed U.S. pilot is captured and imprisoned by rural Japanese villagers, who await official instructions as to how to proceed with their “catch.”...

    The Catch
  • 1964
    Flora on the Sand

    Flora on the Sand (1964)

    Flora on the Sand

    6.51964HD

    One evening, at the Marine Tower observatory, cosmetics salesman Ichiro Iki is drawn into conversation with an unfamiliar young lady Akiko. She invites Ichiro back to a hotel where they make love but part without even exchanging names. A week later,...

    Flora on the Sand
  • 1958
    Island of Fury

    Island of Fury (1958)

    Island of Fury

    01958HD

    Five boys escape from their life of bondage on an island 10 miles off Hiroshima, and are picked up in the Inland Sea, drifting in an open boat....

    Island of Fury
  • 1962
    Nippon no obaachan

    Nippon no obaachan (1962)

    Nippon no obaachan

    01962HD

    Two obaachans become fast friends listening to music in front of a record store. They both boast about their loving sons but in reality, one had just escaped a retirement home and the other was looking for an escape from her son and daughter-in-law. ...

    Nippon no obaachan
  • 1956
    Bridge of Japan

    Bridge of Japan (1956)

    Bridge of Japan

    7.31956HD

    Ichikawa's 1956 adaptation of Nihonbashi was the first to take the work of Kyoka Izumi— until then regarded as a writer of common tragic melodramas—and re-evaluate it as a tanbi-ha work of decadence, aestheticism, and intrigue. Ichikawa's film prese...

    Bridge of Japan
  • 1950
    Les Miserables I: God and the Devil

    Les Miserables I: God and the Devil (1950)

    Les Miserables I: God and the Devil

    01950HD

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    Les Miserables I: God and the Devil
  • 1963
    A House in the Quarter

    A House in the Quarter (1963)

    A House in the Quarter

    5.81963HD

    With her family suffering from extreme poverty, Yuko, as the eldest daughter, is sold to a successful brothel in Kyoto. There she is assigned to serve Takamatsu, one of the brothel’s top customers. But while Takamatsu falls madly in love with Yuko, s...

    A House in the Quarter
  • 1962
    Ballad of a Workman

    Ballad of a Workman (1962)

    Ballad of a Workman

    5.71962HD

    A demobilized soldier becomes a day laborer with a road construction gang, and his wife goes to work to bolster their income. Their modest dream is to see their son grow and to be happy as a family....

    Ballad of a Workman
  • 1956
    Farewell to Dream

    Farewell to Dream (1956)

    Farewell to Dream

    6.91956HD

    A coming-of-age story portrayed as the loss of all youthful illusions. Sixteen-year-old Yoichi dreams of becoming a sailor. His parents are fishmongers, and Yoichi lives together with them and his four siblings in cramped living conditions. His belov...

    Farewell to Dream
  • 1959
    Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan

    Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan (1959)

    Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan

    5.71959HD

    Kiku and her brother Isamu are social outcasts, children of a prostitute mother and black GI father, in postwar Japan....

    Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
  • 1957
    The Story of Pure Love

    The Story of Pure Love (1957)

    The Story of Pure Love

    6.81957HD

    Junai Monogatari AKA Story of Pure Love is about two poor youths, Mitsuko and Kando, rebelling against society in various ways, who are desperately trying to be together despite tortuous circumstances. The film depicts their lives as thieves, menial ...

    The Story of Pure Love
  • 1953
    Shishun no izumi

    Shishun no izumi (1953)

    Shishun no izumi

    01953HD

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    Shishun no izumi