Released Date:
1957-10-01
Languages:
Japanese
Countries:
Japan
Runtime:
137 min
Rated:
NOT RATED
IMDB Ratings:
7.5 (3152 Reviews)
Director:
Akira KurosawaGenres:
DramaMaxim Gorky (play)
Akira Kurosawa
Hideo Oguni
Una coppia di gretti usurai gestisce uno squallido dormitorio, nei pressi di una discarica. Una folla di larve e relitti umani affolla il locale: un ex attore alcolizzato; una prostituta; un fabbro che sragiona; disoccupati ed altri ancora. In tutti c'è la ricerca della fuga dalla loro miseranda esistenza, attraverso alcool, gioco, sogni. Arriva un giorno al dormitorio un vecchio e saggio pellegrino, che porta in tutti una nota di speranza con la sua filosofia e la sua umanitè. Ma il sogno dura poco : lo sconforto torna ad impadronirsi di tutti, al punto da portare l'ex attore al suicidio e gli altri a ribellarsi ai due gestori. Ispirato ad un dramma di Gorkij, il film parla della parte sconfitta dell'umanitè, dei vinti, dei falliti, dei rifiutati dalla societè "civile".
Released Date:
1964-09-22
Languages:
Japanese, English
Countries:
Japan
Runtime:
99 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.3 (370 Reviews)
Director:
Kon IchikawaGenres:
DramaKeiji Hasebe
Kon Ichikawa
Yukio Mishima (novel)
Natto Wada
Released Date:
1961-05-12
Languages:
Japanese
Countries:
Japan
Runtime:
107 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.3 (401 Reviews)
Director:
Kon IchikawaGenres:
DramaKeiji Hasebe
Kon Ichikawa
Jun'ichirè Tanizaki (novel)
Natto Wada
A man getting on in years sets out to find a way to resurrect his flagging virility.
Released Date:
1962-02-01
Languages:
Japanese, English
Countries:
Japan
Runtime:
103 min
IMDB Ratings:
(2122 Reviews)
Director:
Yasujirè OzuGenres:
DramaKègo Noda (screenplay)
Yasujirè Ozu (screenplay)
The family of an older man who runs a small sake brewery become concerned with his finances and his health after they discover him visiting an old mistress from his youth.
Released Date:
1966-08-01
Languages:
Japanese
Countries:
Japan
Runtime:
120 min
Rated:
NOT RATED
IMDB Ratings:
7.5 (1474 Reviews)
Director:
Shèhei ImamuraShèhei Imamura
Akiyuki Nosaka (novel)
Koji Numata
Mr. Ogata lives a complicated life: he is a pornographer making two skin flicks per day and trying to stay beneath the radar screen of the local mob; he deeply loves his ailing wife Haru who's cursed by the restless spirit of her dead first husband; he also has a mistress, a step-son who wants to go to university, and a step-daughter entering adolescence. He lusts after his step-daughter, and when Haru finds out about those sexual advances, she asks him to marry the girl. Haru even signs over her business to him, and a crisis ensues when Ogata uses her nest egg to buy equipment so he and his pals can set up their own film processing lab. Surreal images and events weave their way into Ogata's life.
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