Noriko Honma
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1911-11-29
Locus Natus: Yubari, Hokkaido, Japan
Et ut:
Rashomon
Brimming with action while incisively examining the nature of truth, "Rashomon" is perhaps the finest film ever to investigate the philosophy of...
release : 1950.08.26popularis : 15.329
Rhapsody in August
The story centers on an elderly hibakusha, whose husband was one of 80,000 human beings killed in the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki, caring for her...
release : 1991.05.25popularis : 9.033
Stray Dog
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...
release : 1949.10.17popularis : 22.455
G.I. Samurai
A squadron of Japanese Self-Defense Force soldiers find themselves transported through time to their country's warring states era, when rival samurai...
release : 1979.09.17popularis : 6.08
Zokuzoku Ôban: Dotô hen
Ushinosuke returns to his hometown to become a farmer. Part three (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku Shishi’s novel, Oban.
release : 1957.12.17popularis : 5.114
Battle of the Japan Sea
Japan and Russia clash in what comes to be known as the Russo-Japanese War. An attempt by the Japanese fleet and army to take Port Arthur fails, and...
release : 1969.08.01popularis : 5.026
The Homely Sister
In the 19th century Edo period, sisters Oshizu and Otaka have sacrificed their personal happiness to work and care for their ailing father. Otaka...
release : 1967.10.28popularis : 2.103
The Blue Pearl
The Blue Pearl depicts the interplay between a young man from Tokyo and two ama (pearl divers; literally “women of the sea”) in a...
release : 1951.08.03popularis : 2.101
Yojimbo
A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the...
release : 1961.04.25popularis : 15.523
Red Beard
Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed when his first post after medical school takes him...
release : 1965.04.03popularis : 10.137
Ebirah, Horror of the Deep
Searching for his brother, Ryota stows away on a boat belonging to a criminal alongside two other teenagers. The group shipwrecks on Letchi island...
release : 1966.12.17popularis : 11.72
Varan the Unbelievable
In an effort to find an economic means of purifying salt water, a joint U.S.-Japanese military command is set up on an isolated Japanese island where...
release : 1962.12.07popularis : 3.296
Madadayo
Based on the life of Hyakken Uchida, a Japanese author and academic. The film opens with Uchida resigning his job as a German professor at the onset...
release : 1993.04.17popularis : 9.065
Ikiru
Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to...
release : 1952.10.09popularis : 17.236
Seven Samurai
A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six...
release : 1954.04.26popularis : 32.644
I Live in Fear
Kiichi Nakajima, an elderly foundry owner, is convinced that Japan will be affected by an imminent nuclear war, and resolves to move his family to...
release : 1955.11.22popularis : 7.625
Mother
A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.
release : 1952.06.12popularis : 3.394
Summer Clouds
A war widow with a young boy manages a farm with her bossy mother-in-law. When a reporter comes to interview her, the two begin an affair. He turns...
release : 1958.09.02popularis : 3.774
Wife
Ten years into a marriage, the wife is disappointed by the husband's lack of financial success, meaning she has to work and can't treat herself and...
release : 1953.04.29popularis : 4.278
Brother and Sister
The eldest daughter of a rural family Mon returns home from Tokyo pregnant after an affair with a college student Kobata, which causes a scandal that...
release : 1953.08.19popularis : 4.513
A Wife's Heart
Kiyoko (Takamine Hideko) and her husband want to open a coffee shop. She becomes increasingly close to the bank clerk (Mifune Toshiro) she's asked...
release : 1956.05.03popularis : 1.932
The Whole Family Works
Father of nine children cannot find a job. Despite their aspirations, the children are encouraged by both parents to hold down menial jobs and...
release : 1939.03.11popularis : 4.04
Where Chimneys Are Seen
Where Chimneys Are Seen focuses primarily on the interconnected lives of two couples in a lower-middle-class neighborhood in Senju, a poor industrial...
release : 1953.03.05popularis : 3.104
Composition Class
Based on an autobiographical story by Toyota Masako.
release : 1938.08.21popularis : 1.943
The Ataka Family
Soichi Ataka is the eldest son of Ataka family. Although mentally challenged, he's a person with a gentle heart. Soichi's wife, Kuniko is devoted to...
release : 1952.05.15popularis : 3.983
Oh, Bomb!
During the mayoral election, two ex-prisoners decide to replace the lucky pen of an annoying candidate with a mini-bomb.
release : 1964.04.18popularis : 1.684
The Ditch
Toku, a factory worker gives food to a starving woman, Tsuru, who then follows him home. He shares a shack in a shanty village in Kawasaki with his...
release : 1954.07.27popularis : 3.545
Nightshade Flower
Japanese "kayo" film based on the song "Ieraishan" by Yoshiko Yamaguchi.
release : 1951.01.13popularis : 1.001
The Big Boss
Ryuta and Mineo Komatsu are brothers, both yakuza (gangsters). Mineo, although complicit in crime, even murder, wants out of the gangster life,...
release : 1959.01.15popularis : 2.351
Street of Violence
An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chief and the local gangster bosses.
release : 1950.02.26popularis : 2.03
Varan
When a rare species of butterfly is found in a mysterious valley in Japan, a pair of entomologists go to investigate and find more. They discover...
release : 1958.10.14popularis : 4.529
Marital Relations
The story of a couple, a spoiled son and a down-to-earth girl, in Osaka in the early Showa era. The film won the prestigious Blue Ribbon awards for...
release : 1955.09.13popularis : 2.624
Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island
A humble and simple Takezo abandons his life as a knight errant. He's sought as a teacher and vassal by Shogun, Japan's most powerful clan leader....
release : 1956.01.03popularis : 9.9
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She describes life's vicious cycle: acting cheerful...
release : 1960.01.15popularis : 10.902
The Lone Journey
Forced on the road by yakuza obligations, a man sets out on a reckless journey to Tsumagoi. Movie posters for local cinemas were often displayed at...
release : 1955.08.31popularis : 1.441
Husband and Wife
A married couple looking for an apartment move in with the husband's co-worker, a widower. The husband becomes jealous of the widower and his wife.
release : 1953.01.22popularis : 3.585
Last of the Wild Ones
A legendary gangster raises himself out of a small town and gathers followers on his rise to power.
release : 1954.06.08popularis : 1.863
Adolescence Part II
A story of unhappy youths and the perils of lack of sex education.
release : 1953.07.01popularis : 1.694
A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 2
An Ishiro Honda film. The second part of A Rainbow Plays in My Heart released the same day as the first film.
release : 1957.07.09popularis : 1.466
Untamed Woman
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...
release : 1957.05.28popularis : 5.443
All About Marriage
Ultra-perky model likes single freedom but feels ryosai kenbo ("good wife, wise mother") pressure, exemplified by her bored-to-tears sister.
release : 1958.05.26popularis : 1.149
A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 1
An Ishiro Honda film. The first part of A Rainbow Plays in My Heart released the same day as the second film.
release : 1957.07.09popularis : 2.162
Dreams
A collection of magical tales based upon the actual dreams of director Akira Kurosawa.
release : 1990.05.11popularis : 12.452
Girls in the Orchard
Girls in the Orchard (1953) is about tension between the life of a family in a rural area with all the traditions (continuing family business, taking...
release : 1953.09.15popularis : 1.179
The Surf
Lonely youth Shinji meets Hatsue, a pretty pearl diver, on the beach and the two fall in love. But Shinji has a rival for Hatsue's affections, Yasuo.
release : 1954.10.20popularis : 2.918
Life of a Country Doctor
A skilled country doctor's talents are such that he can even perform operations as difficult and novel as removing a patient's kidney for the first...
release : 1960.08.14popularis : 5.631