Movies: Yūko Mochizuki
- 1958
The Ballad of Narayama (1958)
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In Kabuki style, the film tells the story of a remote mountain village where the scarcity of food leads to a voluntary but socially-enforced policy in which relatives carry 70-year-old family members up Narayama mountain to die. Granny Orin is approa...
- 1961
The End of Summer (1961)
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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....
- 1965
Kwaidan (1965)
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Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai marries for money with tragic results. A man stranded in a blizzard is saved by Yuki the Snow Maiden, but his rescue come...
- 1952
The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice (1952)
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The arranged marriage between a capricious woman from Tokyo high society and a quiet and rustic man is tested by a marital crisis....
- 1956
The Thick-Walled Room (1956)
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A group of rank-and-file Japanese soldiers are jailed for crimes against humanity, themselves victims of a nation refusing to bear its burdens as a whole....
- 1969
Red Lion (1969)
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Japan, February 1868. As the Tokugawa shogunate declines and the power of Emperor Meiji grows, Gonzo, a soldier of the Restoration Army, returns to Sawando, his hometown, to announce the end of tyranny....
- 1955
The Tale of Jiro (1955)
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Based on the novel by Kojin Shimomura. Story of a young boy and his adventures in the country. His idyllic life is shattered by the illness and death of his mother....
- 1954
Always in My Heart Part 3 (1954)
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Machiko and Haruki’s drama continues. Machiko is not allowed to see Haruki. They finally meet again, but Haruki departs to Europe....
- 1954
Late Chrysanthemums (1954)
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With delicate, unobtrusive strokes, Naruse evokes both the humor and bitterness of his characters’ dilemmas, in this bleak, compelling poignant portrait of a quartet of aging geishas contemplating their troubles with men and money....
- 1953
Always in My Heart Part 2 (1953)
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Machiko and Haruki’s drama continues. Two meet again in Hokkaido only to be separated again....
- 1961
Different Sons (1961)
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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 salaryma...
- 1953
Always in My Heart (1953)
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Machiko Ujiie and Haruki Atomiya first meet and fall in love on Ginza’s Sukiyabashi Bridge during the Great Tokyo Air Raid in March 1945. Machiko and Haruki pledge to meet again at the bridge in six months but part without asking each other’s names....
- 1958
The Child Writers (1958)
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- 1951
The White Orchid (1951)
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A Japanese adaptation of Guy de Maupassant's short story Boule de Suif, directed by Kimura Keigo...
- 1956
Yaneura no Onna-tachi (1956)
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- 1952
Beauty and the Thief (1952)
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The picture belongs to the jidai gekki (historic) genre. It is a powerful story of violence and eroticism, picturing a world at once sordid and poetic, with two central themes which intermingle to compound an admirable panel of a critical period in J...
- 1952
Modern People (1952)
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A section chief at the Bureau of Construction is in a shady relationship with a construction company. Then a new, young and honest subordinate is assigned to work under the section chief. Once he learns about the shady relationship, however, the new ...
- 1952
This Way, That Way (1952)
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An intellectual couple in a staid and tedious marriage are surprised when the wife’s niece, who has run away from home, turns up unexpectedly to stay with them. Their mundane lives are sent into disarray by the emotional and energetic Ako....
- 1953
Sisters (1953)
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Three beautiful daughters grew up in a dog and cat care clinic. The eldest was named Takako (Keiko Tsushima), the second was Tsugumi (Keiko Awaji), and the third was Mihato (Hibari Misora). Mihato was still a pretty seventeen-year-old girl, but she c...
- 1953
A Japanese Tragedy (1953)
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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...