Daigaku wa deta keredo / Tōkyō no onna (大学は出たけれど / 東京の女)
Yasujirō Ozu
1933. DVD (ca. 59 min.) Region code 2
Call#: DVD PN1997 .O984 2003 vol. 9
Summary: Daigaku wa deta keredo: Nomoto, fresh out of college, has a hard time finding a satisfactory job, but he tries to hide his unemployment from his mother and his fiancée. When Nomoto learns that his fiancée is working in a cafe to support him, he decides to take a receptionist job which he had earlier turned down. Tōkyō no onna: Ryōichi and Chikako are a brother and sister who live together. Chikako works during the day in a office and at night she prostitutes herself to fund her brother studies in university. Ryoichi unaware of his sister's other life but his girlfriend Harue's brother is a policeman who knows her secret.
Gakusei romansu / wakaki hi (学生ロマンス / 若き日)
Yasujirō Ozu
1929. DVD (ca. 103 min.) Region code 2
Call#: DVD PN1997 .O984 2003 vol. 1
Summary: A college student named Watanabe posts a room vacancy note, only to meet a beautiful woman who wants the room. When Chieko moves in, Watanabe moves to his friend Yamamoto's room, but he comes back ostensibly to pick up something he forgot, but in fact he is only trying to be close to her. Watanabe learns that Chieko plans to going skiing in Akakura and asks Yamamoto to go with him to Akakura.
Hadaka no shima = the island (裸の島)
Kaneto Shindō
1961. VHS (96 min.)
Call#: PN1997 .H2362 1961
Summary: The sole inhabitants of a small island off the coast of Japan are a farmer, his wife, and their two small sons. The simple, but arduous routine of their daily lives is a constant struffle for survival, of never-ending trips to the mainland for precious buckets of water which must be lugged up the rocky, steep slope of the island and then doled out in cupfuls to the meager crops.
Hijōsen no onna (非常線の女)
Yasujirō Ozu
1933. DVD (ca. 100 min.) Region code 2
Call#: DVD PN1997 .O984 2003 vol. 10
Summary: A gangster named Jōji already has a mistress, Tokiko, who works as a typist. But Jōji falls in loves with an innocent girl, the sister of a young man, Hiroshi, who has recently come under Jōji's sway and wants to join Jōji's gang. Jōji decides he must turm Hiroshi away from the criminal life ibefore it is too late.
Hogaraka ni ayume (朗かに步め)
Yasujirō Ozu
1930. DVD (ca. 96 min.) Region code 2
Call#: DVD PN1997 .O984 2003 vol. 2
Summary: Kamiyama, a young gangster, falls in love with a typist named Yasue and decides to mend his ways.
Kurutta ippeiji = A page of madness (狂った一頁)
Teinosuke Kinugasa
1926. VHS (60 min.)
Call#: PN1997 .K872 1927
Summary: An elderly man works at odd jobs in the lunatic asylum in hopes to set his wife free who is confined after having attempted to drown her baby son in a fit of madness many years ago.
Mahoroba (まほろば)
Yasujirō Ozu
1929. DVD (ca. 137 min.)
Call#: DVD PN1997 .O984 2003 vol. 11
Summary: "Wasei kenka tomodachi": two good friends are rivals in love for Omitsu, but she has another boy friend. "Tokkan kozō" (featuring Aoki Tomio a.k.a. Tokkan Kozō): A comedy about a kidnapper and the child he abducts and then can't get rid of.
Mari no yukue (鞠の行方)
Junsuke Sawada
1930. VHS (51 min.)
Call#: PN1997 .N5224 vol. 22
Summary: A young girl of a poor and unfortunate circumstances is instilled with courage and hope by good friends and teachers. Good friends and teachers instill a girl of an unfortunate upbringing with courage and hope for the future.
Minato no Nihon musume (港の日本娘)
Hiroshi Shimizu
1933. DVD (ca. 71 min.) Region code 2
Call#: DVD PN1997 .S4732 2008 vol. 1, pt. 4
Summary: In the harbor town of Yokohama, two school girls, Sunako and Dora, are best friends and are always together. Sunako is in love with Henry, but he soon switches his affections to Yōko. Dora encourages Sunako to see Henry, but when Sunako finds Henry with Yōko, who is triumphant over Sunako, she shoots Yōko. Sunako runs away and ends up in Kōbe, living with an artist and working at a night club. When she comes back to Yokohama, Sunako finds Henry and Dora are married. Although Dora and Henry try to welcome Sunako, the relationship among three becomes strained. Sunako, suffering from loneliness, happens to meet Yōko who is in her death bed.
Nihon anime kurashikku korekushon = Japanese anime classic collection (日本アニメクラシックコレクション)
1928-1950. 4 DVDs (355 min) All region
Call#: DVD PN1997.5 .N54 2007
Summary: Fifty-five vintage Japanese animated short films, originally produced between 1928-1950.
Ono ga tsumi Sakubē (己が罪作兵衛)
Kōtarō Sasaki
1930. VHS (22 min.)
Call#: PN1997 .N5224 vol. 21
Summary: Tragedy about the death of two half-brothers and the people about them. Tragedy of two half-brothers' death and the surrounding people.
Orizuru Osen (折鶴お千)
Kenji Mizoguchi
1935. VHS (88 min.)
Call#: PN1997 .N5224 vol. 24
Summary: Based on the novel Baishoku Kamonanban by Izumi Kyōka.
Otona no miru ehon / umarete wa mita keredo (大人の見る繪本 / 生れてはみたけれど)
Yasujirō Ozu
1932. DVD (ca. 91 min.) Region code 2
Call#: DVD PN1997 .O984 2003 vol. 7
Summary: A family moves to a new town in suburban Tokyo. The two young brothers of the family become the leaders of a gang of kids in the neighborhood. But he boys are shocked to see their father shamelessly flattering his boss, whose son is one of their gang members.
Rakudai wa shita keredo (落第はしたけれど)
Yasujirō Ozu
1930. DVD (ca. 64 min.) Region code 2
Call#: DVD PN1997 .O984 2003 vol. 3
Summary: College students busily prepare for their graduation exam. Most study hard but some try to cheat on the exam. Even those who pass can't find jobs due to the Depression.
Seishun no yume ima izuko (青春の夢いまいづこ)
Yasujirō Ozu
1932. DVD (ca. 85 min.) Region code 2
Call#: DVD PN1997 .O984 2003 vol. 8
Summary: Horino, Saiki, Kumada and Shimada are four college friends. When Horino's father passes away, Horino leaves school to take over his father's business. The other three graduate but then cannot find jobs until Horino hires them. This new situation causes their friendship to change.
Shukujo to hige (淑女と髯)
Yasujirō Ozu
1931. DVD (ca. 75 min.) Region code 2
Call#: DVD PN1997 .O984 2003 vol. 5
Summary: Okajima is a whiskery-faced college student and the captain of a kendo club. He has hard time finding a job until he takes the advice of a typist named Hiroko and shaves off his facial hair. Cleanshaven, he not only finds a job but becomes very popular with women.
Sono yoru no tsuma (その夜の妻)
Yasujirō Ozu
1930. DVD (ca. 65 min.) Region code 2
Call#: DVD PN1997 .O984 2003 vol. 4
Summary: A man commits a robbery to save his sick child. After he is tracked by the police to his home, a police detective allows him to escape because the detective feels sorry for him, but soon the man turns himself in to face the consequences of his crime.
Taki no shiraito (瀧の白糸)
Kenji Mizoguchi
1933. VHS (100 min.)
Call#: PN1997 .N5224 vol. 23
Summary: Tragic love affair between a devoted woman and an aspiring law student set in the Meiji period (1868-1912). Tragic love affair between a devoted woman and a aspiring law student. Set in Meiji period.
Tōkyō kōshinkyoku (東京行進曲)
Kenji Mizoguchi
1929. VHS (25 min.)
Call#: PN1997 .N5224 vol. 20
Summary: Romance and emotional entanglement amongst a man, his son, and a young woman. The young woman is a daughter of the man and hence a half sister to his son, but romantic feeling subsumes all three of them, who are unaware of the truth.
Tōkyō no kōrasu (東京の合唱)
Yasujirō Ozu
1931. DVD (ca. 90 min.) Region code 2
Call#: DVD PN1997 .O984 2003 vol. 6
Summary: Okajima is an optimistic young man with a strong sense of justice. After college, he goes to work for an insurance company, gets promoted, marries and has a couple of children. But when he stands up to the company president to help a laid-off co-worker, he gets fired. From then on, things go from bad to worse for Okajima and his family.
Ukigusa monogatari = A story of floating weeds (浮草物語)
Yasujirō Ozu
1934. 2 DVDs (86 min.; 119 min.)
Call#: DVD PN1997.A1 U45 2004
Summary: In 1959, Yasujiro Ozu remade his 1934 silent film: A Story of Floating Weeds in color and sound with the cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa (Rashomon, Ugetsu). Setting his later version in a seaside location, Ozu otherwise preserves the details of his elegantly simple plot wherein an aging actor returns to a small town with his troupe and reunities with his former lover and illegitimate son, a scenario that enrages his current mistress and results in heartbreak for all. A Story of Floating Weeds reveals Ozu in the midst of developing his mode of expression; Floating weeds reveals his distinct style at its pinnacle. In each, the director captures the joy and sadness in everyday life.; Story of floating weeds / Janus Films ; a Shochiku film ; screenplay by Tadao Ikeda ; directed by Yasujiro Ozu. (86 min.) -- Floating weeds / Janus Films ; produced by Masaichi Nagata ; screenplay by Yasujiro Ozu, Kogo Noda ; directed by Yasujiro Ozu. (119 min.).
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