简介:Five poor musicians make up the worst traveling brass band in Japan. For a few days they hook up with an awful circus whose male performers are on strike.
简介:In his review of Feminine Melancholy in Kinema Junpo, critic Mizumachi Seiji praises Irie's performance as the best of her talkie career. However, he is very critical of the film itself, which he sees as a typical story of a woman in an unhappy marri
简介:Immediately following Professor Ishinaka, Naruse returned to Tokyo for a very different film, depicting the moral decadence of postwar Tokyo. Strongly influenced by the street realism of film noir, The Angry Street includes a great deal of location shooti
简介:The Kinema Junpo critics were, of course, mistaken to think that Naruse had abandoned his emphasis on women. His next film, Sincerity, features two strong female characters, played by Irie Takako and Murase Sachiko, each of whom have a daughter. The girls