Name: Carmen Comes Home
Director: Keisuke Kinoshita
Released: 1951
Cast: Hideko Takamine, Shuji Sano, Takeshi Sakamoto, Kuniko Igawa, Chishū Ryū

Hideko Takamine

Shuji Sano

Takeshi Sakamoto

Kuniko Igawa

Chishū Ryū

A girl who had left her home village for life in Tokyo returns to her home years later, and evokes a scandal when the locals discover that she&#39;s a stripper.

L’âge d’or des studios japonais

Carmen Comes Home

Karumen kokyo ni kaeru

Mariko Okada

Daisuke Katō

Masayuki Mori

Isao Yamagata

Chieko Nakakita

Mayuri Mokushô

Nobuo Kaneko

Roy James

Akira Tani

A tragic social drama set in post war Japan and concerns a lonely woman trying to find purpose and stability in a devastated Tokyo.

Floating Clouds

浮雲

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Ganjiro Nakamura

Tatsuya Nakadai

Reiko Dan

Eitaro Ozawa

Keiko Awaji 

A middle-aged bar hostess, constantly in debt, is faced with numerous social constraints and challenges posed to her by her family, customers and friends.

When a Woman Ascends the Stairs

女が階段を上る時

Yûzô Kayama

Mitsuko Kusabue

Yumi Shirakawa

Aiko Mimasu

Mie Hama

After a bombing raid destroys the family store and her husband, Reiko rebuilds and runs the shop out of love stopped short by destruction.

Yearning

乱れる

Keiju Kobayashi

Kinuyo Tanaka

Noboru Nakaya

Akira Takarada

Fumiko struggles to get her literary work published, spending years working in poverty while being abused by her boyfriend all the while hoping to break free from the cycle.

A Wanderer's Notebook

Hôrô-ki

Hideki Gôko

Itsuo Watanabe

Takeo Terashita

Schoolteacher Hisako Oishi forms an emotional bond with her pupils and teaches them various virtues, while at the same time worrying about their future.

Twenty-Four Eyes

二十四の瞳

french

Nijiko Kiyokawa

Masao Mishima

Musei Tokugawa

Shiro Mizutani

Osamu Takizawa

Masako, the daughter of an impoverished itinerant tinsmith, wins a grammar school composition contest with an essay about her neighborhood. The much publicized essay ends up causing the family problems and their chronic money troubles threaten Masako&#39;s further education.

Composition Class

Tsuzurikata kyoshitsu

Isuzu Yamada

Sumiko Kurishima

Haruko Sugimura

Otsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Her daughter Katsuyo doesn&#x27;t see any future in her mothers trade in the late days of Geisha. But Otsuta will not give up. This film portraits the day time life of geisha when not entertaining customers.

Flowing

流れる

Mitsuko Mito

Shin Saburi

Masayoshi Ôtsuka

Shinichi Himori

Haruhiko Tsuda

Seiji Nishimura

Shinyô Nara

Shuhei Horikawa, a poor schoolteacher, struggles to raise his son Ryohei by himself, despite neither money nor prospects.

There Was a Father

父ありき

Kôji Mitsui

Chieko Murata

Eiko Takamatsu

Chyoko Fumitani

Toshinosuke Nagao	

Fumiko Okamura

A man returns from World War II to find his desperate wife had resorted to one night of prostitution to pay for their son&#x27;s hospital bills.

A Hen in the Wind

Kaze no naka no mendori

Yôko Sugi

Hisako Yamane

Mie Kitahara

Kō Mishima

Mokichi is the widowed father of three daughters, with whom he lives on the premises of a temple since the war. All three daughters become involved in some sort of complicated relationships.

The Moon Has Risen

月は上りぬ

Tatsuo Saïto

Mitsuko Yoshikawa

Hideo Sugawara

Tokkan Kozo

Teruyo Hayami

Two young brothers throw a tantrum when they discover that their father isn&#x27;t the most important man in his workplace.

I Was Born But...

大人の見る絵本 生れてはみたけれど

Shin'ichirō Mikami

Shima Iwashita

Keiji Sada

Toyoko Takahashi

Nobuo Nakamura

Teruo Yoshida

Noriko Maki

Kyōko Kishida

Kuniko Miyake

Eijirō Tōno

An aging widower arranges a marriage for his only daughter.

An Autumn Afternoon

秋刀魚の味

Chieko Higashiyama

Setsuko Hara

Sō Yamamura

Kyōko Kagawa

An old couple visit their children and grandchildren in the city, but receive little attention.

Tokyo Story

東京物語

Kokuten Kodo

Seiji Miyaguchi

Chikage Awashima

Kuniko Ikawa

Hiroshi Nihonyanagi	

Toyo Takahashi

Ichirō Sugai

A family chooses a match for their daughter Noriko, but she, surprisingly, has her own plans.

Early Summer

麦秋

Eiko Miyoshi

Yoshiko Kuga

Masahiko Shimazu

Kôji Shitara

Two boys begin a silence strike to press their parents into buying them a television set.

Good Morning

お早う

Yumeji Tsukioka

Hohi Aoki

Junya Usami

Noriko is twenty-seven years old and still living with her widowed father. Everybody tries to talk her into marrying, but Noriko wants to stay at home caring for her father.

Late Spring

晩春

Keiko Tsushima

Michiyo Kogure

Koji Tsuruta

A childless middle-aged couple faces a marital crisis.

Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice

お茶漬の味

Toshiro Mifune

Yoshio Tsuchiya

Ken Mitsuda

Yôko Naitô

In 19th-century Japan, a rough-tempered yet charitable town doctor trains a young intern.

Red Beard

赤ひげ

Ineko Arima

Two sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot take the truth of being abandoned as a child.

Tokyo Twilight

東京暮色

Teiji Takahashi

Ryō Ikebe

Keiko Kishi

A young man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship while he has an extramarital romance.

Early Spring

早春

Wim Wenders

Yûharu Atsuta

Chris Marker

Wim Wenders travels to Japan in search of the Tokyo seen in the films of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0654868/">Yasujir&ocirc; Ozu</a>. Ozu&#x27;s own&nbsp;<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046438/">Tokyo Story (1953)</a>&nbsp;is a helpful (but not mandatory) pre-requisite to seeing Tokyo-Ga (1985).

Tokyo-Ga

FR - HD

Japanese

Danko Ichikawa

Yûko Mochizuki

A kabuki theatre-inflected story about a poor village whose people have to be carried to a nearby mountain to die once they get old.

The Ballad of Narayama

楢山節考, Narayama bushikō

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Moira Shearer

Ludmilla Tcherina

Ann Ayars

Léonide Massine

Frederick Ashton

Pamela Brown

Robert Rounseville

Robert Helpmann

Lionel Harris

Mogens Wieth

Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger

While waiting for Stella to conclude her performance in the opera house next door, Hoffman recounts his 3 tragic loves: Olympia the mechanical doll, Giulietta the courtesan, and Antonia the young consumptive.

The Tales of Hoffmann

Français

VF - HD

VF - SD

Jean Debucourt

Michel Simon

Germaine Reuver

Pauline Carton

Paul Braconnier is going through living hell with his wife, an alcoholic shrew. They are both trying to do away with each other. Paul goes to see a famous lawyer, who unwittingly tells him how to commit the crime. So Paul goes on, kills his wife and gives himself up to the police. The lawyer takes his case and Paul is acquitted. He triumphantly returns to the village.

La Poison

Carmen Comes Home

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This film is part of the Cinematographic movement

"L’âge d’or des studios japonais"