Kyōko Akemi
A romantic adventure tale about a young guy working on a whale-hunting vessel and his love for a childhood sweetheart.
Ruriko's father is a well known scientist who's involved in secret research that even his family doesn't know about. Ever since he moved up to the research laboratory in Hokkaido, Ruriko hasn't heard from him. The only thing that reminder her of his warmth was the green music box that he'd left behind for her. She longed to reunited with her father. The little box played music that lifted her spirits, to a place where everything was perfect.
Italy is usually cited as the anchor of the neo-realist movement in cinema, but Mikio Naruse's Ginza Cosmetics (1951) is a reminder that Japan had its own output equally rooted in realism. Set in Tokyo's Ginza district, this low-key, lyrical unassuming account of a few days in the life of a luckless geisha (Kinuyo Tanaka), as she struggles to make a living for herself and her young son, has few dramatic highs or artificial moments, but possesses a startlingly vivid power in its slice-of-life texture.
A bar girl tries to pass her three children, each from a different father, to rural relatives.
