Here Is a Spring

Here Is a Spring 1955

7.30

The story of a group of young people who organise their own travelling symphony orchestra to provide music for people living in remote villages shortly after the war.

1955

The Wolves

The Wolves 1955

6.80

A group of five rookie insurance salespersons, driven to desperation by the impossibility of their work in Japan's failing postwar economy, form a plan to rob a cash delivery truck in order to provide for their families.

1955

A Carrocinha

A Carrocinha 1955

6.50

Man finds a job as a dog catcher, but feels sorry for the animals and sets them free.

1955

Raikamal

Raikamal 1955

1

Raikamal narrates the story of Rai Kamal, a devotee of Lord Krishna. Rai Kamal and Ranjan are childhood sweethearts. When Ranjan grows up he wishes his desire to marry Rai but his parents are against this match as they are Brahmins and Rai Kamal was a low caste Vaishnav.

1955

The Far Horizons

The Far Horizons 1955

6.20

Virginia, 1803. After the United States of America acquires the inmense Louisiana territory from France, a great expedition, led by William Lewis and Meriwether Clark, is sent to survey the new lands and go where no white man has gone before.

1955

Out of the Clouds

Out of the Clouds 1955

5.80

Multiple stories unfold over the course of twenty-four hours in and around a bustling central airport.

1955

Red canary

Red canary 1955

1

A young student marries her professor. Tensions will arise as their opposite music tastes start clashing.

1955

Female on the Beach

Female on the Beach 1955

5.66

Lynn Markham moves into her late husband's beach house the morning after former tenant Eloise Crandall fell from the cliff. To her annoyance, Lynn finds both her real estate agent and Drummond Hall, her beachcomber neighbor, making themselves quite at home. Lynn soon has no doubts of what her scheming neighbors are up to, but she finds Drummond's physical charms hard to resist. And she still doesn't know what really happened to Eloise.

1955

Geordie

Geordie 1955

6.80

Concerned about his small stature, a young Scottish boy applies for a mail-order body building course, successfully gaining both height and strength. The film was released as "Wee Geordie" in the USA.

1955

The Romance of Yushima

The Romance of Yushima 1955

6.00

Hayase, a schoolteacher, assists Sakai in editing a German-Japanese dictionary. Hayase owes much to Sakai, as Sakai raised him for 13 years after Hayase lost his parents in a war. Hayase has been secretly married to Otsuta, a former geisha, and has been unable to tell Sakai of the marriage, aware as he is that Sakai wants him to marry his daughter, Taeko. Otsuta wants Hayase to tell Sakai about her, but understands the difficulty of his position. At a festival, Otsuta is mistaken for a pickpocket and taken to the police. Because of her background as a geisha, newspaper reporters eagerly delve into her past and report that she has been married to Hayase. Unaware of what has been printed in the papers, Hayase decides to tell Sakai about his marriage. Sakai shows the newspaper to him and orders Hayase to part with Otsuta. Given no chance to explain, Hayase accepts Sakai's order.

1955

Feathertop

Feathertop 1955

1

A scarecrow is brought to life by a witch and made to pose as a nobleman.

1955

The Refugee

The Refugee 1955

1

A Chinese medical student named Gan Shosho finds himself cut off from his homeland as he is studying in Japan during the outbreak of the war. Despite his difficult circumstances, he finds love in the form of Sachiko and the two marry. They later travel to Nanjing to live a new life together where Sachiko and Shaochang cooperate with the Japanese-backed government. Their ultimate hope is to secure peace but their idealism is not enough to keep them together through brutal times and with the end of the war the two find themselves facing a divorce... --Osaka Asian Film Festival

1955

Growing Up

Growing Up 1955

6.80

A boy falls in love with a girl. Neither of them know that she's to be sold to a brothel.

1955

A Life at Stake

A Life at Stake 1955

5.23

An out-of-work architect meets a married woman who has a business proposition for him. The architect begins to suspect the woman's interest in him is not just financial and may actually be deadly.

1955