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Lists of films produced in Japan include: List of Japanese films before 1910; List of Japanese films of the 1910s; List of Japanese films of the 1920s; List of Japanese films of the 1930s; List of Japanese films of the 1940s; Lists of Japanese films of the 1950s; Lists of Japanese films of the 1960s; Lists of Japanese films of the 1970s
The film was a box office success in Japan, garnering ¥460.2 million in ticket sales and becoming the highest grossing domestic film that year. [ 20 ] [ 55 ] [ 17 ] The assassination of John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963, during the film's opening week at the Toho Cinema in New York, dampened ticket sales.
Gate of Hell, a 1953 film by Teinosuke Kinugasa, was the first movie that filmed using Eastmancolor film, Gate of Hell was both Daiei's first color film and the first Japanese color movie to be released outside Japan, receiving an Academy Honorary Award in 1954 for Best Costume Design by Sanzo Wada and an Honorary Award for Best Foreign ...
Pride (プライド 運命の瞬間;, Puraido: Unmei no Shunkan), also known as Pride: The Fateful Moment, is a 1998 Japanese historical drama directed by Shunya Itō.The film, based on the International Military Tribunal for the Far East of 1946–48, depicts Japanese prime minister Hideki Tojo (played by Masahiko Tsugawa) as a family man who fought to defend Japan and Asia from Western ...
The film was a commercial success in the Japanese market, taking in a record 5.11 billion yen at the domestic box office. [5] [6] Mark Schilling of the Japan Times said the film was tailor-made for the home audience, and pulled strong performances from some of the characters. [7]
The film was shot at the Inba Marsh in Chiba Prefecture, Japan. Onibaba was inspired by the Shin Buddhist parable of yome-odoshi-no men (嫁おどしの面, bride-scaring mask) or niku-zuki-no-men (肉付きの面, mask with flesh attached), in which a mother, disgusted by her daughter's affair with a priest, used a mask to pose as a demon and frighten the girl into believing that she was cursed.
The first true pink film, and the first Japanese movie with nude scenes, was Satoru Kobayashi's controversial and popular independent production Flesh Market (Nikutai no Ichiba, 1962). [8] Director Seijun Suzuki 's Gate of Flesh ( 1964 ) was the first Japanese mainstream film to contain nudity.
Mikio Naruse (成瀬 巳喜男, Naruse Mikio, 20 August 1905 – 2 July 1969) was a Japanese filmmaker who directed 89 films spanning the period 1930 to 1967. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Naruse is known for imbuing his films with a bleak and pessimistic outlook.