Shiro Okamoto

1962 Japanese movie

1962 Japanese movie

1962 Japanese movie

Le détective privé Ichiro rencontre, lors d'un concert, une jolie jeune fille, journaliste de sport. Il va se trouver mêlé à un meurtre mystérieux dans le monde du base-ball.

The Wayside Pebble is an effective drama about the hardships of a childhood spent with a brusque, cold-hearted father and a submissive mother. The year is 1910 and the place is a small Japanese village. Goichi is suffering because he wants to go to school, but his family is too poor to afford that luxury. Even when a kind friend agrees to help out, Goichi's father refuses to give in to his son's request for an education. Instead, he sends Goichi off to work as an indentured servant for a cold-hearted merchant and his family. As tragedy strikes and the suffering of the young boy increases, he begins to look for some way out of his bleak situation.

Hibari Misora plays Yoshiko, the popular daughter of a fish market owner. After discovering that she was adopted, she sets out to help her biological father who has fallen victim to an evil plot orchestrated by those who would take over his successful business.

Yumemi, the president of Shirayuri Tours, visits Kagoshima in an attempt to save the contract with Satsuma Inn. After learning about the abrupt cancellation of the contract with the family-run Satsuma Inn in Kagoshima, Yumemi, launches her own investigation into the matter. Amidst her efforts to resume her company’s contract with the inn, Yumemi finds herself personally involved in the inn’s family affairs and with their guests in a surprising discover of love and friendship.

Un groupe de jeunes garçons, passionnés par les sciences et l'espace et membres d'un club sur ce thème, sont témoins de l'atterrissage d'un étrange vaisseau spatial près de chez eux... Des extra-terrestres originaires de la planète Neptune envahissent la Terre !