Zenichiro Kito

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かけ出し時代
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かけ出し時代

Jul 15, 1947
A newly hired daily newspaper writer covering the society beat receives an assignment to cover Tokyo at night by walking and observing it. He gets into the right frame of mind by dressing the part as a vagrant with not a penny to his name. He gets into trouble ending up at the police station slammer overnight. He has no material to write about and, with his assignment unfulfilled, faces a cross editor.
緑の大地
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緑の大地

Apr 01, 1942
Set in Qingdao, China, a Japanese company locates an office there and begins work and cooperation with a local Chinese company for business. Many Japanese engineers also move to China, with their families, for the company in order to construct a canal. There are young Chinese resisting the Japanese in this area.
Drama
Histoire de l'arc au temple de Sanjusangendo
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Un samouraï du nom de Daiemon qui détenait le record du nombre de flèches tirées sur une cible en une journée avec 6200 flèches, lors du tournoi annuel qui se déroule au temple Sanjūsangen-dō de Kyoto, est détrôné l'année suivante par Kanzaemon Hoshino qui parvient à toucher 8000 fois la cible. Un panneau au nom de sa famille célébrant l'événement est apposé sur le temple en remplacement de celui de Daiemon, apportant un grand prestige à la famille Hoshino. Lors du concours suivant, Daiemon échoue à retrouver son bien avec « seulement » 7300 flèches ayant touché la cible et se suicide par seppuku. Cinq années plus tard, le bruit se répand que Daihachirō, fils de Daiemon, va à son tour participer au concours et tenter de laver l'honneur de son père défunt…
War
川中島合戰
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川中島合戰

Nov 30, 1941
This epic depicts the battle between Uesugi Kenshin and Takeda Shingen. The focus of the story is the struggle by the unit leader in charge of the main supply wagons and the supply troops to transport materiel to the Uesugi army. To this are added episodes involving an itinerant woman.
Drama
上海陸戦隊
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上海陸戦隊

May 19, 1939
This film attempts to reconstruct the tension of the Battle of Shanghai through an episode in an understated way, introducting its story in a documentary mode. In the film story, Japan's marine regiment protects Japanese residents and Chinese refugees-women and young children-from rampant street fighting, Shanhai Rikusentai unsparingly uses its first eight minutes for an official-mannered self-justification of the war. From the viewpoint of explaining Japan's military operation,the narration refers to the city s spatial division in sync with maps on screen.
Documentary
支那の夜
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支那の夜

Jan 02, 1940
Wartime propaganda filmed by the Japanese in occupied China, Shirley Yamaguchi portrays an orphan rescued from the streets by a kindly Japanese merchant marine officer. Part spy thriller and part Shanghai travelogue, it was part of a popular series known as "Chinese Continental Friendship" made by the occupying Japanese in China.
Drama