Kansho Yoshii

Family of Love

First part of adventure movie

A hospital melodrama where the conflict between love and friendship rules the faith of the protagonists.

1945 Japanese movie

1945 Japanese movie

This film begins with a teacher describing to his students how brave the crew was which died as result of Japan's first submarine accident. The film then follows two of the pupils, one becomes a submarine captain and the other designs submarines.

Tomotaka Tasaka's A Pebble by the Wayside (Robo no Ishi), made in 1938 and taken from a Yuzo Yamamoto novel, takes place around 1902, was about a young boy brought up entirely by his mother since his drunken father is never home. An intelligent teacher wants to send him to middle school, but instead the father apprentices him to a clothing store to which he is in debt. The mother dies and the boy is forced to quit work when his father insults the store owner. Later the boy goes to Tokyo, but only to continue his hardships. First he is forced to do a maid's job at a boarding house and later is used by an old woman to steal at funerals. Finally he is rescued by the teacher, whom he meets in Tokyo.

L'histoire tourne autour d'un jeune homme chargé de sauver un hôpital en difficulté et qui doit choisir entre deux femmes, une infirmière dévouée et une fille riche et gâtée.