Folktales from Japan / 2012

Hometown Rebuilding: Folktales from Japan is a Japanese anime television series that adapts various traditional stories from Japan. The narration and all character voices are provided by veteran Japanese film actors Akira Emoto and Yoneko Matsukane. An English-subtitled version began "simulcast" availability on the streaming service Crunchyroll March...

Hometown / 1983

Deep in the mountains of Japan a dam is scheduled to be built, thus forcing a relocation of the farmers. One of them is 78-year-old Denzo, whose son and his wife consider him senile. Left alone, he befriends a young boy, Sentaro, who has heard that the old man was once a great angler. The unlikely pair spend lots of happy time together, until Denzo has a heart attack and dies far upstream. The dam is completed and the entire area is inundated. Everyone will move away, except Denzo.

Le voci della nostra infanzia / 20076.08 voti

Giappone, fine anni '50. Akira è un ragazzino come tanti, ingenuo e serio. Gon è il capo. Hakase è un genio. Una primavera, arriva a scuola una nuova insegnante di musica. Tutta la classe decide di partecipare a una gara canora indetta dalla scuola. Tuttavia, alcuni ragazzi sono sorpresi a taccheggiare e l'intera classe è costretta a ritirarsi dalla gara...

日本ふるさと百景 / 2022

Song of Home / 1925

Mizoguchi’s 30th film is the earliest surviving example of his work, and his only film of the 1920s to survive complete. Song of Home finds the director already concerning himself with the collision of traditional and modern values. The film is structured around the contrast of two country-bred boys: a coach driver who has never left his home, and a student who returns from Tokyo with city-slicker affectations and Western jazz records. Produced by the Ministry of Education, the film has a simplistic lesson-plan at its heart, but what lingers in the mind after viewing are its more ineffable qualities: The dulcet, lyric, evocation of a disappeared rural past.

Furusato poruno-ki: Tsugaru shikoshiko bushi / 1974

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Passionate Poet Ishikawa Takuboku - Hometown / 1936

Film about poet Ishikawa Takuboku

Yoshie Fujiwara's Hometown / 19306.01 voti

While returning by boat to Japan, Yoshie Fujiwara meets a rich woman who suggests him to become a singer thanks to an impresario friend of hers.

Hattori and the War of the Little Ninja Villages / 1983

Hattori-kun received a letter from Iga's father asking him to take his friends and return home for spring break. Hattori-kun leaves for Iga with his younger brothers Shinzo, Kenichi, Yumeko-chan, and others. However, a suspicious shadow stares at the group... He is a subordinate of the scientific ninja Mechamaro, who has replaced the power of ninjutsu with the power of science. Mechamaro was plotting to confront Hattori-kun in order to prove the strength of scientific ninjas. And in order to occupy Iga no Sato, Hattori-kun sends a fake letter...

Far-Away Home: Lushun and Dalian / 2011

Haneda Sumiko, documentary filmmaker who was born in Dalian, Manchuria in 1926 and was there to experience the conclusion of the Pacific War. Following her previous work , she revisits Dalian and Lushun, places where she spent her formative years. Lushun has served as an important naval port in modern times, and in 2009 was finally fully opened to foreigners. Haneda joined a tour organized as part of that opening, and delves into memoires as she visits the house where she grew up and the school she attended.

Follow the Girls / 1971

Comedy of an entertainment agent and strip-teasers.

君のふるさとに太陽がのぼった / 1984

Japanese drama film.

京都南山城古寺巡礼 横山由依のふるさと DayTrip / 2023

風光明媚〜追憶のふるさと紀行〜 / 2022

三宅裕司のふるさと探訪 ～こだわり田舎自慢～ / 2015

農家の嫁は弁護士！神谷純子のふるさと事件簿 / 2005