Teizō Matsumura

Sound

January 15, 1929 (78 years)

† August 6, 2007

Kyoto City, Kyoto, Japan

Biography

No biography available.

Filmography

7.8

My Sons

Tetsuo is a young man living in Tokyo, who falls in love with a deaf-mute factory girl. He has always felt jealous of his college-educated brother, but ultimately wins both the girl and his father's acceptance and support in a touching and refreshing way.

5.7

The Sea Is Watching

O-Shin is a young brothel worker who, one night, helps a young samurai escape from his pursuers. Against the warnings of her fellow workers, particularly Kikuno and the brothel's owner, O-Shin falls in love with the samurai.

6.4

The Long Darkness

The relationship between Tetsuro, a university student from a disgraced, burdened family, and Shino, a waitress supporting her impoverished relatives. The couple decides to marry despite the significant emotional and social hardships each faces, viewing their love as a means to overcome the shame and despair inherited from their pasts.

7.1

The Sea and Poison

Two interns and a nurse are interrogated by American MPs for their involvement in an atrocity during the war: the vivisections of a downed American air crew.

6.2

Ronin-gai

Near the end of Japanese civil war, several disgraced ronin living in Edo's red light district attempt to regain their honor by defending a brothel from a hostile militia bent on wiping out local prostitutes.

5.6

Dark Room

A writer haunted by the death of his wife and threatened by the imagined infidelities of his lovers uses his affairs for the subjects of his novels.

4.8

The Assassination of Ryoma

Story of the last three days in the life of Sakamoto Ryoma (1836-1867), the imperial loyalist who tried to unite the Choshu and Satsuma clans and prepared the way for the Meiji Restoration (1868).

5.6

Death of a Tea Master

Years after the death of legendary tea master Rikyu, his disciple Honkakubo attempts to resolve the mystery of the master's death.

7.3

Deep River

A group of Japanese tourists try to forget their pasts and find themselves in India.

8.6

Downtown Heroes

The adventures and tribulations of a group of students during the years following the II World War.

6.2

Luminous Moss

A headmaster and a novelist, looking for inspiration, regard a strange natural phenomenon before sharing stories of their own.

5.4

Preparation for the Festival

Tateo, young and neurotic, wishes to leave the village his mother has raised him in.

6.4

Lost Love

At a seaside city somewhere in the Tohoku area, the corpses of Nozomi, daughter of an affluent family, and Yamazaki, son of an engineer at the local nuclear power-plant, are found tied-to on a beach, as if they intended to commit double suicide. Nogami, a reporter, begins to investigate.

8.0

Love Letter

A romantic film about the spiritual exchange between a gangster and a Chinese woman who got married to him under false pretenses.

10.0

Rise, Fair Sun

A pioneer farmer's stubborn dream of building Japan's greatest ranch is put to the test when a leisure resort company sets its sights on his village's land.

6.9

Silence Has No Wings

After a young boy captures a rare butterfly in Nagasaki, a caterpillar begins a relay-trip toward the northern tip of Hokkaido, serving as a silent witness to a series of vignettes featuring people struggling with the psychological and social scars of post-war Japan.

N/A

Jealousy

Japanese mystery film directed by Michiyoshi Doi.

6.2

Apart from Life

A film set in Nagasaki examining prejudice against atom bomb victims.

9.0

Cape of the North

A Swiss nun falls in love with a Japanese engineer.

7.6

The Blossoming of Etsuko Kamiya

In Kagoshima, in the final days of World War II, an offer of marriage comes to Etsuko Kamiya, who lives with her brother and his wife. The offer comes from Nagayo, but Etsuko is attracted to his friend, Akashi.