《Uguisu》 - Japanese bush warbler

…After that, he had to work as an assistant director for another five years, but in 1936 he joined Tokyo Sound Film Productions, which had been established the previous year by Shochiku director Kazunobu Shigemune (1896-1971) (it was dissolved and absorbed into Toho in 1941), and was recognized as a first-class director with his fresh film adaptation of a best-selling novel by Ishizaka Yojiro, which depicted free morals in an American mission school in the north of the country, "Young People" (1937). After that, he portrayed the common people of Japan in dark times in a series of "literary films" such as "Crybaby Boy" (1938), based on a story by Hayashi Fumiko, "Winter Inn" (1938), based on a story by Abe Tomoji, and "The Nightingale" (1938), based on a story by Ito Einosuke. After his biographical film "Okumura Ioko" (1940), which depicts the life of a Meiji era heroine who founded the Patriotic Women's Association, and "Kojima no Haru" (1940), which depicts the true story of a young female doctor dedicated to working at a leprosy sanatorium, with a lyrical humanism, he continued to produce films after the war, such as "A Woman's Four Seasons" (1950), based on an original story by Niwa Fumio, "Giant" (1953), based on an original story by Mori Ogai, and "A Certain Dream" (1954), based on an original story by Arishima Takeo. The series of literary films includes "Woman" (1954), "The Wheat Flute" (1955) based on an original story by Muro Saisei, "A Married Couple's Good Deeds" (1955) based on an original story by Oda Sakunosuke, "A Cat, Shozo and Two Women" (1956) based on an original story by Tanizaki Junichiro, "Snow Country" (1957) based on an original story by Kawabata Yasunari, "A Dark Night's Passage" (1959) based on an original story by Shiga Naoya, and "The Tale of the Unknown" (1960) based on an original story by Nagai Kafu.

*Some of the terminology that refers to "《Uguisu》" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…その後，ふたたび5年間の助監督生活を余儀なくされるという曲折があったが，1936年，松竹の監督であった重宗和伸(1896‐1971)が前年に設立した東京発声映画製作所に入社し(1941年，解散して東宝に吸収される)，北国のアメリカ系ミッション･スクールを舞台に自由なモラルを描いた石坂洋次郎のベストセラー小説をみずみずしい手法で映画化した《若い人》(1937)で認められ，一流監督として知られるようになった。　以後，林芙美子原作《泣虫小僧》(1938)，阿部知二原作《冬の宿》(1938)，伊藤永之介原作《鶯》(1938)など一連の〈文芸映画〉のなかで，暗い時代の日本の庶民像を描き出していった。愛国婦人会を創設した明治の女傑の半生を描いた伝記映画《奥村五百子》(1940)，ハンセン病療養所で献身する若い女医の実話をリリカルなヒューマニズムで描いた《小島の春》(1940)などをへて，戦後も丹羽文雄原作《女の四季》(1950)，森鷗外原作《雁》(1953)，有島武郎原作《或る女》(1954)，室生犀星原作《麦笛》(1955)，織田作之助原作《夫婦善哉》(1955)，谷崎潤一郎原作《猫と庄造と二人のをんな》(1956)，川端康成原作《雪国》(1957)，志賀直哉原作《暗夜行路》(1959)，永井荷風原作《濹東綺譚》(1960)と〈文芸映画〉の系列がある。…

※「《鶯》」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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