Movie: A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land

Top 10 Billed Cast

Isuzu Yamada
山田五十鈴

Sayo Yamada

Jūkichi Uno
宇野重吉

Kisaku Yamada

Junkichi Orimoto
織本順吉

Kiichi Yamada

Taketoshi Naitō
内藤武敏

Kiyoji Yamada

Isao Numasaki
沼崎勲

Kaneko

Yoshi Katō
加藤嘉

Kaminari-san

Eiji Nakamura
中村栄二

Takako's father

Tanie Kitabayashi
北林谷栄

Ohana

Hatae Kishi
岸旗江

Takako Kawamura

Keiichiro Shimada
Keiichiro Shimada

Fukasawa

  • HomePage

  • Overview

    Onna Hitori Daichi wo Yuku (A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land, Kinuta Production, 1953) was the second feature film directed by Kamei Fumio, who is known as a master of documentary films, and followed his “Haha Nareba Onna Nareba(Become a Mother, Become a Woman)” (1952).

  • Release Date

    1953-02-20

  • Average

    7

  • Rating:

    3.5 starts
  • Tagline

  • Genres

  • Languages:

    日本語

Recommendations Movies

Iron Jawed Angels
68%

Iron Jawed Angels(en)

2004-01-16

Defiant young activists take the women's suffrage movement by storm, putting their lives at risk to help American women win the right to vote.

The Safety of Objects
65%

The Safety of Objects(en)

2002-10-25

In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, and neglects her daughter and husband. Lawyer Jim Train is devoted to his career, not his family. Helen Christianson wants to find a new spark in life, while Annette Jennings tries to rebuild hers.

Come Sunday
58%

Come Sunday(en)

2018-01-21

Evangelist Carlton Pearson is ostracized by his church for preaching that there is no Hell.

Sky
62%

Sky(en)

2015-09-16

A woman embarks on a journey alone across the United States after fleeing from her violent husband.

To the Ends of the Earth
63%

To the Ends of the Earth(ja)

2019-06-14

A young Japanese woman named Yoko finds her cautious and insular nature tested when she travels to Uzbekistan to shoot the latest episode of her travel variety show.

The Wings of the Kirin
64%

The Wings of the Kirin(ja)

2012-01-28

A man's body is found under the statue of a winged kirin in the Nihombashi area of Tokyo. A suspect named Yashima has a car accident and falls unconscious while he is attempting to run away. Yashima's lover Kaori comes from Fukushima and tells detectives that he is absolutely not a criminal. Meanwhile, Detective Kyoichiro Kaga's (Hiroshi Abe) investigates and uncovers a point of contact between the dead body and Yashima. A hidden fact of the victim is revealed which even his children did not know about...

El Chicano
66%

El Chicano(en)

2019-05-03

A pair of twin brothers from East L.A. choose to live their lives differently and end up on opposite sides of the law.

The Girl in the Book
58%

The Girl in the Book(en)

2015-06-13

The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present.

Starving in Suburbia
65%

Starving in Suburbia(en)

2014-04-26

When seventeen-year-old Hannah stumbles upon a website about Thinspiration--an online community devoted to anorexia as a life choice--she becomes an obsessive follower of the site founder, ButterflyAna. By the time Hannah's family realizes what is happening and get Hannah the help she needs, the disease has fully taken hold and Hannah is refusing to eat. Will this family be able to exorcise the demon of anorexia from their lives?

TalhotBlond
63%

TalhotBlond(en)

2012-06-23

Thomas Montgomery, a married father of two young daughters, gets seduced by the world of online gambling and chat rooms where a virtual romance and sexual obsession ultimately leads to the murder of an innocent man.

Tokyo Family
73%

Tokyo Family(ja)

2013-01-18

An elderly couple journey to Tokyo to visit their grown children, only to find them preoccupied and self-involved.

Sakuran
65%

Sakuran(ja)

2006-12-07

Kiyoha rises from the lowly courtesan ranks to the high class position of Oiran in the steamy red-light district of Yoshiwara. She is determined to stand on her own two feet and live life as she pleased.

Won't Back Down
61%

Won't Back Down(en)

2012-09-28

Jamie Fitzpatrick and Nona Alberts are two women from opposites sides of the social and economic track, but they have one thing in common: a mission to fix their community's broken school and ensure a bright future for their children. The two women refuse to let any obstacles stand in their way as they battle a bureaucracy that's hopelessly mired in traditional thinking, and they seek to re-energize a faculty that has lost its passion for teaching.

Blood and Bones
66%

Blood and Bones(ja)

2004-11-06

In 1923, teenager Kim Shun-Pei moves from Cheju Island, in South Korea, to Osaka, in Japan. Along the years, he becomes a cruel, greedy and violent man and builds a factory of kamaboko, processed seafood products, in his poor Korean-Japanese community exploiting his employees.

Farming
62%

Farming(en)

2018-09-08

Based on the writer/director's childhood, FARMING tells the story of a young Nigerian boy, 'farmed out' by his parents to a white British family in the hope of a better future. Instead, he becomes the feared leader of a white skinhead gang.

Tokyo Decadence
60%

Tokyo Decadence(ja)

1992-01-06

A submissive hooker goes about her trade, suffering abuse at the hands of Japanese salarymen and Yakuza types. She's unhappy about her work, and is apparently trying to find some sort of appeasement for the fact that her lover has married.

One Million Yen Girl
71%

One Million Yen Girl(ja)

2008-07-19

A 21-year-old girl is released from prison, only to deal with the neighborhood gossip about her and family conflicts. She decides to save one million yen, move to where no one knows her and keep repeating the process.

Gracie
62%

Gracie(en)

2007-06-01

A teenager faces an uphill battle when she fights to give women the opportunity to play competitive soccer.

Intentions of Murder
70%

Intentions of Murder(ja)

1964-06-28

The neglected common-law wife of a Japanese librarian is repeatedly harassed by a young man with a heart condition who seduces her with the prospect of a better life.

Shara
65%

Shara(ja)

2003-07-12

The Aso family live in the old town of Nara. One Day, Kei, one of the Aso's twin boys suddenly disappears. Five years later seventeen-year old Shun, the remaining twin, is an art student. He now has to move forward with his life, together with his childhood friend, Yu.

Similar Movies

Silent Barricade
70%

Silent Barricade(cs)

1949-05-06

A fiction piece centered around the Czech resistance to the Nazis.

The Life and Loves of Beethoven
68%

The Life and Loves of Beethoven(fr)

1937-01-15

Lyrical biography of the classical composer, depicted as a romantic hero, an accursed artist.

The Butterfly Lovers
77%

The Butterfly Lovers(zh)

1954-08-25

A traditional chinese story about a girl, Zhu Yingtai, daughter of the noble Mr. Zhu, who goes to Hangzhou to study, dressed as a boy. There, she meets a student, Liang Shanbo, with whom she becomes good friends. They go to school together for the following years, and Zhu gradually falls in love with Liang.

Der ewige Traum
78%

Der ewige Traum(de)

1934-11-20

At the end of the 18th century, the wealthy French scholar Saussure comes to a small Alpine village and offers 1,000 pieces of gold to anyone who can lead him to the summit of Mont Blanc. The young farmer's son Jacques Balmat wants to take on the dangerous task, even though his father has told him from an early age about the mighty mountain spirits who guard a legendary treasure of gold on the mountain peak.

Cellulose
65%

Cellulose(pl)

1954-04-27

Through the fate of the boy - whose hunger drives from his home village , and who receives a severe school of life , going through different social environments in order to become conscious , revolutionary activist - creators show a realistic panorama of conflicts in pre-WWII Poland.

Frona
75%

Frona(cs)

1954-09-26

Frona Filípková, out of a desire for a better life, married Floriš Zobač on the land. However, the ownership of the land has affected both her husband and her father-in-law, who, out of hatred, intrigue against the emerging agricultural cooperative and against each other, so Frona looks for a way to free herself.

The Hours of Hope
64%

The Hours of Hope(pl)

1955-05-09

In the last days of World War 2, people of various ethnic background meet in a Polish military hospital in a small German town, whereas a Nazi SS division hides in the local forests and tries to move westwards.

Wild Beasts
85%

Wild Beasts(cs)

1948-04-30

Building a bridge is no simple matter. The city council has to decide between two competing proposals, one of which is submitted by villainous scoundrels and scoundrels who would like to enrich themselves everywhere. Although the film was made before the communist coup, it already anticipates the political diction of the stories that the approaching Stalinist period will produce.

Bambi
70%

Bambi(en)

1942-08-14

Bambi's tale unfolds from season to season as the young prince of the forest learns about life, love, and friends.

Modern Times
83%

Modern Times(en)

1936-02-05

A bumbling tramp desires to build a home with a young woman, yet is thwarted time and time again by his lack of experience and habit of being in the wrong place at the wrong time..

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
78%

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington(en)

1939-10-19

After the death of a United States Senator, idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his replacement in Washington. Soon, the naive and earnest new senator has to battle political corruption.

Year of the Revolution 1848
100%

Year of the Revolution 1848(cs)

1949-12-23

The Czech revival movement is divided at the end of the first half of the 19th century. While the older generation, such as František Palacký, urges restraint, students lean towards radical positions. A report on the revolutionary events in Paris prompts Czech Prague residents to write down the demands of the Czech nation for self-determination and the proclamation of a constitution. Tensions peak during the All-Slavic Congress in Prague's Žofín. Vienna rejects the Czech demands and the congress is brutally dispersed by the Austrian police. Prague begins to build barricades...

Dva ohně
47%

Dva ohně(cs)

1950-02-17

A socialist drama from the time of the February coup. The owner of the brickyard will use several workers before February in order to subvert worker solidarity and continue to do his black business. However, the vigilance of a young, aware worker prevents him from doing so.

Shining with Boundless Radiance
60%

Shining with Boundless Radiance(zh)

1949-05-01

Zhou Mingying, a worker at a power plant in Northeast China, united her fellow workers under the leadership of the Party, overcame all difficulties, demonstrated a high degree of creativity, exposed the enemy's plots and sabotage, and quickly repaired the generators that had been damaged by the Kuomintang, ensuring the supply of electricity.

Invisible Battlefront
60%

Invisible Battlefront(zh)

1949-12-01

In 1948, after the Northeast was liberated, enemy sabotage began. The Public Security Bureau learned that spy Li Tianmin had infiltrated the city. Bureau chief and Captain Zhang quickly deployed personnel to capture him. Li Tianmin evaded key questions during interrogation. Clues were found on a milk bottle cap delivered by a boy, who passed it to another spy, Zhou Shaomei. Under surveillance, Zhou Shaomei, fearing Li Tianmin’s capture, killed the boy to erase evidence. Intelligence personnel mobilised the masses, pressuring the hidden enemies. Many deceived individuals provided clues, ensnaring the enemies in the people’s war.

Tüz
100%

Tüz(en)

1948-10-21

The first Hungarian spy film ripped the mask off those ministerial officials who, having sold out to foreign agents, sabotaged the rebuilding of Hungarian factories and plants destroyed by the war. In the film, spies and saboteurs with wallets full of dollars and pistols in their hands set fire to Hungarian factories. The former ruling class was reluctant to give up its place in life and had to be fought to the death.

Friedrich Schiller – The Triumph of a Genius
78%

Friedrich Schiller – The Triumph of a Genius(de)

1940-11-13

The young Schiller, whose heart and soul are writing and poetry, is forced into the military academy (the pride and joy of the Duke of Württemberg). Schiller is disgusted by the everyday routine of the military, always back and forth between breeding and drills. Conversation, conflict or even critique are discouraged – the oppression insufferable for the young rebel. Disgusted by the brutality, he writes his drama "The Bandit", which he would later publish anonymously. But following a frank conversation with the Duke, Schiller is dishonored and must leave the land.

The Heart of a Queen
63%

The Heart of a Queen(de)

1940-11-01

As the title "The Queen's Heart" suggests, this early German black and white version of Mary Queen of Scott's eventful reign and death focuses on her emotional perception rather lyrically, with some songs, mainly by her.

Titanic
61%

Titanic(de)

1943-09-24

In 1912, the Titanic embarks on its inevitable collision course with history. In the wake of the over-spending required to build the largest luxury ship in the world, White Star Line executive Sir Bruce Ismay schemes to reverse the direction of his company's plummeting stock value. Onboard the Titanic, brave German 1st Officer Petersen struggles to convince his self-important British superiors not to overexert the ship's engines.

The Fox of Glenarvon
60%

The Fox of Glenarvon(de)

1940-01-02

An English peace judge in an Irish district is married to an Irishwoman. She is a caring patriot. He is heavily indebted by a life of luxury, and doesn't shy away from dark deeds to maintain his lifestyle. Anti-Britsh propaganda film.