Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Kamatari Fujiwara, Ikio Sawamura, Atsushi Watanabe
Japan, early 19th century. "Doctor Naidi" (Mifone), known as "Red Beard", is the doctor in charge of a poor general clinic. "Dr. Noburo Yasumoto" (Kayama), a new assistant doctor, despite his initial disobedience to "Red Beard", including his excessive drinking and unusual clothing, finally learns that a good doctor must make sacrifices.
Stars: Susumu Fujita, Masanobu Ôkubo, Yoshi Katô, Kôji Sekiyama, Rin'ichi Yamamoto
Three robbers escape with their loot, but two of them are killed by the third. Their bodies are brought to the beach after a disaster, but a policeman named Yumikasa suspects them because their names are not on the passenger list and...
Stars: Yukiko Shimazaki, Sayuri Tanima, Chieko Nakakita, Ichirô Shimizu, Setsuko Hara
Michiko moved to Osaka with her husband two years ago. She cooks, washes and cleans the house all day. All her wishes and dreams have disappeared five years ago and after her marriage and...
Stars: Binnosuke Nagao, Reizaburô Yamamoto, Bontarô Miake, Chieko Murata, Akiko Kazami
The setting is that of a farming family in Ibaraki from where also the originating writers hailed. The film depicts the events of a year during the Meiji era and occurrences and actualities...
Stars: Kumiko Asô, Eri Fuse, Yutaka Matsushige, Yuriko Yoshitaka, Sanae Miyata
A person named Takemura has no friends or family. He is a student, but he has no particular ambition. In other words, pi does not take aim and work.
Stars: Chieko Naniwa, Mitsuo Asano, Isao Kimura, Seiji Miyaguchi, Kusuo Abe
The film begins when the legendary swordsman Miyamoto Musashi is still called Shinmen Takezu. After being on the losing side of the Battle of Sikigahara, Takezo and his friend manage to escape and encounter a young woman and her mother.
Stars: Kôji Sekiyama, Tôru Abe, Tetsurô Tanba, Kunie Tanaka, Kôji Nanbara
Shinichi is a good man who has been sentenced to three years in prison and is nearing the end of his sentence. He escapes from the prison hand in hand with the dangerous goon, who incited him to escape. They start a journey together in the desolate and snowy country of Hokkaido.
Stars: Ichirô Chiba, Keiji Sakakida, Hideo Shibuya, Keiichirô Katsumoto, Akitake Kôno
The hero Sabura is prevented from meeting Keiko due to various incidents.
Stars: Shin'ichi Chiba, Fumio Watanabe, Saburô Date, Kôji Fujiyama, Osamu Saka
Some criminals use a bomb in an express train. They plan to blackmail and if they don't get their money, the train will explode as it slows down...
Stars: Akira Nakao, Akiko Kazami, Yûsuke Okada, Hisano Yamaoka, Yôko Minakaze
A high school student gets involved in the student movements of the last decade to get out of his safe zone and prove himself.
Stars: Shirô Ôsaka, Toyo Takahashi, Kinuyo Tanaka, Kappei Matsumoto, Toshinosuke Nagao
A socially committed film about the feudal state of many Japanese women in 1946. Hiroko Hosokawa, a female lawyer, defends Mrs. Asakura, who suffocated her child in her grief after her husband died penniless following an industrial accident. The prosecutor is Hirokos sisters husband Kono, who also sent Hirokos fiance, Yamaoka, to jail for his liberal views during t... Read all
