Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Tani, Jun Ôtomo, Takamaru Sasaki, Seiji Miyaguchi
During World War II, Kaji, a peace-loving man, travels to a small village with his wife, Michiko, to work as a supervisor in an iron mine to avoid being drafted into the army. When the military police send six hundred Chinese prisoners to work in the mine, Kenji talks to their leader to control the Khushan. But his methods upset the corrupt system there and...
Stars: Kichijirô Ueda, Saburô Date, Yukio Horikita, Jun Fujikawa, Eitarô Ozawa
16th century Japan. "Ganjaro" (Mori) and "Tobi" (Ozawa), village potters, dream of wealth and comfort, and go to the market of the big city. "Ganjaro" becomes fascinated by the rich "Lady Wakasa" (Kyo) and forgets his wife, "Miyagi" (Tanaka), while "Wakasa" is nothing more than a ghost...
Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Daisuke Katô, Akira Tani, Yutaka Sada, Noriko Honma
The movie tells the story of a midwife known as Kiko. She is a bartender who has to choose between marriage and buying a bar for herself. Her family wants her money, her customers want her attention, and she is constantly in debt...
Stars: Chieko Naniwa, Saburô Date, Tokio Oki, Tadashi Iwata, Jun Fujikawa
17th century Japan. Osan is married to a wealthy scroll maker. When Osan is wrongly accused of having an affair with their best worker, Mohi, the two flee to the city. He orders his men to find them and separate them...
Stars: Taiji Tonoyama, Eitarô Ozawa, Chishû Ryû, Mitsuko Yoshikawa, Eiko Takamatsu
In post-war Japan, a man takes a lost boy with him to the city. No one wants to take him into their home even for one night until a wicked widow accepts this responsibility and...
Stars: Ichirô Nakatani, Kikuo Kaneuchi, Kin Sugai, Yoshiko Maki, Eitarô Ozawa
A reporter interviews an elderly woman who, like many Japanese women in the first half of the 20th century, was forced to work abroad...
Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Yôko Tsukasa, Shôji Ôki, Isao Natsuyagi, Haruo Suzuki
A samurai is overcome with guilt over the massacre of a small village. Now as a ronin, he finds out about his former group's plan to implement this plan in another village and decides to stop them...
Stars: Chieko Nakakita, Eitarô Ozawa, Hideko Takamine, Kumeko Urabe, Osamu Maruyama
Ose, a poor and weak mother, has four children from four different men, three girls and one boy. Kyoko's youngest daughter, who is a tour guide, is the only child who decides to escape from these harsh conditions and...
Stars: Eitarô Ozawa, Tamao Nakamura, Raizô Ichikawa
The film portrays the intimidation of Yasaburo (Raizo Ichikawa) by Yakuza criminals. They catch him with the Yakuza boss's wife...
Stars: Takeshi Katô, Toshio Takahara, Yoshi Katô, Mizuho Suzuki, Mayumi Ogawa
Zaizen Guru may only be an assistant professor, but he's already made a name for himself.
Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Daisuke Katô, Akira Tani, Yutaka Sada, Jun'ichirô Mukai
Takezo leaves the village with his best friend Matahachi to join the army. After failure, they take refuge in the house of Oko, a widow and her daughter Akemi. Oko, Matahashi and Akemi go to Kyoto, but Takezo returns to the village. He is arrested for treason and...
Stars: Asao Koike, Kôji Fujiyama, Shintarô Katsu, Yukiji Asaoka, Eitarô Ozawa
After an artist is forced by the yakuza to produce an expensive and obscene painting, the law decides to execute him...
Stars: Hideo Takamatsu, Eitarô Ozawa, Ken Yamaguchi, Yoshio Takee, Gai Harada
Aikako has been accused of murdering his wife while climbing a mountain...
Stars: Eitarô Ozawa, Kuniko Miyake, Koreya Senda, Shinobu Araki, Sadako Sawamura
The film portrays a woman's efforts to achieve equality in Japan in the 1880s. "Iko Hirayama" went to Tokyo and helped the Liberal Party, and just when the party was declared dissolved by the government, she fell in love with its leader, "Kentaro Umoi". The two were sent to prison and...
Stars: Shinji Nomura, Isao Hashizume, Mahito Tsujimura, Nobuko Miyamoto, Hideo Murota
If tax evasion is an art, the businessman (Willer Hideki Gondo) is as skilled a painter as Rembrandt. Therefore, a determined female tax collector will have to go to great lengths to collect tax from her.
Stars: Yôko Tsukasa, Daisuke Katô, Takeshi Katô, Yoshio Tsuchiya, Gen Shimizu
A child is killed in a hit and run. In the form of a servant in the killer's house, the mother intends to take her revenge...
Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Kokuten Kôdô, Kichijirô Ueda, Bokuzen Hidari
A young painter, Ichiro Ayo, meets a famous actress named Miyako Sajio, who is on vacation in the mountains. He gives Miyako a ride and they accidentally live in an inn. A journalist turns their encounter into a big lie to humiliate Miyako and...
Stars: Fumio Watanabe, Rokkô Toura, Taiji Tonoyama, Eitarô Ozawa, Chisako Hara
After receiving a shocking telegram from his cousin, a man reminisces about his early life as part of a large family with dark secrets that slowly reveal themselves in circles...
Stars: Yoshi Katô, Chôichirô Kawarasaki, Eitarô Ozawa, Sumiko Hidaka, Jun Usami
During the reign of Emperor Suzuko (946-930 AD) after the appearance of a white rainbow in the sky of Kyoto, various unfortunate events took place. The emperor ordered Yasanuri, a famous astrologer, to delve into a certain Chinese book on secrets to...
Stars: Isao Yamagata, Manabu Morita, Eitarô Ozawa, Haruko Sugimura, Sô Yamamura
Eighteenth century China. The emperor mourns his wife. The Ying family wants to introduce a wife to the emperor in order to increase their influence on the court. General Anne Lushan prepares a distant relative who works in the kitchen to be introduced to the emperor. The emperor falls in love with her and...
