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: Chieko Naniwa, Saburô Date, Yukio Horikita, Tokio Oki, Jun Fujikawa
11th century Japan. Governor Tyro is deposed and exiled for his opposition to feudal corruption. His wife Tamaki (Tanaka), son Zushio (Hanayagi) and daughter Anjou (Kagawa) are going to join him in exile...
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: Toshirô Mifune, Daisuke Katô, Takashi Shimura, Toranosuke Ogawa, Noriko Sengoku
A fifty-year-old woman who can no longer attract men takes a look at her sad life. When Oharu was in the imperial court, she fell in love with a man below her level. Their relationship is revealed and Uharu and his family are exiled. For him, the next events bring a life of humiliation...
Stars: Seiji Miyaguchi, Yûnosuke Itô, Ken Mitsuda, Kinuyo Tanaka, Teiji Takahashi
The film tells the story of a remote village where the lack of food has led to the passing of a law according to which people over the age of seventy must be taken by their relatives to the top of Narayama Mountain to die a natural death. Orin's grandmother, who has reached the age of seventy, is ready to face her fate and...
Stars: Chieko Naniwa, Nobuo Nakamura, Fumio Watanabe, Chishû Ryû, Hisao Toake
A businessman gets into trouble with his eldest daughter because of her choice in a wife...
Stars: Bokuzen Hidari, Tôru Abe, Shirô Ôsaka, Masayuki Mori, Kinuyo Tanaka
Fumiko, a mother of two and wife to a cheating husband with low self-esteem, combines her family life with her career as a poet. The beginning of his successful literary career at the same time as divorce and...
Stars: Daisuke Katô, Takeshi Katô, Michiko Kawa, Isao Hashizume, Jun Tatara
After years of hard work and being harassed by her boyfriend, Fumiko tries to publish her literary work and finally succeeds 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: Noriko Honma, Eiko Miyoshi, Hideko Takamine, Haruo Tanaka, Kumeko Urabe
The film focuses on the intertwining lives of two low-class couples living in Senju, a poor and industrial part of Tokyo.
Stars: Isuzu Yamada, Daisuke Katô, Yutaka Sada, Senkichi Ômura, Kichijirô Ueda
Tsuta manages Tsuta House in Tokyo; But his business is badly damaged and under debt, and his sister...
Stars: Daisuke Katô, Noriko Honma, Eiko Miyoshi, Chieko Nakakita, Sadako Sawamura
A teenage girl who witnesses her widowed mother's efforts to maintain the family.
Stars: Chieko Naniwa, Saburô Date, Sumao Ishihara, Kanae Kobayashi, Hisao Toake
Hatsuko Umabuchi is a widow who runs a successful geisha house in Kyoto. His young daughter Yukiko returns from Tokyo after a failed suicide attempt following the separation of her love due to her mother's work. She has a secret relationship with young doctor Mutaba and...
Stars: Jun Fujikawa, Sumao Ishihara, Kanae Kobayashi, Fumihiko Yokoyama, Nobuko Otowa
Shinnosuke is presented to Shizu as an option for marriage, but he falls in love with his widowed sister, Eve.
Stars: Takeshi Katô, Yoshio Inaba, Gô Katô, Daigo Kusano, Kazuo Kitamura
After her mother runs away from home, Tomoko grows up as a prostitute dancer. One day, Tomoko meets her mother in a forbidden area in Tokyo, and that's enough for her life to get into trouble.
Stars: Minoru Chiaki, Chieko Naniwa, Ryôsuke Kagawa, Sumiko Hidaka, Masao Oda
A rich man gets caught in the love affair of a prostitute...
Stars: Kamatari Fujiwara, Noriko Sengoku, Chishû Ryû, Sô Yamamura, Hideko Takamine
Setsuko is not happy living with Mimura, an unemployed engineer who is always drinking. She used to be in love with Hiroshi, but after Hiroshi's migration to France, their love was forgotten. Now he is back and...
Stars: Ichirô Shimizu, Fumiko Okamura, Kôji Mitsui, Chishû Ryû, Binnosuke Nagao
A man who has just returned from World War II is looking for his poor wife, who has been forced to spend a night in prostitution to pay for her child's hospital bills. . .
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: Tomo'o Nagai, Kinuyo Tanaka, Kôji Nanbara, Katsuo Nakamura, Hizuru Takachiho
In a military family, an illegitimate son is abused by his brothers. A patriarchal, feudalistic family where dissent is forbidden is used to expose the entire imperial system that gripped Japan between 1921 and 1946.
