Stars: Saburô Date, Yukio Horikita, Jun Fujikawa, Eitarô Ozawa, Sugisaku Aoyama
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: Daisuke Katô, Takashi Shimura, Noriko Honma, Minoru Chiaki, Machiko Kyô
The story of the rape of a bride and the murder of her samurai husband is told by four people, a bandit, the bride herself, the ghost of her samurai husband and a woodcutter.
Stars: Kôji Mitsui, Chishû Ryû, Haruko Sugimura, Mutsuko Sakura, Toyo Takahashi
The head of a traveling theater troupe returns to the small beach town where he left his son, who he thinks is his uncle, and tries to clear things up with him one last time and have a relationship, but his lover becomes jealous...
Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Minoru Chiaki, Mikijirô Hira, Machiko Kyô, Yoshie Minami
A businessman who suffered burns on his face in a laboratory fire was treated by a psychiatrist and received an extraordinary mask from him. After a short time, he deceived his wife and succeeded. But his wife claims to have known about his true identity all this time and
Stars: Daisuke Katô, Eiko Miyoshi, Jun Tatara, Toranosuke Ogawa, Hisao Toake
The film is the story of the desires and personal motivations of five prostitutes who work in the Yoshiwara district of Tokyo...
Stars: Noriko Honma, Machiko Kyô, Reizaburô Yamamoto, Masayuki Mori, Kumeko Urabe
In Older Brother, Younger Sister, director Mikio Naruses adaptation of an oft-filmed popular novel by Saisei Murô, the eldest daughter (Machiko Kyô) of a rural family comes home pregnant, testing some already tenuous family bonds. Naruse shows his considerable skill at portraying household dynamics, filming Kyô in relaxed and/or reclining positions (indicative of her... Read all
Stars: Gen Shimizu, Isao Yamagata, Saburô Date, Yukio Horikita, Tokio Oki
In 1159, one of the ladies of the court disguised herself as a lord's wife and left the city with a loyal samurai. After this story, the samurai asked the lord to allow him to marry the woman he saved. The lord gave him this permission, but the samurai realized that the woman had married before him and...
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...
Stars: Taiji Tonoyama, Chieko Higashiyama, Kazuo Hasegawa, Machiko Kyô, Nobuko Otowa
Genji, the son of the emperor, is famous among Kyoto's nobles for his charm and good looks, but he can't stop himself from pursuing the one thing he can never forget: his father's beautiful young wife...
Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Saburô Date, Tanie Kitabayashi, Machiko Kyô, Jun Hamamura
The story is about a man who seeks to revive his manhood.
Stars: Chieko Baishô, Sakae Umezu, Chishû Ryû, Machiko Kyô, Makoto Akatsuka
Tora-san suddenly meets his family; His family is happy about this and he...
Stars: Isuzu Yamada, Machiko Kyô, Kikue Môri, Tamao Nakamura, Eiji Funakoshi
"Kikoji" is the new born child of a business family named Osaka, who live in the traditional way of their ancestors. He is guided by his hard-working mother and grandmother to become an heir to continue their journey. When his wife is thrown out, he stands beside her without help...
Stars: Marlon Brando, Harry Morgan, Roger McGee, Eddie Albert, Nijiko Kiyokawa
A year after World War II, "Captain Faceby" is sent to a village in Okinawa to teach the residents about democracy. The first step is to build a school. They tell him about their traditions and culture and convince him to build what they want most of all...
Stars: Isuzu Yamada, Gen Shimizu, Peter Fernandez, Saburô Date, Shintarô Katsu
The movie Buddha is about an Indian prince. He decides to take a different path for his life and therefore, leaves his comfort and power to meditate for six years in search of spirituality and enlightenment. This prince decides to turn his back on the religion of his family and...
Stars: Seizaburô Kawazu, Isao Kimura, Saburô Date, Kazuo Hasegawa, Machiko Kyô
The life story of a warrior named Unna
