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: 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: Takashi Shimura, Kamatari Fujiwara, Ikio Sawamura, Susumu Fujita, Yoshio Tsuchiya
A young man marries the daughter of a corrupt factory owner to bring justice to his father's suicide.
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, Akira Tani, Michiko Kawa, Gorô Sakurai, Isao Yamagata
A married forester is sent to Indochina during World War II to manage the forests. He meets a young Japanese typist and promises to leave his wife, but he does not keep his promise. After the end of the war, he is found again and their secret relationship continues and...
Stars: Isao Kimura, Toranosuke Ogawa, Yoshi Katô, Shun'ya Wazaki, Michimaro Kotabe
When the fiancee of a salaried man commits suicide, he remembers the bloody history of his family who committed suicide because of their hard-hearted lord and...
Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Daisuke Katô, Hiroshi Tachikawa, Haruo Nakajima, Hiroshi Hayashi
The film tells the story of a big family. The main character of the story is "Setsuko Hara", a middle-aged woman who faces a million yen life insurance after the death of her rich husband and...
Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Daisuke Katô, Takashi Shimura, Akira Tani, Yutaka Sada
A woman gets married, gives birth to a dead child, gets divorced and falls in love with a hotel owner, but considers herself dependent on her success, so she works with a tailor to...
Stars: Kiyoshi Kamoda, Tanie Kitabayashi, Masayuki Mori, Tatsuya Mihashi, Michiyo Aratama
At the end of high school, a student meets an older man and he...
Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Ryûtarô Gomi, Yukio Horikita, Yûji Hamada, Kanae Kobayashi
The story of this episode is about the fight of the blind swordsman against one of his most evil enemies: the blind boss of a yakuza...
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: Keiko Tsushima, Taiji Tonoyama, Shin'ichi Himori, Fumiko Okamura, Masao Shimizu
After Japan's defeat in the war, now the wealthy family with the principle and culture of Enjo must give away all their property.
Stars: Shirô Tsuchiya, Noriko Sengoku, Sô Yamamura, Masayuki Mori, Taizô Fukami
The wife of a notorious party man falls in love with her cousin and creates many problems for herself...
Stars: Yoshi Katô, Nobuo Kaneko, Taiji Tonoyama, Kikue Môri, Kichiemon Nakamura
When a married woman has an affair with a young musician, feudal Japanese law requires that both offenders sacrifice their lives. However, this woman's husband blames himself for misleading his wife and trying to thwart the demand law...
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: Takashi Shimura, Minoru Chiaki, Eiko Miyoshi, Bokuzen Hidari, Noriko Sengoku
A post-war Japanese veteran suffering from mental health problems travels to the snow-covered island of Kamada, where he becomes involved in a love triangle with his best friend and a notorious woman...
Stars: Tôru Abe, Takako Irie, Chieko Nakakita, Fumie Kitahara, Fumiko Okamura
This valiant melodrama is the brilliant debut as a moviemaker of the great Japanese actress Kinuyo Tanaka, who also has a small role in the story. Based on a screenplay by Keinosuke ...
Stars: Sanpei Mine, Shirô Ôsaka, Gannosuke Ashiya, Masayuki Mori, Hajime Hana
"Kenishi Horiya" is determined to defy the law of nature by crossing the Pacific Ocean and reaching America in a small boat...
Stars: Yôko Katsuragi, Eitarô Ozawa, Chieko Higashiyama, Masayuki Mori, Sadako Sawamura
An authoritarian and oppressive father destroyed his family's dreams and...
