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: 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: Yôko Tsukasa, Nobuo Nakamura, Fumio Watanabe, Chishû Ryû, Setsuko Hara
A widow tries to marry her daughter, with the help of three of her late husband's friends...
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: Eiko Miyoshi, Taiji Tonoyama, Chishû Ryû, Haruko Sugimura, Kuniko Miyake
Two boys observe fasting to persuade their parents to buy a television set...
Stars: Daisuke Katô, Kokuten Kôdô, Eiko Miyoshi, Jun Tatara, Toranosuke Ogawa
The film is the story of the desires and personal motivations of five prostitutes who work in the Yoshiwara district of Tokyo...
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: Daisuke Katô, Akira Tani, Takuzô Kumagai, Haruko Sugimura, Chikako Hosokawa
What is the life of a geisha after her beauty fades and she retires? Kim has saved her money and become a wealthy moneylender who spends her days collecting her debts. Even her best friends, her fellow geisha, are in debt. For all of them, the glory of their youth has passed 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: Toshirô Mifune, Daisuke Katô, Yoshio Tsuchiya, Yutaka Sada, Noriko Honma
"Kyoko" and her husband plan to establish a coffee shop. But little by little, he approaches the bank employee from whom he intends to take a loan and...
Stars: Daisuke Katô, Hiroshi Tachikawa, Yoshio Tsuchiya, Minoru Chiaki, Yû Fujiki
Kiko, the daughter of a successful novelist, marries a writer. However, her husband's problems with his writing and his dissatisfaction with her father create problems for them.
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: Kikue Môri, Fusako Maki, Sadako Sawamura, Kumeko Urabe, Kinuyo Tanaka
After the end of the world war, a smuggler's maid finds out that her employer is having an affair with her missing sister.
Stars: Renji Ishibashi, Nijiko Kiyokawa, Taiji Tonoyama, Yoshiko Maki, Tanie Kitabayashi
Gonsuke has had to leave town to find employment and is working at a sake brewery far from his hometown. He travels back to his hometown to see and be with his mother when he hears that she has fallen ill. Despite the urgency he is sidetracked when he comes across a married woman called Oshin.
Stars: Keiko Fujita, Chôchô Miyako, Chieko Higashiyama, Kuniko Miyake, Sadako Sawamura
Yoko is a young girl whose family sends her to the countryside to be safe from the wrath of the family, but Yoko realizes a secret that her grandmother tells her.
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: Yôko Katsuragi, Eitarô Ozawa, Chieko Higashiyama, Masayuki Mori, Sadako Sawamura
An authoritarian and oppressive father destroyed his family's dreams and...
Stars: Takamaru Sasaki, Yoshi Katô, Hisao Toake, Mutsuko Sakura, Toyo Takahashi
Tiko's new wife disappears on a business trip. He finds a postcard hidden in a book that may be a clue to his missing wife...
Stars: Isao Kimura, Chieko Baishô, Nijiko Kiyokawa, Shin'ichirô Mikami, Tomoko Saitô
Two sisters have reached the age of marriage and now they are at a crossroads. Will they marry for money? Or love?
Stars: Isao Kimura, Isao Yamagata, Eitarô Ozawa, Haruko Chichibu, Tatsuya Ishiguro
A romantic drama about a family of flower sellers directed by Masaki Kobayashi.
