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: 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: 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: Yoshio Kosugi, Haruo Tanaka, Kinuyo Tanaka, Kiyoko Tsuji, Masao Mishima
A few days in the life of a cold-blooded geisha, who is the mother of a smart boy in the lovely Ginza district of Tokyo. A woman who devotes herself to the needs of others.
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: Hideko Takamine, Hisako Yamane, Ken Uehara, Yûji Hori, Chizuko Nogami
A young man rents an apartment in Tokyo and discovers it was built by his father. He falls in love with the mistress of the house and decides to marry her.
