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: Chieko Naniwa, Saburô Date, Tokio Oki, Tadashi Iwata, Jun Fujikawa
17th century Japan. Osan is married to a wealthy scroll maker. When Osan is wrongly accused of having an affair with their best worker, Mohi, the two flee to the city. He orders his men to find them and separate them...
Stars: Sumao Ishihara, Benkei Shiganoya, Akio Isono, Kinnosuke Takamatsu, Kikuko Hanaoka
Tokyo in 1888. Kikunosuke Onwa, the adopted son of a prominent actor, realizes that his acting career is praised by his father. The only person who speaks honestly about his acting is Otoko, the family nurse. She is fired and Kikonosuke is forbidden to see her because of rumors.
Stars: Seizaburô Kawazu, Chieko Naniwa, Saburô Date, Sumao Ishihara, Kanae Kobayashi
A geisha named Miuharu accepts to teach sixteen-year-old Iko, whose late mother was also a geisha. After a year of training, they must earn a large amount of money before Iko can start working.
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: Isuzu Yamada, Kamatari Fujiwara, Keiji Sakakida, Heihachirô Ôkawa, Unpei Yokoyama
Mr. Tsurujiro is a Japanese folk singer who is supported by Ms. Tsuruhachi on shamisen, but after a show together, he feels that music is above marriage.
Stars: Isuzu Yamada, Eijirô Yanagi, Shôtarô Hanayagi, Kan Ishii, Ichijirô Ôya
Kione Sakurai, an apprentice swordsmith makes a sword for his bodyguard Kuzamon Enonda. While defending his master, he broke his sword and was killed and...
Stars: Kinuyo Tanaka, Chôjûrô Kawarasaki, Kan'emon Nakamura, Kigoro Ikushima
Shinobu and his brother Genishiro make an agreement with the famous swordsman Musashi Miyamoto to teach them swordsmanship so that they can avenge their father's death. His father's killers saw the two of them practicing and ask for help from another swordsman and...
Stars: Haruko Sugimura, Jun Tazaki, Kumeko Urabe, Katsuko Wakasugi, Michiyo Kogure
This movie is a story about the life of a geisha, a famous Japanese singer
