Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Takashi Shimura, Ichirô Nakatani, Akira Tani, Noriko Sengoku
A collection of four old Japanese tales, with a supernatural profile.
Stars: Nobuo Kaneko, Chieko Nakakita, Setsuko Hara, Sô Yamamura, Hisao Toake
A businessman named Ogata works with his son Shoichi and lives peacefully with his wives Yasuko and Kikoko. Shuichi has a secret relationship with another woman and there is no love in their life together. Yasuko has devoted her whole life to her family, but Ogata only got married because of her younger sister's death and...
Stars: Daisuke Katô, Akira Tani, Michiko Kawa, Seijirô Onda, Gorô Sakurai
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: 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: 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: Yoshio Inaba, Isao Kimura, Seiji Miyaguchi, Yoshi Katô, Sakae Umezu
The film is the story of two young people named "Mitsuko" and "Kando" who commit violence against society in various ways and try to stay together despite many problems...
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: Daisuke Katô, Sachio Sakai, Yutaka Sada, Senkichi Ômura, Ichirô Chiba
Fumiko's failed marriage makes her more and more pessimistic in life. Meanwhile, a new couple moves into his neighborhood. Two couples establish a relationship that puts both marriages on the brink of destruction and...
Stars: Seiji Miyaguchi, Nobuo Nakamura, Kazuo Kitamura, Haruko Sugimura, Sô Yamamura
Story 1: "The Thirteenth Night". Seki comes to his parents' house in the middle of the night and...
Stars: Kamatari Fujiwara, Akira Tani, Noriko Honma, Akio Kusama, Takuzô Kumagai
During the spring, Ganjura travels to the city to sell his wood to others and...
Stars: Ichirô Chiba, Keiji Sakakida, Hideo Shibuya, Keiichirô Katsumoto, Akitake Kôno
The hero Sabura is prevented from meeting Keiko due to various incidents.
Stars: Jun Hamamura, Masayuki Mori, Kinuyo Tanaka, Keiko Kishi, Kyôko Kishida
A terminally ill teenager relies on his sister for support and loses hope in his parents...
