Stars: Chieko Naniwa, Saburô Date, Yukio Horikita, Tokio Oki, Jun Fujikawa
11th century Japan. Governor Tyro is deposed and exiled for his opposition to feudal corruption. His wife Tamaki (Tanaka), son Zushio (Hanayagi) and daughter Anjou (Kagawa) are going to join him in exile...
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, Toranosuke Ogawa, Noriko Sengoku, Masao Shimizu
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: 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: Chieko Naniwa, Saburô Date, Sumao Ishihara, Kanae Kobayashi, Hisao Toake
Hatsuko Umabuchi is a widow who runs a successful geisha house in Kyoto. His young daughter Yukiko returns from Tokyo after a failed suicide attempt following the separation of her love due to her mother's work. She has a secret relationship with young doctor Mutaba and...
Stars: Isuzu Yamada, Taizô Fukami, Benkei Shiganoya, Shizuko Takizawa, Yôko Umemura
Omkeshi, a geisha who lives in an area of Kyoto, feels obligated to stay with her lover Furusawa after he leaves her husband and goes bankrupt. But her younger sister, Omocha, believes that she is wasting her time and money on a loser. She has a different plan in mind to free her sister...
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: 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: 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: Chieko Naniwa, Isao Yamagata, Sumao Ishihara, Shintarô Katsu, Hisao Toake
The story is about a poor peasant family who earn some money through hardship and...
Stars: Akitake Kôno, Koreya Senda, Tatsuya Ishiguro, Kunitarô Sawamura, Mitsusaburô Ramon
Special forces commander "Captain Tadamori" returns to Kyoto after defeating pirates in the West Sea of Japan. But because the authorities do not want to give influence to the soldiers, they ignore the request of the former emperor and do not reward him and...
Stars: Tomo'o Nagai, Kinuyo Tanaka, Kôji Nanbara, Katsuo Nakamura, Hizuru Takachiho
In a military family, an illegitimate son is abused by his brothers. A patriarchal, feudalistic family where dissent is forbidden is used to expose the entire imperial system that gripped Japan between 1921 and 1946.
Stars: Isuzu Yamada, Takashi Shimura, Benkei Shiganoya, Shizuko Takizawa, Yôko Umemura
"Ayako" has a secret relationship with her boss "Mr. Asai" to pay her father's debt. He also sends money to his brother to pay for his university tuition, but his father prevents him from doing so. She tricks Mr. Fujino into giving her his money to marry her boyfriend but...
Stars: Daisuke Katô, Seizaburô Kawazu, Masao Shimizu, Mitsusaburô Ramon, Aizo Tamashima
Lord Asano rejects the offer of a bribe from a member of the shogun's court. His honesty did not work against the corruption of the government and he is forced to commit suicide. His samurai companions have disappeared and their leader Uichi along with the group of ronin plan to avenge their master...
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: Yoshi Katô, Chôichirô Kawarasaki, Eitarô Ozawa, Sumiko Hidaka, Jun Usami
During the reign of Emperor Suzuko (946-930 AD) after the appearance of a white rainbow in the sky of Kyoto, various unfortunate events took place. The emperor ordered Yasanuri, a famous astrologer, to delve into a certain Chinese book on secrets to...
Stars: Takashi Shimura, Takamaru Sasaki, Saburô Date, Mayumi Ogawa, Shinobu Araki
On the night of the Obon Summer Festival, Hagiwara Shinzaburo meets a beautiful courtesan named Otsuyu. Not knowing that he is a ghost, he falls in love with her...
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...
