Cast: Shirô Ôsaka

Direction Yasujirō Ozu

Cast Chishu Ryu · Chieko Higashiyama · Setsuko Hara · Sô Yamamura

Synopsis An elderly couple visit their children in Tokyo, only to be passed around from family to family.

Direction Kinuyo Tanaka

Cast Yumeji Tsukioka · Ryoji Hayama · Junkichi Orimoto · Hiroko Kawasaki

Synopsis Fumiko (Tsukioka Yurneji) is married to a taciturn and unsympathetic husband and has two children. She seems like a devoted and dutiful wife, but is dissatisfied with her situation. Her husband has an extra-marital affair that leads to a divorce,...

Direction Yûzô Kawashima

Cast Ryoji Hayama · Keiji Itami · Keiko Izumi · Nobuo Kaneko

Synopsis Reiko, who tolerates abuse in her marriage to a man 23 years her senior, is friends with Mayumi, a beautiful widow. Reiko meets her husband’s business rival, a young, capable businessman, and falls for him. Meanwhile, Mayumi enters into a...

Direction Kenji Mizoguchi

Cast Kinuyo Tanaka · Michiko Kuwano · Mitsuko Miura · Shin Tokudaiji

Direction Yûzô Kawashima

Cast Nobuo Kaneko · Setsuko Katô · Yoshirô Katô · Akira Kobayashi

Synopsis Reiko, who tolerates abuse in her marriage to a man 23 years her senior, is friends with Mayumi, a beautiful widow. Reiko meets her husband’s business rival, a young, capable businessman, and falls for him. Meanwhile, Mayumi enters into a...

Direction Yûzô Kawashima

Cast Toru Abe · Shinsuke Ashida · Seizaburô Kawazu · Mie Kitahara

Synopsis A talented young artist painted a picture of Wakako Kyogoku when she was a little girl. The piece was entitled “Girl” and Wakako held it dear to her heart. Years later, she takes the painting to an art gallery in...

Direction Shôhei Imamura

Cast Jitsuko Yoshimura · Yôko Minamida · Masao Mishima · Hiroyuki Nagato

Synopsis Teen hoodlum Kinta is excited to be given the plum job of supervising the pig pen at the local US base, for which he'll be responsible diverting the food scraps to the black market, and scoring a good income for...

Direction Eiichi Kudo

Cast Toru Abe · Mikijiro Hira · Yoshio Inaba · Choichiro Kawarazaki

Direction Yûzô Kawashima

Cast Koji Tsuruta · Yumeji Tsukioka · Chikage Awashima · Eitarô Shindô

Synopsis A young man hands in his notice at work and breaks up with his girlfriend in order to pursue his true nature and dream of shaping the world according to his own desires. Against all the odds, he manages to...

Direction Yasushi Sasaki

Cast Shirô Ôsaka · Takeshi Sakamoto · Michiko Ikuno · Toyo Takahashi

Direction Motomu Ida

Cast Akira Kobayashi · Jô Shishido · Chieko Matsubara · Hideo Murata

Direction Kosaku Yamashita

Cast Kinnosuke Nakamura · Isao Kimura · Yukiyo Toake · Kaneko Iwasaki

Direction Akinori Matsuo

Cast Yujiro Ishihara · Wa Yan · Izumi Ashikawa · Hideaki Nitani

Direction Toshio Masuda

Cast Yujiro Ishihara · Mie Kitahara · Masumi Okada · Sanae Nakahara

Synopsis 50s subculture icon Yujiro Ishihara (Crazed Fruit) stars in Masuda's Red Pier as "Jiro the Lefty", a killer with a natural talent. Shortly after arriving in Kobe, he witnesses a man die in a crane accident which turns out to...

Direction Yûzô Kawashima

Cast Ichirô Arishima · Takiko Egawa · Kodayu Ichikawa · Kokinji Katsura

Direction Tatsuo Ôsone

Cast Shogoro Ichikawa · Kôkichi Takada · Osamu Takizawa · Koji Tsuruta

Direction Katsumi Nishikawa

Cast Momoe Yamaguchi · Tomokazu Miura · Shirô Ôsaka · Tokubei Hanazawa

Synopsis Junkichi is the son of a rich landlord, while Koyuki is the daughter of a poor lumber worker. The mismatched pair soon finds love, and against his father's wishes, Junkichi decides to run away with Koyuki to start a new...

Direction Akinori Matsuo

Cast Hideki Takahashi · Masako Izumi · Kenjiro Ishiyama · Yukiko Todoroki

Synopsis In 1936 under the war clouds over the Manchurian border, 60-year-old Oshima Shozaburo is concerned about the future of his only son, Ryuji, who has refused to follow in the footsteps of his gambler father and decided to become a...

Direction Yasuto Hasegawa

Cast Shinobu Chihara · Hashizo Okawa · Kikuko Hôjô · Kishimoto Kyoko

Synopsis Sena Denemon, an incorruptible government official,is sent on a dangerous mission to uncover the corruption running rampant during the Edo Period.

Direction Kazuo Mori

Cast Jiro Tamiya · Mitsuko Kusabue · Katsuko Kanai · Sumiko Sakamoto