Cast: Shinichi Himori

Direction Yasujirō Ozu

Cast Choko Iida · Shinichi Himori · Masao Hayama · Yoshiko Tsubouchi

Plot In 1923, in the province of Shinshu, the widow and simple worker of a silk factory Tsune Nonomiya (O-Tsune) decides to send her only son to Tokyo for having a...

Direction Yasujirō Ozu

Cast Chishu Ryu · Shûji Sano · Shin Saburi · Takeshi Sakamoto

Plot Shuhei Horikawa, a poor schoolteacher, struggles to raise his son Ryohei by himself, despite neither money nor prospects.

Direction Hiroshi Shimizu

Cast Masao Hayama · Shinichi Himori · Reikichi Kawamura · Seiji Nishimura

Plot A follow-up to Children in the Wind, Four Seasons of Children is also based on a Tsubota Joji novel. The film is divided into two chapters, following the young protagonists'...

Direction Kôzaburô Yoshimura

Cast Setsuko Hara · Osamu Takizawa · Masayuki Mori · Yumeko Aizome

Plot After Japan's loss in the war, the wealthy, cultured, liberal Anjo family have to give up their mansion and their way of life. They hold one last ball at the...

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Setsuko Shinobu · Akio Isono · Hikaru Yamanouchi · Nobuko Wakaba

Plot Mikio Naruse’s final silent film is a gloriously rich portrait of a waitress, Sugiko, whose life, despite a host of male admirers and even some intrigued movie talent scouts, ends...

Direction Hiroshi Shimizu

Cast Chishu Ryu · Shinyo Nara · Kuniko Miyake · Masami Morikawa

Plot Starring Ryu Chishu from Ozu Yasujiro's Otoko wa Tsuraiyo, Mikaheri no Tou realistically explores the nature of children's education. Set in a mountain boarding school, the film tells various stories...

Direction Hiroshi Shimizu

Cast Mieko Takamine · Shin Tokudaiji · Shotaro Akagi · Bakudankozo

Plot A pair of blind masseurs, an enigmatic city woman, a lonely man and his ill-behaved nephew—The Masseurs and a Woman is made up of crisscrossing miniature studies of love and...

Direction Hiroshi Shimizu

Cast Koume Akasaka · Hiroshi Ayukawa · Shinichi Himori · Moriichi Kawabe

Plot Saheita, the final heir of a once rich and respectable family, can’t refuse the many villagers that come to him for favours and money, even though he is on the...

Direction Hiroshi Shimizu

Cast Kinuyo Tanaka · Hiroko Kawasaki · Tatsuo Saito · Chishu Ryu

Plot Two bruised souls enact a tender, hesitant romance in Hiroshi Shimizu’s alternately poignant and playful wartime love story. A soldier (Chishu Ryu) is forced to prolong his stay at a...

Direction Akira Kurosawa

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Shirley Yamaguchi · Yôko Katsuragi · Noriko Sengoku

Plot On holiday in the snow-covered mountains, young painter Ichiro Aoye (Toshiro Mifune) has a chance meeting with the popular singer Miyako Saijo (Shirley Yamaguchi). After giving her a ride back...

Direction Yasujirō Ozu

Cast Ichirô Yuki · Tatsuo Saito · Junko Matsui · Chishu Ryu

Direction Yasujirō Ozu

Cast Minoru Takada · Kinuyo Tanaka · Utako Suzuki · Kenji Oyama

Plot Surviving fragment of Ozu's early student comedy about a recent graduate struggling to find a job

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Hideko Takamine · Masao Wakahara · Chikage Awashima · Toshiko Kobayashi

Plot A naive stripper falls for an artist engaged to the daughter of a controversial female politician.

Direction Yasushi Sasaki

Cast Mieko Takamine · Toyo Takahashi · Eijirô Tono · Shinichi Himori

Direction Hiroshi Shimizu

Cast Shûji Sano · Shinichi Himori · Toshiaki Konoe · Chishu Ryu

Direction Noboru Nakamura

Cast Kyoko Asagiri · Hideo Fujino · Shinichi Himori · Reikichi Kawamura

Direction Kôzaburô Yoshimura

Cast Hideo Fujino · Kaneko Fujiwara · Shinichi Himori · Kôichi Itô

Plot The movie depicts the complicated romantic relationships among staff and doctors of a small hospital

Direction Kôzaburô Yoshimura

Cast Yasumi Hara · Shinichi Himori · Chishu Ryu · Toru Abe

Plot The film is set during the days of the scarcity of food after World War II, during which five men ate an elephant that died in a zoo. The elephant's...

Direction Yasujirô Shimazu

Cast Ken Uehara · Mieko Takamine · Chishu Ryu · Shinichi Himori

Direction Hiroshi Shimizu

Cast Mitsugu Fujii · Haruo Takeda · Yoshiko Tsubouchi · Sumiko Mizukubo

Plot The story deals with Fuji, nicknamed Waka-danna (Young Master), the star athlete on his university’s rugby team. The son of a wealthy soy sauce manufacturer, Fuji basks in the glory...