Cast: Eijirô Yanagi

Direction Akira Kurosawa

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Yûzô Kayama · Yoshio Tsuchiya · Kyôko Kagawa

Plot In the Nineteenth Century, in Japan, the arrogant and proud just-graduated Dr. Noboru Yasumoto (Yuzo Kayama) is forced to work in the Koshikawa Clinic, a non-profit health facility ruled by...

Direction Kenji Mizoguchi

Cast Kinuyo Tanaka · Tsukie Matsuura · Ichiro Sugai · Toshirô Mifune

Plot It tells the story of Oharu, a 50-year-old woman who suffers the strict conventions of 17th century Feudal Japan. She becomes the lover of a man, but when they are...

Direction Kenji Mizoguchi

Cast Michiyo Kogure · Yoshiko Kuga · Ken Uehara · Yuriko Hamada

Direction Tadashi Imai

Cast Kinnosuke Nakamura · Yoshiko Mita · Masayuki Mori · Kyôko Kishida

Plot Episodic chronicle of one family's lineage and how it has been affected by the strict code of deference to the feudal lords.

Direction Yasujirō Ozu

Cast Shin Saburi · Michiyo Kogure · Koji Tsuruta · Chikage Awashima

Plot Takeo, a capricious wife from Tokyo high-society, is bored by her dull husband, a quiet and reliable company executive raised in the country (Shin Saburi) After a crisis, she understands...

Direction Kenji Mizoguchi

Cast Narutoshi Hayashi · Raizô Ichikawa · Tatsuya Ishiguro · Akitake Kôno

Plot Set in 12th Century Japan against a rich social and political background, TALES OF THE TAIRA CLAN is an epic tale of power struggles, family drama, and human frailty. Special...

Direction Kenji Misumi

Cast Shintarô Katsu · Masayo Banri · Ryuzo Shimada · Hajime Mitamura

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Kinuyo Tanaka · Ranko Hanai · Yuji Hori · Kyôko Kagawa

Plot This is a gentle, affectionate take on a middle aged bar hostess, struggling to bring up a child alone and facing financial, sexual and end of career issues, as well...

Direction Kazuo Mori

Cast Shintarô Katsu · Yaeko Mizutani · Masayo Banri · Eijirô Yanagi

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Kazuo Hasegawa · Fujiko Yamamoto · Ayako Wakao · Eiji Funakoshi

Plot In 1836, in Tokugawa Japan, Yukinojo (Kazuo Hasegawa), a Kabuki actor specializing in female roles, arrives with his troupe in Edo. There he sets in motion a complex plot designed...

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Shotaro Hanayagi · Eijirô Yanagi · Ichijirô Oya · Isuzu Yamada

Plot A self-absorbed young actor humiliates an elderly Noh performer, who then commits suicide. His act of cruelty compels his father to disown him, leading the once promising actor to a...

Direction Kenji Misumi

Cast Raizô Ichikawa · Shigeru Amachi · Shiho Fujimura · Mayumi Nagisa

Direction Kenji Mizoguchi

Cast Shotaro Hanayagi · Kan Ishii · Eijirô Yanagi · Ichijirô Oya

Plot Kiyone Sakurai, an apprentice swordmaker makes a sword for his guardian, Kozaemon Onoda. Onoda breaks the sword while defending his lord which eventually leads to his death at the hands...

Direction Koji Shima

Cast Ayako Wakao · Yukihiko Iwatare · Akihiko Yusa · Yoshiro Kitahara

Plot The mare of the Shiraishi, humble farmers, stop a foal they call Takeru. The little one of the family, Jirô, is crazy about Takeru, despite the fact that the foal...

Direction Tatsuo Ôsone

Cast Tsumasaburo Bando · Masao Mishima · Keiko Tsushima · Isuzu Yamada

Plot A gallant swordsman takes on the forces of evil with the help of his trusty friends.

Direction Sadatsugu Matsuda

Cast Ryôsuke Kagawa · Masao Mishima · Ryunosuke Tsukigata · Tomisaburô Wakayama

Direction Tai Kato

Cast Ushio Akashi · Kyoko Aoyama · Kotaro Bando · Kaoru Futaba

Plot Wandering gambler movie filled with humor and compassion. An odd couple of a gangster and a masterless samurai becomes involved in a variety of events as they travel.

Direction Shigehiro Ozawa

Cast Chiezô Kataoka · Sô Yamamura · Kenji Imai · Eitarô Shindô

Plot Takakura is a young gang boss tricked by the villainous Toru Abe. His underlings, lead by Chiezo Kataoka, start planning for revenge after Takakura dies in jail.

Direction Yasuki Chiba

Cast Daisuke Kato · Sadako Sawamura · Hiroshi Tachikawa · Chikage Awashima

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Kinnosuke Nakamura · Yumiko Hasegawa · Minoru Chiaki · Mikijiro Hira

Plot Katsujiro the fishmonger dreams about her sister Okiku's being slained by her husband, Lord Aoyama. By the dawn he founds in the water a wallet full of gold coins.