Cast: Hideko Mimura

Direction Yasujirō Ozu

Cast Choko Iida · Hohi Aoki · Eitarô Ozawa · Mitsuko Yoshikawa

Plot In post-war Japan, a man brings a lost boy to his tenement. No one wants to take the child for even one night; finally, a sour widow, Tané, does. The...

Direction Hiroshi Shimizu

Cast Mieko Takamine · Shinobu Aoki · Mitsuko Yoshikawa · Choko Iida

Plot Released in 1940, Nobuko stars renowned actress/singer Takamine Mieko as titular heroine Nobuko, a spirited young teacher working in a conservative school. Based on a novel by Shishi Bunroku, 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 Keisuke Sasaki

Cast Yasumi Hara · Mitsuko Higashiyama · Kuniko Igawa · Fumiko Katsuragi

Direction Yasushi Sasaki

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

Direction Koji Shima

Cast Hideko Takamine · Katsuhiko Haida · Shinsho Kokontei · Shizuko Kasagi

Plot "Ginza Cancan Girl" - a mixture of American musical movie and the modesty of Japanese cinema. Hideko Takamine was already a successful singer with this very popular hit song.

Direction Keisuke Sasaki

Cast Hajime Amamiya · Toichi Doki · Teruo Fukami · Yaeko Izumo

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 Koji Shima

Cast Hideko Takamine · Masayuki Mori · Masao Wakahara · Ureo Egawa

Direction Yasushi Sasaki

Cast Choko Iida · Koji Mitsui · Chishu Ryu · Shin Saburi

Direction Hiroshi Shimizu

Cast Shirley Yamaguchi · Toshiaki Konoe · Kenji Oyama · Kinuko Wakamizu

Direction Heinosuke Gosho

Cast Daijirô Natsukawa · Michiyo Kogure · Ranko Akagi · Takeshi Sakamoto

Plot A "mother film" about a dedicated, unmarried female doctor and her daughter. The mother's nickname is "Bokuseki" (wooden head) because of her supposed stubbornness. Rated #10 on Kinema Junpo's "10...