Cast: Shizuko Takizawa

Direction Kenji Mizoguchi

Cast Isuzu Yamada · Seiichi Takegawa · Chiyoko Okura · Shinpachiro Asaka

Plot Ayako becomes the mistress of her boss, Mr. Asai, so she can pay her father's debt, and prevent him from going to prison for embezzlement. She also sends money to...

Direction Kenji Mizoguchi

Cast Isuzu Yamada · Daijirô Natsukawa · Mitsusaburô Ramon · Genichi Fuji

Plot Sokichi Hata moves to Tokyo hoping to get into medical school, but he doesn't have the means to survive. There, he meets Osen, the servant girl of an unscrupulous antiques...

Direction Kenji Mizoguchi

Cast Komako Hara · Eiji Nakano · Daijirô Natsukawa · Toichiro Negishi

Plot Oyuki, the Virgin is based on Kawaguchi Matsutaro’s adaptation of Maupassant’s “Boule de Suif” (“Lump of Fat,” also the inspiration for Ford’s Stagecoach). To this story Mizoguchi added some of...

Direction Tatsunosuke Takashima · Kenji Mizoguchi

Cast Isuzu Yamada · Komako Hara · Yôko Umemura · Toshio Hayashi

Plot Okichi is a professional criminal, part con woman and part martial artist, who falls in love with a young man from the straight world.

Direction Sadatsugu Matsuda

Cast Chiezô Kataoka · Chizuru Kitagawa · Isamu Kosugi · Kuniko Miyake

Direction Tomiyasu Ikeda

Cast Kaichi Yamamoto · Tsumasaburo Bando · Chiezô Kataoka · Kikutaro Onoe

Direction Hiroshi Inagaki

Cast Ryôsuke Kagawa · Tsumasaburo Bando · Kensaku Hara · Kobunji Ichikawa

Direction Tamizo Ishida

Cast Jûshirô Kobayashi · Chieko Takehisa · Fujiko Fukamizu · Kensaku Hara

Direction Hiroshi Inagaki

Cast Tsumasaburo Bando · Kunitaro Sawamura · Shojiro Ichikawa · Sannosuke Fujikawa

Direction Hiroshi Inagaki

Cast Ryôsuke Kagawa · Tsumasaburo Bando · Kensaku Hara · Kobunji Ichikawa