Cast: Tomio Aoki

Direction Yasujirō Ozu

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

Synopsis 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 better education. Thirteen years later, she visits her son Ryosuke...

Direction Yasujirō Ozu

Cast Takeshi Sakamoto · Choko Iida · Koji Mitsui · Rieko Yagumo

Synopsis An aging, traveling actor who is the manager of a kabuki troupe returns to a remote village where he secretly meets his former lover and her 19 year old illegitimate son, to whom he is known as "uncle." The older...

Direction Yasujirō Ozu

Cast Takeshi Sakamoto · Yoshiko Okada · Choko Iida · Tomio Aoki

Synopsis It tells the story of an unemployed and homeless single father (Takeshi Sakamoto) with two sons (the elder of the two being the wonderful Tomio Aoki) looking for work in depression-era Tokyo, whose lives intersects with those of a single...

Direction Masaki Kobayashi

Cast Ko Mishima · Torahiko Hamada · Keiko Kishi · Tatsuya Nakadai

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Mitsuko Yoshikawa · Akio Isono · Sumiko Mizukubo · Reikichi Kawamura

Synopsis In this gently devastating drama, a critical breakthrough for Naruse, he contrasts the life of an aging geisha, whose angry teenage son is ashamed of her profession, with that of her youthful counterpart, a lovely young girl resentful of her...

Direction Koreyoshi Kurahara

Cast Nobuo Kaneko · Kojiro Kusanagi · Kô Nishimura · Mari Shiraki

Synopsis Koreyoshi Kurahara’s ingeniously plotted, pocket-size noir concerns the intertwined fates of a desperate bank manager, blackmailed for book-cooking, and his resentful but timid underling, passed over for a promotion. The marvelously moody Intimidation (Aru kyouhaku) is an elegantly stripped-down and...

Direction Shôhei Imamura

Cast Emiko Aizawa · Masumi Harukawa · Sachiko Hidari · Daizaburo Hirata

Synopsis Tome was born to a lower class family in Japan in 1918. She is molested from childhood by her stepfather. As a young adult she moves from her rural village to find work in factory, where she engages in an...

Direction Seijun Suzuki

Cast Jô Shishido · Ichiro Kijima · Misako Watanabe · Akiji Kobayashi

Synopsis When a mysterious stranger muscles into two rival yakuza gangs, Tokyo's underworld explodes with violence. Youth of the Beast (Yaju no Seishun) was a breakthrough for director Seijun Suzuki, introducing the flamboyant colors, hallucinatory images, and striking compositions that would...

Direction Yasujirō Ozu

Cast Takeshi Sakamoto · Nobuko Fushimi · Den Obinata · Choko Iida

Synopsis After the death of his wife, a man struggles to raise his son in nearly overwhelming poverty. When the father meets a beautiful young woman, the son becomes jealous of his father's attentions, and conflict arises between them.

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 Yasujirō Ozu

Cast Tatsuo Saito · Michiko Kuwano · Shûji Sano · Sumiko Kurishima

Synopsis An affluent medical professor, Komiya, and his bossy wife, Tokio, are to look after Setsuko, their high-spirited niece from Osaka. Setsuko is a liberated woman who does what she wants, including smoking, even though she is a minor. On Saturday,...

Direction Yasujirō Ozu

Cast Tatsuo Saito · Kaoru Futaba · Kinuyo Tanaka · Chishu Ryu

Synopsis A student fails when the shirt on which he wrote his exam cheat sheet gets mistakenly sent to the laundry. The student contemplates his outcast fate as his graduating dorm-mates all face the working world.

Direction Yasujirō Ozu

Cast Tatsuo Saito · Tomio Aoki · Takeshi Sakamoto

Direction Seijun Suzuki

Cast Makiko Esumi · Sayoko Yamaguchi · Hanae Kan · Masatoshi Nagase

Synopsis Long, lean, raven-haired model turned actress Makiko Esumi is Miyuki Minazuki, an assassin in black kimono and high-heel boots better known as "Stray Cat". Rated number 3 in the Assassins Guild, she's given the chance to advance up the ladder...

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

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

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

Direction Koreyoshi Kurahara

Cast Ryoji Hayama · Hiroyuki Nagato · Masayuki Mori · Mihoko Inagaki

Direction Hiromasa Nomura

Cast Sanae Takasugi · Tokuji Kobayashi · Tomio Aoki · Mitsuko Yoshikawa

Synopsis Domestic comedy involving a strong wife and a "henpecked" husband takes place in a family-run judo school.

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Hideo Sugawara · Mitsuko Takao · Tomio Aoki · Shoichi Nodera

Direction Makoto Shinozaki

Cast Tomio Aoki · Ayaka Horie · Shoichi Komatsu · Taro Suwa

Synopsis Yuriko works at home all day as a tape transcriber, while her husband, Takashi, works as a school teacher. Yuriko's behavior grows stranger and more distant and she starts spending all day "patrolling" the neighborhood. Takashi follows her one afternoon...

Direction Koreyoshi Kurahara

Cast Makiko Aoi · Tomio Aoki · Akemi Ebata · Jun Hamamura

Synopsis While in vacation in a sea side house, a young man fall in love with a beautiful woman who pretends to live by herself in the sea. The fishermen of a nearby village think she is a monster, the female...