Cast: Eiko Miyoshi

Direction Akira Kurosawa

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Isuzu Yamada · Takashi Shimura · Akira Kubo

Plot 'Macbeth' is reimagined as a samurai in feudal Japan. Taketoki Washizu (Toshiro Mifune) is a valiant warrior whose life is transformed by an encounter with a ghostly female spirit. The...

Direction Heinosuke Gosho

Cast Nobuko Otowa · Shûji Sano · Mitsuko Mito · Sachiko Hidari

Direction Akira Kurosawa

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Minoru Chiaki · Misa Uehara · Takashi Shimura

Plot Princess Yuki Akizuki ("Yukihime" in Japanese) is to be led through enemy territory, where she may rebuild her kingdom with gold that she has in her caravan. She is assisted...

Direction Akira Kurosawa

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Takashi Shimura · Keiko Awaji · Eiko Miyoshi

Plot Murukami, a young homicide detective, has his pocket picked on a bus and loses his pistol. Frantic and ashamed, he dashes about trying to recover the weapon without success until...

Direction Hiroshi Inagaki

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Rentarô Mikuni · Kuroemon Onoe · Kaoru Yachigusa

Plot With his closest friend, Matahachi, Takezo (the town's wild, orphan kid) leaves his village to join an army on its way to battle. After their side loses, they seek shelter...

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Ken Yamauchi · Yoshiko Kôda · Masayuki Mori · Akira Takarada

Plot Hashimoto Shinobu wrote the script based on Ishimori Nobuo’s original story, which won prizes including the first Mimei Literature Award. Depicts an Ainu girl and her younger brother living in...

Direction Heinosuke Gosho

Cast Ken Uehara · Kinuyo Tanaka · Hiroshi Akutagawa · Hideko Takamine

Direction Akira Kurosawa

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Isuzu Yamada · Kyôko Kagawa · Ganjiro Nakamura

Plot In a slum flophouse, a collection of beggars and thieves bewail their lot in life, and Osugi, the landlady, fights with her sister, Okayo, over the man they both desire,...

Direction Akira Kurosawa

Cast Setsuko Hara · Susumu Fujita · Denjirô Ôkôchi · Haruko Sugimura

Plot Yukie, the well-bred daughter of a university professor, is shocked when her father is relieved of his post for his political teachings, and even more so when her lover, one...

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Michiyo Kogure · Tomoemon Otani · Sô Yamamura · Jun Tazaki

Plot Based on a kabuki play in which a woman (Okuni) and one of the retainers of her late husband (Gohei) seek revenge upon the man, Tomonojo, who killed her husband...

Direction Hiroshi Inagaki

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Yôko Tsukasa · Akira Takarada · Keiko Awaji

Plot Edmund Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an oversized nose (matched only by his great heart) loves a lady. But she sees him only as...

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 Seiji Hisamatsu

Cast Kinuyo Tanaka · Yôko Sugi · Kyôko Kagawa · Hisao Toake

Direction Masanori Kakei

Cast Keiju Kobayashi · Akira Takarada · Daisuke Kato · Yumi Shirakawa

Direction Nobuo Aoyagi

Cast Achako Hanabishi · Keaton Masuda · Eiko Miyoshi · Murasaki Fujima

Direction Toshio Sugie

Cast Ryo Ikebe · Fubuki Koshiji · Asami Kuji · Momoko Kôchi

Direction Toshio Sugie

Cast Rentarô Mikuni · Asami Kuji · Takashi Shimura · Machiko Kitagawa

Plot Action drama about a married woman who has an affair with an escaped prisoner.

Direction Nobuo Aoyagi

Cast Hisaya Morishige · Keiju Kobayashi · Daisuke Kato · Asami Kuji

Direction Daisuke Itô

Cast Yoichi Funaki · Kazuko Ichikawa · Tatsuya Ishiguro · Ryôsuke Kagawa

Direction Eizô Sugawa

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Hiroshi Koizumi · Eijirô Tono · Nobuo Nakamura

Plot A promising post-graduate literature student (Nakadai) is transformed into a psychotic killer following the suicide of his father and a sleazy affair by his mother with a younger man. One...