Cast: Chikako Hosokawa

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Hideko Takamine · Masayuki Mori · Daisuke Kato · Tatsuya Nakadai

Plot A successful but aging madam of a Tokyo hostess bar realizes that she will soon have to retire.

Direction Shôhei Imamura

Cast Rentarô Mikuni · Choichiro Kawarazaki · Kazuo Kitamura · Yasuko Matsui

Plot The Tokyo engineer Kariya arrives on a primitive tropical island to drill a well to provide water for the sugar mill. He is assisted on the island by Kametaro, from...

Direction Kaneto Shindô

Cast Nobuko Otowa · Osamu Takizawa · Niwa Saito · Tsuneko Yamanaka

Plot Post war Hiroshima: It's been four years since the last time she visited her hometown. Takako faces the after effects of the A-bomb when she travels around the city to...

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Haruko Sugimura · Sadako Sawamura · Chikako Hosokawa · Yûko Mochizuki

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Sachiko Chiba · Sadao Maruyama · Yuriko Hanabusa · Tomoko Ito

Direction Kaneto Shindô

Cast Nobuko Otowa · Isuzu Yamada · Sumiko Hidaka · Sô Yamamura

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Chikako Hosokawa · Masako Tsutsumi · Ryuko Umezono · Chitose Hayashi

Plot Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts, writer-director Mikio Naruse's first sound film, tells the story of three very different siblings forced to work as samisen street musicians to make ends meet....

Direction Kaneto Shindô

Cast Nobuko Otowa · Hiroyuki Nagato · Jûkichi Uno · Ichiro Sugai

Direction Kaneto Shindô

Cast Nobuko Otowa · Chikako Hosokawa · Eijirô Tono · Taiji Tonoyama

Direction Seijun Suzuki

Cast Kôji Wada · Chikako Hosokawa · Eitarô Ozawa · Mayumi Shimizu

Plot Seijun Suzuki’s first colour feature, Fighting Delinquents, melds traditional regional life with what was then emerging youth culture that had been filtering in from the West, through the character of...

Direction Kô Nakahira

Cast Mitsuo Hamada · Sayuri Yoshinaga · Masako Izumi · Osamu Takizawa

Plot Jiro, a young yakuza, and Mami, a diplomat’s daughter, are two young lovers from different worlds. Having met by accident, they soon discover a new life together. But their love...

Direction Kôzaburô Yoshimura

Cast Osamu Takizawa · Nobuko Otowa · Shin Date · Chikako Hosokawa

Direction Koreyoshi Kurahara

Cast Ruriko Asaoka · Jūzō Itami · Izumi Ashikawa · Daizaburo Hirata

Plot War looms in the background of this tragic story of true love. Takuji, son of a head fisherman, meets Kiyono, a young girl from a mountain village, and the two...

Direction Sotoji Kimura

Cast Ranko Akagi · Saburo Azumaya · Kamatari Fujiwara · Yuriko Hanabusa

Direction Seijun Suzuki

Cast Yuri Hase · Chikako Hosokawa · Shôbun Inoue · Akira Kobayashi

Plot Two brothers who seek revenge on the yakuza for the death of their father.

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Ryunosuke Tsukigata · Chikako Hosokawa · Sachiko Chiba · Kamatari Fujiwara

Direction Kô Nakahira

Cast Yôko Katsuragi · Takao Ito · Seiji Miyaguchi · Chikako Hosokawa

Plot A short, confrontational tale about an affair between a student and a married woman. Young Kikuko (Yoko Katsuragi) is married to an older university professor and because of the age...

Direction Kôzaburô Yoshimura

Cast Tatsuo Hanabu · Yuzo Hayakawa · Chikako Hosokawa · Jutaru Hojo

Direction Teinosuke Kinugasa

Cast Ineko Arima · Fujiko Yamamoto · Hiroko Machida · Osamu Maruyama

Direction Eisuke Takizawa

Cast Yumeji Tsukioka · Izumi Ashikawa · Nobuo Kaneko · Yûji Odaka