Cast: Chieko Naniwa

Direction Kenji Mizoguchi

Cast Kazuo Hasegawa · Kyôko Kagawa · Yôko Minamida · Eitarô Shindô

Synopsis Set in 17th century Kyoto, Osan is married to Ishun, a wealthy miserly scroll-maker. When Osan is falsely accused of having an affair with the Ishun’s most trusted servant, Mohei, the two flee away. While on the run, Osan and...

Direction Akira Kurosawa

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

Synopsis '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 spirit offers several predictions, finally stating that Washizu will rise...

Direction Yasujirō Ozu

Cast Shin Saburi · Kinuyo Tanaka · Ineko Arima · Yoshiko Kuga

Synopsis A business man is often approached by friends for advice and help regarding marriage as well as family and romantic relationships. He is always very calmly and objectively able to give great insight and assistance to these particular situations. However,...

Direction Yasujirō Ozu

Cast Ganjiro Nakamura · Setsuko Hara · Yôko Tsukasa · Michiyo Aratama

Direction Kenji Mizoguchi

Cast Kinuyo Tanaka · Tomoemon Otani · Yoshiko Kuga · Eitarô Shindô

Direction Yoshishige Yoshida

Cast Tamotsu Hayakawa · Yoshiko Kayama · Gannosuke Ashiya · Yôko Mihara

Synopsis A drama about a clash between a responsible lodging house caretaker and a collective protagonist in the form of a pack of adolescents.

Direction Kenji Misumi

Cast Ayako Wakao · Machiko Kyô · Jiro Tamiya · Miwa Takada

Direction Ryohei Arai

Cast Shinobu Araki · Kotaro Bando · Takaji Fukui · Kazuko Fushimi

Synopsis A woman loses her son through an evil conspiracy and commits suicide. Shortly afterwards a ghost cat begins haunting the conspirators.

Direction Nobuo Aoyagi

Cast Chiemi Eri · Tomoko Matsushima · Kamatari Fujiwara · Nijiko Kiyokawa

Direction Hiroshi Inagaki

Cast Nobuko Otowa · Keiko Awaji · Kinuyo Tanaka · Hisaya Ito

Direction Shirô Toyoda

Cast Chikage Awashima · Ayako Wakao · Ryo Ikebe · Takashi Shimura

Synopsis A girl rebels against her mother, who runs a brothel in Yokohama, and attempts to find freedom on her own.

Direction Tomu Uchida

Cast Kinnosuke Nakamura · Ken Takakura · Wakaba Irie · Chieko Naniwa

Direction Toshio Sugie

Cast Keiko Kishi · Kyôko Anzai · Akira Yamanouchi · Chieko Naniwa

Direction Harumi Mizuho

Cast Raizô Ichikawa · Ganjiro Nakamura · Kinuyo Tanaka · Kyû Sazanka

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Denjirô Ôkôchi · Mitsuko Mito · Chieko Naniwa · Haruo Tanaka

Direction Nobuo Aoyagi

Cast Hiroshi Koizumi · Machiko Kitagawa · Kyoko Aoyama · Chikage Ogi

Direction Ishirô Honda

Cast Chieko Naniwa · Fuyuki Murakami · Takashi Shimura · Ko Mishima

Direction Shirô Toyoda

Cast Ryo Ikebe · Keiko Kishi · Kaoru Yachigusa · Daisuke Kato

Synopsis It's a man's world. Shimamura, an artist, comes to this snowbound town to rejuvenate himself. He connects with Komako, a geisha he met on a previous trip, and it seems like love. She's the foster daughter of a local family,...

Direction Koji Shima

Cast Machiko Kyô · Hiroshi Kawaguchi · Kenji Sugawara · Hitomi Nozoe

Synopsis Designer Aya Koganaki, whose last collection has been a great success, meets engineer Rentaro Shinohara on the train back to Tokyo, but the man only shows indifference and she feels hurt. Coincidentally, their younger brothers, Takeshi and Kana, also meet...

Direction Teinosuke Kinugasa

Cast Michiko Ai · Teruyo Asagumo · Mirasaki Fujima · Setsuko Hama

Synopsis Ukifune is the story of its eponymous heroine, a beautiful young woman, and two remarkable Heian noblemen. Its events unfold 20 years after the death of Shining Prince Genji, and the two men with whom Ukifune is involved are Prince...