Cast: Sumiko Hidaka

Direction Masahiro Shinoda

Cast Kichiemon Nakamura · Shima Iwashita · Kamatari Fujiwara · Jun Hamamura

Synopsis Shinoda's interesting film is a generally faithful adaptation of a play by Chikamatsu, preserving all the theatrical conventions of the puppet theatre original, and even trumping that level of artifice with bizarre devices of his own: eccentric framing, ultra-formal compositions,...

Direction Kaneto Shindô

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

Direction Yoshishige Yoshida

Cast Masahiko Tsugawa · Michiko Saga · Teruyo Yamagami · Sumiko Hidaka

Synopsis Yokkaichi, a industrial city in full boom. Working in a grand enterprise, Jiro Tezuka knows Harumi in a motorway cafe. He decides to put her working in the bar "Sawa" which boss, Sawako, is the daughter of the director of...

Direction Yoshishige Yoshida

Cast Mariko Okada · Hiroyuki Nagato · Sumiko Hidaka · Asao Koike

Synopsis A young woman working at a hot springs saves a suicidal student who has lost the will to live. He falls in love with her and finds meaning in his life but he decides to leave...

Direction Kimiyoshi Yasuda

Cast Machiko Kyô · Hiroshi Nihonyanagi · Sumiko Hidaka · Osamu Takizawa

Direction Tomu Uchida

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

Direction Tomu Uchida

Cast Chiezô Kataoka · Kinnosuke Nakamura · Yumiko Hasegawa · Satomi Oka

Direction Santarô Marune

Cast Yuriko Hanabusa · Koichi Mizuhara · Tatsuo Saito · Tominosuke Hayama

Direction Kôzaburô Yoshimura

Cast Yuriko Hanabusa · Yasumi Hara · Chieko Higashiyama · Junji Masuda

Direction Kôzaburô Yoshimura

Cast Chiyonosuke Azuma · Nobuko Otowa · Chojuro Kawarasaki · Yoshizaburo Arashi

Synopsis A period-film in which the famous Kabuki play Narukami was brought throughly up to date. Somewhat in the manner of Henry V, the film opens with a reconstruction of a classical performance of the play, accurately recreating a historical presentation...

Direction Hiroshi Mizuno · Koji Shima

Cast Teruko Akatsuki · Noriko Awaya · Tokoya no Ei Chan · Mariko Hidaka

Direction Sô Yamamura

Cast Sô Yamamura · Masayuki Mori · Sumiko Hidaka · Akitake Kôno

Synopsis Describes the oppressed life of the crab fishermen and their final revolt which is bloodily suppressed by the Royal Navy.

Direction Kaneto Shindô

Cast Nobuko Otowa · Koreya Senda · Jûkichi Uno · Haruko Sugimura

Synopsis Kyoto, in the beginning of the Showa period (late 1920s/early 1930s). Fujiko, the daughter of a priest, has after graduating from girls’ high school married the butcher’s son Shintaro. Shintaro’s father has two mistresses, a fact not easy to grasp...

Direction Kaneto Shindô

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

Direction Teinosuke Kinugasa

Cast Shinobu Araki · Kotaro Bando · Kazuo Hasegawa · Sumiko Hidaka

Synopsis Dedication of the Great Buddha is a 1952 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa. It was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival. Companion piece to Kinugasa's more famous Gate of Hell.

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Sumiko Hidaka · Yûnosuke Itô · Kunio Kaga · Eijirô Kataoka

Synopsis An enclave of Heike descendants has lived on a mountain in isolation for centuries and is reputed to abduct young women from surrounding communities for human sacrifice, but their real objective is to bring in new wives to expand their...

Direction Keigo Kimura

Cast Kumeko Urabe · Kusuo Abe · Sumiko Hidaka · Toshiaki Konoe

Direction Seiji Hisamatsu

Cast Toru Abe · Michiyo Aratama · Izumi Ashikawa · Sumiko Hidaka

Synopsis From runaway brides to a typhoon, the continued adventures of Ushikata police station.

Direction Hiroshi Noguchi

Cast Seizaburô Kawazu · Sumiko Hidaka · Hajime Izu · Kenjirô Uemura

Direction Kôzaburô Yoshimura

Cast Nobuko Otowa · Sumiko Hidaka · Sanae Nakahara · Hatae Kishi