Cast: Sumiko Hidaka

Direction Masahiro Shinoda

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

Plot 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...

Direction Kaneto Shindô

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

Direction Yoshishige Yoshida

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

Plot 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"...

Direction Yoshishige Yoshida

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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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...

Direction Sô Yamamura

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

Plot 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

Plot 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...

Direction Kaneto Shindô

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

Direction Teinosuke Kinugasa

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

Plot 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...

Direction Masahiro Makino

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

Plot 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...

Direction Keigo Kimura

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

Direction Seiji Hisamatsu

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

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

Direction Kôzaburô Yoshimura

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

Direction Kôzaburô Yoshimura

Cast Yumiko Miyagino · Mitsuko Miura · Yûko Tsumura · Kinuyo Tanaka

Plot A family of silkweavers are hit hard by industrialization.

Direction Shirô Toyoda

Cast Fujiko Yamamoto · Hiroshi Akutagawa · Michiyo Aratama · Nobuko Otowa

Plot A village girl lives in Tokyo as a hooker to support her ailing mother. One day she meets an allegedly unmarried teacher and falls in love.