Cast: Kensaku Hara

Direction Kenji Mizoguchi

Cast Isuzu Yamada · Seiichi Takegawa · Chiyoko Okura · Shinpachiro Asaka

Plot Ayako becomes the mistress of her boss, Mr. Asai, so she can pay her father's debt, and prevent him from going to prison for embezzlement. She also sends money to...

Direction Tomu Uchida

Cast Isao Kimura · Minoru Chiaki · Shinobu Chihara · Kogiku Hanayagi

Plot Jiro Sano (Chiezo Kataoka) grew up a good man, financially well set, & loved by his company's employees. But he has remained unable to find a wife, due to his...

Direction Shigehiro Ozawa

Cast Mikijiro Hira · Ryôsuke Kagawa · Michiyo Kogure · Jûshirô Konoe

Plot Fifteen years after Ishida Mitsunari lost in the battle of Sekigahara, Tokugawa Ieyasu foresees his unavoidable battle with Toyotomi Hideyori and goes into Fushimi Castle. At the night, Hattori Hanzo,...

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Takashi Shimura · Kanjuro Arashi · Kensaku Hara · Reiko Hoshi

Direction Sadatsugu Matsuda

Cast Harue Akagi · Ushio Akashi · Kensaku Hara · Utaemon Ichikawa

Plot Knightly Advice is an engrossing drama about political infighting in the early years of the Tokugawa Shogunate, based on a true historical incident in the year 1629. The conflict arises...

Direction Santarô Marune

Cast Chiezô Kataoka · Kunitaro Sawamura · Kensaku Hara · Goro Abe

Direction Hiroshi Inagaki

Cast Kanjuro Arashi · Ryunosuke Tsukigata · Kikutaro Onoe · Goro Kawabe

Plot Taikoki is a legendary biography of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who rose to the office of taikō. And the story of this film is about the rise to power of Toyotomi Hideyoshi...

Direction Tomiyasu Ikeda

Cast Ryôsuke Kagawa · Takashi Shimura · Tsumasaburo Bando · Kogiku Hanayagi

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Ken Takakura · Sumiko Fuji · Minoru Oki · Fumio Watanabe

Direction Ryo Hagiwara · Sadatsugu Matsuda

Cast Utaemon Ichikawa · Ryôsuke Kagawa · Eitarô Shindô · Ryunosuke Tsukigata

Direction Daisuke Itô

Cast Chiezô Kataoka · Katsuhiko Sawa · Chieko Soma · Ryôsuke Kagawa

Plot From the deepest archives of Japanese film history comes this superbly restored edition of one of the epic adventures of Miyamoto Musashi, the greatest swordsman in all the land. Known...

Direction Yasushi Sasaki

Cast Hashizo Okawa · Ryutaro Otomo · Chiezô Kataoka · Hibari Misora

Direction Tomu Uchida

Cast Chikage Awashima · Hiromi Hanazono · Kensaku Hara · Ryôsuke Kagawa

Plot Kurando is a retired samurai. Granted a last-second reprieve from the obligation to commit Harakiri, he decides to settle down and marry one of two kabuki actresses who helped him...

Direction Sadatsugu Matsuda

Cast Chiezô Kataoka · Utaemon Ichikawa · Ryunosuke Tsukigata · Teruyo Asagumo

Direction Hiroshi Inagaki

Cast Ryôsuke Kagawa · Tsumasaburo Bando · Kensaku Hara · Kobunji Ichikawa

Direction Ryo Hagiwara · Masahiro Makino

Cast Choko Iida · Ryôsuke Kagawa · Yumeko Aizome · Teruko Akatsuki

Direction Yasushi Sasaki

Cast Eitarô Shindô · Ryunosuke Tsukigata · Denjirô Ôkôchi · Chiyonosuke Azuma

Direction Tai Kato

Cast Kinnosuke Nakamura · Hiroki Matsukata · Michiyo Kogure · Keiko Okawa

Plot The protagonist Chujiro, who possesses many attractive qualities, is a victim of unkind circumstances: his mother abandoned him as a child, so he had no choice but to live outside...

Direction Kinnosuke Fukada · Ryo Hagiwara

Cast Chiyonosuke Azuma · Sentarô Fushimi · Ryunosuke Tsukigata · Shinobu Chihara

Direction Toshikazu Kôno

Cast Shinobu Araki · Teruyo Asagumo · Chiyonosuke Azuma · Shinobu Chihara