Cast: Ganjiro Nakamura

Direction Yasujirō Ozu

Cast Ganjiro Nakamura · Haruko Sugimura · Hiroshi Kawaguchi · Machiko Kyô

Plot Komajuro (Ganjiro Nakamura) leads a traveling acting troupe that performs cut-rate kabuki in the provinces. His mistress, Sumiko, is loyal to him, as are the other veteran actors. The troupe...

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 Yasujirō Ozu

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

Direction Kinuyo Tanaka

Cast Ineko Arima · Ganjiro Nakamura · Mieko Takamine · Tatsuya Nakadai

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Chikage Awashima · Michiyo Aratama · Yôko Tsukasa · Daisuke Kato

Plot A war widow with a young boy manages a farm with her bossy mother-in-law. When a reporter comes to interview her, the two begin an affair. He turns out to...

Direction Kôzaburô Yoshimura

Cast Ayako Wakao · Junichiro Yamashita · Tamao Nakamura · Ganjiro Nakamura

Plot Based on a novel by Tsutomu Mizukami, a celebrated writer whose fictions also furnished plots for directors from Tadashi Imai to Masahiro Shinoda, this haunting melodrama focuses on a young...

Direction Akira Kurosawa

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Isuzu Yamada · Kyôko Kagawa · Ganjiro Nakamura

Plot In a slum flophouse, a collection of beggars and thieves bewail their lot in life, and Osugi, the landlady, fights with her sister, Okayo, over the man they both desire,...

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Raizô Ichikawa · Hiroyuki Nagato · Eiji Funakoshi · Rentarô Mikuni

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Machiko Kyô · Ganjiro Nakamura · Tatsuya Nakadai · Junko Kano

Plot A man getting on in years sets out to find a way to resurrect his flagging virility.

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Raizô Ichikawa · Tatsuya Nakadai · Ganjiro Nakamura · Yoichi Funaki

Plot Told in an intricate flashback structure, Enjo dramatizes the psychological collapse of Goichi (Raizo Ichikawa), a young Buddhist acolyte from a dysfunctional family who arrives at a Kyoto temple -...

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Kazuo Hasegawa · Fujiko Yamamoto · Ayako Wakao · Eiji Funakoshi

Plot In 1836, in Tokugawa Japan, Yukinojo (Kazuo Hasegawa), a Kabuki actor specializing in female roles, arrives with his troupe in Edo. There he sets in motion a complex plot designed...

Direction Shôhei Imamura

Cast Shoichi Ozawa · Sumiko Sakamoto · Masaomi Kondo · Keiko Sagawa

Plot Subu makes pornographic films. He sees nothing wrong with it. They are an aid to a repressed society, and he uses the money to support his landlady, Haru, and her...

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Raizô Ichikawa · Ayako Wakao · Tamao Nakamura · Saburo Date

Plot Fascinated with women from an early age, Yonosuke (Ichikawa Raizo) had his first sexual encounter at the age of seven. From that day on, he recklessly and forwardly pursues women,...

Direction Hiroshi Inagaki

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Yôko Tsukasa · Akihiko Hirata · Kyôko Kagawa

Plot The legend of the birth of Shintoism. In Fourth Century Japan, the Emperor Keikoh's son Ouso expects to succeed his father on the throne, but Otomo, the Emperor's vassal, prefers...

Direction Kenji Misumi

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

Direction Kunio Watanabe

Cast Kazuo Hasegawa · Shintarô Katsu · Koji Tsuruta · Raizô Ichikawa

Direction Shigeo Tanaka

Cast Shintarô Katsu · Fujiko Yamamoto · Ken Utsui · Hiroshi Kawaguchi

Plot In 221 BC, Qin Shihuangdi conquered the rest of China. Qin’s great accomplishments and also his serious faults are showed in this film.

Direction Keigo Kimura

Cast Ayako Wakao · Ichiro Sugai · Tarô Marui · Choko Iida

Direction Harumi Mizuho

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

Direction Umetsugu Inoue

Cast Hiroshi Kawaguchi · Keizo Kawasaki · Kojiro Hongo · Ayako Wakao

Plot The Takarai are three brothers who, far from being interested in the family business, are sports enthusiasts, spurred by the next Tokyo Olympics. One day the three know, each one...