Cast: Shin Tokudaiji

Direction Kenji Mizoguchi

Cast Kinuyo Tanaka · Michiko Kuwano · Mitsuko Miura · Shin Tokudaiji

Direction Hiroshi Shimizu

Cast Mieko Takamine · Shin Tokudaiji · Shotaro Akagi · Bakudankozo

Synopsis A pair of blind masseurs, an enigmatic city woman, a lonely man and his ill-behaved nephew—The Masseurs and a Woman is made up of crisscrossing miniature studies of love and family at a remote resort in the mountains.

Direction Heinosuke Gosho

Cast Toshiko Iizuka · Shin Tokudaiji · Choko Iida · Takeshi Sakamoto

Synopsis Otoku asks her brother Bunkichi to speak with her son Seiichi, a young man for whom she’s sacrificed everything but who now seems to be headed for a wastrel life. Bunkichi admonishes the boy to study harder, but it seems...

Direction Kenji Mizoguchi

Cast Kinuyo Tanaka · Sô Yamamura · Sugisaku Aoyama · Kyoko Asagiri

Synopsis The stage director Shimamura, who is bringing western theatre to Japan, falls in love with the outspoken actress Sumako Matsui, and leaves his family to be with her, while trying to keep his Art Theatre solvent.

Direction Minoru Shibuya

Cast Kinuyo Tanaka · Shûji Sano · Michiyo Kogure · Reikichi Kawamura

Synopsis Pretty Oshige is deceived by her first love. After this, she lives a hard lifestyle, working at a number of jobs. Her only pleasure is her nephew, who eventually becomes a merchant marine. When Oshige meets her old love ten...

Direction Hiromasa Nomura

Cast Sanae Takasugi · Tokuji Kobayashi · Tomio Aoki · Mitsuko Yoshikawa

Synopsis Domestic comedy involving a strong wife and a "henpecked" husband takes place in a family-run judo school.

Direction Tai Kato

Cast Ushio Akashi · Kyoko Aoyama · Kotaro Bando · Kaoru Futaba

Synopsis Wandering gambler movie filled with humor and compassion. An odd couple of a gangster and a masterless samurai becomes involved in a variety of events as they travel.

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Harue Akagi · Koji Arima · Chikage Awashima · Chiyonosuke Azuma

Synopsis Samurai Kochiyama Soshun helps Kaneko Ichinosuke avenge the death of Kaneko’s father who was wrongly accused of embezzling, hoping that in return Kaneko takes geisha Michitose, the presumed sister of his friend Moritaya, under his wing.

Direction Kosaku Yamashita

Cast Koji Tsuruta · Yoshiko Fujita · Hibari Misora · Yasushi Sasaki

Synopsis The "Unperishable Sword" is a story based on the novel by Renzaburo Shibata. A complicated tale with dynamic characters, make this samurai who seeks revenge for the death of his master, not your ordinary revenge story. Also Known As (AKA):...

Direction Yasushi Sasaki

Cast Mieko Takamine · Chiezô Kataoka · Chie Ueki · Izumi Shiraishi

Direction Noboru Nakamura

Cast Kyoko Asagiri · Hideo Fujino · Shinichi Himori · Reikichi Kawamura

Direction Tai Kato

Cast Kusuo Abe · Minoru Chiaki · Susumu Fujita · Yumiko Hasegawa

Synopsis A traveling masterless samurai is asked by a daughter of an established samurai family to pretend they are a married couple, and gets involved in the troubles of the samurai clan.

Direction Toshio Sugie

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Asami Kuji · Machiko Kitagawa · Shin Tokudaiji

Synopsis A narcotics investigator for the harbor police, Eiichi Tsuda, is driven by thoughts of vengeance for the overdose death of his brother and the subsequent decline and death of their mother. Tsuda acts viciously and with disdain for legal niceties...

Direction Yasushi Sasaki

Cast Ryunosuke Tsukigata · Chiyonosuke Azuma · Mitsugorô Bandô · Shinobu Chihara

Direction Yasujirô Shimazu

Cast Ken Uehara · Mieko Takamine · Chishu Ryu · Shinichi Himori

Direction Yasushi Sasaki

Cast Kuniko Miyake · Mitsuko Mito · Chishu Ryu · Yoshiko Tsubouchi

Direction Tomu Uchida

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

Synopsis 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 enjoy what he thought would be his final days.

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Hashizo Okawa · Kusuo Abe · Kyoko Aoyama · Mikijiro Hira

Direction Hiroshi Shimizu

Cast Mitsugu Fujii · Haruo Takeda · Yoshiko Tsubouchi · Sumiko Mizukubo

Synopsis The story deals with Fuji, nicknamed Waka-danna (Young Master), the star athlete on his university’s rugby team. The son of a wealthy soy sauce manufacturer, Fuji basks in the glory of his athletic celebrity. Attracting the attention of admiring young...

Direction Sadatsugu Matsuda

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