Cast: Chieko Higashiyama

Direction Yasujirō Ozu

Cast Chishu Ryu · Chieko Higashiyama · Setsuko Hara · Sô Yamamura

Plot An elderly couple visit their children in Tokyo, only to be passed around from family to family.

Direction Kenji Mizoguchi

Cast Kinuyo Tanaka · Tsukie Matsuura · Ichiro Sugai · Toshirô Mifune

Plot It tells the story of Oharu, a 50-year-old woman who suffers the strict conventions of 17th century Feudal Japan. She becomes the lover of a man, but when they are...

Direction Yasujirō Ozu

Cast Setsuko Hara · Chishu Ryu · Chikage Awashima · Kuniko Miyake

Plot In postwar Tokyo, this household is loving and serene: older parents, their 28-year-old daughter Noriko, their married son, his devoted wife, and two rascally sons. Their only discontent is Noriko's...

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Keiko Kishi · Ineko Arima · Yoshiko Kuga · Yusuke Kawazu

Plot After surviving the double suicide pact she made with her lover, a woman gives birth to their child.

Direction Kôzaburô Yoshimura

Cast Kazuo Hasegawa · Michiyo Kogure · Machiko Kyô · Nobuko Otowa

Plot Based on the classic novel by Murasaki Shikibu, written over 1000 years ago. Genji, the son of the emperor, has gained renown among the nobility of Kyoto for his charm...

Direction Kinuyo Tanaka

Cast Machiko Kyô · Eiji Funakoshi · Atsuko Kindaichi · Chieko Higashiyama

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Kuniko Igawa · Kuniko Miyake · Mitsuko Miura · Ichiro Sugai

Direction Akira Kurosawa

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Masayuki Mori · Setsuko Hara · Takashi Shimura

Plot Kameda, who has been in an asylum on Okinawa, travels to Hokkaido. There he becomes involved with two women, Taeko and Ayako. Taeko comes to love Kameda, but is loved...

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Ayako Wakao · Kenji Sugawara · Keizo Kawasaki · Sadako Sawamura

Plot Early Masumura is contemporary with late Douglas Sirk -- both harnessed garish fifties modernism for a scathing, full-color portrait of ambition in the new middle class. In Blue Sky Maiden,...

Direction Kenji Mizoguchi

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

Plot 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...

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Yuriko Hamada · Chieko Higashiyama · Isao Kimura · Keiko Kishi

Plot Sudo and Mori are two university students who make money by picking up rich girls in dance clubs and conning them into giving them cash. Mori is the brains of...

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Hideko Takamine · Masao Wakahara · Chikage Awashima · Toshiko Kobayashi

Plot A naive stripper falls for an artist engaged to the daughter of a controversial female politician.

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Ayako Wakao · Hiroshi Kawaguchi · Eiji Funakoshi · Seiji Miyaguchi

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Shûji Sano · Setsuko Hara · Sugisaku Aoyama · Fusako Fujima

Plot Keizo Ishizu (Shuji Sano), owner of a car shop in Tokyo, meets Yasuko Ikeda (Setsuko Hara), the daughter of a former aristocratic family, on a matchmaking date arranged by Mr....

Direction Daisuke Itô

Cast Machiko Kyô · Koji Tsuruta · Michiko Ono · Kazuko Ichikawa

Direction Shirô Toyoda

Cast Setsuko Wakayama · Haruko Sugimura · Ryo Ikebe · Chieko Higashiyama

Direction Masaki Kobayashi

Cast Kinuyo Tanaka · Keiko Awaji · Chieko Higashiyama · Akira Ishihama

Direction Kôzaburô Yoshimura

Cast Tomomi Satô · Toshiyuki Hosokawa · Eitarô Ozawa · Jūzō Itami

Plot A dynamic woman who aspires to be a writer, living a wild life in constant search of freedom while indulging in lust with four men.

Direction Kôzaburô Yoshimura

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

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Tsumasaburo Bando · Toshiko Kobayashi · Masayuki Mori · Sadako Sawamura

Plot In a wealthy family, a mother and her grown-up children are a happy and colourful group people, each with their own dreams and aspirations. But these are ultimately quashed by...