Cast: Yûko Mochizuki

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Kinuyo Tanaka · Teiji Takahashi · Yûko Mochizuki · Danko Ichikawa

Plot In Kabuki style, the film tells the story of a remote mountain village where the scarcity of food leads to a voluntary but socially-enforced policy in which relatives carry 70-year-old...

Direction Yasujirō Ozu

Cast Shin Saburi · Michiyo Kogure · Koji Tsuruta · Chikage Awashima

Plot Takeo, a capricious wife from Tokyo high-society, is bored by her dull husband, a quiet and reliable company executive raised in the country (Shin Saburi) After a crisis, she understands...

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Haruko Sugimura · Sadako Sawamura · Chikako Hosokawa · Yûko Mochizuki

Direction Nagisa Ôshima

Cast Hiroshi Fujikawa · Yuki Tominaga · Yûko Mochizuki · Michio Ito

Plot The film Oshima made was originally titled The Boy Who Sold Pigeon, but the producers changed the films title to Street of Love and Hope, , against Oshima's wishes. The...

Direction Kihachi Okamoto

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Shima Iwashita · Etsushi Takahashi · Minori Terada

Plot Impersonating an Imperial Army officer by wearing a "red lion's mane", a poor servant returns to his village after 10 years of absence to end the village's suffering caused by...

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Hideko Takamine · Shûji Sano · Chishu Ryu · Kuniko Igawa

Plot A girl who had left her small Japanese village for the excitement and adventure of the big city--in this case, Tokyo--returns home years later for a visit. However, scandal erupts...

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 Masaki Kobayashi

Cast Isuzu Yamada · Ko Mishima · Yûnosuke Itô · Shoji Mori

Direction Satsuo Yamamoto

Cast Yûko Mochizuki · Rentarô Mikuni · Sachiko Hidari · Yoshio Inaba

Direction Kaneto Shindô

Cast Kinuyo Tanaka · Machiko Kyô · Jûkichi Uno · Eiji Funakoshi

Direction Hideo Ôba

Cast Chikage Awashima · Haruyo Ichikawa · Akio Isono · Kyoko Kami

Direction Keigo Kimura

Cast Machiko Kyô · Masayuki Mori · Rentarô Mikuni · Minoru Chiaki

Direction Yasuki Chiba

Cast Chishu Ryu · Yûko Mochizuki · Toranosuke Ogawa · Sadako Sawamura

Direction Yasuki Chiba

Cast Akira Takarada · Yûzô Kayama · Kamatari Fujiwara · Mie Hama

Direction Yasushi Sasaki

Cast Hibari Misora · Shinichi Himori · Takeshi Sakamoto · Toru Abe

Direction Heinosuke Gosho

Cast Hibari Misora · Shogoro Ichikawa · Takashi Kitahara · Eijirô Yanagi

Plot Adapted from Ichiyô Higuchi’s Meiji period novella. Tells the story of a young girl doomed from birth to a life of prostitution and her growing awareness of her fate.

Direction Miyoji Ieki

Cast Kumiko Jô · Yoshi Kato · Hiroko Kawasaki · Tanie Kitabayashi

Direction Tadashi Imai

Cast Shinjiro Ebara · Eijirô Tono · Yûko Mochizuki · Sen Hara

Plot Released in English-speaking countries as Rice and The Rice People, Japanese filmmaker Tadashi Imai's Kome is perfectly in keeping with his previous paeans to the proletariat. The heroes and heroines...

Direction Nobuo Nakagawa

Cast Reiko Akiyama · Keiko Hamano · Kikuko Hanaoka · Hiroshi Hayashi

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Yoshiko Kuga · Takahiro Tamura · Shinji Tanaka · Yûko Mochizuki

Plot Sixteen-year-old Yoichi dreams of becoming a sailor. Son of fishmongers, he lives together with them and his four siblings in cramped living conditions. He has only the binoculars left to...