Cast: Sugisaku Aoyama

Direction Kenji Mizoguchi

Cast Machiko Kyô · Mitsuko Mito · Kinuyo Tanaka · Masayuki Mori

Plot In the civil wars of 16th century Japan, two ambitious peasants want to make their fortunes. The potter Genjuro intends to sell his wares for vast profits in the local...

Direction Akira Kurosawa

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Shirley Yamaguchi · Yôko Katsuragi · Noriko Sengoku

Plot On holiday in the snow-covered mountains, young painter Ichiro Aoye (Toshiro Mifune) has a chance meeting with the popular singer Miyako Saijo (Shirley Yamaguchi). After giving her a ride back...

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 Akira Kurosawa

Cast Denjirô Ôkôchi · Susumu Fujita · Yukiko Todoroki · Ryunosuke Tsukigata

Plot Sanshiro, a strong stubborn youth, comes to the city to apprentice at a jujitsu school. His first night, he sees Yano in action, a master of judo, a more spiritual...

Direction Kôjirô Sasaki

Cast Sugisaku Aoyama · Toichi Doki · Masao Hayama · Toshio Ichise

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 Santarô Marune

Cast Sugisaku Aoyama · Tsumasaburo Bando · Ranko Hanai · Sayoko Kasumi

Direction Hiroshi Inagaki

Cast Shirley Yamaguchi · Rentarô Mikuni · Michiko Araki · Daisuke Kato

Direction Kôzaburô Yoshimura

Cast Sugisaku Aoyama · Chieko Higashiyama · Shûji Sano · Sadako Sawamura

Direction Daisuke Itô

Cast Sugisaku Aoyama · Saburô Gôda · Tominosuke Hayama · Chieko Higashiyama

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Sessue Hayakawa · Eijirô Tono · Keiko Kishi · Eitarô Ozawa

Plot Second part of the epic Japanese adaptation of Les Miserables, reset in late 19th-early 20th century times under the Meiji emperor.

Direction Kôzaburô Yoshimura

Cast Kinuyo Tanaka · Eijirô Tono · Kuniko Igawa · Osamu Takizawa

Direction Daisuke Itô

Cast Sessue Hayakawa · Eijirô Tono · Keiko Kishi · Eitarô Ozawa

Plot The story from Victor Hugo's classic novel about a man convicted of a minor crime who spends his entire life pursued by a zealous, relentless lawman, reset in Meiji-period Japan.

Direction Noboru Nakamura

Cast Chishu Ryu · Isuzu Yamada · Hideko Takamine · Keiji Sada

Plot Even with four children, the Uemura family is able to live a modest but happy life in their cramped, rented flat. The parents support the two elder daughters’ artistic ambitions...

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Ennosuke Ichikawa · Seizaburô Kawazu · Setsuko Hara · Hideko Takamine

Plot Two British brothers who are making money for their homeland are meeting buyers for opium in China. There is a police force to counter the dealers, but is not only...