Cast: Noriko Honma

Direction Akira Kurosawa

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Machiko Kyô · Masayuki Mori · Takashi Shimura

Plot In 12th century Japan, Masako (Machiko Kyo) and her husband Takehiro (Masayuki Mori) are attacked in the woods by armed bandit Tajomaru (Toshiro Mifune), who then murders her husband. After...

Direction Akira Kurosawa

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Takashi Shimura · Keiko Awaji · Eiko Miyoshi

Plot Murukami, a young homicide detective, has his pocket picked on a bus and loses his pistol. Frantic and ashamed, he dashes about trying to recover the weapon without success until...

Direction Toshio Masuda · Hajime Takaiwa

Cast Atsuo Nakamura · Sanae Tsuchida · Kei Sato · Isamu Nagato

Direction Heinosuke Gosho

Cast Ken Uehara · Kinuyo Tanaka · Hiroshi Akutagawa · Hideko Takamine

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Mieko Takamine · Ken Uehara · Rentarô Mikuni · Michiyo Aratama

Plot Tsuma concerns the struggles of a woman who finds out that her husband is cheating on her; to avoid the stigma of a broken marriage, she decides she'll do whatever...

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Hideko Takamine · Ken Uehara · Masayuki Mori · Daisuke Kato

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Musei Tokugawa · Noriko Honma · Akira Ubukata · Kaoru Itô

Plot Father of nine children cannot find a job. Despite their aspirations, the children are encouraged by both parents to hold down menial jobs and contribute to the family expenses. Eventually...

Direction Saito Kosei

Cast Jun Etô · Moeko Ezawa · Ryô Hayami · Noriko Honma

Plot A squadron of Japanese Self-Defense Force soldiers find themselves transported through time to their country's warring states era, when rival samurai clans were battling to become the supreme Shogun. The...

Direction Hiroshi Inagaki

Cast Hisaya Morishige · Setsuko Hara · Yosuke Natsuki · Chiemi Eri

Direction Ishirô Honda

Cast Akira Takarada · Momoko Kôchi · Ken Uehara · Tatsuyoshi Ehara

Direction Nobuo Aoyagi · Shuei Matsubayashi

Cast Michitaro Mizushima · Ken Uehara · Haruo Tanaka · Noriko Honma

Direction Koreyoshi Kurahara

Cast Makiko Aoi · Tomio Aoki · Akemi Ebata · Jun Hamamura

Plot While in vacation in a sea side house, a young man fall in love with a beautiful woman who pretends to live by herself in the sea. The fishermen of...

Direction Kajirô Yamamoto

Cast Mariko Okada · Keiju Kobayashi · Hiroshi Koizumi · Yôko Sugi

Plot Girls in the Orchard (1953) is about tension between the life of a family in a rural area with all the traditions (continuing family business, taking care of the land)--...

Direction Yasuki Chiba

Cast Daisuke Kato · Akira Tani · Sadako Sawamura · Hiroshi Tachikawa

Plot In the third film out of four adopted from a novel called Oban, which narrates the story of a trader, a man with a loan over his head decides to...

Direction Yasuki Chiba

Cast Daisuke Kato · Keiju Kobayashi · Koji Mitsui · Yosuke Natsuki

Direction Kajirô Yamamoto

Cast Hideko Takamine · Musei Tokugawa · Nijiko Kiyokawa · Shiro Mizutani

Plot A girl living in a poor neighborhood somewhere in Tokyo, Japan. Its prospects are, like those of the rest of the family, not very rosy. Her teacher noted, however, her...

Direction Masanori Kakei

Cast Ineko Arima · Yu Fujiki · Momoko Kôchi · Seiji Miyaguchi

Direction Ishirô Honda

Cast Chiyoko Shimakura · Shinji Yamada · Kichijiro Ueda · Noriko Honma

Plot The film is about young lovers trying to listen to their heart despite their parent's interjecting.

Direction Yasuki Chiba

Cast Keiju Kobayashi · Daisuke Kato · Nobuko Otowa · Mitsuko Kusabue

Plot Yaji and Kita make a journey to the temple of Ise, presumably as part of a religious pilgrimage, but actually to get away from their wives for a little while....

Direction Shirô Toyoda

Cast Hisaya Morishige · Chikage Awashima · Yôko Tsukasa · Haruo Tanaka

Plot The story of a couple, a spoiled son and a down-to-earth girl, in Osaka in the early Showa era. The film won the prestigious Blue Ribbon awards for best director,...