Cast: Nobuko Otowa

Direction Kenji Mizoguchi

Cast Kinuyo Tanaka · Nobuko Otowa · Yuji Hori · Kiyoko Hirai

Plot Shinnosuke is introduced to Shizu as a prospective marriage partner, but he falls in love with her widowed sister Oyu. Convention forbids Oyu to marry because she has to raise...

Direction Kaneto Shindô

Cast Nobuko Otowa · Jitsuko Yoshimura · Kei Sato · Taiji Tonoyama

Plot After enlisting as a volunteer in a war in 14th century Japan, his wife and mother remain living in a swamp. They eke out their living by ambushing worn-out warriors,...

Direction Heinosuke Gosho

Cast Nobuko Otowa · Shûji Sano · Mitsuko Mito · Sachiko Hidari

Direction Kaneto Shindô

Cast Taiji Tonoyama · Nobuko Otowa · Shinji Tanaka · Masanori Horimoto

Plot Deals with the intolerably hard life of a family of four, the only inhabitants of a very small Japanese island in the Setonaikai archipelago. Several times a day they row...

Direction Sugako Hashida

Cast Ayako Kobayashi · Yûko Tanaka · Nobuko Otowa · Pinko Izumi

Plot (297 Episodes) The series follows the life of Shin Tanokura during the Meiji period up to the early 1980s. Shin was called "Oshin", which is Japanese archaic cognomen. In Japan,...

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Nobuko Otowa · Jun Fujimaki · Kamatari Fujiwara · Yosuke Natsuki

Direction Kaneto Shindô

Cast Kichiemon Nakamura · Nobuko Otowa · Kiwako Taichi · Kei Sato

Plot A woman and her daughter are raped and murdered by soldiers during a time of civil war. Afterwards, a series of samurai returning from the war through that area are...

Direction Kaneto Shindô

Cast Taiji Tonoyama · Nobuko Otowa · Kei Sato · Kei Yamamoto

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Hideko Takamine · Tatsuya Nakadai · Keiji Sada · Nobuko Otowa

Plot Slow-paced but endowed with understanding, characters of some depth and complexity, and good direction, this slice-of-drama by Keisuke Kinoshita is taken from a bitter confection. The tale begins when Sadako...

Direction Kaneto Shindô

Cast Keiju Kobayashi · Nobuko Otowa · Ichirô Zaitsu · Kotoe Hatsui

Direction Kaneto Shindô

Cast Nobuko Otowa · Haruko Sugimura · Takeshi Katô · Taiji Tonoyama

Plot Tamiko is a single mother. Her son Toshio is going blind. He is diagnosed with a brain tumour. She does not have the money for surgery and asks her mother...

Direction Kaneto Shindô

Cast Nobuko Otowa · Osamu Takizawa · Niwa Saito · Tsuneko Yamanaka

Plot Post war Hiroshima: It's been four years since the last time she visited her hometown. Takako faces the after effects of the A-bomb when she travels around the city to...

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Kinuyo Tanaka · Toshirô Mifune · Jûkichi Uno · Nobuko Otowa

Plot Noriko is a married woman who commutes once a week between Tokyo, where she runs her family’s jewellery store, and her home at the coast. Her husband has been ill...

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 Kaneto Shindô

Cast Daijirô Harada · Nobuko Otowa · Keiko Torii · Kiwako Taichi

Plot Michio Yamada, a recent school graduate, is sent to Tokyo to work as a fruit-packer in a department store as part of a government programme. He takes a gun from...

Direction Kaneto Shindô

Cast Nobuko Otowa · Isuzu Yamada · Sumiko Hidaka · Sô Yamamura

Direction Nagisa Ôshima

Cast Kenzo Kawarazaki · Atsuko Kaku · Atsuo Nakamura · Akiko Koyama

Plot Oshima Nagisa's The Ceremony is a fascinating study of Japan's war and post-war period, as seen through the eyes of a young man from an influential family. The Ceremony is...

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 Kaneto Shindô

Cast Nobuko Otowa · Taiji Tonoyama · Jûkichi Uno

Direction Kaneto Shindô

Cast Ken Ogata · Toshiyuki Nishida · Yûko Tanaka · Kanako Higuchi