Cast: Masayuki Mori

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Yujiro Ishihara · Masayuki Mori · Kinuyo Tanaka · Ruriko Asaoka

Plot A powerful hymn to the human spirit, Alone Across the Pacific – by renowned Japanese director Kon Ichikawa (An Actor’s Revenge, The Burmese Harp, Tokyo Olympiad) – tells the extraordinary...

Direction Akira Kurosawa

Cast Denjirô Ôkôchi · Susumu Fujita · Takashi Shimura · Kenichi Enomoto

Plot Kurosawa's widely acclaimed master-piece was something of a last-minute affair, made after his plans to direct a lavish costume picture fel through and using its sets, costumes and actors. The...

Direction Seiji Maruyama

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Yûzô Kayama · Yôko Tsukasa · Toshio Kurosawa

Plot As Japan joins in a political pact with Nazi Germany and fascist Italy, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is appointed supreme commander of the Japanese fleet. With Japan headed inexorably toward war,...

Direction Akira Kurosawa

Cast Denjirô Ôkôchi · Susumu Fujita · Ryunosuke Tsukigata · Akitake Kôno

Plot In this government-suggested sequel, Sugata again grows as a judo master, and demonstrates his (and by extension, all Japanese) superiority to the foreign warrior.

Direction Koreyoshi Kurahara

Cast Ryoji Hayama · Hiroyuki Nagato · Masayuki Mori · Mihoko Inagaki

Direction Kôzaburô Yoshimura

Cast Mitsuko Mito · Masayuki Mori · Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi · Chieko Seki

Direction Teinosuke Kinugasa

Cast Kazuo Hasegawa · Takako Irie · Yukiko Todoroki · Masayuki Mori

Direction Yasuki Chiba

Cast Aiko Mimasu · Chinatsu Nakayama · Tadao Takashima · Hisako Hara

Plot A kind of modern dress "Donzoko" "The Lower Depths", about slum life in Osaka, where a greedy widow (Mimasu) takes advantage of her poor roomers, including her own son, who...

Direction Yasuki Chiba

Cast Michiyo Aratama · Yuriko Hoshi · Yôko Tsukasa · Akira Takarada

Direction Yûzô Kawashima

Cast Masayuki Mori · Setsuko Hara · Yoshiko Kuga · Tatsuya Mihashi

Plot Married for a decade, a couple have no child. He is a lawyer, however, and as a result of one of his cases has the daughter of an imprisoned man...

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...

Direction Koji Shima

Cast Hideko Takamine · Masayuki Mori · Masao Wakahara · Ureo Egawa

Direction Sô Yamamura

Cast Sô Yamamura · Masayuki Mori · Sumiko Hidaka · Akitake Kôno

Plot Describes the oppressed life of the crab fishermen and their final revolt which is bloodily suppressed by the Royal Navy.

Direction Keigo Kimura

Cast Hiroshi Akutagawa · Kakuko Chino · Natsuko Kahara · Kyôko Kishida

Plot A woman's husband died that summer. She is well off and lives in a villa with her servant. The two reminisce about their younger years. The woman's older brother died...

Direction Keigo Kimura

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

Direction Akira Kurosawa · Hideo Sekigawa · Kajirô Yamamoto

Cast Susumu Fujita · Hideko Takamine · Kenji Susukida · Masayuki Mori

Plot Two sisters, one a dancer and the other a script supervisor at a big movie studio, become embroiled in union activities when a strike is called in sympathy with striking...

Direction Teinosuke Kinugasa

Cast Fujiko Yamamoto · Koji Tsuruta · Masayuki Mori · Sumiko Fujita

Plot A highly esteemed student falls for Otsuta, a geisha.

Direction Kajirô Yamamoto

Cast Denjirô Ôkôchi · Susumu Fujita · Katsuhiko Haida · Akitake Kôno

Plot Wartime film dealing with a Japanese torpedo bomber squadron at war. Three IJN flyers Mikami (Susumu Fujita), Kawakami (Masayuki Mori) and Murakami (Akitake Kono) are good friends, and they are...

Direction Masahiro Shinoda

Cast Yusuke Kawazu · Miyuki Kuwano · Masayuki Mori · Yuki Tominaga

Plot Hatsuko, a young girl on the verge of graduating from high school, suffers a motorcycle accident while riding with her boyfriend Fusao. The doctor treating her at the hospital happens...

Direction Koji Shima

Cast Yukiko Todoroki · Masayuki Mori · Takako Irie · Kyôko Kagawa