Cast: Isamu Kosugi

Direction Yûzô Kawashima

Cast Ryoji Hayama · Keiji Itami · Keiko Izumi · Nobuo Kaneko

Synopsis Reiko, who tolerates abuse in her marriage to a man 23 years her senior, is friends with Mayumi, a beautiful widow. Reiko meets her husband’s business rival, a young, capable businessman, and falls for him. Meanwhile, Mayumi enters into a...

Direction Kenji Mizoguchi

Cast Yoshizaburo Arashi · Utaemon Ichikawa · Chojuro Kawarasaki · Tokusaburo Arashi

Synopsis Lord Asano resists a bribery attempt by a member of the Shogun's court. His honesty, however, is useless against the corruption of the administration, and he is forced to commit harakiri. His samurai retinue are dispersed as masterless ronin. The...

Direction Yûzô Kawashima

Cast Nobuo Kaneko · Setsuko Katô · Yoshirô Katô · Akira Kobayashi

Synopsis Reiko, who tolerates abuse in her marriage to a man 23 years her senior, is friends with Mayumi, a beautiful widow. Reiko meets her husband’s business rival, a young, capable businessman, and falls for him. Meanwhile, Mayumi enters into a...

Direction Koreyoshi Kurahara

Cast Ken Hatano · Yujiro Ishihara · Mie Kitahara · Isamu Kosugi

Synopsis In Koreyoshi Kurahara’s directorial debut, rebel matinee idol Yujiro Ishihara (fresh off the sensational Crazed Fruit) stars as a restaurant manager and former boxer who saves a beautiful, suicidal club hostess (Mie Kitahara) trying to escape the clutches of her...

Direction Kenji Mizoguchi

Cast Shizue Natsukawa · Reiji Ichiki · Takako Irie · Isamu Kosugi

Synopsis A classic melodramatic love tragedy addressing social inequality in feudal Japan, depicted in Kenji Mizoguchi's typical style. The nostalgic scenes of 1920s Tokyo provides a valuable visual experience set against the background of the title song, "Tokyo March."

Direction Kenkichi Hara

Cast Kyoko Asagiri · Torazo Hirosawa · Makoto Kobori · Isamu Kosugi

Direction Sadatsugu Matsuda

Cast Chiezô Kataoka · Teruyo Asagumo · Chizuru Kitagawa · Ryutaro Otomo

Direction Minoru Murata

Cast Takako Irie · Shizue Natsukawa · Tokihiko Okada · Isamu Kosugi

Direction Sadatsugu Matsuda

Cast Chiezô Kataoka · Chizuru Kitagawa · Isamu Kosugi · Kuniko Miyake

Direction Kazuo Mori

Cast Chiezô Kataoka · Isamu Kosugi · Hisako Yamane · Kyoji Sugi

Direction Minoru Murata

Cast Isamu Kosugi · Koji Shima · Takako Irie · Shizue Natsukawa

Direction Tomotaka Tasaka

Cast Torao Aoki · Mitsuru Date · Donguriboya · Ureo Egawa

Synopsis The story takes place around 1902, about a young boy brought up entirely by his mother, since his drunken father is never home.

Direction Masahisa Sunohara

Cast Chiemi Eri · Yujiro Ishihara · Isamu Kosugi · Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi

Synopsis A humble street vendor from a small Japanese island who was abandoned by her father when she was very young has an innate talent for singing. Moved by the hope of succeeding in musical theater and also finding her father,...

Direction Kunio Watanabe

Cast Ureo Egawa · Reiko Hoshi · Isamu Kosugi · Kiyo Kuroda

Direction Minoru Murata

Cast Isamu Kosugi · Koji Shima · Haruyo Ichikawa · Akiko Shiga

Direction Tomu Uchida

Cast Eiji Nakano · Isamu Kosugi · Taisuke Matsumoto · Shinobu Araki

Synopsis This tremendously stylish gangster film, about the love-hate relationship between a cop and a criminal who were childhood friends is Uchida’s finest surviving silent film. Its taut, terse style demonstrates a Western influence typical of Japan’s late silent cinema, and...

Direction Kunio Watanabe

Cast Yôko Benisawa · Hisao Furuya · Isamu Kosugi · Sadako Sawamura

Direction Daisuke Itô

Cast Tsumasaburo Bando · Isamu Kosugi · Tatsuo Saito · Ryutaro Otomo

Direction Minoru Murata

Cast Isamu Kosugi · Koji Shima · Takako Irie · Shizue Natsukawa

Direction Minoru Murata

Cast Yuriko Hanabusa · Eiji Nakano · Shizue Natsukawa · Yutaka Mimasu