Cast: Natsuko Kahara

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Hideko Takamine · Chikage Awashima · Masayuki Mori · Yuriko Hoshi

Direction Mikio Naruse

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

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Kinuyo Tanaka · Isuzu Yamada · Hideko Takamine · Mariko Okada

Plot The narrative, as adapted from a book by Kodo Aya, concerns Rika (Kinuyo Tanaka), a widow whose dire financial circumstances force her to take a housemaid assignment in a failing...

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Hideko Takamine · Yôko Tsukasa · Eitarô Ozawa · Daisuke Kato

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Sô Yamamura · Kyôko Kagawa · Isao Kimura · Keiju Kobayashi

Direction Yasuki Chiba

Cast Machiko Kyô · Haruko Sugimura · Yôko Tsukasa · Reiko Dan

Plot Four sisters are all named after flowers. While the two youngest are married, the eldest two remain single, much to the annoyance of their long-suffering mother. The mother and her...

Direction Teinosuke Kinugasa

Cast Eiji Funakoshi · Natsuko Kahara · Shintarô Katsu · Fujiko Yamamoto

Direction Hiroshi Shimizu

Cast Michiyo Kogure · Ichirô Ryûzaki · Junko Ikeuchi · Shôji Nakayama

Plot Based on the novel by Kojin Shimomura. Story of a young boy and his adventures in the country. His idyllic life is shattered by the illness and death of his...

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Mieko Harada · Natsuko Kahara · Meiko Kaji · Mihoko Nakagawa

Plot The story of an orphan girl, brought up in naive, rustic innocence by an elderly relative, who is suddenly exposed to the brutality, greed and deceptiveness of the outside world,...

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 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 Hideo Onchi

Cast Yôko Naito · Toshio Kurosawa · Tatsuyoshi Ehara · Nobuko Otowa

Direction Teinosuke Kinugasa

Cast Michiko Ai · Noriko Hodaka · Hiromi Ichida · Natsuko Kahara

Plot Late romance by acclaimed filmmaker Kinugasa Teinosuke.

Direction Teinosuke Kinugasa

Cast Machiko Kyô · Ganjiro Nakamura · Eiji Funakoshi · Natsuko Kahara

Direction Takeshi 'Ken' Matsumori · Masahiro Takase · Susumu Kodama · Yasuki Chiba

Cast Yosuke Natsuki · Yôko Fujiyama · Daisuke Kato · Yu Fujiki

Plot TV series (1965-1966). 41 episodes.

Direction Shirô Toyoda

Cast Fujiko Yamamoto · Hiroshi Akutagawa · Michiyo Aratama · Nobuko Otowa

Plot A village girl lives in Tokyo as a hooker to support her ailing mother. One day she meets an allegedly unmarried teacher and falls in love.

Direction Teinosuke Kinugasa

Cast Shizuo Chûjô · Chikako Fujino · Tatsuo Hanabu · Hiroko Hanai

Plot One of Kinugasa's last films--based on the story by Tanizaki Jun'ichirō.

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Haruko Sugimura · Toshinosuke Nagao · Shin Tokudaiji · Mitsuko Miura

Plot A Japanese family raised on liberal principles endures wartime hardships.

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Yoshiko Kuga · Mariko Okada · Eitarô Ozawa · Michiko Araki

Plot The household of a wealthy family is thrown into an uproar when an elderly potato vendor suffers a stroke on their living room floor.

Direction Tadashi Imai

Cast Kumiko Akiyoshi · Masao Kusakari · Kimiko Ikegami · Hideji Ôtaki