Cast: Yôko Kosono

Direction Yasujirō Ozu

Cast Shin Saburi · Michiyo Kogure · Koji Tsuruta · Chikage Awashima

Synopsis Takeo, a capricious wife from Tokyo high-society, is bored by her dull husband, a quiet and reliable company executive raised in the country (Shin Saburi) After a crisis, she understands better his true value. A parallel sub-plot shows her niece...

Direction Koreyoshi Kurahara

Cast Nobuo Kaneko · Kojiro Kusanagi · Kô Nishimura · Mari Shiraki

Synopsis Koreyoshi Kurahara’s ingeniously plotted, pocket-size noir concerns the intertwined fates of a desperate bank manager, blackmailed for book-cooking, and his resentful but timid underling, passed over for a promotion. The marvelously moody Intimidation (Aru kyouhaku) is an elegantly stripped-down and...

Direction Masaki Kobayashi

Cast Akira Ishihama · Chishu Ryu · Kuniko Miyake · Yôko Kosono

Synopsis The story of a father and two teenaged sons, and the rivalry between the two siblings as they begin to discover the attraction of girls.

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Renaud Verley · Ruriko Asaoka · Tetsuo Ishidate · Yôko Kosono

Direction Motomu Ida

Cast Shoichi Ozawa · Masahiko Shimazu · Mayumi Shimizu · Tôru Yuri

Direction Yûzô Kawashima

Cast Ichirô Arishima · Takiko Egawa · Kodayu Ichikawa · Kokinji Katsura

Direction Motomu Ida

Cast Shôbun Inoue · Yôko Kosono · Akira Kobayashi · Masanori Machida

Direction Koreyoshi Kurahara

Cast Yôko Kosono · Tatsuo Matsushita · Taketoshi Naitô · Kazuko Yoshiyuki

Direction Hiroshi Noguchi

Cast Keiichirô Akagi · Reiko Sasamori · Michitaro Mizushima · Shinsuke Ashida

Direction Koreyoshi Kurahara

Cast Yujiro Ishihara · Tamio Kawaji · Mie Kitahara · Misako Watanabe

Direction Kô Nakahira

Cast Frankie Sakai · Sumiko Minami · Harue Tone · Toshiyuki Ichimura

Synopsis Raised earnestly by his feudal grandfather in the countryside of Choshu, Milkman Frankie is astonished by the strangers he encounters upon his arrival in Tokyo. Frankie possesses a unique combination of clumsiness and undying dedication reminiscent of bushido samurai code....

Direction Kô Nakahira

Cast Noboru Nakaya · Masako Togawa · Kazuo Kitamura · Yukiyo Toake

Synopsis Leaving his wife in Osaka, Honda leads a double life in Tokyo. While living in a hotel, he is also renting an apartment for fulfilling his sexual appetite. There, he records the results of his 'girl hunts' to the last...

Direction Motomu Ida

Cast Yôko Kosono · Shigerô Hayashi · Eiko Higashitani · Saburo Hiromatsu

Direction Buichi Saito

Cast Akira Kobayashi · Ruriko Asaoka · Sanae Nakahara · Arihiro Fujimura

Synopsis After mastering the art of French cuisine, young Jiro (Akira Kobayashi) returns to Japan and opens a restaurant in the busy streets of Ginza. His dashing looks, iconoclastic culinary skills, and charismatic character attracts not only women, but unwanted trouble....

Direction Motomu Ida

Cast Izumi Ashikawa · Tanie Kitabayashi · Yôko Kosono · Masao Shimizu

Direction Motomu Ida

Cast Tatsuya Fuji · Shôki Fukae · Akira Kobayashi · Yôko Kosono