Cast: Kanji Kawahara

Direction Hiroshi Shimizu

Cast Michiko Kuwano · Ken Uehara · Mayumi Tsukiji · Kaoru Futaba

Plot Hiroshi Shimizu’s endearing road movie follows the long and winding route of a sweet-natured bus driver—nicknamed Mr. Thank You for his constant exclamation to pedestrians who kindly step out of...

Direction Hiroshi Shimizu

Cast Kinuyo Tanaka · Hiroko Kawasaki · Tatsuo Saito · Chishu Ryu

Plot Two bruised souls enact a tender, hesitant romance in Hiroshi Shimizu’s alternately poignant and playful wartime love story. A soldier (Chishu Ryu) is forced to prolong his stay at a...

Direction Yasujirō Ozu

Cast Satoko Date · Hiroko Kawasaki · Takeshi Sakamoto · Utako Suzuki

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Kenji Sugawara · Fujiko Yamamoto · Hitomi Nozoe · Keizo Kawasaki

Plot Kosaka drops to death while ice climbing with his friend Uozu to see the sunrise on the New Year’s Day. The investigators try to find the cause of the death,...

Direction Yasujirō Ozu · Torajiro Saito

Cast Hikaru Kicchôji · Kunimatsu Ogawa · Kanji Kawahara · Shoichi Nodera

Plot Ishimatsu is out of jail and wants to rebuild his life. But his brother, Sakichi, and his old partners are not going to allow it.

Direction Kôzaburô Yoshimura

Cast Hideo Fujino · Kaneko Fujiwara · Shinichi Himori · Kôichi Itô

Plot The movie depicts the complicated romantic relationships among staff and doctors of a small hospital

Direction Teinosuke Kinugasa

Cast Fujiko Yamamoto · Hiroshi Akutagawa · Yuzo Hayakawa · Kiyoko Hirai

Direction Yasujirô Shimazu

Cast Shigeo Akaike · Kazuo Hasegawa · Ryuji Ishiyama · Kanji Kawahara

Plot Jyuta, an honest owner of a taxi company, has a younger half-brother who is involved in the yakuza world and doesn’t get along well with his mother. Jyuta tries to...

Direction Kôzaburô Yoshimura

Cast Shozaburo Abe · Munenobu Aburai · Shôtarô Fujimatsu · Chiematsu Hanamura

Plot The life story of Kojiro Nishizumi. Following in his father's footsteps, Nishizumi goes to military school and is sent to the Chinese front. He becomes the leader of a tank...

Direction Keigo Kimura

Cast Kamatari Fujiwara · Kyôko Kishida · Ayako Wakao · Keiji Aoyama

Direction Heinosuke Gosho

Cast Kinuyo Tanaka · Shûji Sano · Shin Tokudaiji · Reikichi Kawamura

Plot Three men fall in love with the same young woman (Tanaka Kinuyo) who works in a tonkatsu restaurant in Tokyo's Shitamachi District.

Direction Kôzaburô Yoshimura

Cast Tomio Aoki · Hideo Fujino · Tokiko Hada · Masao Hayama

Plot A business man runs afoul of the law and commits suicide, leaving behind wife and five children. The eldest son takes the family to Tokyo and labors to restore its...

Direction Hiroshi Shimizu

Cast Daijirô Natsukawa · Hiroko Kawasaki · Shûji Sano · Kimiyo Ôtsuka

Plot An penniless orphan loses the woman he loves when her parents arrange a marriage to the son of a wealthy banking family. He believes she was blinded by greed and...

Direction Yasushi Sasaki

Cast Kaneko Fujiwara · Kiyoko Hara · Kôichi Itô · Fumiko Katsuragi

Plot A man and his girlfriend work for a cosmetics company, but would like to open their own store. The company is planning to send someone to Paris for special training...

Direction Yasujirô Shimazu

Cast Hideo Fujino · Shinichi Himori · Choko Iida · Kanji Kawahara

Plot Shigezumi is a young stock broker from Tokyo. He is in love with young Taiko who lives in Osaka. The marriage seems impossible as Shigezumi had a difficult relationship to...

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Eitarô Ozawa · Ken Uehara · Mitsuko Mito · Chishu Ryu

Plot The sweet but naive denizens of a charming port town are hoodwinked by a couple of con men who prey on them at the outset of the war. But the...