Cast: Jûkichi Uno

Direction Kenji Mizoguchi

Cast Kinuyo Tanaka · Tsukie Matsuura · Ichiro Sugai · Toshirô Mifune

Synopsis It tells the story of Oharu, a 50-year-old woman who suffers the strict conventions of 17th century Feudal Japan. She becomes the lover of a man, but when they are discovered, Oharu and her family are obliged to live in...

Direction Hiroshi Shimizu

Cast Kyôko Kagawa · Yukiko Shimazaki · Kenzo Kawarazaki · Jûkichi Uno

Synopsis A university professor and his wife have two sons with infantile paralysis. Through trial and error, they struggle to open a school for disabled children at their own expense. Based on a true story, it features natural child performances under...

Direction Kaneto Shindô

Cast Nobuko Otowa · Jitsuko Yoshimura · Kei Sato · Taiji Tonoyama

Synopsis After enlisting as a volunteer in a war in 14th century Japan, his wife and mother remain living in a swamp. They eke out their living by ambushing worn-out warriors, killing them and selling their belongings to a greedy merchant....

Direction Kinuyo Tanaka

Cast Masayuki Mori · Yoshiko Kuga · Jûkichi Uno · Kyôko Kagawa

Synopsis A sad and troubled man, Reikichi Mayumi (Masayuki Mori), finds a new job five years after the end of WWII. He will write love letters for other people.. His ideas about love and his personal principles will be tested when...

Direction Kaneto Shindô

Cast Nobuko Otowa · Osamu Takizawa · Niwa Saito · Tsuneko Yamanaka

Synopsis Post war Hiroshima: It's been four years since the last time she visited her hometown. Takako faces the after effects of the A-bomb when she travels around the city to call on old friends.

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Kinuyo Tanaka · Toshirô Mifune · Jûkichi Uno · Nobuko Otowa

Synopsis Noriko is a married woman who commutes once a week between Tokyo, where she runs her family’s jewellery store, and her home at the coast. Her husband has been ill for some time already and has to remain in bed...

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Kinuyo Tanaka · Ken Uehara · Haruko Sugimura · Keiji Sada

Synopsis Iemon Tamiya is an impovershed masterless samurai who craves a better life, which he cannot have because of his marriage to Oiwa, who is completely devoted to her husband

Direction Kaneto Shindô

Cast Nobuko Otowa · Isuzu Yamada · Sumiko Hidaka · Sô Yamamura

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Yuriko Hamada · Chieko Higashiyama · Isao Kimura · Keiko Kishi

Synopsis Sudo and Mori are two university students who make money by picking up rich girls in dance clubs and conning them into giving them cash. Mori is the brains of the operation, and Sudo is the suave dancer who picks...

Direction Kaneto Shindô

Cast Nobuko Otowa · Taiji Tonoyama · Jûkichi Uno

Direction Yoshishige Yoshida

Cast Mariko Okada · Hiroyuki Nagato · Sumiko Hidaka · Asao Koike

Synopsis A young woman working at a hot springs saves a suicidal student who has lost the will to live. He falls in love with her and finds meaning in his life but he decides to leave...

Direction Kaneto Shindô

Cast Jûkichi Uno · Nobuko Otowa · Harold Conway · Masao Mishima

Synopsis Daigo Fukuryū Maru (第五福龍丸?, Lucky Dragon 5) was a Japanese tuna fishing boat, which was exposed to and contaminated by nuclear fallout from the United States’ Castle Bravo thermonuclear device test on Bikini Atoll, on March 1, 1954. Kuboyama Aikichi,...

Direction Kaneto Shindô

Cast Nobuko Otowa · Jûkichi Uno · Ichiro Sugai · Ryôsuke Kagawa

Synopsis Yamazaki, an aspiring screenwriter, played by Jūkichi Uno, is boarding with a couple and their daughter. He and the daughter become involved romantically and the father asks him to leave, and tells the daughter not to marry Yamazaki because of...

Direction Kôzaburô Yoshimura

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

Direction Shuei Matsubayashi

Cast Rieko Sumi · Toshiyasu Hiyoshi · Tatsuo Saito · Yoshiko Tsubouchi

Direction Kaneto Shindô

Cast Nobuko Otowa · Hiroyuki Nagato · Jûkichi Uno · Ichiro Sugai

Direction Kei Kumai

Cast Jûkichi Uno · Izumi Ashikawa · Hideaki Nitani · Mizuho Suzuki

Synopsis The appearance of the corpse of a U.S. Army sergeant triggers a series of unexpected events.

Direction Ren Yoshimura

Cast Mitsuo Hamada · Saburo Hiromatsu · Yoshiro Ichikawa · Chiharu Kuri

Synopsis A boy who dreams of being a yakuza leader is reformed by a girl’s pure love for him.

Direction Kaneto Shindô

Cast Nobuko Otowa · Sanae Takasugi · Taiji Tonoyama · Jun Hamamura

Direction Kaneto Shindô

Cast Hideo Kanze · Nobuko Otowa · Taiji Tonoyama · Eijirô Tono