Cast: Taizô Fukami

Direction Kenji Mizoguchi

Cast Isuzu Yamada · Yôko Umemura · Benkei Shiganoya · Eitarô Shindô

Synopsis Umekichi, a geisha in the Gion district of Kyoto, feels obliged to help her lover Furusawa when he asks to stay with her after becoming bankrupt and leaving his wife. However her younger sister Omocha tells her she is wasting...

Direction Kenji Mizoguchi

Cast Taizô Fukami · Akira Harue · Kiyoshi Katô · Seizaburô Kawazu

Direction Kô Nakahira

Cast Yujiro Ishihara · Mie Kitahara · Ayuko Fujishiro · Taizô Fukami

Synopsis Spending their summer on an exotic beach, fall for the same beautiful girl. The brothers are part of a group of teenagers who congregate around their wealthy American friend. Things take a turn for the worse when each brother realizes...

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Kamatari Fujiwara · Kan Yanagiya · Minoru Takase · Shoji Kiyokawa

Synopsis Lovely comedy about two actors who play the front and back legs of a horse and feel their artistry is unappreciated. When the self important barber who funds their show decides to replace them with a real horse, they plan...

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Ranko Hanai · Tsuruko Mano · Kinji Fujiwa · Soji Watari

Direction Harumi Mizuho

Cast Raizô Ichikawa · Ganjiro Nakamura · Kinuyo Tanaka · Kyû Sazanka

Direction Teinosuke Kinugasa

Cast Isamu Eto · Kazuo Hasegawa · Tatsuya Ishiguro · Taizô Fukami

Synopsis Historical war film set during Japan's sengoku ("warring states" or "civil war") period.

Direction Kunio Watanabe

Cast Kazuo Hasegawa · Ureo Egawa · Isamu Eto · Susumu Fujita

Synopsis A wartime drama defending the Japanese presence in China. To paraphrase Sato Tadao in Currents in Japanese Cinema (1982): Japan's imperial adventure is mirrored in the romance between a Japanese man and a Chinese woman - between the invading country...

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Hideko Takamine · Kazuo Hasegawa · Isuzu Yamada · Kenichi Enomoto

Direction Hiroshi Noguchi

Cast Hiroshi Nawa · Yujiro Ishihara · Hisako Yamane · Minako Katsuki

Synopsis A conflict between two yakuza families in Tokyo, the Izus and the Yoshidas, has recently broken out. When an Izu underling starts a fight with a Yoshida man, Fuyu, the Izu family sends Tsuruta, a senior member of the clan,...

Direction Tadashi Imai

Cast Setsuko Hara · Heihachiro Okawa · Sadako Sawamura · Kinji Fujiwa

Direction Yasuki Chiba

Cast Hideko Takamine · Kumeko Otowa · Yoshio Kosugi · Sadako Sawamura

Synopsis An early, wartime take on the Japanese "Idol" movie. Young-Girl-Star Hideko Takamine plays a young Baseball fan, determined to cheer for her favourite baseball team by creating a new song for them. The film was unusually jolly for its day,...

Direction Tadashi Imai

Cast Chieko Takehisa · Osamu Takizawa · Eitarô Ozawa · Mutsuhiko Tsurumaru

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Kazuo Hasegawa · Kitsunosuke Bando · Sachiko Chiba · Satoko Date

Synopsis A story of a friendship between a famous actor and a famous doctor. Though the film was originally 106 minutes long, the only extant version is 73 minutes.

Direction Tadashi Imai

Cast Ranko Hanai · Eitarô Shindô · Hisako Yamane · Heihachiro Okawa

Direction Tamizo Ishida

Cast Ranko Hanai · Hisako Yamane · Jun Fujio · Kokuten Kôdô

Direction Yutaka Abe

Cast Susumu Fujita · Taizô Fukami · Katsuhiko Haida · Seishirô Hara

Synopsis The film was produced during Second Sino-Japanese War, before the Pearl Harbor Attack in 1941. The film mainly concerns the training of newly-recruited pilots and their daily life, then their subsequent fighting experiences in China. Army supported the production, providing...

Direction Tamizo Ishida

Cast Jûshirô Kobayashi · Chieko Takehisa · Fujiko Fukamizu · Kensaku Hara

Direction Seijun Suzuki

Cast Taizô Fukami · Hisako Hara · Nobuo Kaneko · Minako Katsuki

Direction Tamizo Ishida

Cast Chieko Takehisa · Ryunosuke Tsukigata · Ryuko Umezono · Shinjirô Asano