Cast: Mie Kitahara

Direction Yûzô Kawashima

Cast Shirô Amakusa · Michiyo Aratama · Izumi Ashikawa · Keiko Azuma

Synopsis Haruki Murakami (Masayuki Mori), once lionized as a master painter, is now the president of a thriving camera company where his son Keikichi (Tatsuya Mihashi) is also employed as one of the department heads. His daughter Tamako (Izumi Ashikawa) has...

Direction Kinuyo Tanaka

Cast Chishu Ryu · Hisako Yamane · Yôko Sugi · Mie Kitahara

Direction Koreyoshi Kurahara

Cast Ken Hatano · Yujiro Ishihara · Mie Kitahara · Isamu Kosugi

Synopsis In Koreyoshi Kurahara’s directorial debut, rebel matinee idol Yujiro Ishihara (fresh off the sensational Crazed Fruit) stars as a restaurant manager and former boxer who saves a beautiful, suicidal club hostess (Mie Kitahara) trying to escape the clutches of her...

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 Yûzô Kawashima

Cast Toru Abe · Shinsuke Ashida · Seizaburô Kawazu · Mie Kitahara

Synopsis A talented young artist painted a picture of Wakako Kyogoku when she was a little girl. The piece was entitled “Girl” and Wakako held it dear to her heart. Years later, she takes the painting to an art gallery in...

Direction Toshio Masuda

Cast Yujiro Ishihara · Mie Kitahara · Shoji Yasui · Mari Shiraki

Synopsis Rusty Knife was the first smash for director Toshio Masuda, who would go on to become one of Japanese cinema’s major hit makers. In the film, Yujiro Ishihara and fellow top Nikkatsu star Akira Kobayashi play former hoodlums trying to...

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Hideko Takamine · Masao Wakahara · Chikage Awashima · Toshiko Kobayashi

Synopsis A naive stripper falls for an artist engaged to the daughter of a controversial female politician.

Direction Toshio Masuda

Cast Yujiro Ishihara · Mie Kitahara · Masumi Okada · Sanae Nakahara

Synopsis 50s subculture icon Yujiro Ishihara (Crazed Fruit) stars in Masuda's Red Pier as "Jiro the Lefty", a killer with a natural talent. Shortly after arriving in Kobe, he witnesses a man die in a crane accident which turns out to...

Direction Yûzô Kawashima

Cast Sô Yamamura · Tatsuya Mihashi · Isuzu Yamada · Mie Kitahara

Synopsis WWII is at an end. Baby boomers are in full bloom. Minister Araki is introducing a healthcare bill that aims to establish “Birth Control Consultation Centers” across Japan. As his speech echoes in the national assembly, his wife receives a...

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Seizaburô Kawazu · Hisaya Morishige · Mie Kitahara · Ko Mishima

Direction Koreyoshi Kurahara

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

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Mie Kitahara · Sô Yamamura · Tatsuya Mihashi · Yukiko Todoroki

Synopsis Shinichi, who runs a pachinko salon, has been engaged since childhood with Chiharu, a ballet student. Both maintain, nevertheless, a relationship more of friendship than of courtship. On the other hand, the one who is in love is Choko, Shinichi's...

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Seizaburô Kawazu · Hisaya Morishige · Mie Kitahara · Minoru Chiaki

Direction Tomotaka Tasaka

Cast Yujiro Ishihara · Mie Kitahara · Izumi Ashikawa · Yûji Odaka

Synopsis The young Takako Kuramoto has come to Tokyo to study and starts working for the rich Tashiro family as tutor of the daughter, Kumiko, while she receives attention from her two older brothers, Yukichi and Shinji. Meanwhile, the exact parentage...

Direction Kaneto Shindô

Cast Mie Kitahara · Nobuko Otowa · Rentarô Mikuni · Nobuo Kaneko

Direction Umetsugu Inoue

Cast Yujiro Ishihara · Keiji Itami · Mie Kitahara · Tatsuya Mihashi

Synopsis Intersecting circles of obligation link a former boxer, the youth he vows to make a champion, and the ex-showgirl whose ballet training he funds, in a story balanced between the Ginza boxing ring and the highbrow world of the ballet...

Direction Hideo Ôba

Cast Keiko Awaji · Chikage Awashima · Kimie Hayashi · Shinichi Himori

Direction Yûzô Kawashima

Cast Teiji Takahashi · Yataro Kitagami · Toshiko Kobayashi · Keiko Awaji

Synopsis Follows six male friends from elementary school whose career paths diverge—newspaper reporter, engineer, boxer, sushi restaurant owner—but whose romantic lives intersect.

Direction Tomu Uchida

Cast Rentarô Mikuni · Yumeji Tsukioka · Mie Kitahara · Jûkichi Uno

Synopsis Amidst endless construction and aircraft noise, a family whose father died in the war slowly disintegrates, as the daughter and stepmother juggle for position.

Direction Kôzaburô Yoshimura

Cast Nobuko Otowa · Sumiko Hidaka · Yukiko Todoroki · Jô Shishido