Cast: Osamu Takizawa

Direction Kinuyo Tanaka

Cast Ineko Arima · Ganjiro Nakamura · Mieko Takamine · Tatsuya Nakadai

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Eiji Funakoshi · Osamu Takizawa · Mickey Curtis · Mantarô Ushio

Synopsis It is the Philipines, 1945. The Japanese Imperial Army has been reduced to a ragtag mob hiding in the jungles. Among them is Pvt. Tamura. The situation goes from bad to worse and in the face of the brutal conditions...

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 Kôzaburô Yoshimura

Cast Setsuko Hara · Osamu Takizawa · Masayuki Mori · Yumeko Aizome

Synopsis After Japan's loss in the war, the wealthy, cultured, liberal Anjo family have to give up their mansion and their way of life. They hold one last ball at the house before leaving. The seemingly cold, cynical son secretly grieves...

Direction Kôzaburô Yoshimura

Cast Kazuo Hasegawa · Michiyo Kogure · Machiko Kyô · Nobuko Otowa

Synopsis Based on the classic novel by Murasaki Shikibu, written over 1000 years ago. Genji, the son of the emperor, has gained renown among the nobility of Kyoto for his charm and good looks, yet he cannot stop himself from pursuing...

Direction Kaneto Shindô

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

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Chikako Hosokawa · Masako Tsutsumi · Ryuko Umezono · Chitose Hayashi

Synopsis Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts, writer-director Mikio Naruse's first sound film, tells the story of three very different siblings forced to work as samisen street musicians to make ends meet. O-Ren (Chikako Hosokawa), the eldest, is on a downward spiral...

Direction Kihachi Okamoto

Cast Shintarô Katsu · Toshirô Mifune · Ayako Wakao · Osamu Takizawa

Direction Yoshishige Yoshida

Cast Masahiko Tsugawa · Michiko Saga · Teruyo Yamagami · Sumiko Hidaka

Synopsis Yokkaichi, a industrial city in full boom. Working in a grand enterprise, Jiro Tezuka knows Harumi in a motorway cafe. He decides to put her working in the bar "Sawa" which boss, Sawako, is the daughter of the director of...

Direction Shôhei Imamura

Cast Osamu Takizawa · Shin'ichi Yanagisawa · Hiroyuki Nagato · Kô Nishimura

Synopsis An idealistic director quits school to join a traveling theater troupe and finds himself trapped in a love triangle between the leading player's wife and her younger sister.

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 Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Hiroshi Kawaguchi · Sô Yamamura · Junko Kano · Osamu Takizawa

Synopsis A journalist decides to do his own investigation after a series of strange murders are committed during a local election campaign.

Direction Kôzaburô Yoshimura

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

Direction Satsuo Yamamoto

Cast Yuriko Hanabusa · Setsuko Hara · Takako Irie · Tomoko Ito

Synopsis This film was inspired by the novel Stella Dallas by Olive Higgins Prouty and was initially released in two parts, respectively in 79 minutes and 70 minutes of length. They were combined into one 91-minute film and re-released in 1950....

Direction Kimiyoshi Yasuda

Cast Machiko Kyô · Hiroshi Nihonyanagi · Sumiko Hidaka · Osamu Takizawa

Direction Satsuo Yamamoto

Cast Jiro Tamiya · Eijirô Tono · Takahiro Tamura · Eitarô Ozawa

Direction Tatsuo Ôsone

Cast Shogoro Ichikawa · Kôkichi Takada · Osamu Takizawa · Koji Tsuruta

Direction Teinosuke Kinugasa

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

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Tsumasaburo Bando · Toshiko Kobayashi · Masayuki Mori · Sadako Sawamura

Synopsis In a wealthy family, a mother and her grown-up children are a happy and colourful group people, each with their own dreams and aspirations. But these are ultimately quashed by the iron will and stubbornness of their father, who rules...

Direction Nobuo Aoyagi

Cast Osamu Takizawa · Tadao Takashima · Ken Mitsuda · Akiko Tamura