Cast: Hiroko Machida

Direction Kenji Mizoguchi

Cast Machiko Kyô · Aiko Mimasu · Ayako Wakao · Michiyo Kogure

Plot Five prostitutes work at Dreamland, in Tokyo's Yoshiwara district. As the Diet considers a ban on prostitution, the women's daily dramas play out. Each has dreams and motivations. Hanae is...

Direction Akira Kurosawa

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Takashi Shimura · Miki Sanjo · Chieko Nakakita

Plot Kyoji Fujisaki, a young doctor, contracts syphilis from a patient during wartime surgery. After the war, he returns to his fiancée and rejects her without explanation. His nurse Rui learns...

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Hiroshi Kawaguchi · Hitomi Nozoe · Yûnosuke Itô · Michiko Ono

Plot Nishi is an advertising executive for a caramel company that is planning to launch a new product, in fierce competition with two other companies. His boss builds up Kyoko, a...

Direction Yōjirō Takita

Cast Hiroyuki Sanada · Hiroko Yakushimaru · Yasuo Daichi · Tsuyoshi Ihara

Direction Teinosuke Kinugasa

Cast Eiji Funakoshi · Natsuko Kahara · Shintarô Katsu · Fujiko Yamamoto

Direction Yasuharu Hasebe

Cast Tsuneo Aoki · Tatsuya Fuji · Rika Fujie · Keiko Hara

Plot Yasuharu Hasebe directed this fiercely kinetic tale of wannabe yakuza youths (Akira Kobayashi, Tatsuya Fuji, et al.). When not cooking up scams with his buddies, Kobayashi develops a crush on...

Direction Ren Yoshimura

Cast Setsuko Hara · Tatsuya Ishiguro · Takashi Shimura · Ichiro Sugai

Plot Shizue is a worker at a tissue paper factory that is somewhat attracted to Noshiro, a senior employee who comes from her own town. However, one day Shizue travels to...

Direction Teinosuke Kinugasa

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

Direction Keigo Kimura

Cast Eiji Funakoshi · Machiko Kyô · Yaeko Mizutani · Nobuo Nakamura

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Jiro Tamiya · Eiji Funakoshi · Yukiko Fuji · Daisuke Kato

Direction Yasuki Chiba

Cast Akiko Chiaki · Keiju Kobayashi · Hiroko Machida · Tetsuko Orihara

Direction Shigeo Tanaka

Cast Ayako Wakao · Chieko Murata · Ken Utsui · Yoshiro Kitahara

Plot Yumi is a company and, as a good woman born in August, she has a strong character. One day, driving in his sports car, he collides with the car of...

Direction Hiroshi Shimizu

Cast Chikage Awashima · Machiko Kyô · Eiji Funakoshi · Haruo Tanaka

Direction Kazuo Mori

Cast Jun Negami · Masayuki Mori · Ayako Wakao · Hisako Yamane

Direction Yasuki Chiba

Cast Chieko Soma · Ranko Hanai · Joji Oka · Eiji Funakoshi

Direction Yasuki Chiba

Cast Ryuji Kita · Kumeko Urabe · Tatsuya Ishiguro · Ichirô Izawa

Direction Eduard Bocharov · Teinosuke Kinugasa

Cast Chiharu Inayoshi · Michiyo Oguso · Hiroyuki Ôta · Machiko Kyô

Plot The first film co-production of Japan and USSR. Japan is represented by Teinosuke Kinugasa, and Eduard Bocharov represents USSR. The 10-year-old Ken has lost his parents and he is raised...

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Ayako Wakao · Kinya Kitaoji · Etsushi Takahashi · Mayumi Nagisa

Plot A Masumura Yasuzō film about a love affair starring Wakao Ayako. The literal title is The Two Who Got Wet.

Direction Shigeo Tanaka

Cast Eiji Funakoshi · Tatsuo Hanabu · Yuzo Hayakawa · Hikaru Hoshi

Plot Based on the short story of the same name by Seichō Matsumoto.

Direction Kenji Misumi

Cast Shiho Fujimura · Kiku Wakayagi · Toshiyuki Hosokawa · Rokko Toura