Cast: Daijirô Natsukawa

Direction Kenji Mizoguchi

Cast Isuzu Yamada · Daijirô Natsukawa · Mitsusaburô Ramon · Genichi Fuji

Plot Sokichi Hata moves to Tokyo hoping to get into medical school, but he doesn't have the means to survive. There, he meets Osen, the servant girl of an unscrupulous antiques...

Direction Kenji Mizoguchi

Cast Yukichi Iwata · Kasuke Koizumi · Kuniko Miyake · Daijirô Natsukawa

Direction Kenji Mizoguchi

Cast Komako Hara · Eiji Nakano · Daijirô Natsukawa · Toichiro Negishi

Plot Oyuki, the Virgin is based on Kawaguchi Matsutaro’s adaptation of Maupassant’s “Boule de Suif” (“Lump of Fat,” also the inspiration for Ford’s Stagecoach). To this story Mizoguchi added some of...

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Hideko Takamine · Kamatari Fujiwara · Daijirô Natsukawa · Tamae Kiyokawa

Plot Hideko the Bus Conductress, Mikio Naruse's deceptively lighthearted comic confection, is the writer-director's first collaboration (of a total 17) with the great Japanese actress Hideko Takamine. As the teenage bus...

Direction Yoshitaro Nomura

Cast Shima Iwashita · Chieko Baisho · Mikijiro Hira · Noboru Nakaya

Direction Yasujirô Shimazu

Cast Ken Uehara · Mieko Takamine · Chishu Ryu · Shinichi Himori

Direction Yasushi Sasaki

Cast Kuniko Miyake · Mitsuko Mito · Chishu Ryu · Yoshiko Tsubouchi

Direction Kensaku Suzuki

Cast Kiyoshi Mori · Genichi Fujkawa · Shizuno Okawa · Hatsuko Takahashi

Direction Masahiro Makino · Kunio Watanabe

Cast Haruyo Ichikawa · Daijirô Natsukawa · Junko Satsuki · Reiko Hoshi

Direction Keigo Kimura · Santarô Marune

Cast Saburo Date · Kazuo Hasegawa · Chieko Higashiyama · Ryôsuke Kagawa

Direction Kokichi Uchide

Cast Hiroshi Aoyama · Masao Aoyama · Michiyo Azuma · Rintarô Fujima

Plot During the ultra-violent era of the downfall of the Tokugawa Shogunate one man rose above the rest with his ideas of how to overthrow the corrupt government and end the...

Direction Yasushi Sasaki

Cast Kinuyo Tanaka · Mitsuko Mito · Kuniko Miyake · Daijirô Natsukawa

Direction Keigo Kimura

Cast Ryôsuke Kagawa · Yaeko Mizutani · Jun Fujikawa · Seishirô Hara

Direction Yasushi Sasaki

Cast Michiko Kuwano · Sanae Takasugi · Mieko Takamine · Eiko Takamatsu

Direction Yasushi Sasaki

Cast Choko Iida · Koji Mitsui · Chishu Ryu · Shin Saburi

Direction Sadatsugu Matsuda

Cast Tsumasaburo Bando · Daijirô Natsukawa · Chikage Awashima · Koji Mitsui

Direction Hiroshi Shimizu

Cast Daijirô Natsukawa · Hiroko Kawasaki · Shûji Sano · Kimiyo Ôtsuka

Plot An penniless orphan loses the woman he loves when her parents arrange a marriage to the son of a wealthy banking family. He believes she was blinded by greed and...

Direction Tadashi Imai

Cast Setsuko Hara · Tatsuya Ishiguro · Daijirô Natsukawa · Sadako Sawamura

Direction Heinosuke Gosho

Cast Daijirô Natsukawa · Michiyo Kogure · Ranko Akagi · Takeshi Sakamoto

Plot A "mother film" about a dedicated, unmarried female doctor and her daughter. The mother's nickname is "Bokuseki" (wooden head) because of her supposed stubbornness. Rated #10 on Kinema Junpo's "10...

Direction Nobuo Adachi · Shigehiro Fukushima

Cast Chizuru Kitagawa · Takiko Mizunoe · Daijirô Natsukawa · Mitsusaburô Ramon

Plot The invisibility formula developed by Professor Nakazato attracts the attention of jewel thieves who kidnap the professor and want to use his invention to acquire a diamond necklace called the...