Cast: Michiyo Kogure

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 Kenji Mizoguchi

Cast Michiyo Kogure · Ayako Wakao · Seizaburô Kawazu · Saburo Date

Plot In the post-war Gion district of Kyoto, the geisha Miyoharu agrees to apprentice the 16 year-old Eiko, whose mother was a former geisha who had just died. After a year...

Direction Akira Kurosawa

Cast Takashi Shimura · Toshirô Mifune · Reisaburo Yamamoto · Chieko Nakakita

Plot A drunken doctor with a hot temper works in a village whose most prominent geographical feature is a disease-ridden sump. Businesses and social life are infected by the yakuza, or...

Direction Kenji Mizoguchi

Cast Michiyo Kogure · Yoshiko Kuga · Ken Uehara · Yuriko Hamada

Direction Yasujirō Ozu

Cast Shin Saburi · Michiyo Kogure · Koji Tsuruta · Chikage Awashima

Plot Takeo, a capricious wife from Tokyo high-society, is bored by her dull husband, a quiet and reliable company executive raised in the country (Shin Saburi) After a crisis, she understands...

Direction Kenji Mizoguchi

Cast Narutoshi Hayashi · Raizô Ichikawa · Tatsuya Ishiguro · Akitake Kôno

Plot Set in 12th Century Japan against a rich social and political background, TALES OF THE TAIRA CLAN is an epic tale of power struggles, family drama, and human frailty. Special...

Direction Hiroshi Inagaki

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Eijirô Tono · Ko Mihashi · Kunimori Kodo

Plot After years on the road establishing his reputation as Japan's greatest fencer, Takezo returns to Kyoto. Otsu waits for him, yet he has come not for her but to challenge...

Direction Kôzaburô Yoshimura

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

Plot 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...

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Michiyo Kogure · Tomoemon Otani · Sô Yamamura · Jun Tazaki

Plot Based on a kabuki play in which a woman (Okuni) and one of the retainers of her late husband (Gohei) seek revenge upon the man, Tomonojo, who killed her husband...

Direction Yoshisuke Kawasaki

Cast Momoe Yamaguchi · Tomokazu Miura · Toshio Hosokawa · Michiyo Kogure

Plot Takuji spies a house on the hill while wandering on the beach. He is invited in and treated as an honoured guest, especially by the lovely young Kiyono. They soon...

Direction Kunio Watanabe

Cast Kazuo Hasegawa · Shintarô Katsu · Koji Tsuruta · Raizô Ichikawa

Direction Minoru Shibuya

Cast Kinuyo Tanaka · Shûji Sano · Michiyo Kogure · Reikichi Kawamura

Plot Pretty Oshige is deceived by her first love. After this, she lives a hard lifestyle, working at a number of jobs. Her only pleasure is her nephew, who eventually becomes...

Direction Shigehiro Ozawa

Cast Mikijiro Hira · Ryôsuke Kagawa · Michiyo Kogure · Jûshirô Konoe

Plot Fifteen years after Ishida Mitsunari lost in the battle of Sekigahara, Tokugawa Ieyasu foresees his unavoidable battle with Toyotomi Hideyori and goes into Fushimi Castle. At the night, Hattori Hanzo,...

Direction Yûzô Kawashima

Cast Hisaya Morishige · Chikage Awashima · Daisuke Kato · Michiyo Kogure

Direction Keisuke Sasaki

Cast Yasumi Hara · Mitsuko Higashiyama · Kuniko Igawa · Fumiko Katsuragi

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Choko Iida · Michiyo Kogure · Shin Saburi · Haruo Tanaka

Direction Keigo Kimura

Cast Michiyo Kogure · Sô Yamamura · Ryo Ikebe · Ichiro Sugai

Direction Kôzaburô Yoshimura

Cast Michiyo Kogure · Machiko Kyô · Musei Tokugawa · Akira Ôizumi

Direction Shigehiro Ozawa

Cast Koji Tsuruta · Tomisaburô Wakayama · Michiyo Kogure · Kyôsuke Machida

Plot Tsunetaro, a talented gambler comes to a coal mining town in Kyushu where miners live under hard circumstances in the 1920s. Tsunetaro helps his female boss take back the rights...

Direction Daisuke Itô

Cast Michiyo Kogure · Jun Tazaki · Haruko Sugimura · Yataro Kitagami

Plot The tragedy of the geiko girl Ume and the men who try to pursue her.