Cast: Tatsuya Ishiguro

Direction Kenji Mizoguchi

Cast Kazuo Hasegawa · Kyôko Kagawa · Yôko Minamida · Eitarô Shindô

Plot Set in 17th century Kyoto, Osan is married to Ishun, a wealthy miserly scroll-maker. When Osan is falsely accused of having an affair with the Ishun’s most trusted servant, Mohei,...

Direction Hideo Gosha

Cast Tetsurô Tanba · Kyoko Aoi · Kamatari Fujiwara · Mikijiro Hira

Plot Shiba, a wandering ronin, encounters a band of peasants who have kidnapped the daughter of their dictatorial magistrate, in hopes of coercing from him a reduction in taxes. Shiba takes...

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Tatsuya Ishiguro · Haruko Sugimura · Takashi Shimura · Yuriko Hanabusa

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 Mikio Naruse

Cast Mieko Takamine · Ken Uehara · Rentarô Mikuni · Michiyo Aratama

Plot Tsuma concerns the struggles of a woman who finds out that her husband is cheating on her; to avoid the stigma of a broken marriage, she decides she'll do whatever...

Direction Kinuyo Tanaka

Cast Machiko Kyô · Eiji Funakoshi · Atsuko Kindaichi · Chieko Higashiyama

Direction Kazuo Ikehiro

Cast Shintarô Katsu · Shôgo Shimada · Mikiko Tsubouchi · Machiko Hasegawa

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Sô Yamamura · Kimiko Kaino · Mitsuko Miura · Tanie Kitabayashi

Plot he critical establishment was clearly not prepared to accept a woman's prison film featuring former prostitutes recovering from venereal diseases, unwanted pregnancies, and estranged lovers. With its catfights, hysterical tantrums,...

Direction Nobuo Nakagawa

Cast Utaemon Ichikawa · Kiku Hôjô · Shunji Sakai · Tosshô Sawamura

Direction Yasuki Chiba

Cast Tatsuo Hanabu · Tatsuya Ishiguro · Ryuji Kita · Jun Usami

Direction Keigo Kimura

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

Direction Shirô Toyoda

Cast Shuntarô Emi · Yuji Hori · Setsuko Horikoshi · Choko Iida

Direction Kunio Watanabe

Cast Shintarô Katsu · Katsuhiko Kobayashi · Yukio Hashi · Yôko Uraji

Direction Kôzaburô Yoshimura

Cast Keiko Anjô · Reiko Hibiki · Akie Hiyama · Tatsuya Ishiguro

Direction Ryo Hagiwara

Cast Chiezô Kataoka · Michiyo Kogure · Isuzu Yamada · Tatsuya Ishiguro

Direction Daisuke Itô

Cast Yoichi Funaki · Kazuko Ichikawa · Tatsuya Ishiguro · Ryôsuke Kagawa

Direction Akira Inoue

Cast Jiro Tamiya · Yuko Hamada · Nobuo Kaneko · Jun Negami

Direction Daisuke Itô

Cast Minosuke Bando · Toshio Chiba · Yoichi Funaki · Seishirô Hara

Plot War-time jidai-geki from Ito Daisuke.

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 Isamu Eto · Kazuo Hasegawa · Tatsuya Ishiguro · Taizô Fukami

Plot Historical war film set during Japan's sengoku ("warring states" or "civil war") period.