Cast: Tatsuya Ishiguro

Direction Kunio Watanabe

Cast Kôkichi Takada · Michiko Saga · Miki Morita · Jûshirô Konoe

Direction Teinosuke Kinugasa

Cast Shinobu Araki · Kotaro Bando · Kazuo Hasegawa · Sumiko Hidaka

Plot Dedication of the Great Buddha is a 1952 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa. It was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival. Companion piece to Kinugasa's more famous Gate...

Direction Heinosuke Gosho

Cast Satoko Chikamatsu · Haehiko Fuyuki · Sen Hara · Akane Hisano

Plot MINOWADA has his own theory of education and the daughter of his linguistics teacher becomes drawn to him. Strong-willed Kayo, a doctor is also attracted to him. A mediator tries...

Direction Hiroshi Inagaki · Griffin Yueh

Cast Yan Jun · Tsumasaburo Bando · Ryunosuke Tsukigata · Tatsuya Ishiguro

Direction Hiroshi Inagaki

Cast Tomoemon Otani · Toshirô Mifune · Hisako Yamane · Shin Tokudaiji

Direction Yasushi Sasaki

Cast Tatsuya Ishiguro · Sonosuke Sawamura · Hisako Tsukuba · Tomisaburô Wakayama

Direction Kenji Misumi

Cast Raizô Ichikawa · Shiho Fujimura · Tomisaburô Wakayama · Shigeru Amachi

Plot As change sweep Japan, an honest man joins the Shinsengumi out of respect for their leader and because he wants to live and die as a samurai. However, as his...

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Shima Iwashita · Go Kato · Mariko Kaga · Kinuyo Tanaka

Plot A young woman who has been evacuated to Hokkaido with her family during wartime receives a marriage proposal from the son of the village head, but declines on account of...

Direction Kazuo Mori

Cast Kazuo Hasegawa · Tatsuya Ishiguro · Michiyo Kogure · Akitake Kôno

Direction Kazuo Mori

Cast Raizô Ichikawa · Yôko Uraji · Hiroko Yajima · Michiyo Kogure

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Hashizo Okawa · Yataro Kurokawa · Hiroko Sakuramachi · Chikage Awashima

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Jûshirô Konoe · Seizaburô Kawazu · Susumu Fujita · Yataro Kitagami

Plot A group of ronin live in poverty in the latter days of the Edo period. They are masterless samurai reduced to drunkenness and debauchery living among social outcasts. Doi is...

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

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

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Hiroshi Koizumi · Minoru Chiaki · Tatsuya Ishiguro · Seizaburô Kawazu

Direction Ryo Hagiwara

Cast Chiezô Kataoka · Michiyo Kogure · Isuzu Yamada · Kenji Susukida

Direction Umetsugu Inoue

Cast Raizô Ichikawa · Hizuru Takachiho · Masayo Banri · Shigeru Amachi

Plot A warlords' retainer offers a farmer the chance to become a samurai, but he is instead forced to serve as a double of the warlord at expense of his freedom.

Direction Kunio Watanabe

Cast Kazuo Hasegawa · Tamao Nakamura · Misako Uji · Junko Kozakura

Direction Yasushi Sasaki

Cast Minoru Chiaki · Tatsuya Ishiguro · Kusuo Abe · Shigemi Kitahara

Plot When a group of men from the Hanya clan search his town for a missing geisha, a brave ronin decides to help her and a drunken calligrapher. In doing so,...

Direction Yasuki Chiba

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

Direction Hideo Ôba

Cast Chikage Awashima · Ebizo Ichikawa · Mitsuko Kusabue · Yatsuko Tan'ami

Plot Ejima, a straightforward and loyal lady-in-waiting to the mother of the Shogun, is invited by her mistress, almost forced, to violate the harem's protocol by having Ikushima, a kabuki actor,...