Cast: Setsuko Shinobu

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Setsuko Shinobu · Akio Isono · Hikaru Yamanouchi · Nobuko Wakaba

Plot Mikio Naruse’s final silent film is a gloriously rich portrait of a waitress, Sugiko, whose life, despite a host of male admirers and even some intrigued movie talent scouts, ends...

Direction Hiroshi Shimizu

Cast Chishu Ryu · Shinyo Nara · Kuniko Miyake · Masami Morikawa

Plot Starring Ryu Chishu from Ozu Yasujiro's Otoko wa Tsuraiyo, Mikaheri no Tou realistically explores the nature of children's education. Set in a mountain boarding school, the film tells various stories...

Direction Hiroshi Shimizu

Cast Mieko Takamine · Shinobu Aoki · Mitsuko Yoshikawa · Choko Iida

Plot Released in 1940, Nobuko stars renowned actress/singer Takamine Mieko as titular heroine Nobuko, a spirited young teacher working in a conservative school. Based on a novel by Shishi Bunroku, the...

Direction Hiroshi Shimizu

Cast Michiko Kuwano · Ken Uehara · Mayumi Tsukiji · Kaoru Futaba

Plot Hiroshi Shimizu’s endearing road movie follows the long and winding route of a sweet-natured bus driver—nicknamed Mr. Thank You for his constant exclamation to pedestrians who kindly step out of...

Direction Heinosuke Gosho

Cast Kazuo Hasegawa · Hiroko Kawasaki · Tokuji Kobayashi · Setsuko Shinobu

Plot "Another light-hearted parody of family life and at least nominally a sequel to Gosho's 1933 success, The Bride Talks in Her Sleep. This picture, too, was released for the New...

Direction Heinosuke Gosho

Cast Hibari Misora · Shogoro Ichikawa · Takashi Kitahara · Eijirô Yanagi

Plot Adapted from Ichiyô Higuchi’s Meiji period novella. Tells the story of a young girl doomed from birth to a life of prostitution and her growing awareness of her fate.

Direction Yasushi Sasaki

Cast Michiko Kuwano · Shinyo Nara · Emiko Yagumo · Setsuko Shinobu

Direction Miyoji Ieki

Cast Kumiko Jô · Yoshi Kato · Hiroko Kawasaki · Tanie Kitabayashi

Direction Heinosuke Gosho

Cast Kinuyo Tanaka · Shûji Sano · Shin Tokudaiji · Reikichi Kawamura

Plot Three men fall in love with the same young woman (Tanaka Kinuyo) who works in a tonkatsu restaurant in Tokyo's Shitamachi District.

Direction Kintarô Inoue

Cast Shusuke Agata · Mariko Aoyama · Fumie Azuma · Toichi Doki

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 Heinosuke Gosho

Cast Kinuyo Tanaka · Hiroko Kawasaki · Shûji Sano · Ken Uehara

Plot The eldest daughter of a noble family is in love with an aviator while being courted by a fellow aristocrat she thinks is a dullard.

Direction Hiroshi Shimizu

Cast Tomio Aoki · Mary Dean · Hatsue Gion · Masao Hayama

Plot Yuki is a young, single mother supporting herself and her son, Haru, with a job as a bar hostess. Haru’s group of friends (which includes the always good Tomio Aoki)...

Direction Yasushi Sasaki

Cast Choko Iida · Jun Arai · Mitsuko Ichimura · Shinichi Himori

Direction Hiroshi Shimizu

Cast Mitsugu Fujii · Hiroko Kawasaki · Michiko Kuwano · Shirô Kanemitsu

Plot The film concerns the experiences of two cousins, Shukichi Osaki and Kinue Nishimura. They are in love with each other, but Kinue is expected to marry the lawyer Seiji Kanda....