Cast: Kan Yanagiya

Direction Akira Kurosawa

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Takashi Shimura · Keiko Awaji · Eiko Miyoshi

Plot Murukami, a young homicide detective, has his pocket picked on a bus and loses his pistol. Frantic and ashamed, he dashes about trying to recover the weapon without success until...

Direction Heinosuke Gosho

Cast Hiroko Kawasaki · Yasuko Miyazaki · Keiko Sawamura · Yoichi Numata

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Kamatari Fujiwara · Kan Yanagiya · Minoru Takase · Shoji Kiyokawa

Plot Lovely comedy about two actors who play the front and back legs of a horse and feel their artistry is unappreciated. When the self important barber who funds their show...

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Yuriko Hamada · Chieko Higashiyama · Isao Kimura · Keiko Kishi

Plot Sudo and Mori are two university students who make money by picking up rich girls in dance clubs and conning them into giving them cash. Mori is the brains of...

Direction Jūzō Itami

Cast Nobuko Miyamoto · Masahiko Tsugawa · Yuji Miyake · Aki Takejô

Direction Keigo Kimura

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

Direction Akira Inoue

Cast Shintarô Katsu · Michiko Sugata · Masumi Harukawa · Nijiko Kiyokawa

Plot Daimatsu helped a woman attacked by a group of young men in a town where sexuality, gold and greed swirling dominates, so it is difficult for him to establish a...

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.

Direction Kunio Watanabe

Cast Denjirô Ôkôchi · Isuzu Yamada · Sadao Maruyama · Zenichiro Kito

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Hideko Takamine · Kazuo Hasegawa · Isuzu Yamada · Kenichi Enomoto

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Ryo Ikebe · Jun Tazaki · Michitaro Mizushima · Yôko Sugi

Plot This little seen early work by Ichikawa was produced during the director's Shintoho period (1947-51). Written by Kaneto Shindô and featuring Ryô Ikebe as a young policeman it is part...

Direction Tadashi Imai

Cast Setsuko Hara · Heihachiro Okawa · Sadako Sawamura · Kinji Fujiwa

Direction Yasuki Chiba

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Ichirô Arishima · Keiko Awaji · Bokuzen Hidari

Direction Yasuki Chiba

Cast Chishu Ryu · Yûko Mochizuki · Toranosuke Ogawa · Sadako Sawamura

Direction Sadatsugu Matsuda

Cast Chiezô Kataoka · Ken Takakura · Sô Yamamura · Mitsuko Miura

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Ichiro Sugai · Takako Irie · Kamatari Fujiwara · Sadako Sawamura

Plot The story begins in 1929 with Sugai ((Sugai Ichiro) losing his job in the stock- market crash. He works his way up, over the course of the narrative, from mirror-cleaner...

Direction Tadashi Imai

Cast Tanie Kitabayashi · Chocho Miyako · Choko Iida · Kumeko Urabe

Direction Seijun Suzuki

Cast Michitaro Mizushima · Mari Shiraki · Ichiro Sugai · Sumiko Minami

Direction Mansaku Itami

Cast Denjirô Ôkôchi · Setsuko Hara · Sadao Maruyama · Ryô Sayama

Plot A film adaptation of Victor Hugo's Les Misérables relocated to Kyushu and the era of the Satsuma Rebellion.

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Kazuo Hasegawa · Isuzu Yamada · Kamatari Fujiwara · Heihachiro Okawa

Plot Drama about a couple and how they found themselves related with music, their egos and each other.