Cast: Isao Kimura

Direction Akira Kurosawa

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Kyôko Kagawa · Yutaka Sada · Takashi Shimura

Plot It is the story of Gondo, a shoe company executive (Toshirô Mifune) planning a boardroom intrigue to gain control of the company. He has raised the capital for his plan,...

Direction Akira Kurosawa

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Takashi Shimura · Yoshio Inaba · Seiji Miyaguchi

Plot Set in 16th Century Japan, Akira Kurosawa's 'Seven Samurai' follows the plight of a defenseless farming village that lives in constant fear of marauding bandits. The farmers know that when...

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 Tadashi Imai

Cast Kinnosuke Nakamura · Yoshiko Mita · Masayuki Mori · Kyôko Kishida

Plot Episodic chronicle of one family's lineage and how it has been affected by the strict code of deference to the feudal lords.

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Chikage Awashima · Michiyo Aratama · Yôko Tsukasa · Daisuke Kato

Plot A war widow with a young boy manages a farm with her bossy mother-in-law. When a reporter comes to interview her, the two begin an affair. He turns out to...

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Sô Yamamura · Kyôko Kagawa · Isao Kimura · Keiju Kobayashi

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Sô Yamamura · Mieko Takamine · Mariko Okada · Akihiko Katayama

Plot Dancing Girl is an important transitional film, as Naruse deploys some of the flamboyant melodramatic devices that he used in the 1930s in the context of a story that is...

Direction Shuji Terayama

Cast Yoshio Harada · Isao Kimura · Sen Hara · Kaoru Yachigusa

Direction Yoshishige Yoshida

Cast Mariko Okada · Yoshie Minami · Tadahiko Sugano · Shigako Shimegi

Direction Yoshishige Yoshida

Cast Mariko Okada · Isao Kimura · Mayumi Ogawa · Takeshi Kusaka

Plot Ritsuko is married to Shingo, a design engineer. Shingo is unable to father a child so Ritsuko is artificially inseminated. The birth of a son, Takashi, however, does not help...

Direction Kenji Mizoguchi

Cast Kinuyo Tanaka · Sô Yamamura · Sugisaku Aoyama · Kyoko Asagiri

Plot The stage director Shimamura, who is bringing western theatre to Japan, falls in love with the outspoken actress Sumako Matsui, and leaves his family to be with her, while trying...

Direction Tomu Uchida

Cast Isao Kimura · Minoru Chiaki · Shinobu Chihara · Kogiku Hanayagi

Plot Jiro Sano (Chiezo Kataoka) grew up a good man, financially well set, & loved by his company's employees. But he has remained unable to find a wife, due to his...

Direction Masahiro Shinoda

Cast Tetsurô Tanba · Eiji Okada · Eitarô Ozawa · Isao Kimura

Plot The film follows the brief life of Hachiro Kiyokawa, an ambitious ronin (master-less samurai) in a time of political tumult in 19th Century Japan. Kiyokawa, a mysterious character and expert...

Direction Yoshishige Yoshida

Cast Mariko Okada · Isao Kimura · Yukio Ninagawa · Miyoko Akaza

Plot Yuriko, owner of a barbershop in Sapporo, takes a trip with Sugino, her lover. When they enjoy themselves in the cold and the snow, Yuriko tells him that she has...

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 Hideo Gosha

Cast Kinnosuke Nakamura · Keiko Awaji · Isao Kimura · Tetsurô Tanba

Plot Loyal samurai Samanosuke is attacked, mutilated, and left for dead while carrying out a mission for his clan. He recovers but has lost an eye and an arm. Taking a...

Direction Yoshishige Yoshida

Cast Mariko Okada · Ruriko Asaoka · Ineko Arima · Kiwako Taichi

Plot In this intricately layered film, the nature of actresses and what they gain from acting is explored. The lives of three actresses are laid bare, and scenes from their lives...

Direction Kinji Fukasaku

Cast Akihiro Miwa · Isao Kimura · Kikko Matsuoka · Jun Usami

Direction Sadatsugu Matsuda

Cast Harue Akagi · Ushio Akashi · Kensaku Hara · Utaemon Ichikawa

Plot Knightly Advice is an engrossing drama about political infighting in the early years of the Tokugawa Shogunate, based on a true historical incident in the year 1629. The conflict arises...

Direction Miyoji Ieki

Cast Kyoko Asagiri · Yasumi Hara · Takashi Kanda · Nobuo Kaneko