Cast: Isao Kimura

Direction Daisuke Itô

Cast Kazuo Hasegawa · Machiko Kyô · Isao Kimura · Emiko Aya

Plot Kyo Machiko and Hasegawa Kazuo star (as the respective title roles) in this exciting jidai-geki about a woman and a pirate.

Direction Kosaku Yamashita

Cast Kinnosuke Nakamura · Isao Kimura · Yukiyo Toake · Kaneko Iwasaki

Direction Noboru Nakamura

Cast Miyuki Kuwano · Mikijiro Hira · Keisuke Sonoi · Masuyo Iwamoto

Plot A woman is pushed into prostitution by her violent yakuza boyfriend.

Direction Tomu Uchida

Cast Kinnosuke Nakamura · Ken Takakura · Wakaba Irie · Chieko Naniwa

Direction Tadashi Imai

Cast Ineko Arima · Kuniko Miyake · Eitarô Shindô · Ushio Akashi

Direction Hideo Suzuki

Cast Isao Kimura · Keiko Tsushima · Takashi Shimura · Sonosuke Sawamura

Direction Yasuki Chiba

Cast Kamatari Fujiwara · Yôko Katsuragi · Isao Kimura · Hibari Misora

Plot Postwar shomin-geki (working-class-everyday-life genre) directed by Chiba Yasuki.

Direction Masaki Kobayashi

Cast Keiji Sada · Yoshiko Kuga · Isao Kimura · Toshiko Kobayashi

Direction Tomu Uchida

Cast Kinnosuke Nakamura · Akiko Kazami · Wakaba Irie · Isao Kimura

Plot First episode of the Miyamoto Musashi saga directed by Tomu Uchida. In this episode, we are introduced to Takezo, what Musashi used to be before he became the man of...

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Isao Kimura · Yoshiko Kuga · Isuzu Yamada · Yûnosuke Itô

Direction Tadashi Imai

Cast Shinjiro Ebara · Hitomi Nakahara · Eiji Okada · Isao Kimura

Direction Tomu Uchida

Cast Kinnosuke Nakamura · Wakaba Irie · Isao Kimura · Chieko Naniwa

Direction Tadashi Imai

Cast Chojuro Kawarasaki · Ganemon Nakamura · Isao Kimura · Gôzô Sôma

Plot About the struggles of day labourers to achieve dignity and a standard of living above the starvation level. Utilising the Zenshinza theatrical troupe.

Direction Masahiro Shinoda

Cast Chieko Baisho · Shinichiro Mikami · Noriko Maki · Isao Kimura

Plot Keiko and Saeko are sisters who support their parents by working at a local factory. They must bear the burden of their traditional father, who is pressuring Keiko to marry...

Direction Satsuo Yamamoto

Cast Takashi Kanda · Yoshi Kato · Isao Kimura · Koichi Nishimura

Plot Just before the end of the war, Japanese soldier Kitani is released from prison, having served his term for theft. Told in flashback, viewers learn about Kitani's past and reasons...

Direction Kaneto Shindô

Cast Kyôko Kishida · Eitarô Ozawa · Nobuko Otowa · Isao Kimura

Direction Shuei Matsubayashi

Cast Yôko Tsukasa · Akira Takarada · Isao Kimura · Keiju Kobayashi

Direction Hideo Ôba

Cast Mineko Bandai · Kakuko Chino · Takanobu Hozumi · Kaneko Iwasaki

Plot It’s a man’s world. Shimamura, an artist, comes to this snowbound town to rejuvenate himself. He connects with Komako, a geisha he met on a previous trip, and it seems...

Direction Tadashi Imai

Cast Shinjiro Ebara · Eijirô Tono · Yûko Mochizuki · Sen Hara

Plot Released in English-speaking countries as Rice and The Rice People, Japanese filmmaker Tadashi Imai's Kome is perfectly in keeping with his previous paeans to the proletariat. The heroes and heroines...

Direction Tadashi Imai

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