Cast: Akemi Negishi

Direction Akira Kurosawa

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Yûzô Kayama · Yoshio Tsuchiya · Kyôko Kagawa

Synopsis In the Nineteenth Century, in Japan, the arrogant and proud just-graduated Dr. Noboru Yasumoto (Yuzo Kayama) is forced to work in the Koshikawa Clinic, a non-profit health facility ruled by Dr. Kyojio Niide (Toshirô Mifune), a.k.a. "Red Beard". "Red Beard"...

Direction Josef von Sternberg

Cast Akemi Negishi · Tadashi Suganuma · Kisaburo Sawamura · Shôji Nakayama

Synopsis Josef von Sternberg directed, photographed, provides the voice-over narration and wrote the screenplay about twelve Japanese seaman who, in June 1944, are stranded on an abandoned-and-forgotten island called An-ta-han for seven years. The island's only inhabitants are the overseer of...

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Hideko Takamine · Toshirô Mifune · Keiju Kobayashi · Akemi Negishi

Synopsis A young married woman wants to raise enough money to open her own cafe. She gets a loan to fulfill her dream. The arrival of her husband's brother will disrupt these plans.

Direction Toshiya Fujita

Cast Meiko Kaji · Toshio Kurosawa · Masaaki Daimon · Miyoko Akaza

Synopsis Follows the story of the titular assassin seeking vengeance upon the bandits who raped her mother and murdered her father.

Direction Akira Kurosawa

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Isuzu Yamada · Kyôko Kagawa · Ganjiro Nakamura

Synopsis In a slum flophouse, a collection of beggars and thieves bewail their lot in life, and Osugi, the landlady, fights with her sister, Okayo, over the man they both desire, the thief Sutekichi.

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Setsuko Hara · Keiju Kobayashi · Shûji Sano · Akemi Negishi

Synopsis Sudden Rain dwells on how the negative aspects of married life can become overwhelming and quite stressful. Setsuko Hara plays a woman whose entire existence seems to boil down to nothing more than scraping by with two meals a day...

Direction Yoshishige Yoshida

Cast Tamotsu Hayakawa · Yoshiko Kayama · Gannosuke Ashiya · Yôko Mihara

Synopsis A drama about a clash between a responsible lodging house caretaker and a collective protagonist in the form of a pack of adolescents.

Direction Shunya Ito

Cast Meiko Kaji · Rie Yokoyama · Isao Natsuyagi · Fumio Watanabe

Synopsis After being cruelly set up and deceived by Sugimi (Natsuyagi Isao), a conniving and crooked detective she had whole-heartedly fallen in love with (and subsequently lost her virginity to...), Matsushima Nami's desire for revenge knows no bounds. Her failed attempt...

Direction Norifumi Suzuki

Cast Reiko Ike · Christina Lindberg · Akemi Negishi · Ryôko Ema

Synopsis Reiko Ike stars as Ocho, a gambler and pickpocket in Meiji Era Tokyo. After sheltering a fleeing anarchist, Ocho runs into the three gangsters responsible for her father's murder, and runs afoul of various yakuza who want her dead.

Direction Yasuharu Hasebe

Cast Meiko Kaji · Masakazu Tamura · Yumi Kanei · Hiroshi Tsukata

Direction Ishirô Honda

Cast Tadao Takashima · Kenji Sahara · Yu Fujiki · Ichirô Arishima

Synopsis A pharmaceutical company captures King Kong and brings him to Japan, where he escapes from captivity and battles a recently released Godzilla.

Direction Ishirô Honda

Cast Akira Takarada · Momoko Kôchi · Ken Uehara · Tatsuyoshi Ehara

Direction Kazuo Ikehiro

Cast Raizô Ichikawa · Saburo Date · Shinjirô Asano · Jun Hamamura

Direction Zenzo Matsuyama

Cast Hideko Takamine · Keiju Kobayashi · Sen Hara · Michiko Araki

Synopsis After losing her husband, Akiko, a young deaf woman, meets and marries a deaf and dumb man who falls for her. Despite their lack of financial resources and the burden of their disabilities, they decide to have a baby.

Direction Kichitaro Negishi

Cast Toshiyuki Nagashima · Johnny Okura · Eri Ishida · Rie Yokoyama

Synopsis A young man living on growing tomatoes in a greenhouse in a residential area. Tomato cultivation is as doomed as his personal life where he tries to keep alive his romance with the eccentric Kaede and parents selected fiancee Ayako.

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Mari Atsumi · Yusuke Kawazu · Akemi Negishi · Kô Nishimura

Synopsis Yumi (Mari Atsumi) is a 19-year-old enrolled in a dress-making school. Her mother (Negishi Akemi) has raised her by working in a bar. One day Yumi is raped by one of her mother's boyfriends. Yumi's mother finds out, kills him,...

Direction Toshio Sugie

Cast Akira Takarada · Keiju Kobayashi · Hiroshi Koizumi · Kyôko Anzai

Direction Kenneth G. Crane · Ishirô Honda

Cast John Carradine · Russell Thorson · Robert Karnes · Morris Ankrum

Synopsis Japanese villagers worship a monster and his son who live in an island cave. Some circus people hear about them, go to the island to capture the monster and wind up shooting its son. Then the trouble starts.

Direction Kenji Yoshioa

Cast Ken Tanaka · Yôko Takahashi · Akemi Negishi

Synopsis Fujishita Kumi is an ordinary office lady. Longing to escape her poor fishing village for a life in the city, she came to Tokyo. One day while alone in the office, she's spotted rolling up her pantyhose by the window...

Direction Ishirô Honda

Cast Akira Takarada · Akemi Negishi · Momoko Kôchi · Nobuo Nakamura

Synopsis A yeti terrorizes people on top of Mount Fuji. Directed by Ishirō Honda in 1955, the film was re-edited and dubbed in English in a 1958 U.S. release version called Half Human.