Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

Direction Yôji Yamada

Cast Sayuri Yoshinaga · Tadanobu Asano · Mitsugorô Bandô · Rei Dan

Plot Based on childhood days of Teruyo Nogami.

Direction Yôji Yamada

Cast Ryo Kase · Yû Aoi · Sayuri Yoshinaga · Yuriko Ishida

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Keiko Kishi · Yoshiko Sakuma · Sayuri Yoshinaga · Yûko Kotegawa

Plot This sensuously beautiful film chronicles the activities of four sisters who gather in Kyoto every year to view the cherry blossoms. It paints a vivid portrait of the pre-war lifestyle...

Direction Seijun Suzuki

Cast Tamio Kawaji · Tomoko Naraoka · Yoshiko Nezu · Sayuri Yoshinaga

Direction Yôji Yamada

Cast Sayuri Yoshinaga · Kazunari Ninomiya · Haru Kuroki · Tadanobu Asano

Plot Set in post-World War II Japan, midwife Nobuko is resolved to move on as she stands at the grave of her son Koji who died, alongside thousands of others, when...

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Sayuri Yoshinaga · Hideki Noda · Takuzo Kawatani · Kirin Kiki

Plot Based on the folk tales "Repayment from a crane". One snowy night a beautiful woman named Tsuru (Crane) visits poor peasant Taiju sand says she will become his wife...

Direction Masanobu Deme

Cast Shima Iwashita · Sayuri Yoshinaga · Tetsuya Chikushi · Hirotarô Honda

Direction Katsumi Nishikawa

Cast Sayuri Yoshinaga · Hideki Takahashi

Plot A student on vacation meets a teenage dancer who is a member of a league comic company. Both young people fall in love.

Direction Izuru Narushima

Cast Sayuri Yoshinaga · Hiroshi Abe · Yuko Takeuchi · Shôfukutei Tsurube

Plot Helped by her nephew, Koji, Etsuko runs a lovely little seaside café where the locals like to gather, gossip and drink her delicious coffee. People with problems are somehow attracted...

Direction Toshio Masuda

Cast Sayuri Yoshinaga · Omar Sharif · Hiroki Matsukata · Toshiyuki Nishida

Plot Elite lawyer Ryoko enlists the help of a foreign mafia in rescuing her son from a criminal who holds grudge against her.

Direction Isshin Inudô

Cast Sayuri Yoshinaga · Yûki Amami · Tsuyoshi Muro · Hikari Mitsushima

Plot A lady called Mako has done well for herself and her business. A lady called Yukie is a devout housewife who has done what she needs to do and been...

Direction Yōjirō Takita

Cast Hiroshi Abe · Ittoku Kishibe · Katsuya Maiguma · Toshiyuki Nagashima

Plot In August 1945, the Soviet Union invaded the area around Sakhalin Island. Ezure Tetsu escaped with her two sons from Sakhalin Island and arrived in Abashiri City, Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan....

Direction Nobuhiko Ôbayashi

Cast Sayuri Yoshinaga · Masahiko Tsugawa · Morio Kazama · Miki Fujitani

Plot A middle-aged journalist looking to make her big break. After working the same beat on the "Women's page", Yumiko gets promoted to editorials.

Direction Izuru Narushima

Cast Suzu Hirose · Yusuke Iseya · Yuriko Ishida · Shigeru Izumiya

Plot Sawako who works as a physician away from her hometown return home to Shikawa for her father's sake. She obtains a job at a local clinic. As part of her...

Direction Katsumi Nishikawa

Cast Sayuri Yoshinaga · Mitsuo Hamada · Hideki Takahashi · Izumi Ashikawa

Plot Shinko is a newcomer to a women's school. One day he takes Professor Shimazaki a love letter he has found addressed to the teacher. This will start the problems in...

Direction Satsuo Yamamoto

Cast Osamu Takizawa · Shinsuke Ashida · Hideki Takahashi · Etsushi Takahashi

Plot Yamamoto Satsuo directed this masterful 9 hour epic trilogy on the effects of war on the five generations of a single Japanese family. Based on Gomikawa Jumpei's (The Human Condition)...

Direction Kirio Urayama

Cast Sayuri Yoshinaga · Mitsuo Hamada · Eijirô Tono · Shoichi Ozawa

Plot Set in Kawaguchi, just north of Tokyo in the early 60s, this simple story chronicles the lives of poor foundry workers and their families, and one girl's dreams of self-improvement...

Direction Satsuo Yamamoto

Cast Kinya Kitaoji · Junko Natsu · Kei Yamamoto · Hideki Takahashi

Plot Yamamoto Satsuo directed this masterful 9 hour epic trilogy on the effects of war on the five generations of a single Japanese family. Based on Gomikawa Jumpei's (The Human Condition)...

Direction Kirio Urayama

Cast Sayuri Yoshinaga · Kinya Kitaoji · Kirin Kiki · Mayumi Ogawa

Plot The beautiful Yumechiyo returns home with the crushing news that her atom-bomb-induced illness is leukemia. With less than 6 months to live she falls in love with a young man.

Direction Yukio Fukamachi

Cast Sayuri Yoshinaga · Tetsuya Watari · Reiko Takashima · Shiho Fujimura

Plot Though she was sold to a geisha house at a young age, Aihara (Yoshinaga) has since become a master samisen player and woman of great elegance. Though not especially rich,...