Cast: Yukiko Todoroki

Direction Yûzô Kawashima

Cast Ryoji Hayama · Keiji Itami · Keiko Izumi · Nobuo Kaneko

Synopsis Reiko, who tolerates abuse in her marriage to a man 23 years her senior, is friends with Mayumi, a beautiful widow. Reiko meets her husband’s business rival, a young, capable businessman, and falls for him. Meanwhile, Mayumi enters into a...

Direction Yûzô Kawashima

Cast Michiyo Aratama · Yukiko Todoroki · Seizaburô Kawazu · Tatsuya Mihashi

Direction Kenji Mizoguchi

Cast Kinuyo Tanaka · Yukiko Todoroki · Masayuki Mori · Akihiko Katayama

Synopsis Near the end of the War, Michiko, a middle-aged woman of samurai blood, flees Tokyo for her ancestral home in Musashino, accompanied by her husband Akiyama, a university professor of peasant stock. After her mother and father die in rapid...

Direction Yûzô Kawashima

Cast Nobuo Kaneko · Setsuko Katô · Yoshirô Katô · Akira Kobayashi

Synopsis Reiko, who tolerates abuse in her marriage to a man 23 years her senior, is friends with Mayumi, a beautiful widow. Reiko meets her husband’s business rival, a young, capable businessman, and falls for him. Meanwhile, Mayumi enters into a...

Direction Akira Kurosawa

Cast Denjirô Ôkôchi · Susumu Fujita · Yukiko Todoroki · Ryunosuke Tsukigata

Synopsis Sanshiro, a strong stubborn youth, comes to the city to apprentice at a jujitsu school. His first night, he sees Yano in action, a master of judo, a more spiritual art, and he begs to be Yano's student. As the...

Direction Akira Kurosawa

Cast Denjirô Ôkôchi · Susumu Fujita · Ryunosuke Tsukigata · Akitake Kôno

Synopsis In this government-suggested sequel, Sugata again grows as a judo master, and demonstrates his (and by extension, all Japanese) superiority to the foreign warrior.

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Takashi Shimura · Kanjuro Arashi · Kensaku Hara · Reiko Hoshi

Direction Motomu Ida

Cast Hideki Takahashi · Masako Izumi · Yukiko Todoroki · Asao Koike

Direction Seiji Hisamatsu

Cast Kinuyo Tanaka · Yôko Sugi · Kyôko Kagawa · Hisao Toake

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Yukiko Todoroki · Hideko Takamine · Hisako Yamane · Reisaburo Yamamoto

Direction Toshio Masuda

Cast Yujiro Ishihara · Mie Kitahara · Masumi Okada · Sanae Nakahara

Synopsis 50s subculture icon Yujiro Ishihara (Crazed Fruit) stars in Masuda's Red Pier as "Jiro the Lefty", a killer with a natural talent. Shortly after arriving in Kobe, he witnesses a man die in a crane accident which turns out to...

Direction Yûzô Kawashima

Cast Sô Yamamura · Tatsuya Mihashi · Isuzu Yamada · Mie Kitahara

Synopsis WWII is at an end. Baby boomers are in full bloom. Minister Araki is introducing a healthcare bill that aims to establish “Birth Control Consultation Centers” across Japan. As his speech echoes in the national assembly, his wife receives a...

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Noboru Andô · Masahiko Tsugawa · Hiroyuki Nagato · Chiyonosuke Azuma

Direction Teinosuke Kinugasa

Cast Shinobu Araki · Denjirô Ôkôchi · Yukiko Todoroki · Kazuo Hasegawa

Direction Kôzaburô Yoshimura

Cast Susumu Fujita · Yukiko Todoroki · Choko Iida · Chishu Ryu

Direction Teinosuke Kinugasa

Cast Kazuo Hasegawa · Takako Irie · Yukiko Todoroki · Masayuki Mori

Direction Santarô Marune

Cast Chiezô Kataoka · Kunitaro Sawamura · Kensaku Hara · Goro Abe

Direction Yutaka Abe

Cast Ranko Hanai · Yukiko Todoroki · Hisako Yamane · Hideko Takamine

Direction Akinori Matsuo

Cast Hideki Takahashi · Masako Izumi · Kenjiro Ishiyama · Yukiko Todoroki

Synopsis In 1936 under the war clouds over the Manchurian border, 60-year-old Oshima Shozaburo is concerned about the future of his only son, Ryuji, who has refused to follow in the footsteps of his gambler father and decided to become a...

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Kazuo Hasegawa · Choko Iida · Takeshi Sakamoto · Sadako Sawamura