Cast: Yukiko Todoroki

Direction Yûzô Kawashima

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

Plot 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...

Direction Yûzô Kawashima

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

Direction Kenji Mizoguchi

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

Plot 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...

Direction Yûzô Kawashima

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

Plot 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...

Direction Akira Kurosawa

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

Plot 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...

Direction Akira Kurosawa

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

Plot 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

Plot 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...

Direction Yûzô Kawashima

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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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...

Direction Masahiro Makino

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