Cast: Kikue Môri

Direction Kenji Mizoguchi

Cast Michiyo Kogure · Ayako Wakao · Seizaburô Kawazu · Saburo Date

Synopsis In the post-war Gion district of Kyoto, the geisha Miyoharu agrees to apprentice the 16 year-old Eiko, whose mother was a former geisha who had just died. After a year of training they have to find a large sum of...

Direction Kenji Mizoguchi

Cast Kinuyo Tanaka · Sanae Takasugi · Tomie Tsunoda · Mitsuo Nagata

Synopsis Fusako Owada, a young woman in postwar Japan, is the mistress of a notorious drug dealer. Fusako's tenuous grasp on meaningful life is shaken when she learns that her lover is having an affair with her sister.

Direction Nagisa Ôshima

Cast Hashizo Okawa · Ryutaro Otomo · Satomi Oka · Rentarô Mikuni

Synopsis In the year 1637 in Shimabara of Tokugawa-era Japan, oppressed peasant Christians revolt against the shogunate with the aid of a charismatic Christian rebel leader Shiro Amakusa.

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Ayako Wakao · Akio Hasegawa · Gaku Yamamoto · Kei Sato

Direction Kenji Mizoguchi

Cast Kinuyo Tanaka · Sô Yamamura · Sugisaku Aoyama · Kyoko Asagiri

Synopsis The stage director Shimamura, who is bringing western theatre to Japan, falls in love with the outspoken actress Sumako Matsui, and leaves his family to be with her, while trying to keep his Art Theatre solvent.

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Kazuo Hasegawa · Fujiko Yamamoto · Ayako Wakao · Eiji Funakoshi

Synopsis In 1836, in Tokugawa Japan, Yukinojo (Kazuo Hasegawa), a Kabuki actor specializing in female roles, arrives with his troupe in Edo. There he sets in motion a complex plot designed first to ruin and then to kill three men who...

Direction Kaneto Shindô

Cast Jûkichi Uno · Nobuko Otowa · Harold Conway · Masao Mishima

Synopsis Daigo Fukuryū Maru (第五福龍丸?, Lucky Dragon 5) was a Japanese tuna fishing boat, which was exposed to and contaminated by nuclear fallout from the United States’ Castle Bravo thermonuclear device test on Bikini Atoll, on March 1, 1954. Kuboyama Aikichi,...

Direction Ryohei Arai

Cast Shinobu Araki · Kotaro Bando · Takaji Fukui · Kazuko Fushimi

Synopsis A woman loses her son through an evil conspiracy and commits suicide. Shortly afterwards a ghost cat begins haunting the conspirators.

Direction Santarô Marune

Cast Kenjiro Ishiyama · Kikue Môri · Shôgo Shimada · Ryunosuke Tsukigata

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Kinnosuke Nakamura · Yumiko Hasegawa · Minoru Chiaki · Mikijiro Hira

Synopsis Katsujiro the fishmonger dreams about her sister Okiku's being slained by her husband, Lord Aoyama. By the dawn he founds in the water a wallet full of gold coins.

Direction Tadashi Imai

Cast Kinnosuke Nakamura · Takahiro Tamura · Tetsurô Tanba · Yoshi Kato

Synopsis Shinpachi, a poor samurai with no prospects, gets in an argument with Magodayu, a high-ranking officer, resulting in an illegal duel and Magodayu's death. To save face for both familes, both participants are declared insane, and Shinpachi is exiled to...

Direction Koji Shima

Cast Raizô Ichikawa · Ayako Wakao · Yôko Uraji · Akihiko Katayama

Synopsis The beautiful Kyohime, daughter of a noble, accidentally injures the Anchin monk with an arrow. Kyohime, in repair, invites Anchin to his mansion until it heals ... but falls madly in love with him.

Direction Teinosuke Kinugasa

Cast Michiko Ai · Teruyo Asagumo · Mirasaki Fujima · Setsuko Hama

Synopsis Ukifune is the story of its eponymous heroine, a beautiful young woman, and two remarkable Heian noblemen. Its events unfold 20 years after the death of Shining Prince Genji, and the two men with whom Ukifune is involved are Prince...

Direction Keigo Kimura

Cast Yaeko Mizutani · Kikue Môri · Ryunosuke Tsukigata · Tominosuke Hayama

Direction Keigo Kimura

Cast Kumeko Urabe · Kusuo Abe · Sumiko Hidaka · Toshiaki Konoe

Direction Heinosuke Gosho

Cast Hibari Misora · Shogoro Ichikawa · Takashi Kitahara · Eijirô Yanagi

Synopsis Adapted from Ichiyô Higuchi’s Meiji period novella. Tells the story of a young girl doomed from birth to a life of prostitution and her growing awareness of her fate.

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Shima Iwashita · Go Kato · Mariko Kaga · Kinuyo Tanaka

Synopsis A young woman who has been evacuated to Hokkaido with her family during wartime receives a marriage proposal from the son of the village head, but declines on account of his barbarous acts during the war. She and her family...

Direction Kaneto Shindô

Cast Nobuko Otowa · Eiko Yamagishi · Taiji Tonoyama · Hideo Kanze

Direction Yoshiro Kawazu

Cast Shima Iwashita · Keisuke Sonoi · Michiyo Aratama · Keiji Sada

Direction Tadashi Imai

Cast Rentarô Mikuni · Ineko Arima · Masayuki Mori · Emiko Azuma

Synopsis When a married woman has an affair with a young musician, feudal Japanese law requires that both offenders pay with their lives. However, the woman's husband blames himself for his wife's straying and attempts to thwart the law demanding capital...