Cinematography: Saburo Isayama

Direction Takumi Furukawa

Cast Jô Shishido · Chieko Matsubara · Tamio Kawaji · Yûji Odaka

Plot Businessmen arrange the early release from prison of Togawa, serving time for taking revenge on the truck driver whose carelessness confined Togawa's sister, Rei, to a wheelchair. They want Togawa...

Direction Tomotaka Tasaka

Cast Chieko Higashiyama · Yoshiko Kuga · Machiko Kyô · Jun Negami

Direction Takumi Furukawa

Cast Yôko Minamida · Hiroyuki Nagato · Yujiro Ishihara · Ko Mishima

Plot The generation-defining masterpiece penned by Akutagawa Prize-winning author Shintaro Ishihara proved to be Nikkatsu’s first crossover hit. This Sun Tribe film details the frequently scandalous whims of two listless postwar...

Direction Tomotaka Tasaka

Cast Isamu Kosugi · Akihiko Katayama · Yukiko Todoroki · Kazuko Yoshida

Plot The mayor's aviator son promises to fly over the village in salute and much of the narrative concerns the preparations for this great event.

Direction Ryohei Arai

Cast Takako Irie · Michiko Ai · Yoshitaro Sadato · Shôsaku Sugiyama

Plot Okoyo is Lord Arima's concubine. She becomes jealous of her apparent successor, Otaki, and begins torturing her, eventually killing the girl. Otaki's cat licks her mistress's blood and becomes a...

Direction Tomotaka Tasaka

Cast Yujiro Ishihara · Mie Kitahara · Izumi Ashikawa · Yûji Odaka

Plot The young Takako Kuramoto has come to Tokyo to study and starts working for the rich Tashiro family as tutor of the daughter, Kumiko, while she receives attention from her...

Direction Kenji Mizoguchi

Cast Kayoko Saijô · Enji Satô · Shirô Kato · Katsumi Miyake

Direction Kenji Mizoguchi

Cast Kaichi Yamamoto · Yutaka Mimasu · Kumeko Urabe · Masao Hayashi

Direction Tomotaka Tasaka

Cast Shinobu Araki · Yutaka Sada · Mitsuko Mito · Chishu Ryu

Direction Kensaku Suzuki

Cast Eiji Takagi · Eiji Nakano · Yôko Umemura · Yasunaga Higashibojo

Direction Minoru Inuzuka

Cast Mitsuko Mito · Yuji Hori · Yumiko Hasegawa · Eitarô Shindô

Plot A ghost story about a woman who dies a violent death and appears to the man she loves as a vengeful spirit. This film marked the turning point in Daiei’s...

Direction Seijun Suzuki

Cast Kôji Wada · Mayumi Shimizu · Shin Morikawa · Arihiro Fujimura

Direction Tomotaka Tasaka

Cast Hikaru Hoshi · Ichirô Izawa · Shirô Izome · Isamu Kosugi

Direction Tomotaka Tasaka

Cast Shûji Sano · Yukiko Todoroki · Chieko Higashiyama · Sachiko Hidari

Direction Tomotaka Tasaka

Cast Kyôji Aoyama · Michiyo Aratama · Izumi Ashikawa · Toyo Fukuda

Direction Tomotaka Tasaka

Cast Isamu Kosugi · Ryoichi Kikuchi

Plot Shooting on location in China, Tomotaka Tasaka presents a low-key but stirring account of the day-to-day travails and camaraderie of Japanese soldiers, swapping individual heroics for devotion to the group...

Direction Charles F. Schwep