Cinematography: Kohei Sugiyama

Direction Kenji Mizoguchi

Cast Machiko Kyô · Masayuki Mori · Sô Yamamura · Eitarô Shindô

Plot In eighth century China, the Emperor is grieving over the death of his wife. The Yang family wants to provide the Emperor with a consort so that they may consolidate...

Direction Kenji Mizoguchi

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

Plot 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...

Direction Kenji Mizoguchi

Cast Narutoshi Hayashi · Raizô Ichikawa · Tatsuya Ishiguro · Akitake Kôno

Plot Set in 12th Century Japan against a rich social and political background, TALES OF THE TAIRA CLAN is an epic tale of power struggles, family drama, and human frailty. Special...

Direction Kenji Mizoguchi

Cast Yoshizaburo Arashi · Utaemon Ichikawa · Chojuro Kawarasaki · Tokusaburo Arashi

Plot Lord Asano resists a bribery attempt by a member of the Shogun's court. His honesty, however, is useless against the corruption of the administration, and he is forced to commit...

Direction Teinosuke Kinugasa

Cast Masuo Inoue · Yoshie Nakagawa · Ayako Iijima · Hiroshi Nemoto

Plot A man takes a job at an asylum with hopes of freeing his imprisoned wife.

Direction Kôzaburô Yoshimura

Cast Kazuo Hasegawa · Michiyo Kogure · Machiko Kyô · Nobuko Otowa

Plot Based on the classic novel by Murasaki Shikibu, written over 1000 years ago. Genji, the son of the emperor, has gained renown among the nobility of Kyoto for his charm...

Direction Teinosuke Kinugasa

Cast Machiko Kyô · Kazuo Hasegawa · Isao Yamagata · Yataro Kurokawa

Plot In 1350, during an attempted coup, one of the court's ladies in waiting disguises herself as the lord's wife, and a loyal samurai conveys her from the city. This diversion...

Direction Kenji Mizoguchi

Cast Kinuyo Tanaka · Mitsuko Mito · Kuniko Miyake · Ichiro Sugai

Plot A woman's struggle for equality in Japan in the 1880s. Eiko Hirayama leaves Okayama for Tokyo, where she helps the fledgling Liberal Party and falls in love with its leader...

Direction Teinosuke Kinugasa

Cast Akiko Chihaya · Junosuke Bando · Yukiko Ogawa · Ippei Sohma

Plot The film opens on 18th century Tokyo where Rikiya has fought a duel over the geisha O-ume. Severely wounded, Rikiya returns home where his sister, Okiku, serves as his nurse....

Direction Hiroshi Inagaki

Cast Chiezô Kataoka · Naoe Fushimi · Michisaburo Segawa · Ryôsuke Kagawa

Direction Kenji Mizoguchi

Cast Minosuke Bando · Kichisaburo Arashi · Yoshiko Nakamura · Yôko Umemura

Direction Teinosuke Kinugasa

Cast Kazuo Hasegawa · Ippei Sohma · Shinkuro Masamune · Akiko Chihaya

Direction Teinosuke Kinugasa

Cast Kazuo Hasegawa · Toshiko Iizuka · Jûshirô Kobayashi · Yasuro Shiga

Plot The first half of the movie depicts a man's jealousy of his best friend and the woman he love. The second part depicts a hero who is ready to put...

Direction Teinosuke Kinugasa

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

Direction Teinosuke Kinugasa

Cast Kazuo Hasegawa · Akiko Chihaya

Direction Teinosuke Kinugasa

Cast Kazuo Hasegawa · Machiko Kyô · Raizô Ichikawa · Ayako Wakao

Direction Teinosuke Kinugasa

Cast Kazuo Hasegawa · Ryunosuke Tsukigata · Akiko Chihaya · Kôkichi Takada

Direction Teinosuke Kinugasa

Cast Kazuo Hasegawa · Kinuyo Tanaka · Jun Arai · Misao Seki

Direction Kenji Misumi

Cast Raizô Ichikawa · Yôko Uraji · Seizaburô Kawazu · Michiyo Kogure

Plot A young ronin seeking to kill all evil doers get by accident involved in a big clan conspiracy and have to use the best of his wits to help and...

Direction Kazuo Mori

Cast Kazuo Hasegawa · Machiko Kyô · Eitarô Shindô · Eitarô Ozawa