Cinematography: Setsuo Kobayashi

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Ayako Wakao · Ken Ogata · Kayo Matsuo · Eiko Azusa

Plot Masumura's 40th film, for which he collaborated on the script, shows plot irrationality perhaps due to the newspaper serial original, perhaps to the adolescent behavior he portrays. The extremes of...

Direction Satsuo Yamamoto

Cast Shinobu Otake · Mieko Harada · Chikako Yuri · Yûko Kotegawa

Plot The story of the silk industry and the young girls who worked as silk spinners in the early 1900's in Japan. The silk mills were located in Okaya which lies...

Direction Umetsugu Inoue

Cast Toru Abe · Jun Fujimaki · Kôichi Fujiyama · Gai Harada

Plot A crime boss gets out of prison and sets out to find who from his organization has betrayed him. Directed by Inoue Umetsugu ("The Man Who Raises a Storm").

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Mari Atsumi · Yusuke Kawazu · Akemi Negishi · Kô Nishimura

Plot Yumi (Mari Atsumi) is a 19-year-old enrolled in a dress-making school. Her mother (Negishi Akemi) has raised her by working in a bar. One day Yumi is raped by one...

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Raizô Ichikawa · Sachiko Murase · Mayumi Ogawa · Daisuke Kato

Direction Kenji Misumi

Cast Ayako Wakao · Toyoto Fukuda · Tamao Nakamura · Chiaki Tsukioka

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Ayako Wakao · Machiko Kyô · Mikijiro Hira · Eiko Azusa

Plot A young woman with radiation sickness from the Hiroshima attack tries to make 1000 paper cranes to get better. Based on the novel by Kawabata Yasunari.

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Fujiko Yamamoto · Keiko Kishi · Tamao Nakamura · Kyôko Kishida

Plot Kaze is a married TV producer and a shameless philanderer, having nine mistresses all at the same time. All his women have had enough of his indecisiveness and inability to...

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Jiro Tamiya · Eiji Funakoshi · Yukiko Fuji · Daisuke Kato

Direction Satsuo Yamamoto

Cast Sô Yamamura · Ayako Wakao · Eiji Funakoshi · Noriko Hodaka

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Shima Iwashita · Jinpachi Nezu · Kyôko Kishida · Shinsuke Ashida

Plot The palmist "blue-moth (Seiga)" is rumored to manipulate the Japanese political and business from behind. Journalist Omoda had inquired into the "blue-moth" but is killed. Sudo who is Omoda's juniors...

Direction Tarô Yuge

Cast Ayako Wakao · Hiroshi Kawaguchi · Hideo Takamatsu · Kazuko Miyakawa

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Shintarô Katsu · Takahiro Tamura · Koichi Ose · Michiyo Oguso

Plot The last in the Heitai Yakuza series, and the only other entry directed by Masumura, as well as the only one in color. On the Chinese front, Kisaburo, a young...

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Ayako Wakao · Jiro Tamiya · Yaeko Mizutani · Eiji Funakoshi

Plot Based on the original novel by Tokuda Shusei, adaptation by Kaneto Shindo, Masumura Yasuzo directs. A battle of woman competing for the same man. Masuko (Ayako Wakao) is the number...

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Ayako Wakao · Machiko Kyô · Shin Saburi · Hiroshi Kawaguchi

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Hiroshi Kawaguchi · Kaneko Iwasaki · Kyôko Enami · Tomoo Nagai

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Shintarô Katsu · Naoko Otani · Masakazu Tamura · Yusuke Kawazu

Plot A yakuza member's half-sister means much more to him in a film that repeatedly depicts realities other than what normal societal rules allow. The overly protective and loving brother; however,...

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Ayako Wakao · Kinya Kitaoji · Etsushi Takahashi · Mayumi Nagisa

Plot A Masumura Yasuzō film about a love affair starring Wakao Ayako. The literal title is The Two Who Got Wet.

Direction Kenzō Takada

Cast Anicée Alvina · Anne Consigny · Enrico Tricario · Léo Campion

Plot A young man starts off on a quest for happiness, he is told to head south by a wise astrologer, He will later arrive at an ancient castle where two...

Direction Kon Ichikawa · Yasuzô Masumura · Kôzaburô Yoshimura

Cast Ayako Wakao · Hiroshi Kawaguchi · Jiro Tamiya · Sachiko Hidari

Plot A Film in Three Parts. The first story concerns an attractive young woman who works in a Tokyo nightclub. Her plan for a solid financial future has a double whammy....