Cinematography: Minoru Miki

Direction Kenji Mizoguchi

Cast Shotaro Hanayagi · Kakuko Mori · Kôkichi Takada · Yôko Umemura

Plot Tokyo, 1885. Kikunosuke, son of the famous actor Kikugoro, is openly praised for his performance on the stage. His success is actually due to his name; only Otoku, the wet-nurse...

Direction Kenji Mizoguchi

Cast Isuzu Yamada · Yôko Umemura · Benkei Shiganoya · Eitarô Shindô

Plot Umekichi, a geisha in the Gion district of Kyoto, feels obliged to help her lover Furusawa when he asks to stay with her after becoming bankrupt and leaving his wife....

Direction Kenji Mizoguchi

Cast Takako Irie · Tokihiko Okada · Nobuo Kosaka · Bontarô Miake

Direction Kenji Mizoguchi

Cast Isuzu Yamada · Seiichi Takegawa · Chiyoko Okura · Shinpachiro Asaka

Plot Ayako becomes the mistress of her boss, Mr. Asai, so she can pay her father's debt, and prevent him from going to prison for embezzlement. She also sends money to...

Direction Kenji Mizoguchi

Cast Isuzu Yamada · Daijirô Natsukawa · Mitsusaburô Ramon · Genichi Fuji

Plot Sokichi Hata moves to Tokyo hoping to get into medical school, but he doesn't have the means to survive. There, he meets Osen, the servant girl of an unscrupulous antiques...

Direction Kenji Mizoguchi

Cast Minosuke Bando · Kinuyo Tanaka · Toshiko Iizuka · Hiroko Kawasaki

Plot Utamaro, a great artist, lives to create portraits of beautiful women, and the brothels of Tokyo provide his models. A world of passion swirls around him, as the women in...

Direction Kenji Mizoguchi

Cast Taizô Fukami · Akira Harue · Kiyoshi Katô · Seizaburô Kawazu

Direction Kenji Mizoguchi

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

Plot 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...

Direction Kenji Mizoguchi

Cast Chojuro Kawarasaki · Ganemon Nakamura · Kigoro Ikushima · Kinuyo Tanaka

Plot Shinobu and her brother Genichiro plead with the famous swordsman Musashi Miyamoto to teach them swordsmanship to avenge their father's death. The killers of their father see the sister and...

Direction Kenji Mizoguchi

Cast Yukichi Iwata · Kasuke Koizumi · Kuniko Miyake · Daijirô Natsukawa

Direction Kenji Mizoguchi

Cast Komako Hara · Eiji Nakano · Daijirô Natsukawa · Toichiro Negishi

Plot Oyuki, the Virgin is based on Kawaguchi Matsutaro’s adaptation of Maupassant’s “Boule de Suif” (“Lump of Fat,” also the inspiration for Ford’s Stagecoach). To this story Mizoguchi added some of...

Direction Kenji Mizoguchi

Cast Shotaro Hanayagi · Kan Ishii · Eijirô Yanagi · Ichijirô Oya

Plot Kiyone Sakurai, an apprentice swordmaker makes a sword for his guardian, Kozaemon Onoda. Onoda breaks the sword while defending his lord which eventually leads to his death at the hands...

Direction Nobuo Nakagawa

Cast Utaemon Ichikawa · Kiku Hôjô · Shunji Sakai · Tosshô Sawamura

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Koji Mitsui · Chishu Ryu · Shûji Sano · Kyoko Asagiri

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Harue Akagi · Koji Arima · Chikage Awashima · Chiyonosuke Azuma

Plot Samurai Kochiyama Soshun helps Kaneko Ichinosuke avenge the death of Kaneko’s father who was wrongly accused of embezzling, hoping that in return Kaneko takes geisha Michitose, the presumed sister of...

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Yoshio Ichihara · Kiyoshi Kawamatsu · Tôroku Makino · Tsukie Matsuura

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Daisuke Kato · Denjirô Ôkôchi · Yumeko Aizome · Tsumasaburo Bando

Direction Ryôta Kawanami · Masahiro Makino · Eisuke Takizawa

Cast Seizaburô Kawazu · Kiyoko Izumi · Teruko Makino · Shin'ichi Akita

Direction Ryo Hagiwara

Cast Chiezô Kataoka · Michiyo Kogure · Isuzu Yamada · Tatsuya Ishiguro

Direction Yasushi Sasaki

Cast Mieko Takamine · Chiezô Kataoka · Chie Ueki · Izumi Shiraishi