Screenplay: Chikamatsu Monzaemon

Direction Kenji Mizoguchi

Cast Kazuo Hasegawa · Kyôko Kagawa · Yôko Minamida · Eitarô Shindô

Plot Set in 17th century Kyoto, Osan is married to Ishun, a wealthy miserly scroll-maker. When Osan is falsely accused of having an affair with the Ishun’s most trusted servant, Mohei,...

Direction Masahiro Shinoda

Cast Kichiemon Nakamura · Shima Iwashita · Kamatari Fujiwara · Jun Hamamura

Plot Shinoda's interesting film is a generally faithful adaptation of a play by Chikamatsu, preserving all the theatrical conventions of the puppet theatre original, and even trumping that level of artifice...

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Meiko Kaji · Ryudo Uzaki · Hisashi Igawa · Sachiko Hidari

Plot "Suicide has long been used as a form of social protest in Japan. In this film, set in 1703, samurai culture is being transformed by the emergence of a new...

Direction Jorge Suárez-Quiñones Rivas

Cast Guillermo Pozo

Direction Marty Gross

Cast Tamao Yoshida · Minosuke Yoshida · Kanjuro Kiritake · Oritaya Takemoto

Direction Masahiro Shinoda

Cast Haruko Katô · Hideji Ôtaki · Kuniko Miyake · Choichiro Kawarazaki

Plot The tragic story of Gonza, a handsome ladies man, set in the Tokagawa Period, a time in which appearences are very important. Gonza competes with Bannojo for the honor to...

Direction Tadashi Imai

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

Plot 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...

Direction Hideo Gosha

Cast Kanako Higuchi · Miwako Fujitani · Shin'ichi Tsutsumi · Hiroyuki Nagato

Direction Tomu Uchida

Cast Kinnosuke Nakamura · Ineko Arima · Kinuyo Tanaka · Keiko Yukishiro

Plot One of the many film versions based on Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1653-1725), in which Uchida does not shirk from bringing on the legendary writer himself. Young man is filled with passion...