Screenplay: Junichirô Tanizaki

Direction Kenji Mizoguchi

Cast Kinuyo Tanaka · Nobuko Otowa · Yuji Hori · Kiyoko Hirai

Synopsis Shinnosuke is introduced to Shizu as a prospective marriage partner, but he falls in love with her widowed sister Oyu. Convention forbids Oyu to marry because she has to raise her son as the head of her husband's family. Oyu...

Direction Kôzaburô Yoshimura

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

Synopsis 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 and good looks, yet he cannot stop himself from pursuing...

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Ayako Wakao · Akio Hasegawa · Gaku Yamamoto · Kei Sato

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Ayako Wakao · Kyôko Kishida · Yusuke Kawazu · Eiji Funakoshi

Synopsis A childless housewife falls in love with a beautiful model.

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Machiko Kyô · Ganjiro Nakamura · Tatsuya Nakadai · Junko Kano

Synopsis A man getting on in years sets out to find a way to resurrect his flagging virility.

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Keiko Kishi · Yoshiko Sakuma · Sayuri Yoshinaga · Yûko Kotegawa

Synopsis This sensuously beautiful film chronicles the activities of four sisters who gather in Kyoto every year to view the cherry blossoms. It paints a vivid portrait of the pre-war lifestyle of the wealthy Makioka family from Osaka, and draws a...

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Michiyo Kogure · Tomoemon Otani · Sô Yamamura · Jun Tazaki

Synopsis Based on a kabuki play in which a woman (Okuni) and one of the retainers of her late husband (Gohei) seek revenge upon the man, Tomonojo, who killed her husband following a love affair with the aforementioned woman.

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Michiyo Oguso · Shoichi Ozawa · Masakazu Tamura · Sachiko Murase

Synopsis An updated adaptation of Tanizaki's 1924 novel Naomi about a middle-aged factory engineer who trains, marries, and ultimately loses a teenage bride after she turns him into a slave to her whims. The intensity of his desire makes him a...

Direction Tetsuji Takechi

Cast Kanako Michi · Akira Ishihama · Chojuro Hanakawa · Yasuko Matsui

Synopsis While under sedation in a dentist's office, a young art student has sex fantasies about naked women, vampires and a beautiful patient he saw in the office.

Direction Tinto Brass

Cast Stefania Sandrelli · Frank Finlay · Barbara Cupisti · Franco Branciaroli

Synopsis Erotic drama about Nino, a man married to a young woman.

Direction Hisayasu Sato

Cast Rei Yoshii · Tomohisa Yuge

Direction Toshiharu Ikeda

Cast Naomi Kawashima · Akira Emoto · Mikio Ohsawa · Kenji Imai

Direction Lili Rademakers

Cast Ralph Michael · Beatie Edney · Suzanne Flon · Derek de Lint

Synopsis Marcel Hamelinck has a chronic muscle disease and therefore has to retire from his work. After his wife Denise dies, his attention is drawn to his daughter-in-law Simone. Obsessively he tries to make overtures, even at the expense of his...

Direction Shirô Toyoda

Cast Hisaya Morishige · Reiko Dan · Nobuko Otowa · Keiko Awaji

Synopsis Nine maids serve the household of a writer and his wife. The couple treat their maids like daughters and marry them off to eligible men. So, they are forever looking for new maids. As the years go by maid servants...

Direction Yutaka Abe

Cast Ranko Hanai · Yukiko Todoroki · Hisako Yamane · Hideko Takamine

Direction Yasujirô Shimazu

Cast Kinuyo Tanaka · Kôkichi Takada · Hideo Fujino · Choko Iida

Direction Daisuke Itô

Cast Machiko Kyô · Yoshiaki Hanayaki

Direction Takahisa Zeze

Cast Remi Kawashima · Yutaka Matsushige · Ken Mitsuishi · Kyusaku Shimada

Synopsis A tattoo changes a woman. A tattoo changes a man. Tattoo is everything … Asami, a woman who breaks into an affair with a man who has a wife the name is Ninomiya, a man who leaves the house apart...

Direction Kensaku Suzuki

Cast Masao Hayashi · Yoneko Sakai · Shizuko Miyabe · Michiko Hayama

Direction Kôzaburô Yoshimura

Cast Miyuki Kuwano · Toshiyuki Hosokawa · Takahiro Tamura · Etsushi Takahashi