Screenplay: Keisuke Kinoshita

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Noriko Arita · Shinji Tanaka · Takahiro Tamura · Haruko Sugimura

Plot An old man, being rowed along a river, sees a field of daisies (or Wild Chrysanthemums, as they are described in the title, or starworts, as they are referred to...

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Kinuyo Tanaka · Teiji Takahashi · Yûko Mochizuki · Danko Ichikawa

Plot In Kabuki style, the film tells the story of a remote mountain village where the scarcity of food leads to a voluntary but socially-enforced policy in which relatives carry 70-year-old...

Direction Kinuyo Tanaka

Cast Masayuki Mori · Yoshiko Kuga · Jûkichi Uno · Kyôko Kagawa

Plot A sad and troubled man, Reikichi Mayumi (Masayuki Mori), finds a new job five years after the end of WWII. He will write love letters for other people.. His ideas...

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Keiko Kishi · Ineko Arima · Yoshiko Kuga · Yusuke Kawazu

Plot After surviving the double suicide pact she made with her lover, a woman gives birth to their child.

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Hideko Takamine · Tatsuya Nakadai · Keiji Sada · Nobuko Otowa

Plot Slow-paced but endowed with understanding, characters of some depth and complexity, and good direction, this slice-of-drama by Keisuke Kinoshita is taken from a bitter confection. The tale begins when Sadako...

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Hideki Goko · Hideko Takamine · Yukio Watanabe · Makoto Miyagawa

Plot Schoolteacher Hisako Oishi struggles to imbue her students with a positive view of the world and their place in it, despite the fact that she knows full well that most...

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Kinuyo Tanaka · Toshirô Mifune · Jûkichi Uno · Nobuko Otowa

Plot Noriko is a married woman who commutes once a week between Tokyo, where she runs her family’s jewellery store, and her home at the coast. Her husband has been ill...

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Takahiro Tamura · Hideko Takamine · Shogoro Ichikawa · Kichiemon Nakamura

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Hideko Takamine · Keiji Sada · Takahiro Tamura · Katsuo Nakamura

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Go Kato · Yukiyo Toake · Chikage Awashima · Masatomo Nakabayashi

Plot Based on an originally banned book by the surgeon Takashi Nagai, who died of radiation sickness in 1951 after witnessing the bomb blast in Nagasaki, this film is told from...

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Hideko Takamine · Shûji Sano · Chishu Ryu · Kuniko Igawa

Plot A girl who had left her small Japanese village for the excitement and adventure of the big city--in this case, Tokyo--returns home years later for a visit. However, scandal erupts...

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Hideko Takamine · Masao Wakahara · Chikage Awashima · Toshiko Kobayashi

Plot A naive stripper falls for an artist engaged to the daughter of a controversial female politician.

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Hideko Takamine · Kinya Kitaoji · Keiju Kobayashi · Keiko Tsushima

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Masahiko Tsugawa · Akira Ishihama · Ineko Arima · Keiji Sada

Plot Five young men, close friends since high school, reunite in their hometown after having been away for many years. This brief respite brings back their fond memories of earlier, simpler...

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Teiji Takahashi · Yoshiko Kuga · Kanzaburo Nakamura · Rentarô Mikuni

Plot Yasuko, a dissatisfied housewife struggling to make ends meet, leaves his husband working in Tokyo and returns to her parents' home in Nagano, so the couple can rent their home...

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Hideko Takamine · Keiji Sada · Akiko Tamura · Koji Nambara

Plot Three robbers target a house inhabited by a young couple and mother-in-law, but each time they attempt a break-in an endless stream of visiting family, lodgers and friends gets in...

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Mitsuko Mito · Eitarô Ozawa

Plot Toshiko (Mitsuko Mito) joins her criminal lover at a beach resort, where he tries to convince her to run away with him. Expressively shot on-location, Woman captures the tense struggle...

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Eiji Bandô · Makoto Nonomura · Kin Sugai · Kogan Ashiya

Plot A middle-aged man's family loses patience with him as he struggles with his seemingly directionless life.

Direction Masaki Kobayashi

Cast Kinuyo Tanaka · Keiko Awaji · Chieko Higashiyama · Akira Ishihama

Direction Noboru Nakamura

Cast Kyoko Asagiri · Hideo Fujino · Shinichi Himori · Reikichi Kawamura