Soundtrack: Nobuo Iida

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Tatsuya Ishiguro · Haruko Sugimura · Takashi Shimura · Yuriko Hanabusa

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Noboru Kiritachi · Ranko Edogawa · Hideo Saeki · Yuriko Hanabusa

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Hideko Takamine · Kamatari Fujiwara · Daijirô Natsukawa · Tamae Kiyokawa

Plot Hideko the Bus Conductress, Mikio Naruse's deceptively lighthearted comic confection, is the writer-director's first collaboration (of a total 17) with the great Japanese actress Hideko Takamine. As the teenage bus...

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Yuriko Hamada · Chieko Higashiyama · Isao Kimura · Keiko Kishi

Plot Sudo and Mori are two university students who make money by picking up rich girls in dance clubs and conning them into giving them cash. Mori is the brains of...

Direction Shirô Toyoda

Cast Setsuko Wakayama · Haruko Sugimura · Ryo Ikebe · Chieko Higashiyama

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Ryo Ikebe · Jun Tazaki · Michitaro Mizushima · Yôko Sugi

Plot This little seen early work by Ichikawa was produced during the director's Shintoho period (1947-51). Written by Kaneto Shindô and featuring Ryô Ikebe as a young policeman it is part...

Direction Kunio Watanabe

Cast Ken Uehara · Ranko Hanai · Reiko Miyagawa · Den Obinata

Direction Nobuo Aoyagi

Cast Mariko Okada · Haruko Sugimura · Takashi Shimura · Hisaya Morishige

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Kyôzô Fuyuki · Kazuo Hasegawa · Takako Irie · Rei Ishikawa

Plot Based on a Tokushima folktale about a former resident who returns for the Awa Odori (Awa Dance).

Direction Ishirô Honda

Cast Kyoko Aoyama · Shinji Yamada · Shûji Sano · Hiroshi Tachikawa

Plot Wakai ki is abouta young girl who moves to Tokyo and endures the rivalries between other high school girls of varying cultural and economic backgrounds.

Direction Takeshi Sato · Kunio Watanabe

Cast Masao Inoue · Chizuko Nogami · Yuji Hori · Den Obinata

Direction Yasuki Chiba

Cast Setsuko Hara · Toshirô Mifune · Yôko Sugi · Hisaya Morishige

Plot Following the Second World War, the lives of various people in a poverty-stricken area of Tokyo are entertwined. Pachinko parlor girls, shoeshine boys, a maker of costume jewelry, and a...

Direction Toshio Sugie

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Asami Kuji · Akira Takarada · Yôko Tsukasa

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Choko Iida · Gen Shimizu · Yotaro Katsumi · Yûnosuke Itô

Direction Tadashi Imai · Fumio Kamei · Satsuo Yamamoto

Cast Ryo Ikebe · Yasuhiko Ishizu · Hajime Izu · Ichiro Sugai

Plot His family believes him dead when a member of the Japanese imperial army deployed to China during the occupation of the latter by the former does not return home following...

Direction Tamizo Ishida

Cast Hideko Takamine · Takashi Kotaka · Sadako Sawamura · Hyô Kitazawa

Direction Satsuo Yamamoto

Cast Sumiko Hidaka · Yoshi Kato · Yasushi Nagata · Miko Hara

Direction Yasuki Chiba

Cast Haruo Nakajima · Tomoemon Otani · Yukiko Shimazaki · Chieko Murata

Direction Toshio Sugie

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Asami Kuji · Akira Takarada · Shûji Sano

Direction Yasuki Chiba

Cast Ryo Ikebe · Sachiko Murase · Yutaka Sada · Masao Shimizu