Cast: Yôko Minamida

Direction Kenji Mizoguchi

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

Synopsis 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, the two flee away. While on the run, Osan and...

Direction Kenji Mizoguchi

Cast Machiko Kyô · Masayuki Mori · Sô Yamamura · Eitarô Shindô

Synopsis In eighth century China, the Emperor is grieving over the death of his wife. The Yang family wants to provide the Emperor with a consort so that they may consolidate their influence over the court. General An Lushan finds a...

Direction Yûzô Kawashima

Cast Ryoji Hayama · Keiji Itami · Keiko Izumi · Nobuo Kaneko

Synopsis Reiko, who tolerates abuse in her marriage to a man 23 years her senior, is friends with Mayumi, a beautiful widow. Reiko meets her husband’s business rival, a young, capable businessman, and falls for him. Meanwhile, Mayumi enters into a...

Direction Yûzô Kawashima

Cast Nobuo Kaneko · Setsuko Katô · Yoshirô Katô · Akira Kobayashi

Synopsis Reiko, who tolerates abuse in her marriage to a man 23 years her senior, is friends with Mayumi, a beautiful widow. Reiko meets her husband’s business rival, a young, capable businessman, and falls for him. Meanwhile, Mayumi enters into a...

Direction Yûzô Kawashima

Cast Frankie Sakai · Sachiko Hidari · Yôko Minamida · Yujiro Ishihara

Synopsis When man-about-town Saheiji (the beloved comedian Frankie Sakai) finds himself unable to pay for a bill at a brothel, he is forced to remain there to work off his debt. However he finds his wit and resourcefulness enable him to...

Direction Shôhei Imamura

Cast Jitsuko Yoshimura · Yôko Minamida · Masao Mishima · Hiroyuki Nagato

Synopsis Teen hoodlum Kinta is excited to be given the plum job of supervising the pig pen at the local US base, for which he'll be responsible diverting the food scraps to the black market, and scoring a good income for...

Direction Nobuhiko Ôbayashi

Cast Kimiko Ikegami · Kumiko Ohba · Yôko Minamida · Mitsutoshi Ishigami

Synopsis When Oshare finds out that her Father's girlfriend is joining them on their summer trip, she and her friends decide to go to her aunt's farmhouse instead. From the moment they arrive, strange things begin to happen and the girls...

Direction Shôhei Imamura

Cast Osamu Takizawa · Shin'ichi Yanagisawa · Hiroyuki Nagato · Kô Nishimura

Synopsis An idealistic director quits school to join a traveling theater troupe and finds himself trapped in a love triangle between the leading player's wife and her younger sister.

Direction Koreyoshi Kurahara

Cast Ryoji Hayama · Yôko Minamida · Mihoko Inagaki · Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi

Direction Kôzô Saeki

Cast Sachiko Atami · Murasaki Fujima · Ken Hasebe · Kiyoko Hirai

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Kyû Sakamoto · Yôko Minamida · Fujio Tokita · Fumitake Ômura

Direction Buichi Saito

Cast Akira Kobayashi · Ruriko Asaoka · Jô Shishido · Tamio Kawaji

Synopsis The young rambler, Shinji Taki (Akira Kobayashi), with his guitar arrives in Sadogashima Island, Niigata, Japan. Of course, Shinji meets yet another beautiful girl named Noriko, who closely resembles the famous actress Ruriko Asaoka again.

Direction Noboru Nakamura

Cast Tetsurô Tanba · Shima Iwashita · Eiji Okada · Takamaru Sasaki

Synopsis Story of a famous Japanese sculptor, Kotaro Takamura and his wife, Cheiko. Film is about Kotaro's affection for his wife after she becomes insane and the poems he writes and collects.

Direction Nobuhiko Ôbayashi

Cast Toshio Kakei · Misa Shimizu · Seina Suzuki · Mirei Nakamura

Direction Seijun Suzuki

Cast Hideaki Nitani · Yôko Minamida · Jô Shishido · Nobuo Kaneko

Synopsis Asako, a former telephone operator once heard the voice of a murder suspect which has continued to haunt her. Years later her husband invites his boss, Hamazaki, over for dinner and she realises his voice is suspiciously like that of...

Direction Shigehiro Ozawa

Cast Koji Tsuruta · Minoru Oki · Yôko Minamida · Hizuru Takachiho

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Ken Takakura · Sumiko Fuji · Minoru Oki · Fumio Watanabe

Direction Sonny Chiba

Cast Hiroyuki Sanada · Mika Muramatsu · Akira Kurosaki · Takeshi Maya

Synopsis Based on a true story. In 1915, a mountain village in Japan was attacked by a giant bear, dubbed "Red Spot", who terrorized the villagers for days, murdering the men and carrying off the women to save for a late...

Direction Katsumi Nishikawa

Cast Sayuri Yoshinaga · Mitsuo Hamada · Hideki Takahashi · Izumi Ashikawa

Synopsis Shinko is a newcomer to a women's school. One day he takes Professor Shimazaki a love letter he has found addressed to the teacher. This will start the problems in the institute, which will affect the same students as teachers.

Direction Takashi Nomura

Cast Jô Shishido · Reiko Sasamori · Sayuri Yoshinaga · Yôko Minamida

Synopsis Joe of Aces is a bounty hunter in the wide open spaces of Northern Japan. One night he rides in a small town with a wanted captive slung over his horse. Joe claims the reward, but the town fathers are...