Director

FUJITA Toshiya

Cast

MURANO Takenori, HIROSE Shosuke, NODA Teresa

Kiyoshi, graduate of seventeen, is an aimless young boy. Kenichiro (Takenori Murano), eighteen, a high-school drop-out of the same breed, but more drastic in action. Maki (Midori Fujita), twenty-one, is a wealthy girl in pursuit of thrills and her si...

Release Date

Aug, 25th, 1971

Director

NARUSE Mikio

Cast

HARA Setsuko, TAKAMINE Hideko, TAKARADA Akira

Release Date

May, 28th, 1960

Director

BANSHO Yoshiaki

Cast

TAKAHASHI Teiji, SADA Keiji, OKI Minoru

"Samba Garasu," meaning three-some, has always been a Shochiku tradition. In this film, celebrating the 3,000th production of the Shochiku Company, three generations of the "Samba Garasu" tradition have been brought together in a gay modern day story...

Release Date

Oct, 30th, 1959

Director

NAKAMURA Noboru

Cast

IWASHITA Shima, YOSHIDA Teruo, HAYAKAWA Tamotsu

Young and beautiful Chieko meets her twin sister, who informs her that their real parents are dead. The family tragedy stemmed from the old superstition that twins were unlucky and wrong. Chieko has been brought up by a dry goods merchant Sada and hi...

Release Date

Jan, 13th, 1963

Director

NAKAMURA Noboru

Cast

IWASHITA Shima, MORI Masayuki, KUGA Yoshiko

Young and beautiful Matsuko (Shima Iwashita) lives alone with her father (Masayuki Mori) in old Kamakura. Her mother (Yoshiko Kuga) has long deserted them in order to live with a younger man. Though Matsuko herself has experienced love - just once, w...

Release Date

Jan, 25th, 1969

Director

MIZUHO Shunkai

Cast

HONGO Kojiro, TAKADA Miwa, TSUBOUCHI Mikiko

Sanshiro Sugata rescues Shinobu Echigoya from the hands of Jujitsu-men who are employed by a money-lender named Ryosaku Horii, and falls in love with her. Tetsugen Onimaru of the Tanshinkan School finds in Gonzo Sakaki a mysterious martial artist, a...

Release Date

Feb, 1st, 1964

Director

KIKUCHI Yasushi, TANBA Tetsuro

Cast

TANBA Tetsuro, WANIBUCHI Haruko, MISHIMA Masao

Just as the Tatsunokuchi family has come into the possession of a large amount of gold, a cholera epidemic turns the castle city into a ghost town and the whereabouts of the gold is unknown. Among those who search for it is the masterless samurai, S...

Release Date

Oct, 15th, 1964

Director

MASUMURA Yasuzo

Cast

WAKAO Ayako, KAWASAKI Keizo, SUGAWARA Kenji

In this lighthearted work from Masumura's early period, protagonist Yuko comes to Tokyo to find her mother after learning about her from her critically ill grandmother. The film, which unfolds beneath a cloudless blue sky, remains remarkably unsentim...

Release Date

Oct, 8th, 1957

Director

KURAHARA Koreyoshi

Cast

ISHIHARA Yujiro, KITAHARA Mie, OKADA Masumi

It is when assisting his friend Nakagawa by riding for his team in a horsemanship contest that Senkichi Kira, a physical culture instructor meets beautiful Setsuko, but when they are pestered by hoodlums and Senkichi becomes involved with a gang boss...

Release Date

Oct, 29th, 1958

Director

HONDA Ishiro

Cast

TAKASHIMA Tadao, SAHARA Kenji, FUJIKI Yu

The United Nations dispatches a submarine, the Sea Hawk, to study abnormally high temperatures in the Bering Sea. But as soon as the Sea Hawk arrives, it is damaged and sends out a distress signal. When a rescue helicopter arrives, its crew spots God...

Release Date

Aug, 11th, 1962

Director

URAYAMA Kirio

Cast

KAWARAZAKI Choichiro, ASAOKA Ruriko, KOBAYASHI Toshie

Tsutomu Yoshioka (Choichiro Kawarazaki) works for a fine company and is satisfied with life for the first time. His future, too, seems very promising since Mariko (Ruriko Asaoka), the niece of the president who works in the same office, is in love wi...

Release Date

Sep, 3rd, 1969

Director

OZU Yasujiro

Cast

SANO Shuji, TANAKA Kinuyo, MURATA Chieko

Ozu's second film made upon his return from military service, following 1947's Record of a Tenement Gentleman (Nagaya shinshiroku). Reduced to poverty during the hardship of the immediate post-war years, a woman is forced to prostitute herself to aff...

Release Date

Sep, 17th, 1948

Director

MASUMURA Yasuzo

Cast

ATSUMI Mari, KAWAZU Yusuke, TAMURA Ryo

Midori (Mari Atsumi) is a girl with a mind and a will of her own. Endowed with a beautiful face and a perfect figure, she is a popular model with her smiling face appearing frequently in the photogravure section of the weekly magazines. Shota (Ryoic...

Release Date

Oct, 3rd, 1970

Director

OZU Yasujiro

Cast

OKA Joji, TANAKA Kinuyo, MIZUKUBO Sumiko

When small-time gangster Joji falls for Kazuko, Joji's mistress Tokiko decides to scare her rival away, only to end up falling for her innocent charms herself. Inspired by Kazuko's example to turn over a new leaf, Tokiko convinces Joji to do the same...

Release Date

Apr, 27th, 1933

Director

IWAMA Tsuruo

Cast

IZUMI Kyoko, OKI Minoru, KOYAMA Akiko

One summer day, a team of performing swimmers discovers Fumiko, a young woman, adrift on the sea whose husband has been drowned while attempting to save her. Next morning, on seeing Fumiko's picture in a swimming suit, Ryuko, a member of the team an...

Release Date

Jul, 19th, 1960

Director

MASUMURA Yasuzo

Cast

SABURI Shin, SAWAMURA Sadako, WAKAO Ayako

Sanada who has been a mere technician in a small laboratory becomes a director of a chemical company through his invention of a binding agent, Sandait. With the change in his social position his life undergoes a sudden transformation. His wife, kind-...

Release Date

May, 13th, 1959